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Re:Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control' on Sunday December 12, 2010 @04:27PM (#1998075)
I feel compelled to point out that Woz isn't Apple's anymore and hasn't been for a long time unless I'm completely missing something.
Re:Programmer Competency Matrix: Do you use it when hiring? on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @01:52AM (#1953367)
Hrm. I'm split almost 50/50 between n and log(n). That's pretty cool.
Haskell
I was more shocked to see that they use CVS. Then I remember that at job-before-last we were using RCS so I guess it's not all that weird.
Went to see Inception tonight and this played during the previews.
Re:Gmail Ditched By UC Davis on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @11:16PM (#1323432)
Looking at the actual url, I wonder how this is 'Windows Security' news.

Oh, I get it.

Slide 7: "What, not how."

IMO, if you can grasp this you are on your way.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone want to work through SICP together? on Sunday January 11, 2009 @03:13AM (#428985)
Count me in as well. I bought the book as a package deal from amzn with "The little Schemer" and haven't read much of it.
Re:Is It Stupid to Trust Twitter Apps With Your Password? on Friday January 02, 2009 @11:28PM (#418115)
I'd love to have an alternative to storing usernames and passwords. I wrote a web based twitter/identi.ca client mainly for my own use, but it's public and there are people using it, and I've been thinking about purging the auth data every month or so mainly because if I hadn't written it there's no way I'd just blindly hand over my password to some weirdo who happened to write a handy client for my phone. At least then the users could be assured that their authentication info will be removed at a predictable interval.