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Comment · 8 years ago
I think that the large percentage of JS developers the GP is talking about is people for whom JS is probably their first or second programming language (and then the first is something like python, ruby or php).
Comment · 8 years ago
Can you really trust the company? What about each and every one of the employees that touch the code? Can you trust their Government not to have asked them for a backdoor?

I don't think I can trust a password manager that isn't open source. Cloud or not.

Comment · 8 years ago
You say this, but there's people recording video and posting on twitter/snapchat. It's not only the journalists. And I think the word you are looking for is morbidity.
Comment · 8 years ago
If you have a gun and shoot at the active shooter, you become the active shooter.
Comment · 8 years ago
Is there an open source IRC/XMPP (or Matrix) client with features similar to Slack (side-threads, pinned messages) and preferably not using electron?
Comment · 8 years ago
Php gets away with making many things warnings instead of errors. So it seems to have been made with the same mentality as html and css.
Comment · 8 years ago
Does yarn run npm behind the scenes? Or does it even replicate the bugs in its attempt to be fully compatible? I used yarn to install global packages and see the packages in `/usr/lib/node_modules` with the permissions of my user rather than root.
Comment · 8 years ago
I just looked at my /usr/lib/node_modules directory and it's No man's land in there and I'm on npm 5.6.0. How could this go unnoticed for so long?
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
> As an industry we've got to stop discounting vulnerabilities as not serious because they require user interaction which involves clicking through security warnings.

Maybe give it an actual name. Something like Vibkac: Vulnerability is between keyboard and chair.

Comment · 8 years ago
I think you just described flattr or patreon.
Comment · 8 years ago
Just make the whole theater a Faraday cage.
Comment · 8 years ago
Then maybe something that can translate math notation to pseudocode and back?
Comment · 8 years ago
Firefox bypasses right-click blocking when you press shift.

What it doesn't bypass is websites placing transparent things on top of what you wish to right-click on (for example images on Twitter). For that I use Stylus to add CSS and move things away.

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