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CuttlefishXXX··on Medium Raises $57M
The absolutely worst two things which happened to Blogger during the last few years are, IMO:

1. What I percieve to be excessive use of JS. You can't even load a blog post there (well, at least, couldn't last time I visited a dot-blogspot site) without an on-page spinner and a bunch of stuff apparently happening in the background.

2. The tld-redirect crap. Admitedly, I had actually thought a similar mechanism to be benefitial prior to seeing an actual implementation of it but I mean, come on, does this not annoy others? What's the advantage of that anyway? Google is capable of geographical load balancing with IP addresses alone just fine, what's the deal?

Disclaimer: These are my end-user reactions. I have never operated at the scale Blogger does so there may be reasons I am not aware of.

CuttlefishXXX··on Is curl|bash insecure?
>trusting random sources

A recent example to add to this, for those who think "nobody who's not a complete beginner would never do that":

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3lefc6/chinese_ios_...

CuttlefishXXX··on Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches
>a physical means to turn off a machine’s built in Webcam

I actually had one on my last laptop, namely a piece of black insulation tape which I had placed over the lens.

CuttlefishXXX··on Writing Good C++14 by Default [pdf]
>I managed to write the whole library without a single #ifdef! Generates Linux .so, OS X .dylib, and Windows DLLs. Amazing!

Could you expand on how you are doing this? You're still using a Makefile or a similar tool with some kind of platform detection for the build itself, right?

CuttlefishXXX··on Show HN: Hacker News Simulator
Pretty good. It struggles a bit with some punctuation, inserting spaces after "." in urls and not having space after "?" in sentences.
CuttlefishXXX··on PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
tar and split combined with a QR encoder would solve the problem just fine.
CuttlefishXXX··on Secure messaging, deleting communications lt 90 days old soon illegal in India
Via https://twitter.com/r0h1n/status/645161175374807040

Via https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/3llzll/things_that_...

CuttlefishXXX··on Programs to Read
"Change files" are refered to quite a lot. What does that mean?
CuttlefishXXX··on PyPy warmup improvements
Your link mentions CPython (the reference/official Python interpreter), not Cython (optimizing static compiler and extension of the Python language) so I'm not sure it answers the question raised by parent.
CuttlefishXXX··on An Explanation of Cricket (2009)
Does anyone know of a good audio recording of this quote?