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ippon IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise

In terms of GitHub stars:

https://github.com/vapor/vapor: 6,300+

https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect: 8,400+

https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura: 4,200+

ippon Snapshot of North Korea’s DNS data taken from zone transfers

> friend.com.kp. // facebook clone? :D

It's apparently "The website of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries".[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kp#Usage

ippon How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox

It leaves just a little over half of a laptop screen for actual article content.

ippon Apple Sent Two Men to My House

> It's annoying that it indicates the best way to get support from Apple is to make a prominent blog post.

Posting somewhere public (for example, a company's social media page) to get support appears to be an increasing trend.

ippon The Foo at bar.com

Also asdf.com: http://asdf.com/asdfemail.html

ippon Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

I agree. Clicking the video didn't seem to work for me the first time, so I just figured that wasn't how the site worked and wasn't entirely sure why this was a "Show HN" as I assumed it was probably interactive but seemed not. More helpful (and prominent) text than a single line in the bottom without an autoplay video would have helped, as the text there can be out of view/hard to notice.

ippon Ask HN: What was the Windows “refresh” button for?

I've still run into these quirks on 8.1, particularly when deleting files outside of the Desktop itself (e.g. through other programs/command line, maybe Explorer).

ippon Js.org Subdomains for GitHub Pages

There's a lot of 2-letter domains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...

Single-letter domains for .org, .net, and .com are/were reserved, although there are exceptions such as http://www.x.org. Other TLDs may vary.

ippon Waterloo Co-op: A Blessing and a Curse

At Guelph, we do two full years of academics and a summer off before any co-op work term (so we have one less work term overall), and have two 8-month work terms and a 4-month as part of our schedule[1]. I think that's a much more workable schedule, and I think Waterloo even has a similar scheduling option in terms of term duration (at least for CS) as I've worked with a student from there for the same 8-months. As long as you stay with the same employer for 8-months (many seem willing if you ask) or the same town for both placements, it works out fairly well.

[1]: https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/undergraduate/cu...