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jholloway7on OpenBSD disables Heartbeat in libssl, questions IETF

Congratulations, you have hereby been granted commit privileges to libssl. Have fun!

jholloway7on It's easy to blame minorities

It's clear to me that he didn't parse that Gruber sentence correctly and his misinterpretation invalidates the entire post.

jholloway7on Ask HN: I want to build a share dealing company. How could I start?

IMO, the ShareBuilder model works well for folks with less capital to invest. The problem I have with it: it lets you automatically dollar-cost-average IN to a holding, but it doesn't let you automatically dollar-cost-average OUT of it. Solve that problem too, please ;)

jholloway7on An Interview Question that Actually Works

This article made me feel like a crotchety old programmer for the first time in my career as I cringed at the use of the phrase "great engineer" to describe someone capable of discussing a markup/stylesheet problem during an interview. It's all relative, I guess.

jholloway7on Is Tomcat an application server?

Bleh, this article made me want to hurl. While Java EE developers are debating the definition of 'application server', developers using other platforms are building applications (and 'enterprise'-worthy applications at that)!