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> I realize what he meant and that he's right.

Could you please expand on this?

I'm not entirely sure what you are saying, but I actually find this puzzle quite interesting.

(O|RM|HHM)* doesn't match "anything", but rather "nothing" or something quite specific. [0]

There are multiple rows in the puzzle where things _can_ match anything, but they are pretty fast limited by the opposing row/column.

[0]: http://www.regexper.com/#%28O|RM|HHM%29*

Really like this idea!

Off topic, but, I don't see why people don't make alternatives to this

> Notice! In order to save your progress you have to login with Facebook.

Let me save by cookie as well, please.

That sounds like semantics.

Couldn't you say the same for any service where you _actually_ distribute it as well? "I'm not distributing it, I'm simple charging for the service of easy installation".

(I'm also not AL, though...)

With and without "-n" produced different results for me.

At least "sort -n", but yeah.

This is top five:

     20 helloworld/delphi.pas
     25 helloworld/omgrofl.omgrofl
     30 helloworld/whitespace
     59 helloworld/shakespeare.shakespeare
     65 helloworld/chef.chef

Basically, "vanilla" keypass didn't have cross platform compatibility; "KeePassX to the rescue".

I think maybe this is them catching up, but I think it's really good for the entire project that there are several alternatives.

I am very pleased to see that people are still invested in this project!

I'd really like love products like lastpass and the like, but a local only, self administered solution is, at least to me, the obvious way to go.

Also, they have a "donate" button on their site, just donated a tad, and I encourage others to do the same!

Great answer.

I caught myself thinking along the lines of "of course it's not possible, that would be preposterous!", but as you say, a watch spring mechanism does exactly this.

The key concept here is "stores energy".

The same mechanism that is used for reversing a string can be very useful though.

Think in the lines of python's:

>>> 'abcd'[:-1]

'abc'

Another reminder of Betteridge's law of headlines[0]?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

Having a policeman being rude to you is not even in the same order of magnitude as being denied entry to a country.

That's my problem with these kinds of scenarios. An honest person with a truthful passport will be punished, while someone with a blank passport might not be looked at twice.

I think the implication here is that people might have signed up with the same username and password as they use for other things (e.g., their work email).

I might have skipped a crucial detail in their process, but as far as I can tell, not only is it possible to skim, this makes it amazingly easy.

> It is a beefed up PS3, no next-gen leap worthy step, and the games are not there.

I feel you could almost substitute "PS3" for "PS2" and target it at original PS3 at launch as well.

I'm guessing that Sony simply wants to get the hardware out of the door, and do software features as they go. Considering how much updates the PS3 has seen over the years, I believe this holds for the PS4 as well, but as they say in this review, for now, it's a tad underwhelming.

This book is the first thing I though of reading this.

I don't know about the viability of the sort of economy Charles Stross uses in this book, but I found it refreshingly thought through. Might also be worth noting that he goes into some interesting concepts with regards to cryptocurrencies.

I believe that a lot of myths have some truth to them, though in a varying degree.

We do record a lot of data today, and it might be enough to give a (pretty) clear picture, if you sift through it all, but I don't think that necessarily is enough to prevent misinterpretations in the future.

Gangnam Style has more than a billion (with a b(!)) views, and if I were a historian in the future, arguably probably a bad one, I would easily attribute a lot of value to this. You could call it some sort of selection bias. What is left behind, doesn't always represent the state of things, and if it does, things are still open to interpretation.

Agreed. I found the goal of this comment obvious from the second sentence.

I do find that I click links like this, simply out of the curiosity of seeing what exactly I'm being nudged into consuming/buying.

My thoughts exactly. I don't know about the original paper, but the article doesn't even seem to discuss the possibility of other conclusions.

I'm not using Kaspersky myself, but I'm guessing they simply mark certain high profile websides on not-known tlds as phishing sites.

Think "amazon.co.tw/password_reset.php"

I'm sorry if this comes off as uneducated, but why exactly would this be weakening your security?

When installing the Chrome plugin, Chrome clearly states which domain(s) it will allow the plugin to interact with.

I would see your point if this was for a banking site, or any other site where you would want to keep some information private, but I don't really see how this applies in this context.

Indeed.

The only obvious downside to Mosh I've seen so far, is that a lot of enterprisy firewalls tend to block UDP traffic.

I have used Mosh as my primary remote access client for a few months on my "on-the-go" laptop, and I must say that the user experience is very good.

In a lot of scenarios, the latency is not much of an issue, but on wlan/3g, this very fast become very noticeable. In the few cases since, I've used ssh on wireless, I suddenly find myself noticing how much of an issue the sudden feedback delay might be at some times.

Did not know that Facebook have support for two-factor authentication.

Appreciate that EFF is putting effort into awareness on this issue.

Very well put.

I actually find your points much more interesting that the ones made in the article. To me, it's not really interesting _that_ we have a biased view of our selves, no matter what direction, but _why_.

Very good to hear! I really didn't intend to come on as overly critic, and look forward on read your follow up on the issue.

Very true, but the whole idea behind the blog post seems to be that the representation of data is done wrong.

I would rather the author go into a bit of a discussion about what the data represents and what different ways this could be presented. I can't help to get the feeling that the choice of a scatter plot is more or less arbitrary.

I'm no statistics wizard, but I find it interesting that you conclude that we're "doing it wrong" while at the same time suggesting that a scatter plot where a huge percent of the points overlap is the way to go.

I appreciate that you try to up the resolution to counter this, but it still strikes me as the wrong presentation.

I think it's a better example of flawed analogy, but it's still an entertaining anecdote.