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oeiiooeieoon I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)

I believe I missed out on a google job because I used uint32_t from stdint.h (rather than unsigned long). The interviewer in this case worked on compilers and didn't like a recent-college-grad schooling him on the dangers of assuming integer type sizes.

I don't regret it. =)

oeiiooeieoon Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the ridiculous picture of the "hackers" without desks at the top of the article?

oeiiooeieoon ‘Counter Strike’ Bug Allows Hackers to Take over a PC with a Steam Invite

Valve's development practices are apparently good for a chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k238XpMMn38

The devs don't seem like they have enough time to deal with the code they have to write, let alone respond to security issues. (not their fault, of course)

oeiiooeieoon You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (2009)

"I've never lost playing Russian Roulette"

oeiiooeieoon Ask HN: Why is there no “close tabs to the left”?

Commonly I have a bunch of old tabs on the left, then I might open some tabs on the right and want to clear out all the older tabs.

Maybe "move all tabs to the left to another window." would be another nice operation.