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plf··on SIRC Guide to Flirting: what social science tells you about flirting
On Chrome/Fedora that PDF has no spaces between letters at all.
plf··on Ask HN: How do you learn to develop exploits?
The second edition is even better. It skips many chapters from the first edition that you don't really need and it goes into more detail in other more important ones to what OP is asking.
plf··on How Depressives Surf the Web
I'm curious, did Newton name Newton's law himself or did other people do that for him? Did Gantt name his diagrams? Isn't it a bit vain to name a law with your own name?
plf··on Network Programming with Go
Aside from being interesting and a new thing to learn, is Go used extensively in the professional world?

For network programming I've often used Python + Twisted + ZMQ, what are the most commonly used alternatives?

plf··on Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously
I've considered this for the summer. I'm still deciding between swimming, climbing or thaiboxing. Do you know any other fun ones that might make you grow muscle?
plf··on Viral Video About Body Scanners
If there was any doubt as to whether the original technique described in the original video worked, this blog post has just confirmed it.
plf··on Two Sources of Stress that (probably) apply to you
I came to the same conclusion about a month ago. Some of the examples he listed I solve by tossing a coin and leaving it up to chance. I only do this when I really don't care about the outcome. Before tossing the coin, I make sure of this, if I prefer an outcome, then I don't need to toss. There was a famous quote that more or less said the same thing.
plf··on The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)
Hello, I also started rails by reading your tutorial. I have a question, this post http://stackoverflow.com/a/5612941 suggests that the way to model a friendship is to duplicate rows in a transaction and it cites a book you wrote.

Is this still the way to go? I like the idea of duplicating rows because it simplifies the associations a lot, but I've been warned against it. Is that the way you would do it?

Thanks.

plf··on Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus
I know it's probably harmless, but this is one of those things that I rather wait before trying it out. You never know, there could be very small hidden side effects. The brain is so complex and poorly understood that I rather not mess with it in this way.

Examples: maybe this will make you likelier to have a brain seizure when you are just 60 years old, maybe after prolonged use one region of your brain is more active making you behave differently (could be positive or negative), maybe it will make you more susceptible to Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc...

That being said, if everyone was as coward as I am, we would have missed on lots of inventions.

plf··on Infographic: Flash vs HTML5
I found the comparison for CPU use kind of confusing. You can't tell which stat belongs to which technology.
plf··on Twitter's Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback
Thank you!
plf··on Javascript Best Practices
I meant something that would not be detected when compiling to JavaScript from CoffeeScript. Maybe I got it all wrong and CoffeeScript just translates without performing any checks. Also I thought maybe the subset of code you can write with CoffeeScript can't be invalid, if it were wrong it just wouldn't work.
plf··on Javascript Best Practices
Can there be invalid CoffeScript?
plf··on Javascript Best Practices
I'm learning CoffeeScript right now, is what I write using it always valid JavaScript?
plf··on Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
Personally, even though I had a premium account, what worries me the most is the precedent this sets. I think everyone should be worried.
plf··on This site cost $18m to make
How? I've just started experimenting with web development and I can't figure out how it could possibly cost that much. Maybe there is a whole world I haven't seen yet, but if they had used the latest open source libraries/frameworks that do half the work for you, would it have cost that much?