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ryanlmon ACM 2015 Technical Award Recipients

RMS is in the same collection of great hackers that Dennis R, Linus Larry Wall, Guido, etc are in. Thank you RMS.

ryanlmon Ask HN: Books to learn advanced C programming

Start writing every project, except web projects in C. You'll be an expert in a few years. You'll get really good at string handling. You'll start to "think in bytes".

ryanlmon Differences Between the CLR and the JVM

In the end it seems like CLR is superior to the JVM based on these assertions.

ryanlmon Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

I am not surprised by their negligence. I interviewed there once and they did not seem professional.

ryanlmon Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2 VPS

On another note, there 2FA seems to broken as well. I once received a text about resetting my Instagram account from the same number that they send me to authenticate my login session. I've never had an Instagram account.

ryanlmon Ask HN: How do you really feel about web-based programming?

I love that it's somewhat the most portable platform.

ryanlmon What we found when we simulated the backbone of the Internet

Has a country wide Internet outage happened in the US? I'm 25 and have never experienced it.

ryanlmon Ask HN: Encryption Books?

wow the authors company is right by my home town.