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I believe this area of mathematics will become one of the most important areas within 10 years.

trosenbaumon Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs

This sequence of events ended up very relevant, given the subject matter. :D

trosenbaumon Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones

Looks great, unfortunately I am having challenges using it on iPhone Safari: trying to engage the sliders moves the cards around instead.

trosenbaumon A formula that visually represents itself when graphed

You may enjoy this then: http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html

trosenbaumon How the Salaries of Software Engineers Have Evolved Over the Past 20 Years

That's because it's a direct re-publish of an answer from Quora (note the "contributor"). The decrease in quality may be that the Forbes you knew was sold [1] in late 2014, and the current state of the company seems chaotic at best.

[1]: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/your-money/in-forbes-me...

trosenbaumon No, teenage blood won't make you young and beautiful

I wonder if studies like this could eventually have an impact on blood donor age ranges?

The Red Cross[1] current lower limit is 17 (16 with guardian consent), with no upper limit as long as donor is well & not restricted in activity.

[1] http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requ...

trosenbaumon Remote Kernel Code Execution Via HTTP Request In IIS On Windows

I have written vulnerability testers in Powershell and C# varieties:

https://gist.github.com/Zagrophyte/ea086087e6fd7ca579ef (Powershell)

https://gist.github.com/Zagrophyte/0fa7a8e2e507fac2b59d (C#)

trosenbaumon Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers

My guess is that from a PR perspective they might have worried that releasing the information without a definitive scope of impact would have led to days of wild panicked speculation in the media outlets, and userbase.

While there was still wild speculation, security was only one of many possible scenarios being discussed, and it was mostly treated like a regular outage.

I'm not saying this delay in disclosure was "right" (what if it had ended up worse in scope?), but I agree with sibling post (dave1010uk) that it seems to have worked out better for their brand.

trosenbaumon Why Twitter is a Big Deal (2009)

The author (pg) did not post this link, _pius did.

trosenbaumon SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git

Would something like Kiln Harmony work for storing the main upstream repository?

https://secure.fogcreek.com/kiln/

It seems that if KH translates seamlessly between HG and Git that a project could accept pushes from both, right?

I assume since KH is not open source / free that this would not be an acceptable method for maintaining the main repo, or that the translation would introduce interesting wrinkles, but it does seem like one could potentially have his cake and eat it too.

trosenbaumon Show HN: Daily digest of close friends updates from FB/Twitter/Instagram

Just signed up. I assume this is to help combat the "Filter Bubble" phenomenon that is common nowadays?

It definitely felt freeing to pare things down to about 40 people.