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tuxcanfly··on More than 1k people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
We did exactly this for a side project last week:

https://github.com/shabda/tweet-signer

At it's core it's just a spec, so feel free to write your own tools! Suggestions for improving the spec welcome. Please use Github issues

tuxcanfly··on Vue and Material TODO
Nice job. Link to the demo: https://sultaness.github.io/todo/index.html
tuxcanfly··on Laplace’s Demon
>So instead of having only two options, or a third invisible option, there is only one real option and the demon cannot be wrong or it cannot be right.

This third neither right nor wrong option reminds me of 'Mu' found in eastern philosophy and highlighted in Hofstadter's GEB and it forms another crucial part of self-reference and recursion as mentioned earlier in your comment.

tuxcanfly··on Abstract Libraries in Go
Is there a chance ty or a similar implementation will make it into Go core? What do you think about Go designers being generally averse to the idea of parametric polymorphism?
tuxcanfly··on Lavabit.com owner: 'I could be arrested' for resisting surveillance order
“One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became still more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

tuxcanfly··on Our web development workflow is completely broken
From my experience, frontend tests break easily in unexpected ways e.g. div moved by an inch? Error - element-not-visible!
tuxcanfly··on A Tor of the Dark Web
By the same logic, won't they be able to detect SSH tunneled traffic too?
tuxcanfly··on Every Black Hole Contains a New Universe
Fermi's paradox would still hold for this universe, methinks.
tuxcanfly··on Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
I think google doesn't have info about page dates prior to 2001. I think the actual date must be 1999 as linked by the parent post.

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=www.google.com&hl=en...

PS: I'm the one who should apologize.

tuxcanfly··on Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)
The linked post doesn't provide any source.

According to the internet archive, it's from 2006 http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dot.gov.in/isp/g...

tuxcanfly··on GitHub Impervious to Super Missiles
> “Those DVCS kids, they got just what they deserved, won’t it be great when we can get back to a real VCS like Perforce”.

This entire article is based on the false dichotomy that either we use get along with github as it is or go back to svn.

Given the number of projects which directly pull code from github and execute it on production machines, it is not unreasonable to expect basic security from a hosting provider. I don't see why github should be given a second chance.

tuxcanfly··on GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control
Please do let them know that you are doing this for protest.
tuxcanfly··on Steve Losh's .vimrc
I use this ruby script: https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
tuxcanfly··on Steve Losh's .vimrc
This plugin[0] apparently plays an ascii version 'bad apple' music video. Inside vim.

Go figure.

[0] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3477

tuxcanfly··on Python: copying a list the right way
But don't the alternatives also depend on list slicing? Heck, the title is `coping a list`. If you have a different datatype, it is the business of that type to specify how to copy using __copy__, isn't it?
tuxcanfly··on Google Analytics blog integrates Mixpanel analytics
Know thy enemy, know thyself - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
tuxcanfly··on Notificon: Client-side favicon notifications
There's also a Notification API in HTML5

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick

tuxcanfly··on Richard Dawkins: A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy
If educating people is though-policing, so be it.
tuxcanfly··on Awesome Python and django related projects
How do you add decorators to a class based view? I find this annoying:

    dashboard = login_required(DashboardView.as_view())
Takes the fun out of decorators for me.
tuxcanfly··on Learn C The Hard Way
Zed Shaw, the Kurt Cobain of programming.
tuxcanfly··on Readable: A more readable version of "readability"
I hope this doesn't track what I'm reading unlike the new readability.
tuxcanfly··on Google finally has a 404 page that isn't ugly
`//www.google.com` will automatically translate the url to http/https depending on the requested protocol.