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Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. I can hardly wait to see how this will be abused
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Well,
Trust me it's already being abused. A few years ago I wrote network URL logger for my home office and quickly discovered that some web services are generating massive GET requests that were several kilobytes in size. My logging code was breaking the requests because I truncated them at 2kb. Over the last few years I've had to keep increasing the buffer size... 3kb, 4kb and growing.
According to RFC 2616[^] HTTP/1.1 does not have any maximum URI length.
Kent Sharkey wrote: I can hardly wait to see how this will be abused
I recommend creating a committee to oversee these new microsites. The itty bitty committee.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: The itty bitty committee.
With a teenie weenie subcommittee.
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He re-invented FrontPage? 
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Popcorn kernels are a natural, edible, and inexpensive material that has the potential to rapidly expand with high force upon application of heat. Although this transition is irreversible, it carries potential for several robotic applications. "As much fun to make as it is to eat"
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I prefer marshmallows in the microwave, but I guess popcorn works.
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Thought to myself: Could they use popcorn for edible PROM memory?, unpopped = 0, popped = 1. Hmm secret codes, temporary data, etc., the possibilities are staggering.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I’ve been digging into .NET Internals for a while now, but never really looked closely at how the ‘Just-in-Time’ (JIT) compiler works. Hopefully this is just in time for your education
Apologies if his blog ends up pushing this as an article. It wasn't showing on the site at press time.
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When we last met UDOO, the team was building a powerful Raspberry Pi-based DIY board with a bunch of impressive features, including more ports and a better processor. I heard Chris was going to be running CP on a stack of these
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One of the new tactics by the malware involves an injection technique not seen in the wild until just days ago. Three cheers for progress
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Article wrote: "We strongly encourage users and organizations to follow recommended security practices, such as installing security patches as they become available,
The problem is when such hasty patches bring more problems than they solve.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Very true. On related note, some of the conspiracy theorists among us think those recent "absolutely necessary patches" are about a little more than just security and the "sky is falling" scenarios we have seen lately are much ado about very little designed solely to motivate us to "patch" our machines.
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I present here a small bibliography of papers on programming languages from the 1970’s. if !study(history) { repeat; }
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Kent Sharkey wrote: if !study(history) { repeat; }
To some of us older coders, it does seem that history keeps repeating itself, adopting new names for old concepts, and frequently encountering the same pitfalls.
To be honest though, I find this more with frameworks than languages. Actually, I find very few real new features in languages, with odd exceptions (like lifetimes in Rust).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Following a pre-dismissal hearing with management, the 38-year-old employee downloaded the software to a mobile storage device, bypassing security systems. "The great thieves are leading away the little thief"
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Modern open office architecture tends to decrease the volume of face-to-face interaction by some 70 percent and increases electronic communication accordingly. Bring back the cubicles?
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Yes, YES, a thousand times yes, give me back my walls.
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It will now be open for debate and amendment; another vote will occur in September. EU rejecting new regulations is news, isn't it?
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An international team has developed a ground-breaking single-electron "pump". The electron pump device developed by the researchers can produce one billion electrons per second and uses quantum mechanics to control them one-by-one. "Pump it up, until you can feel it"
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As the head of engineering at Atlassian, I’m part of a lot of interview panels (Like, a lot). I know I’ve got an above-average candidate sitting across from me when they start asking questions about the team they’d be joining. 'Will I be paid in many large, unmarked bills?', isn't one of them (heard from a friend)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As the head of engineering at Atlassian,
I suppose one of his questions for candidates is: do you enjoy working for a company which seems intent on ensuring its products are never great?
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