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Over the years I've written a lot about the evolution I've taken with testing. I've also written about the frustration of testing within the confines of static languages. More briefly, I've discussed testing in dynamic languages, and what benefits developers get from that. I think talking about how far dynamic languages can be taken, from a testing point of view, deserves more attention. Well sir, I have a silly test and I'd like to obtain a Government grant to help me develop it.
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Some of you out there know that I have been collecting passwords for quite some time. Since 1998 to be exact. Originally I did it just to have big wordlists for password cracking, then I started gathering them for research on my Perfect Passwords book, finally it became like a big ball of string where you just do it because it makes no sense to stop now. So I thought that some people might be interested in how I collect these passwords. With 6 million username/password combos, the list only contains about 1,300,000 unique passwords.
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That's because 4 million of them are "password". 
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Literally every single username/password acquired this way is from a porn site.
Oh really?
Yes, really...
Giraffes are not real.
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As bitly usage has grown, one of the systems that has evolved several times along the way is our metrics platform. Originally implemented as log files with a hierarchical timestamp key, by early 2011 we were using 3 different metrics systems, and had outgrown 3 others. We started with a set of goals to build a scalable time series database application, which we now call Clickatron. Here's how it works. Meet the metric hamsters behind the bitly short URL links.
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Here you'll find a collection of all the AGC, AGS, LVDC, and Gemini spacecraft computer documentation and software that I've managed to find. My intention is to eventually provide one-stop-shopping for all of your Apollo and Gemini computing-system documentation needs. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
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While few are concerned about Windows 8's usability as a tablet operating system, desktop users remain wary. Will the new operating system take a huge step back in terms of both productivity and usability? Ars Technica takes a closer look. Start with... wait! Where's Start?
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Geeks don't like repetitive tasks, and will go to great lengths to avoid repeating themselves. Whether that evolutionary impetus actually saves time is addressed by this helpful chart. Which may have been created automatically. 1 times is too many (in a zero-based system).
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Startups in a software world need coders, and the money guys know that. But they don't ask, many times, if the one giving the pitch can do the programming, they ask if they're technical. While technical means many things, programmer included, they really are trying to find out if you can create the product, or if you need to hire programmers first. [ITworld]
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Nominations are now open for the CodeProject Readers Choice Awards 2012. Nominate your favourite Products and Services for them to be in the running. Be quick - the nomination period is strictly 7 days. Tell us about your favorite products of 2012.
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I want to nominate Visual Studio but I'm not sure if that would be 2010 or the new 2011. 2010 was an awesome product.
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There have been various recent events which showed how dangerous it is to pass the control to a proprietary binary, especially the one with a rather disastrous security track record. Zero-day Flash exploit was used to attack the big security firm, RSA. At the last Pwn2own, Chrome was exploited likely through the included Flash plugin, even with Chrome having its plugin sandboxed. Security in the browsers needs to be hardened, otherwise the users will be left in the open.
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As someone who writes for a living it befuddles me why I never thought to research a proper keyboard. As a computer-nerd-slash-writer, I am always looking and advocating for the right tools. But for years, I have always equated “writing tools” with “software” — I own more text editors than I have fingers to type with — but it never dawned on me until recently that a good keyboard could be equally as important as a good text editor. You've got your QWERTY in my WYSIWYG!
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I use an IBM KB-6323[^] from 1997 on my primary system -- it's very nice  .
I also have a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800[^] (and mouse) for when I bring a laptop home from work -- it's dreadful, but it's better than the laptop keyboard  .
The two main problems I have found with the Microsoft keyboard are:
0) Black keys are hard to see in low light and grey symbols on black make it worse.
1) There is no space between the editing keypad and the other keys -- I spend a lot of time with my hand resting on the keyboard with the thumb and pinky placed beside the left- and right-arrow keys.
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Thank you for talking about keyboards.
I would desire a keyboard driver which clicks through the loudspeakers, because sometimes a window popups at which the keyboard input is lost.
The second, I asked often is the possibility to control the release interval of the SHIFT-key and CTRL-key.
While my typing it occurs often that capital letters persist
although my finger has released the SHIFT-key.
Good luck
Erhy
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Rumors that Microsoft’s next incarnation of its smartphone platform might not support the current hardware lineup have sent a ripple of anger, confusion and incredulity through the Windows Phone community. Is Microsoft getting ready to reboot its smartphone platform again? And if so, why? Your platform may not be completed as dialed.
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The simplest bootloader just runs a program: it could be as simple as a single jump instruction that jumps to the program. In embedded systems, bootloaders usually provide a method of flashing new code to the device and initialize the hardware before running the main program. In this article I’ll explain what a bootloader is, and how pbldr currently works. Read this on boot.
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Recently, while scrounging around our spam traps, I spotted this ordinary piece of malicious spam. It uses a very simple social engineering trick. So out of curiosity, I downloaded the file and checked out what it does. All your phishing scam are belong to us.
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Cool!
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms. And although it’s still used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, IRC has seen a dramatic downturn in usage. We have talked to the creator of IRC, and others, about why the once so widely used technology has seemingly fallen out of favor with so many users. /notice IRC is alive and well, thanks.
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It may only be April, but 2012 has already seen a worrying number of legislative acts hit the headlines that threaten online privacy. From the entertainment industry-backed SOPA in the USA, to the UK’s surveillance state-issued CCDP, 2012 has seen governments and industries across the western world try to put the brakes on the vibrant, free-thinking, online ecology that has grown over the last decade. From SOPA to CISPA, all the ways Big Brother is Watching.
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Steve Barnet is hiring, but not for an ordinary IT job. Barnet is looking to fill what may be the coolest Unix administrator job opening in the world—literally. Plenty of IT jobs exist in extreme and exotic locales, but the WIPAC IT team runs what is indisputably the world’s most remote data center: a high-performance computing cluster sitting atop a two-mile thick glacier at the South Pole. Sysadmins on ice.
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Sure, Microsoft is still making plenty of money — billions — off of their consumer goods. But the decent quarterly numbers they reported last week in some ways mask what is really happening: Microsoft is slowing morphing into a full-on enterprise company. Microsoft’s two biggest businesses will be their enterprise businesses.
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Hillman Curtis, a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia platform it is today, died on Wednesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 51. He led the way in early Flash Player design for the web.
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And it turns out that it's June[^].
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