Clearly the one JS feature we all agree on is ubiquity.
After some experimentation, I discovered that it’s possible to add type safety to JavaScript objects [via ES6 proxies] with just a few lines of code.
Does it betray my innocence that I’m shocked by the amount of exec($_GET you can easily find on github? Hilarious comment thread on hacker news:
This is awful. Shell commands are not guaranteed to be idempotent, people! These should all be of the form exec($_POST, not exec($_GET.
Ringleader claimed to be an IT contractor, got access to bank computers.
Using social engineering to install a remote-controlled keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch on bank PCs, the gang managed to transfer millions to outside accounts in two separate jobs in April and July of 2013. They were caught attempting to rob a third bank in September.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report that The Federal Communications Commission will propose new open Internet rules this Thursday that will allow content companies to pay Internet service providers “for special access to consumers.” Under the new rules, service providers may not block or discriminate against specific websites, but they can charge certain sites or services for preferential traffic treatment if the ISPs’ discrimination is “commercially reasonable.” Bye-bye, Net Neutrality, and the internet as we know it.
Lovely visualization for learning the names of CSS parts. Great concept and would like to see it applied to other languages.
Should you take the latest security scare seriously? I do, and here is what I am doing about it.
Its time to get a password manager.
The game is to figure out what constrained modifications you must make to beat the game.
Just a quick tutorial on exploiting heartbleed for session hijacking. Is it worse to use https than http today?
How to turn on debug logging for LoadLibrary to diagnose failures. For example, see where in the dependency graph of a DLL LoadLibrary ran into issues.
After much deliberation, the winners of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition are finally selected. There are two different award categories. The winners of the first category are those submissions that produced the largest error with the smallest amount of source code. These entries contain a…
Various folks on OpenGameArt have converted the now public domain Glitch art assets into SVG and PNG.
What is good and common of all JS promise designs collected as Promises/A+
Promises/A+
An open standard for sound, interoperable JavaScript promises—by implementers, for implementers.
Adds the yield keyword enabling you to write JS code that sort of looks like C# await.
Overview
First-class coroutines, represented as objects encapsulating suspended execution contexts (i.e., function activations). Prior art: Python, Icon, Lua, Scheme, Smalltalk.
Victorian Trolling: How Con Artists Spammed in a Time Before Email
The main difference between 21st-century scams and those of centuries past is one of delivery method.Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons/Benjamin Breen]
'Please Contact Us': It's Been a Tough Week for the Nobel Prize's Twitter Feed
Tales of temporary rejection from an organization not used to being ignored.
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