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andremat··on The peaceful transfer of power in open source projects
> Build an organisation which won't crumble the moment its founder is arrested for their predatory behaviour on tropical islands.

Or gets convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife.

andremat··on Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
Marcus said he'd rather stay in LA : https://twitter.com/malwaretechblog/status/11448663098568294...
andremat··on Marcus Hutchins spared US jail sentence over malware charges
In spite of the district court's merciful sentence, he has committed an aggravated felony in the eyes of immigration law and so is barred from ever entering the US again. For life.
andremat··on Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO
Have you contracted an independent pen-testing company to assess your design and implementation?
andremat··on Where grep came from [video]
... please repeat after me: gif.
andremat··on The Japanese Calendar’s Y2K Moment
From the article:

> The last value "2019 05 01" contains the temporary information "??_?_??????_?"

andremat··on United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf]
Azure does have sovereign clouds, for instance its Germany cloud. [1] In this case data is handled by a German company and not Microsoft and so is subject to EU law.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...

andremat··on Ask HN: What are the best tools for code reviews?
My favorite tool is a Microsoft internal tool called CodeFlow. If you don't want to work for them just to have a great code review experience, I recommend https://reviewable.io . Very nice!
andremat··on Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]
Well, a Brazilian priest attempted a similar feat in 2008[1]. He won the 2008 Darwin Award for it [2].

[1] https://gizmodo.com/5022283/sad-ending-flying-priest-found-d...

[2] http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html

andremat··on Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc
Not to belittle MSFT's ability but a high quality repro helps immensely.
andremat··on RegExr: Learn, Build, and Test RegEx
Online regex testers are nice but nothing beats RegexBuddy [1] IMO. I have fond memories of me using it while on high school to naively parse HTML using regular expressions only. Good times.

[1] http://www.regexbuddy.com/

andremat··on Flight rules for Git – What to do when things go wrong
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (Interactive help): http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
andremat··on Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
Remembers me of "How do you pronounce 'Bjarne Stroustrup?'": http://www.stroustrup.com/pronounciation.wav