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federico3on The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

Great datapoint! Source?

federico3on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

Very disappointing.

Sigh.

federico3on I Hate the News (2006)

You are conflating voting with spoiling the paper (or voting NOTA). Interestingly, many countries took measures to prevent people from doing this (e.g. using voting machines).

federico3on What is good code? A scientific definition

You are conflating "ugly/unreadable" with "untested" and with "unreliable". There's plenty of horrible but reliable code out there, and vice versa.

federico3on Ask HN: Idea Sunday

+1 for using a language with a good security track record.

federico3on Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Also, Kickstarter is focused on gadgets and other items for casual visitors.

federico3on How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling

I'm sure they have backup copies of your data.

federico3on Show HN: Faceless – Open-source version of Secret

Vulnerabilities in the vm only, not including libraries and frameworks: http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/74/PHP.html

Feel free to compare it with other languages.