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Peter Minten

@p_minten

Software Engineer, Quality Deficit Pinpointer (tester). Functional programming fan. Pro-Enlightenment. Ultra aspice, semper curiosus.

Joined October 2013
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Oleksii@true_droid16 Dec 2015
Replying to @p_minten
@p_minten you get a headache, you get a headache, everyone gets a headache!
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Distributed systems: there is no such thing as a free lunch but there are free headaches.
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Just priceless. probably headhunted by FB/GOOG cc: @naval @pmarca โ€“ at Mountain View, CA
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Alan Cooper@MrAlanCooper8 Nov 2015
Coffee owls. #WeekendTweet
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TQ (Dan Hirsch)@thequux18 Oct 2015
So, php.net/manual/en/function.uโ€ฆ apparently exists. Yes, PHP *literally* has a function to redefine the semantics of the VM.
PHP: uopz_overload - Manual

PHP: uopz_overload - Manual

Overload a VM opcode

php.net
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Whoa it crashed 0.0028 seconds after deployment. We got that "fail fast" part down.
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Zero indexed month but not day... why!? xitter.cf/robertklep/status/6390โ€ฆ
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Shahar Tal
@jifa27 Jul 2015
fuzzing UTF-8 strings pro-tip: ศบ (U+023A) and ศพ (U+023E) are the *only* code points to increase in length (2 to 3 bytes) when lowercased.
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Donโ€™t be intimidated by what you donโ€™t know.That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
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koretzky@koretzky8 Jul 2015
MSM covers reddit revolt, interviews no one. SPJ covers it, interviews mods. Here's how reddit REALLY works: bit.ly/1NSBuIJ
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Possibly the nerdiest joke ever..
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On Port 80, a short piece motivated by today's Reddit blackout. medium.com/@maradydd/on-portโ€ฆ
On Port 80

On Port 80

Thereโ€™s been a joke for a few years now that all the web applications youโ€™ve ever heard of are actually some other Internet protocolโ€ฆ

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Am I naive to be disconcerted by a lack of kindness, of empathy, on Twitter? There's so much unforgiving, merciless, even cruel condemnation
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So Google has downloaded binaries to computers running Chrome, turning on mics and listening w/o consent. NOT OK. bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrโ€ฆ
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James Iry@jamesiry17 Jun 2015
future user: "My quantum computer isn't working." future tech: "Have you tried turning it both on and off at the same time?"
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Censorship isn't limited to government control. When private organizations and individuals attempt to suppress speech, that is censorship.
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hubski.com looks interesting as a better content aggregator. Not sure if it's model will work, but at least it's a fresh idea.
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