denis bider
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Jul 13, 2015 at 08:07
Jul 15, 2019
"Support" incompetence at Amazon (and elsewhere)
Jul 3, 2019
What's wrong with computing?
Jun 14, 2019
The case for SSH over UDP
Apr 30, 2019
Water heater does not work, but no fuses are blown and all circuit breakers seem closed?
Apr 30, 2019
Biden 2020
Apr 15, 2019
Life continues, not begins, at conception
Apr 8, 2019
GDP and the rate of predation: Why can't we protect ALL of the innocent?
Dec 30, 2018
Your silly email parser is not good enough
Dec 20, 2018
Facebook predictions: The campaign against Zuckerberg is about message control
Dec 10, 2018
Simple things that do not work in the US
Jul 21, 2018
Redditors with absolute powers
Jun 13, 2018
Faux stoicism of the confused libertarian / Trumpian variety
Apr 30, 2018
Dunning-Kruger effect in academic subjects without test of truth
Mar 20, 2018
We kept it gray
Feb 2, 2018
The five principles of negotiation (for young adults)
Jan 26, 2018
Missing web security feature: Signed web assets with browser validation
Jan 18, 2018
Samsung Galaxy: Buggy alerts in both Samsung and Google Calendar
Dec 16, 2017
Thoughts on Bitcoin - and why I cashed out of BTC at $18k
Dec 6, 2017
Mudanzas Mundiales: 82 days to move things from Costa Rica to Texas
Nov 30, 2017
Left vs. right: reason and compassion vs. blind principles
Nov 4, 2017
The "woo" of physicalists
Oct 2, 2017
IBM Trusteer Rapport is crap-ware
Aug 13, 2017
For sale: 4-bedroom condo in San José, Costa Rica!
Aug 11, 2017
On the Google vs. James Damore controversy
Jul 20, 2017
"It's hard work to suffer."
Jun 4, 2017
Libertarianism in bullet points
May 29, 2017
Is morality fundamentally objective?
May 27, 2017
Why I no longer like libertarians
May 24, 2017
Microsoft Office: Command Prompt window flashes every hour
Mar 21, 2017
Rust is beautiful
Mar 18, 2017
Limitations of Central-American pronunciation
Feb 9, 2017
"May prosper all the nations"
Dec 19, 2016
Righteous predators
Nov 29, 2016
The $20 billion puppy, and "The buck stops with you"
Nov 28, 2016
Rationalists and control fetishists
Sep 26, 2016
Is the internet ready for DMARC with p=reject?
Sep 9, 2016
Lock-step refactoring
Aug 28, 2016
Loyalty to group vs. principle
Aug 25, 2016
Limitations of single-payer health care
Aug 18, 2016
Why software patents are counter-productive
Jul 30, 2016
Fear: An account of terror on top of a coal stack; by Franc Bider
Jul 28, 2016
Code generation bug with new optimizer in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3
May 22, 2016
The barren rockscape and the Garden of the Mind
May 15, 2016
The benefit of some kind of authority
Apr 20, 2016
On the desirable properties of a programming language
Apr 16, 2016
"Hello world" in LLVM IR language without CRT
Apr 13, 2016
Over-education and free college
Mar 29, 2016
Libertarian confusions
Mar 25, 2016
The Louis Vuitton theory of happy marriage
Mar 14, 2016
CamelCase vs. underscore_case
Mar 14, 2016
Against signed integer types
Mar 5, 2016
"Unreachable" beauty standards
Mar 4, 2016
Socialism and libertarianism: The two idiots
Feb 29, 2016
The rats' race and the pie in the sky
Feb 10, 2016
Masters don't need
Feb 5, 2016
Limited empathy and large out-groups
Feb 2, 2016
Crappy gaming laptops recap
Jan 21, 2016
No true study
Jan 17, 2016
Scott Adams' Trump argument, and improving democracy
Jan 15, 2016
Barva kože in karibska idila: najine izkušnje iz St. Kittsa
Jan 12, 2016
The Overrated Compass
Jan 3, 2016
Most people are no good at long-term planning
Jan 1, 2016
Musicians "saving" the world
Dec 23, 2015
Transaction ethics as root of social/libertarian disagreement
Dec 21, 2015
Janez Janša
Dec 9, 2015
Survey of SSL/TLS use in SMTP mail exchangers
Dec 1, 2015
Republicanism is fascism
Nov 26, 2015
The doghouse: Vagaries of the Excel COM interface
Nov 22, 2015
"auto" considered (often) harmful
Nov 21, 2015
Our bitching and moaning: Why the Middle East cannot have peace
Nov 15, 2015
The advantages of Seq, and the demerits of std::string const&
Nov 13, 2015
Can we stop with this idiocy of private courts?
Oct 25, 2015
On Daylight Saving Time
Oct 21, 2015
Modern-day pyramid building
Oct 3, 2015
Spec author "fixes mistake", wastes everyone's man-year
Sep 29, 2015
This ex-libertarian endorses Sanders
Sep 11, 2015
When monospace fonts aren't: The Unicode character width nightmare
Sep 4, 2015
C++ Relocator proposal
Sep 4, 2015
Acetaminophen (paracetamol, Tylenol) more toxic than thought
Aug 26, 2015
Apple design is anti-nerd
Aug 25, 2015
Science, spirituality, and the limits of the materialist paradigm
Aug 20, 2015
The ethics of non-consensual monogamy: coercion and dead bedrooms
Aug 8, 2015
How the Yugoslav army dealt with liabilities
Aug 3, 2015
Ossification and Hawaii: Impressions of a C++ working group
Aug 2, 2015
Love and function
Aug 1, 2015
"Good, traditional" traits
Aug 1, 2015
Attractiveness is not shallow
Jul 29, 2015
VS 2015 projects: "One or more errors occurred"
Jul 26, 2015
Algorithm for selective archival or aggregation of records
Jul 26, 2015
Exceptions in destructors and Visual Studio 2015
Jul 22, 2015
The main asset of the US is its value system
Jul 21, 2015
Whistleblowing policy proposal
Jul 21, 2015
SFTP and OpenSSH's "do as we please"
Jul 19, 2015
Aggregated exceptions: Proposal summary
Jul 17, 2015
Errors in destructors: C++ and the case for aggregate exceptions
Jul 16, 2015
Code as concise expression of thought
Jul 14, 2015
Your production code should assert
Jul 14, 2015
Why I use "SomeObj const&", not "const SomeObj&"
Jul 14, 2015
Reporting errors in destructors
Jul 13, 2015
C++ should support temporary objects as lvalues
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