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Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks

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# from @danielpunkass: Here’s my shorthand trick for dumping a binary 
# to see the context of where the ObjC methods are implemented, even 
# if they don’t export debugger symbols:
otool -ov <binaryname> | grep -A 3 <methodName>

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Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus

I've spent the past eight years (starting back in June 2004) writing elaborate rants about a bunch of vaguely related software engineering issues.

I was doing all that ranting because I've been genuinely perplexed by a set of "bizarre" world-views held dear by -- as far as I can tell -- about half of all programmers I encounter, whether online or in person.

Last week, after nearly a decade of hurling myself against this problem, I've finally figured it out. I know exactly what's been bothering me.

In today's essay I'm going to present you with a new conceptual framework for thinking about software engineering. This set of ideas I present will be completely obvious to you. You will probably slap yourself for not having thought of it yourself. Or you might slap the person next to you. In fact you probably have thought of it yourself, because it is so blindingly obvious.

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function gurl -a filePath lineNumber rangeEndLineNumber -d "create a URL for a file on GitHub's website, for the current repo and working branch, optionally with a line number or range"
    set branchname (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
    set repourl (git config --get remote.origin.url | sed s/\\.git// | sed 's/:/\//' | sed 's/.*github.com/https:\/\/github.com/') # h/t https://gist.github.com/richardmcmillen-examtime/7448300
    if test (count $argv) -eq 3
	echo $repourl/blob/$branchname/$filePath\#L$lineNumber-L$rangeEndLineNumber
    else if test (count $argv) -eq 2
    	echo "$repourl/blob/$branchname/$filepath#L$lineNumber"
    else
    	echo $repourl/blob/$branchname/$filePath
    end

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function gweb -d "view a file on GitHub's website, in the current repo and working branch"
    set branchname (git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
    set repourl (git config --get remote.origin.url | sed s/\\.git// | sed 's/:/\//' | sed 's/.*github.com/https:\/\/github.com/') # h/t https://gist.github.com/richardmcmillen-examtime/7448300
    open $repourl/blob/$branchname/$argv[1]
end

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#!/bin/sh

#  ugh.sh
#  
#
#  Created by Andrew McKnight on 11/27/14.
#

# UGH: uncrustify git history. 
# Creates a new branch and cherry picks a range of commits, uncrustifying any modified .h/.m files.

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#!/bin/sh

#
#  install_xcode.sh
#
#  Created by Andrew McKnight on 9/24/15
#
#  takes a downloaded .dmg containing Xcode and installs it to a specified location/name, or defaults to /Applications and the DMG's filename
#