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by 16s 15y ago
The politicians will claim it is dead, then name it something else or not name it anything at all and just tack it onto the end of some other legislation and pass it when no one is watching. In the USA, they're bought and paid for.
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by 16s 15y ago
The reason for the exemplary unit testing in Ruby (it's not just Ruby... Python and other dynamic languages too) is that these languages do not have a compiler. They have to unit test everything in order to catch bugs and not all bugs are c
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by 16s 15y ago
I've not read Zed's online book. I guess he encourages the use of -Wall and -Wextra when compiling on gcc? That's always smart. Also, cppcheck is a nice tool. If I were going to mention valgrind, I'd mention that too.
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by 16s 15y ago
How comparable are sites like HN to FaceBook and Twitter? I'm genuinely curious what others, here, think about that. I don't use the mainstream social sites, but I do use and like HN. Would professor Moglen think HN users were part of the p
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by 16s 15y ago
Parrot alert! relying on security through obscurity isn't usually a very good choice. Real-world alert! Camouflage paint works for tanks.
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by 16s 15y ago
I've used C++ with cgi for years too! Glad to see others do it too. Makes for blazing fast web apps and I'm just more comfortable working with it.
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by 16s 15y ago
The greatness of the book is its terseness. Some of the code examples may be dated and buggy, but that does not diminish it at all.
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by 16s 15y ago
Didn't he take that over from someone else? Edit: Yes, it was written by a guy named Carl Harris and ESR took it over when Harris no longer wished to maintain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail
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by 16s 15y ago
Oh yes. I was just sharing my past experience. I don't mean to take a side.
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by 16s 15y ago
I had a female boss once. She said the exact same thing about not hiring women because they get pregnant. I'm a man in the U.S.A. We don't have all of the laws as described in this article (most of us can be fired for any reason at any time
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by 16s 15y ago
vi is the lowest common denominator among *nix text editors. It's a huge advantage to know how to use it.
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by 16s 15y ago
Ah... I see... pleonasm (wet water). I believe that the parent was simply pointing out that encryption is reversible while hashes are not. This is a point of confusion for many in IT/dev.
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by 16s 15y ago
> What do you mean by secure encryption algorithms which are reversible? AES-256 symmetric encryption (as one example) is designed to be reversible while a SHA-512 hash is not. What does reversible mean you ask? It means that plaint
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by 16s 15y ago
I've heard that North Korea does something similar. People can buy software at Universities, etc. without question, but to get a computer they must go through the government.
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by 16s 15y ago
They should remain in business, but add a fingerprint requirement. This would stop criminals from pretending to be law-abiding citizens. Documents and identities are easy to steal or forge, but in-person fingerprints that match those docume
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by 16s 15y ago
I'm not sure the cloud is as difficult to access as you may think. Many cloud services have built-in law enforcement interfaces (LEI) to make searching the data self-service and easier for law enforcement as well as the cloud providers. S
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by 16s 15y ago
Nice read. I really appreciate his comments about over-engineering to the point that nothing useful actually gets accomplished. I've seen a lot of that. And really the over-abstraction is wasted time. I've seen things added because "we migh
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by 16s 15y ago
> Boost is interesting as seeing how the bounds of C++ can be pushed, but as a library for day-to-day use it is horrible... I use Boost daily. I absolutely love it. It's wonderful. I could not do my job w/o it. Much of it is in the ne
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by 16s 15y ago
wxWidgets too. I also know a lot of guys who use Crypto++ and Botan (both C++ class libraries).
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by 16s 15y ago
I signed-up for the crypto class next semester. I'm looking forward to it. I code a bit of crypto and am interested to see what they'll cover. On a separate note, I don't think the full-time Standford students need to be concerned about the
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by 16s 15y ago
To be fair, the interviewer used the provocative word "obsolete" when he asked the question. Dr. Stroustrup answered it honestly and use the words "merged" and "more compatible" and said there is no technical reason for the few existing dif
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by 16s 15y ago
I've seen memory drains during down-turns in the economy. The company will offer the oldest, most-experienced, highest paid employees a buy-out or they'll offer them five years extra pension/retirement if they leave now. Mgt figures that co
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by 16s 15y ago
Yes, I know they are there. I meant static types. I thought that was implied.
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by 16s 15y ago
April fools joke I believe.
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by 16s 15y ago
I sometimes wish I had types in Python. It makes me feel better knowing for sure what a function is returning, or what types I'm comparing. I love Pyton/Ruby and other dynamic languages, but I miss the C++ type system when using them.
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by 16s 15y ago
You may also consider using -Weffc++ in addition to -Wall and -Wextra if you are using g++.
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by 16s 15y ago
A bit off-topic, but I wonder if anyone can comment on using software RAID rather than hardware RAID? I'd like to try it. I've been bitten by buggy hardware RAID controllers far too often (even high-dollar name brand gear). I know that all
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by 16s 15y ago
Really amazing how quickly they slid after Android and iOS took off. I would not have believed it had I not witnessed it. It's really a lesson to all established technologies... you can fall faster than you ever realized.
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by 16s 15y ago
You might also consider buying an OpenBSD CD. It's only 50 bucks. This funds the development of OpenSSH (which we all benefit from regardless of what *nix we use and like).
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by 16s 15y ago
That's roughly 250 million per year.

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