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by 16s 13y ago
An IPv4 address is a 32 bit integer. It's a number that can be represented in various ways. Been that way for decades now.
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by 16s 13y ago
I think of it as the C of scripting languages. You have to roll a lot of your own stuff.
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by 16s 13y ago
It's my favorite language. Python ranks a close second. With those two languages, I can do anything.
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by 16s 13y ago
People continually discover this and are shocked to learn that the authors are anonymous. This has been a known fact since at least 2005. The authors of TC are anonymous and have been for a very, very long time.
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by 16s 13y ago
IMO, OpenBSD and tarsnap are other notable samples of clean C code.
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by 16s 13y ago
I use C++ because of the std containers (vector, map, set, etc). I don't have to roll my own and I'm free to think about the problem at hand rather than how to get the proper data container for this, that and the other.
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by 16s 13y ago
"Accelerated C++" is a fantastic book if you wish to pick-up idiomatic C++ quickly.
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by 16s 13y ago
The sun is going to burn out some day. When that happens, no one will care about ocean acidity.
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by 16s 13y ago
Where I'm from Tech means Virginia Tech. We beat Georgia Tech in football this year too ;) Just joking... thanks for that write-up. I'd rather keep the Internet away from Radio (it's too centralized). I much prefer stat
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by 16s 13y ago
The FCC is down. As a radio operator, I find this extremely disappointing: http://www.fcc.gov
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by 16s 13y ago
And also... C64 programs. They were manually typed in by 10 year old kids. The programs were printed in the computer magazines (early 80s) that dealt specifically with C64's. These programs were far more than 2560 characters (in some c
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by 16s 13y ago
God bless Gnu. Best thing that ever happened to Free Software,
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by 16s 13y ago
I know he has been accused of doing very bad things. I just hate to see Tor and its users vilified like this. Bad people use Tor for bad things, but good people use it for good things too. And making people feel that simply asking questions
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by 16s 13y ago
I've posted questions about Tor on stackoverflow using my real name, but I'm not a criminal nor do I have any desire to be a criminal. It seems odd to me that questions like this on a technology site could somehow be used to incri
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by 16s 13y ago
I really dislike articles that generalize based on race, religion, sex, etc. It's inappropriate and says nothing about individuals (all of whom are unique). When you're researching a large nation with more than a billion people, y
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by 16s 13y ago
Reality kills a lot of interest. Rules, deadlines, no one cares about good design... just get it out. Only you and a few like-minded co-workers realize how neat some of the solutions are. No one else cares. Make it a hobby. The stuff you ca
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by 16s 13y ago
It can be a systems programming language on pretend/virtual systems where things are make-believe, but not on real, physical hardware.
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by 16s 13y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by 16s 13y ago
Reversing a string in Python is not obvious nor consistent: str[::-1] While it is in C++: std::reverse(str.begin(), str.end()); And Ruby is even more obvious and consistent: str.reverse() Most people who rag on C+
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by 16s 13y ago
It's still my favorite language. I do respect his thoughts, but when I have systems programming to do, I'll take C++ over anything else any day, warts and all.
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by 16s 13y ago
"And when was the last time you wrote a function that returned 1 or 0? If you’re a Rubyist or a Pythonista or a server-side JavaScript devotee, you may never have done so." That's just returning True or False (bool). Lot&#x
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by 16s 13y ago
It's only been in the last few years that home wifi routers came with passwords by default. Before that, they defaulted to open access with no password.
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by 16s 13y ago
cat file | grep string It's a gratuitous use of cat, it's not useless. gratuitous - uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted grep string file Is all you need.
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by 16s 13y ago
Passwords will go away about the same time Java does.
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by 16s 13y ago
Postgres is the C++ of databases. It is well thought out and designed. It seems overly complex at first until you actually use it a lot to solve hard problems, then you understand why it is the way it is and just how great all those feature
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by 16s 13y ago
Diabetes too. That's a huge problem in the US. And many people who are diabetic are not excessively over-weight. Those who are not diabetic, are pre-diabetic. "Over 25 million people in the US have diabetes, and close to 80 millio
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by 16s 13y ago
I find his advice to be spot on and I see proof of it every day. People still use 'Password1' as the key to their AES-256 bit encrypted file system. You don't have to be a mathematician to attack AES-256, you just need to kno
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by 16s 13y ago
If we are going to vilify encryption, then we should just stop teaching math. That's all encryption is.
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by 16s 13y ago
Some organizations have IT security departments that attempt to foil encryption already. They use devices to terminate SSL before it leaves their network and forge certs back to clients and basically act as a MITM for the clients making the

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