Chlorus

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by Chlorus 11y ago
My new favorite: "I have discovered a critical security vulnerability in Windows which I intend to present at the XYZ conference. It allows any user with administrator privileges to perform operation Q, something that should be availab
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by Chlorus 11y ago
>They just aren't written in hipster languages and they don't force you to compile every fucking thing you want to use on every fucking machine every fucking time you install it. What? Homebrew has done binaries by default for
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Eh, I'll get around to forgiving myself later...
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Perhaps you have Amiga on the brain :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Have you checked out Real World Haskell by Bryan Sullivan? It's different than most Haskell resources I've found in that it introduces you to monads & IO fairly quickly, so you're not trapped with toy math problems. That
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Why do I have the sensation that critiquing programming language communities in general is going to end in, shall we say, less than constructive conversations?
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by Chlorus 11y ago
" A couple were sprains or knee injuries, and virtually none of the collar bone breaks I expected when people try to stop themselves with their arms." Thanks, Mr. Self-Taught medical expert, who thought running 17 miles without pr
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by Chlorus 11y ago
They're likely referring to scenarios like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8278864 - "IPv6 privacy addresses crashed the MIT CSAIL network" & the much more complicated host discovery / a
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> "Also, given the choice between a single, routable IPv4 addresses and a block of IPv6 addresses, I would still choose the IPv4 address." Ah yes, which would likely entail the 'simplicity' of NAT...
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by Chlorus 12y ago
They really should have seen that coming...
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by Chlorus 12y ago
You sound like you have a deep psychic wound from this. "Too many people everywhere, all the time don't care about anything but the answer." FTFY Cannot believe this site has devolved to someone bitching about an incorrectly
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by Chlorus 12y ago
Documentation is cheating; you'll never become a rockstar developer that way! Most writers will try to answer the most common questions that a dev will have about their code; this is just as bad, if not worse, than asking them question
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by Chlorus 12y ago
"We're seeing any sort of competition, or even just dissent, being highly discouraged, suppressed, or even prevented wherever possible." Could you please elaborate on this point?
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by Chlorus 12y ago
No kidding, take a look at the presentation[0] for multipath TCP - and that was a relatively 'simple' transport layer modification. Look at slide #30 for a glimpse into the madness caused by crappy middleboxes. [0] http:/&#x2
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by Chlorus 12y ago
TL;DR "I've built my own echo chamber!"
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by Chlorus 12y ago
Yes, RHEL6 + derivatives, so I'm a little confused by that statement.
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by Chlorus 12y ago
"When Ubuntu failed to convince other distributions to adopt upstart, it launched new questionable initiatives such as the Unity desktop (the classic "microvax" mistake that Microsoft also made with Metro) " What is the
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by Chlorus 12y ago
My comment was directed at the reply to your post. The fact that life is often transitory, arbitrary, and often downright empty is a defining theme of art & literature, and one of the most consistently studied topics throughout history,
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by Chlorus 12y ago
But why do that, when we can just write a really dramatic comment on HN to try and sound insightful?
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by Chlorus 12y ago
You sure are a special snowflake. Thank you for sharing your insights with the rest of the world. Do you have a newsletter? I would like to subscribe to it! Your fresh, humble insights are a beacon to us all, who have to contend with the du
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by Chlorus 12y ago
Here are the headlines on washingtonpost.com[0]. They sure do look like they're making blindly xenophobic, nationalistic claims to bolster my faith in the government /s : Obama scraps bid to raise taxes on ‘529’ plans How one f
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by Chlorus 14y ago
"It would seem to me that having data on an individual's ability to solve Captcha's might provide some correlation with educational, economic, and social characteristics which is potentially useful to advertisers." Like whether or not they'
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by Chlorus 14y ago
This was brought up a while ago, and the reason it was shot down was that no one wants to condition users into taking advice from random web pages. Think of all the 'you've been infected! download anti-virus 2012 pro!' pop-ups that infest t
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by Chlorus 14y ago
The comments @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/what-the-i... are hilarious, in a depressing way. Here's my favorite: "Personally, I like the idea of firing my internet service provider for not protecting me from such vir
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by Chlorus 14y ago
Huh? "You won't learn it if you limit yourself to the PHP cage forever" That's true of ANY language; you seem to think that just because someone starts out with PHP they're permanently crippled and unable to grasp higher programming concept
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by Chlorus 14y ago
Or you put it in as a cheap link-bait tactic.
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by Chlorus 14y ago
"I put the singularity bit in to make it relevant for those who are non-technical." Yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of those on HN...I'd expect this kind of crap in something like Wired, but not here.
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by Chlorus 14y ago
.local causes chaos if you're running Bonjour/Avahi on the same network
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by Chlorus 15y ago
Been looking for something like this for a very, very, long time. Certainly makes egress filter testing a hell of a lot easier. Thank you!