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by Figs 13y ago
I write both C and C++ on a regular basis. The set of idioms used in C is radically different from what you'd find in C++ (even though a lot of C code is valid C++). When I first started working on C projects written professionally (
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by Figs 13y ago
If a person is choosing the words, they aren't going to be uniformly chosen from the list. For example, I'd be willing to bet "monkey" is much more common in passwords than "contacted" even though both words ar
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by Figs 13y ago
I've used it to stream an uncompressed video feed (essentially a special purpose webcam) over LAN as a quick and dirty solution for a research project. It worked out ok after I set a high water mark and forced it to drop data when it c
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by Figs 13y ago
Here's the primary bit the article says about implications: "The two-part flaw, based on an old security standard and badly configured code, could allow hackers to remotely infect a SIM with a virus that sends premium text message
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by Figs 13y ago
It's a bit ambiguous what it means to erase an abstract entity like "data". Usually, I would accept it to mean that there are no physical copies of the plain text remaining -- e.g. no copies in terms of bits on a hard disk or
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by Figs 13y ago
Encrypt a message with a one time pad and destroy all copies of the original message. You can literally "decrypt" the ciphertext into anything that matches the same length. The only way to recover the message is to know what the p
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by Figs 13y ago
Why the hell would anyone give away sensitive customer information like that to a free service?! There is ZERO incentive for them to do anything good with MY information once you give it to them. Even if the current owner is conscientious,
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by Figs 13y ago
I don't know what you mean about MUXes. It's just simple abstraction to say "yeah, take this pattern of gates and give it a symbol so we don't have to draw it over and over again in detail". You're still just w
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by Figs 13y ago
Along the same sort of programmatic thinking, you could try writing the planned activities with a language that supports coroutines (like lua). Each actor can be modelled as a coroutine that is scheduled by a simple dispatch loop. The dispa
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by Figs 14y ago
I've used that style of programming in some of my hobby projects (mixed with other obvious sequencing operations like wait_until(predicate) and delay(time)) for doing timeline scripting. In my experience, it tended to become a mess when I n
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Intel adds Altera as Foundry Customer(online.wsj.com)
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by Figs 14y ago
As an additional usability issue, if I disable JavaScript the text is obscured by a partially transparent overlay reminding me that I disabled JavaScript... (it would have otherwise been readable afaict) :|
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by Figs 14y ago
> I've seen simple cases where a function returned a signed integer value modulo x. Which of course means that this function can only return a value within 0..x-1. Actually, signed modulo can return negative numbers... See, for example,
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by Figs 14y ago
This sounds like exactly the kind of problem that relational databases were designed to solve. You can organize it with an entity-relationship model fairly easily. Once you have stored your information in a database, the filename doesn't re
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by Figs 14y ago
You have to login? It doesn't do that for me, and I'm not logged into any Google products...
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by Figs 14y ago
"(increasingly exclusive) access to rare earth metals" Is that after accounting for the reopening of rare-earth mines in California and other locations? E.g: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/rare-earth-mining-ris...
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by Figs 14y ago
Thank you; the io9 website is always completely broken for me for some reason -- any time someone links to it, all I get is their logo (or sometimes only part of it...) and a broken purple or white page with no text. I've tried turning off
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by Figs 14y ago
It automatically advances when you get the answer right. If it's not advancing, you're probably entering the wrong language (even if you think you're right; there are a lot of similar looking, but obscure languages in there). I agree that i
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by Figs 14y ago
This is not really a very useful introduction since it doesn't go deep enough for someone to continue learning on their own. As soon as you start looking for more details about x86, you'll run into a lot of confusing information (and probab
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by Figs 15y ago
I tried to use their service to do that recently since I do like the GMail interface, but I couldn't create an account. The domain name had apparently already been used with them by a previous owner. There was no obvious way to fix it other
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by Figs 15y ago
I remember reading about something like this in a few science fiction novels by Jack McDevitt (the "Alex Benedict" series) -- basically people had left behind AI versions of themselves that some of the protagonists interviewed to try to pie
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by Figs 15y ago
Assuming it makes enough money... why not just hire someone else to maintain it? As long as you're very careful about your documentation, even a pile of hacks like that could be interesting to work on.
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by Figs 15y ago
No, like AutoIt ( http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ ).
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by Figs 15y ago
HTML5 isn't a standard yet, so how can you be conformant?
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by Figs 15y ago
You would lose all the casual members like me who occasionally have useful things to say -- even more so on Reddit. You thought the Digg redesign was a bad business decision? Implement something like that on Reddit and most of their userbas
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by Figs 15y ago
Actually, that sounds a lot like a bug in your build system. Did you have a custom Makefile (either hand written, or provided by a teacher)? If you didn't keep track of dependencies very carefully so that you always recompile all the .c fil
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by Figs 15y ago
I'm mostly interested in it for various sorts of simulations and tools; I rarely write server code. There are a lot of uses for coroutines besides writing webservers :) (Even in the case of servers, there are a lot of cases where you would
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by Figs 15y ago
This looks kind of neat. Too bad about the GPL license though -- I'll probably never get a chance to use it.
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by Figs 15y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure the reason most people have trouble understanding monads in Haskell is because they haven't learned what typeclasses are yet. Once you know what a typeclass is, the rest is pretty straightforward. I tried to explai
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by Figs 15y ago
You can get some of that functionality out of ctags. I mostly use it for the navigational aspect, but I've seen it used for autocomplete too.

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