IDisposableHero

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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
every feature ... leaves another possible angle of attack for hackers Hm, I think the point is that some features are worse than others (larger attack surface, more bugs exposed), and WebGL is particularly bad.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Lots of investors own minority parts of facebook. But no outside company owns facebook.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
It doesn't say which day they'll skip. I'd pick a Monday.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Oh look, it's there near the end in one dismissive sentence, and comes along with two wrong "facts": 1) the household contribution to algae creation is negligible - That would be the good result of this policy limiting the use of harmfull
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
An anoying article. The author rants at length about how evul the gubmint is for banning clean shirts, calls "trisodium phosphate" "a natural element" which cannot be correct chemically correct, and falls for the "natural must be safe" fala
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
If social recommendations didn't work then amazon would have no 'people who bought, also bought...' The point is, if your business starts off as "we sell books" (and expands to "we sell books and stuff") and you get a lot of users that w
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I can say I became a Go fanboy in the last few weeks Go looked to me like a c-language guy's take on very simple OO with a few functional and parallel features. On the whole the API looked terse to the point of being cryptic, which is a t
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
have an order of magnitude less number of apps Past a certain point, that stops mattering. Does iPhone have 1 million apps available, or is it 10 million ? I don't know and I don't care. what I do know is (assuming that I had an iPhone no
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
For comparison, I came up with this in C# Func<int, int, int> sum = (x, y) => x + y; I had to specify the type explicitly, could not use 'var' type inference; the error is "Cannot assign lambda expression to an implicitly
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I have no idea how you could tell a dev to wing it, let him work for months with no oversight and then be shocked when he came back with something unexpected. I hope he's exagerating the examples for effect. It can't really be that idio
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Yes, it kind of failed on "movie times for 'source code'". That's a sentence that's hard to parse without context ;)
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
do you know anyone who doesn't know C but is still excellent at coding/computer-science? You don't? How parochial. I recommend tht you study a good functional language for a while. It helped me understand coding on a "far deeper level".
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
It got " how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wouldchuck would chuck wood " right for me. I am impressed now. But it couldn't handle " Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn " Maybe I'm not pronouncing it quite right.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
There is no easy way to see what Android version you are exactly running Is Menu|settings|About phone not enough for you?
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Hah, that trumps my example by 200 years. Well done.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
This is very well explained, but not all that novel. Brian Eno used to generate long soundscapes like this, using loops of mutually prime lengths of time. Edit: See also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_1:_Music_for_Airports http:/
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I'm also not splitting hairs. of course you aren't. We know this because you say you aren't. What you are is making a nuanced distinction between what you mean when you say "stores hashed passwords" and what is commonly meant by that.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Close. Which is what I don't like about the samples that I have seen in his Go language. Code like "Fmt.PrintF" seems a step backwards to me.
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Personally, I find "thisVariableIsTheLoopIndex" to be a terrible loop index variable name. But "i" isn't great either. "index" seems to be closer to the sweet spot to me. Or "fooIndex" and "barIndex" if loops over foo and bar collections ar
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Doesn't Java have any kind of type inference for variables yet? C# allows you to say var foo = new Dictionary<string, int>(); and foo's type is infered as Dictionary<string, int>
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I'll be more specific about failures of security and vigilance: "separate secured system" aren't always as seperate and secured as they should be. Assume that all computers can connect to the internet these days unless specifically configur
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I agree this law doesn't seem to outlaw hashed passwords, it simply means that you need to store 2 copies of the password - one hashed, and one in plain text. You are splitting hairs. It outlaws passwords where only the (salted) hash and
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
I'm actually surprised things haven't gotten cheaper by more than a factor of 5 in half a century. We're used to electronics getting cheaper as we find ways to make smaller and faster chips. We get change driven by Moore's law. Getting to
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by IDisposableHero 15y ago
Don't forget John Carmack - from Doom at Id softare to Armadillo Aerospace
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
While it's not what I would choose for my kids, the money isn't uneared. His parents or ancestors earned it Oh, come on. You're just spliting hairs. I'm not jealous of it, but in no way is it earned.
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
You're not making a persuasive case to me that the programming language and OS, rather than the developement methods, management style, and expertise of the coding team were the factors that determined sucess or failure.
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
I tried reading a bit further; it reads like PR not journalism.
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
Am I wrong to stop reading at the grammar error in the second word?
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
The VPS figure was for serving static files. So, a lot of the stackoverflow content isn't static.
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by IDisposableHero 16y ago
architecture only starts to become interesting at 4-5 times their traffic. Which suggests that even sites with a medium-to-large internet presence, which dominatre thier niche, can do so with "uninteresting" architecture.

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