MikeTaylor

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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
The original article makes it clear that this is how things work with C globals, not locals. If you compile and run this program with gcc -Wall -pedantic x.c && ./a.out there will be no errors and it will emit i=10 as expec
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
The point of fizz-buzz and similar exercises is not to find suitable candidates. It's to eliminate plainly unsuitable candidates, very early in the process, at minimal cost.
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
This is simple. I won't waste my time applying for a job that doesn't even bother to tell me what they're going to pay -- any more than I would buy a car without knowing its engine capacity, mileage, etc. The idea is idiotic.
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
What you are describing is known as the Biological Species Concept. It's one of at least 28 species concepts that have been proposed in the scientific literature -- they were surveyed in a review paper whose reference irritatingly esca
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
The is the argument for being on Facebook, too. It's a compelling one, for sure. The value of being on a network is the value of the people on the network times the quality of the tool. Skype and Facebook both have such huge networks t
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
Thanks for the concern, but no worries -- that's open by design. Which isn't to say it couldn't use a bit of a tidy up.
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
Not a single mention of encryption, security, PGP or GPG. In my book, that makes it a non-starter as a new email platform in 2014.
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
Good thing criminals have no way to obtain a fake photo-ID.
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
> Please name names? Seriously? It's not _perfectly_ clear who I'm talking about?
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
So who could be carrying out a man-in-the-middle attack on the TOR project? It's pretty hard to think of candidates, isn't it?
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
I can't even see this blog. See the screenshot at http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/tor-mitm.png Transcription follows: -- Cannot connect to the real torproject.org Something is currently interfering with your secu
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
I couldn't find the bit corresponding with "6. Was arrested and put in a Philippines jail cell". That links to the section entitled "Retaliation" which doesn't say anything about being arrested or imprisoned. W
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
Maybe he's just really powerful?
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by MikeTaylor 12y ago
This is marvellous; but I can't find any indication on the site of the terms that they provide the music under. Is it public domain, CC By licenced, what?
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C++: the good parts(reprog.wordpress.com)
2 points by MikeTaylor 13y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
I wonder what will happen to the code-base. It's pretty hard to make an application go away when there are many checkouts of its git module around the world.
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
"And that's the shame of it. A good article on debugging could be useful." This is a good article on debugging. It has a lot of specific, actionable, helpful advice. I can only assume you stopped reading after first couple
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
Thanks, Thos. This is a helpful analogy and goes some way to explaining why designers have such strong (and often incompatible) preferences for one font over another where I don't necessarily see a lot of difference.
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
This is a fascinating question; which the article completely fails to answer. Besides fluffy common-sense tips like being aware of what message a font sends and not using what was fashionable twenty years ago, the only concrete advice is:
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
It's great that Berners-Lee is saying this, but he'd have retained a lot more of his authority to pronounce on the future of the Web had he not thrown his weight behind the W3C's horrible plan to put DRM into HTML.
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If Harry Potter was an academic work(svpow.com)
2 points by MikeTaylor 13y ago|0 comments
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
If your job ad doesn't give some indication of salary, then it's literally useless to anyone worthwhile who might otherwise consider applying. Good candidates will only apply for jobs that they feel are worthy of them. If they can
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
Apart from very confused about what an adjective it, this article nails it. Just because it's "ninja" and "rockstar" instead of "monetise" and "synergy" doesn't make it any less meaningless
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
Aha! I told AdBlock that http://www.peteseeger.net/Banjo.gif was an advert, and now it doesn't render. Bingo: black text on a white background.
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
I bet this is a fascinating read, but I can't make sense of it because my eyes are confounded by all the banjoes in the background. Dammit, Pete -- you're a mighty fine protest singer, but a rotten web designer!
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
One example in the article was the difference between def qsort(a) and public static void ArrayList<Integer> qsort(ArrayList<Integer> a)
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
For a contrary perspective, see my blog-post "We can’t afford to write safe software" ( http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/we-cant-afford-to-wri... ) in which I make the rather obvious point that
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
Impressive, but if the goal is for BSD to have a faster grep then clearly the solution is to use GNU grep instead of rolling their own redundant and inferior clone.
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… Or maybe they’re doing web-site registration completely right(reprog.wordpress.com)
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by MikeTaylor 13y ago
And yes, I know, Correct Horse Battery Staple. That's all very well until you have to register on a web-site that restricts passwords to 8-12 characters.

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