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by Niten 13y ago
I agree... even more recently, about a year ago I ran into a minor glitch in the OpenBSD kernel while porting an application. The kernel was so simply and sensibly laid out that I was able to quickly identify and submit a patch for the pr
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by Niten 13y ago
What I find most infuriating is this attitude that, hey, this idea of mine is maybe theoretically possible, so let's make a shiny, over-stylized concept video to promote it as though it's practically been built already. Because I&
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by Niten 13y ago
That comparison is quite the stretch, though. The currently debated reaction to Syria's chemical weapons attack is a limited response intended to punish the Assad regime, to attempt to reduce its ability to launch more such attacks in
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by Niten 13y ago
I got an early start in morse code thanks to my grandfather, who was a Navy radioman in World War II and later became a ham operator. Sadly I never got my ham license, but it was my grandfather's obsession with radio which got me into
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by Niten 13y ago
The aforementioned CERT guideline: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode... Skeptics should note that the real-world example on that page is from the Linux kernel, where this style of goto i
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by Niten 13y ago
Not terribly plausible in kernel code.
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by Niten 13y ago
Well it's not just a matter of bathrooms. Even on a commuter bus or plane, if someone has a medical emergency and needs to get off right now , the bus will pull over or the plane will land. In this design you'd have to just sit
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A virtual machine in Scratch(scratch.mit.edu)
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by Niten 13y ago
> As a software engineer, I have to admit to being inspired by near-future software engineering fiction that explores new ideas, many of which are quite achievable. What are some of your favorite examples of this genre?
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by Niten 13y ago
> I dunno, my negative reaction to it isn't that the designer is breaking the limits of feasible materials and mechanical engineering...it's that, given no such limits, the designer proceeds to create something not terribly ori
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by Niten 13y ago
Python is almost a decade older than C#!
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by Niten 13y ago
You could also put the LCARS panels from Star Trek: The Next Generation into this category.
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by Niten 13y ago
More likely along the lines of other people not wanting to breathe your second-hand nicotine / whatever the hell else might be in this vapor, because the jury's still out on their safety.
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by Niten 14y ago
Err... innovations in Bieber face swaps? Sorry, you lost me EDIT: OK different link now... sure there is a Wikipedia article titled "Technological and industrial history of the United States". But that doesn't change the fact that, yes, the
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by Niten 14y ago
And the United States. EDIT: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-01/piracy-and-fraud-pr...
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by Niten 14y ago
Either you're intentionally misrepresenting my position or your reading comprehension needs serious help.
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by Niten 14y ago
It's rather telling that when someone brands a given behavior as offensive, you imagine the discussion must stop there. That nobody else has the right to argue in the defense that, het, the 'perpetrator' has actually done nothing wrong in t
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by Niten 14y ago
> As for your comment about me being oversensitive, way to miss the point of the last paragraph of my post. I do get your notion of 1,000 paper cuts, or at least I think I do. But let me rephrase that – why should you consider my hypoth
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by Niten 14y ago
> The thing is, I've never heard a woman speaker make a similar joke about her husband/boyfriend or a non-heterosexual speaker make a similar comment about their partner. Well, taking for granted the fact that there are more men than wo
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by Niten 14y ago
I'd say the exact opposite. This attempt to redefine the well-understood term "racism" into "something only white people can do" is a shameful maneuver to commandeer the societal reserves of moral outrage rightfully reserved for use against
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by Niten 14y ago
I was really sad to hear this when our company evaluated Kiln a couple months ago. Off-site hosting is not an option for our company, so we had to go with another product despite strong user preferences for Kiln and FogBugz. I hope a "fire
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by Niten 14y ago
Respectfully, you are flat out wrong. This "entropy check" doesn't prove what you think it does. This password strength test is attempting to estimate the entropy of given passwords under the assumption that it is a word roughly obeying the
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by Niten 14y ago
This is, again, not about a random password, as moxie explains in that thread. And as he continues, with regard to the comic: "I think that's totally on the right track, but if people start to do that, chances are that they'll start to cre
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by Niten 14y ago
That's not the case, though. Even knowing the general manner in which the passphrase is constructed, if the four words are randomly selected then the best an attacker can do is to brute force the space of 2^44 possible phrases, which is d
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by Niten 14y ago
Anyone using this comic to imply that a passphrase is more secure than a short random password hasn't done the math. This is comparing a passphrase drawn from four of the 2048 most common words against not a random password, but one based
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by Niten 14y ago
> Why would a Linux Pro mean kernel developer, while UNIX pro would be more generic? Because Linux is technically the name of just the kernel, not the entire system encompassing userspace as well. There's definitely room for misinterpre
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by Niten 14y ago
As a non-EU citizen (USA), is there anything that I can do to help?
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by Niten 14y ago
This article from last August hits the nail on the head with regard to systemd: http://www.pappp.net/?p=969 "I’m not sure that this is a bad design, but it is most definitely not UNIX or anything like it."
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by Niten 14y ago
To be more precise, I think the biggest problem with this anecdote is the notion that this guy somehow "one-upped" Knuth by coming up with a pragmatic rather than a theroetically optimal solution. Knuth is a mathematician after all, and if
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by Niten 14y ago
> Donald Knuth was asked to write a program to solve this text handling problem: read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies. He wrote a progra

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