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by Periodic 15y ago
Our best defense: code injection attacks.
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by Periodic 15y ago
As I understand it, it isn't so much less light or warmer light as much as it is a lack of blue light. The amount of blue light during the day time in the sun is huge . F.lux works by reducing the color temperature which greatly reduces
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by Periodic 15y ago
I've been using urxvt for a few years now. It supports a full color range and I adopted Solarized for a while, but went back to Tango. I haven't had any trouble binding <ctrl>-based combinations. All my window-manager commands are
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by Periodic 15y ago
I wondered about this as well. If I were professionally stealing laptops, my first instinct would be to disconnect power/battery, then boot from CD and image the HDD for later identity theft. From there a reinstall would be in order. All th
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by Periodic 15y ago
Under Linux I always run vim in a terminal. Part of this is habit because I (in the past) often edit files on remote computers and I like the consistency. On my mac I end up using MacVim mostly so that my Vim and Terminal apps can be consi
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by Periodic 15y ago
I really enjoyed watching that, though not really from the standpoint of an entrepreneur. What I really took from that video was how important a support structure is. It sounds like he wouldn't have gone as far as he did without his broth
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by Periodic 15y ago
For me it was the following two comments. It just showed me this was the type of person who is obsessed with following the latest news and keeping up with all their feeds. It's an edge use-case, and not one I subscribe to (pun intended).
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by Periodic 15y ago
I use proxies to filter my news. Proxies are people like you and every other user of Reddit and HN. These people help me by voting on what stories they think are important. For example, I never go to TechCrunch on my own. Occasionally t
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by Periodic 15y ago
In terms of publicizing it, I used to see adds for the Air Force Cyber Command on Hulu. It showed pictures of guys in fatigues doing simple things on Windows in cubicles. It didn't look terribly exciting, though they did have red rotating
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'm interested in this too. It sounds like it would be hard to do A/B testing pre-launch with our tiny volume, and unless we get a significant amount of volume immediately post-launch we won't have much data. However, I do plan to get a f
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by Periodic 15y ago
Are you still limited to method bodies? It seems reasonable that the method signatures and object layouts couldn't be modified because that would invalidate a lot of code already in memory and that may already be optimized.
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by Periodic 15y ago
Completely random strings of words can be hard for me to remember, but something like, "the {adjective1} {animal1} {verb} the {ajective2} {verb2}" would be much easier for me to remember because the words relate to each other ways I already
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by Periodic 15y ago
I see a lot of people do stupid shit because they don't seem to think it will make a big difference. One mistake isn't a big deal, is it? The problem is that it becomes habit, and then you're making plenty of these, and you think it's oka
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by Periodic 15y ago
I haven't used rails in quite some time and have been publishing with Yii lately instead. It feels very similar. I feel like the right thing to do would be to dynamically mixin behaviors based on whether you are in the console or not. Thoug
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by Periodic 15y ago
Another developer introduced me to Yii when he got me on board for a PHP contract he needed help with. I was hesitant to take PHP work at first, because my previous experiences were harrowing at best. However, I found the framework was al
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by Periodic 15y ago
One use case I still am hesitant about for email-as-username is the situation where a family shares an email address for a household. I know that ISPs like Comcast still just provide a main email address when they set up the account, and I
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by Periodic 15y ago
But here's where his idea helps you combat the desire for immediate rewards without "willpower". Let's look at the impact on what sort of respect others will give you with your three options: 1. Studying for a degree: high - hard worker, sm
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by Periodic 15y ago
It sounds like Separation of Concerns[1] applied on a larger scale. Software is easier to manage and more flexible if each piece does one thing and does it well, with as little overlap with other components as possible. This is what makes
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by Periodic 15y ago
Almost everything on the internet should be prefixed by "IMO". That said, a well-reasoned argument's correctness does not vary with author.
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by Periodic 15y ago
Posts like this make me want to switch fields again! Video games can have so many interesting problems to solve. One thing it does make me wonder about is the difference between pure code and code with side-effects. Knowing large regions
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by Periodic 15y ago
That's probably good for arguing about good backup practices too. In the department I worked in it was common for grad students to have months of code written on their laptop that was not duplicated anywhere else. The problem is that thes
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by Periodic 15y ago
That explains the "bubble" comment. Things could be addressed somewhat by location. However, a moving target would be tough to track.
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by Periodic 15y ago
I'm sure they'll allow private video chats. Hangouts is for when you are specifically "browsing". It'll be just as if you lived right down the street from your mother, siblings, aunts, coworkers, friends... It currently is this way in the
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by Periodic 15y ago
Right. I believe we already have plenty of read-caches out there. Our web servers can implement them, we have Varnish and MemCache and ~100 others. What Redis appears to do great is that it is much more than just a key-value store with CR
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by Periodic 15y ago
I was a bit confused at first. When he said tiling windows with the gnome terminal I thought, "is this just a GNU screen tutorial with a buzz-words title?" When I saw the browser windows in there I started to wonder how you embedded a bro
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by Periodic 15y ago
At a largely Windows-based shop I installed Linux on my system and had Gnome set up with some fancy 3d-box transitions. I got some startled wows from my coworkers when they were helping me with something over my shoulder and I switched des
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by Periodic 15y ago
One thing I'm certain of is that my expenses for a trip like this when I was 21 would have been much lower than for a trip like this now. I've sadly grown accustomed to fancier meals (restaurants over ramen) and softer beds (hotels over hos
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by Periodic 15y ago
In a few months I won't know either.
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by Periodic 15y ago
This has a much bigger impact than canceling your own subscription. It raises the danger that you might impact other players to quit. If I were a new player and I found that the servers were too clogged over protests, I might be inclined
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by Periodic 15y ago
It would be really hard for me, in the current stage of my career, to justify working for a startup unless I knew the expectation value of the returns aren't at least comparable to traditional jobs. The investment money wouldn't be there e

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