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841.
by SiVal 13y ago
It appears that most of these attacks relied on exploiting the unfortunate design of C, which makes manual memory management the default and safe, managed memory the special case. It should be the reverse. Speed will always matter, but you
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by SiVal 13y ago
I had a boss with a very average IQ but who was a competent manager. A couple of times, I flew on business trips with him, and we sat in different parts of the plane. Both times, I would get up to walk around the plane a bit and see him ove
843.
by SiVal 13y ago
All of this is quite predictable if you just ask yourself what kind of people refer to their personal opinion papers as "manifestos".
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "no page is likely to last more than five years," because a large portion of the Web is composed of pages that, once posted, remain indefinitely. If your site is one of them, you wouldn&#x2
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by SiVal 13y ago
I think it was worded poorly, but I think the author was hoping T-Mobile would fight as hard as they could, not holding anything back, regardless of the cost to themselves, because of all the good it's doing the rest of us.
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by SiVal 13y ago
I don't know what would be required to "crack" my iPhone (hardward? software only? can it be trusted? etc.), but I think this is the only time I'll need it internationally before AT&T will unlock it for me (and if th
847.
by SiVal 13y ago
I don't know yet, and I'm too busy packing to look into it now---but I will.
848.
by SiVal 13y ago
How ironic. I'm packing for a brief trip to London, and I'd like to use my iPhone 5 while I'm there. T-Mobile offers terrific deals on sim cards in the UK. For about 15GBP or so, I could easily get a sim card with more talk m
849.
by SiVal 13y ago
Just in case you're not joking: Yes, of course they have access to my data, and unless I delete all Google cookies, sign out from all Google services (gmail, youtube, etc.) and possibly reboot my browser before making a Google quer
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by SiVal 13y ago
My carrier pigeon just arrived with some TCP/IP/pigeon protocol packets, and I see I've caused someone's head to explode on the Internet. I'll put down my vegetable hoe and ask you this. Given that these are my frie
851.
by SiVal 13y ago
"Imagine measuring your room by just walking around in it." Yes, and imagine transmitting each of those footsteps in real time back to Google, so they can have a map of your room, too, in case they, or other parties, ever need it.
852.
by SiVal 13y ago
Almost. It's a difference between subject and object, like I versus me or he versus him. Thou is the subjective form. "Thou art wise." Thee is the objective form. "My lord did kiss thee in the garden." Thee can be a
853.
by SiVal 13y ago
Korean has many grades of "you" that can manipulate politeness and formality somewhat independently. Most younger people in Seoul today would speak to a stranger using a grammatical register that is both informal and polite. It co
854.
by SiVal 13y ago
I believe the angular diameter of both sun and moon are roughly half a degree, not two degrees. You remembered the two correctly, but put two degrees in one sun instead of two suns in one degree. That's how our brains work, isn't
855.
by SiVal 13y ago
Look, I'm so bright that people can't look at me without wincing. (At least I assume that's why they can't bear the sight of me.) But even after decades of experience, I still find programming difficult. It's not ju
856.
by SiVal 13y ago
Well, sure, and ten years' experience working for some other company with their technologies and in-house legacy code, libraries, design methodologies, and idiosyncratic ways of using even open source tools is not ten years' exper
857.
by SiVal 13y ago
A simple calculator, for example. It could feel as if you had all answers to numerical calculations somehow memorized. You might wonder what the twelfth root of two was, and you would just suddenly "remember" the answer.
858.
by SiVal 13y ago
The author claims that poor women suffer a lack of opportunities to "marry up", but the majority of poor women have always married men from roughly the same social group. The men had to compete for the attention of the women by de
859.
by SiVal 13y ago
A tattoo is an oxymoron: a permanent fashion item. My kids can't believe what we used to wear when I was their age. (It makes me laugh, too.) I look around at every garage sale and see $5 items that used to be considered quite elegant.
860.
by SiVal 13y ago
On the contrary, communist officials know better than anyone how arbitrary power based on political connections can be and many are buying homes in the US in preparation for any sudden changes in their status. Many of these princelings have
861.
by SiVal 13y ago
Death of expertise? Not of real expertise. This author intentionally conflates his expertise in "public policy" with expertise in other fields such as science, and concludes that a failure to acknowledge his authority is no diff
862.
by SiVal 13y ago
Tofferies are things done by toffs that show they are toffs, where "toff" is a snooty, upper crust, elitist, aristocratic twit who holds commoners in contempt. Or so I learned while working in the UK. It's all a part of the j
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by SiVal 13y ago
Near Stanford.
864.
by SiVal 13y ago
I work for a very large company which HN would probably scoff at, plus I work with very uncool things like Java and Oracle. Don't imagine that HN is some monolithic group of fratboys obsessed with the latest cool whatever. Some of us
865.
by SiVal 13y ago
If you have $150/day of living expenses, no thanks.
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by SiVal 13y ago
And, strangely enough, the value that 1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5... converges to if evaluated left to right is the natural log of 2. It doesn't converge very quickly, though. It takes a billion terms to reach just si
867.
by SiVal 13y ago
Is there a good, focused , website where these .js tools are discussed on an ongoing basis? Yes, I know HN and a thousand other places scattered all over, and maybe that's really all there is, but I'm hoping there's a way t
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by SiVal 13y ago
It happened to me once today with a streaming radio station. Strangely, I had hit the back button, so there was no player visible on the page, yet it began playing after a minute or two of dead air. I couldn't find it for a while (ther
869.
by SiVal 13y ago
+1 Nice work.
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by SiVal 13y ago
The writer is not Mark Stephens, the PBS Cringely whose name is the first Google hit, but a current InfoWorld staff writer. I suspect they would share this opinion, though.

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