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841.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Well anybody can file a class action lawsuit.
842.
by TwoBit 12y ago
If I was a bank dealing with standardized gold bars, I'd make a machine that validates a bar at the push of a button. Surely they have that, given that a single 40 Oz bar is worth $800,000.
843.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Given the amount of money stolen, I wonder if bribing an insider was involved. That wouldn't be surprising to me, given that most of this was in Russia.
844.
by TwoBit 12y ago
That seems to be the fundamental engineering flaw here. Also, their email system shouldn't allow executable attachments. The last company I worked at completely stopped all such virus infections by killing all executable attachments.
845.
by TwoBit 12y ago
It's not enough to put standards in the software development. Users can misuse software regardless of how well it's written. Same as if you build a bridge and users overload it.
846.
by TwoBit 12y ago
So games intentionally program support for bunnyhopping, or us it a math logic bug.
847.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Some language guy told me that Rust's ownership system is untenable. He said that researchers tried the same thing years ago and it was concluded to be impossible to work well. I know that's vague, but he claimed to know what he w
848.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I wouldn't mind how studios did this if they were simply up front about it instead of being weasels about it.
849.
by TwoBit 12y ago
How can Java actually be safe when it is such a huge cause of constant security compromises that most security experts recommend disabling or uninstall in it?
850.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I am against this. This is not a good standard. It's a response to Google 's Microsoft-like protocol hack.
851.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I drove over the California grapevine in both directions last week and averaged 300 Wh/mi by sticking to 60 mph uphill and taking advantage of recharging while descending. Granted that climb is not as big the climb to Tahoe.
852.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The Oculus software and hardware will improve this situation in the upcoming months. Source: I work at Oculus.
853.
by TwoBit 12y ago
A better example would be a motorcycle vs. Lance Armstrong.
854.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Reminds of how NFL coaches are so frequently fired when their teams do poorly. It makes for good press, but the teams usually do the same under the next coach.
855.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Why is it that poor students fail so much more at education?
856.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The interest from other automakers is irrelevant, because that's expected. No car maker is going to cooperate with any other in a way that makes the other look good. BMW electric car owners could desperately want to use the supercharge
857.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The C99 language standard requires support for long long.
858.
by TwoBit 12y ago
This isn't a problem with comparison by subtraction, it's a problem with integer overflow. There's nothing wrong with comparison via subtraction if you account for overflow, which you always need to do in programming.
859.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Is it possible to have standardized city management software? It seems like these cities always have hand written customized software systems.
860.
by TwoBit 12y ago
>> some of the smartest people I know work there This ridiculously incompetent security flaw suggests otherwise.
861.
by TwoBit 12y ago
What you say about restrict is hard to consider because every C++ compiler supports restrict. Also, I frequently see those types of algorithms that benefit C++. It's not just an STL thing.
862.
by TwoBit 12y ago
C is not the fastest language. C++ is faster than C. For example, the only way you can hope to match C++ inline template algorithms in C is with a horrific macro scheme.
863.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Why can't Canon and Nikon DSLRs provide some basic built-in HDR?
864.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that swarm was very over-estimated. People had a habit of doing such things back then.
865.
by TwoBit 12y ago
That reporter was an idiot. His entire experiment was qualitative instead of quantitative. How did he know that his performance improved? Because he reported that he felt like he was going faster. Useless.
866.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Why is it that drafting is allowed in world records? Why not just break the record by having a big draft train like in cycling? Cycling records don't count if drafting is involved, in fact.
867.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Those who made the mistake of installing pre-releases of VS2012 alongside other versions got burned badly. In general Microsoft pre-releases of VisualStudio are so bad that we've resoved to installing them only on VMs. Some who didn&#x
868.
by TwoBit 12y ago
If a software engineering company has superstitions then I wonder about their engineering capabilities.
869.
by TwoBit 12y ago
I wonder, can you make a device that's an anti-stingray? I mean a device that detects a stingray is present and compromises it somehow.
870.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Valve didn't use password hash salting? That seems borderline ridiculous. Pretty much the only way he could have broken the hashes is if this is so. Valve's use of SourceSafe at the time is another black mark, though not related t

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