TwoBit

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901.
by TwoBit 12y ago
OpenSSL's thread safety policies is undocumented and unintelligible. We gave up and just put a single mutex around any call to OpenSSL within the process.
902.
by TwoBit 12y ago
The absolute worst API in the history of computers is the Microsoft Text Services Framework (TSF) API. It's incomprehensible, nearly undocumented, 10x more complicated than necessary, and even Microsoft doesn't understand how it w
903.
by TwoBit 13y ago
That mindset of them being on a downward spiral is based on the idea that they don't lead any more, they only follow. And in the long run followers are irrelevant.
904.
by TwoBit 13y ago
The article says bowling is the #1 recreational activity. There's no way, as cycling is easily #1. Surely they rigged their definition to somehow exclude cycling.
905.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Our benchmarks consistently show Tim sort as the fastest -stable- sort, But intro sort consistently beats it.
906.
by TwoBit 13y ago
"About 100 partners had guarantees totaling about $100 million a year". There's half of their problem right there.
907.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Also, assertions only flag code that gets executed when you test it. Unless you can be sure that you have tested every possible execution possibility before shipping, you cannot know if after shipping your code will execute something that y
908.
by TwoBit 13y ago
>> Throw away tests that haven’t failed in a year. That's absolutely f *ing crazy. Throwing those tests away makes it impossible for me to know that any changes I make to the implementation are OK.
909.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I'm going to guess that your friend didn't go to prison for 18 months solely for asking an officer for their badge number.
910.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Probably a lot of people missed this point of the article. It certainly seemed odd to me.
911.
by TwoBit 13y ago
There are many websites that depend on flash for non-mobile browsers.
912.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Microsoft VC++ has a -Wall warning level too, and it really does mean all warnings. Each major version of VC++ potentially introduces new warnings to -Wall.
913.
by TwoBit 13y ago
OpenSSL was written by monkeys: http://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html
914.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I'm trying to understand what actual laws the students could possibly have broken.
915.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Is that true? If so then significant blame goes to that in addition to the exchanges.
916.
by TwoBit 13y ago
FWIW, Windows has an equivalent of /dev/urandom. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37...
917.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I disagree with you. The new code is more practical than the old code, and as standards-conforming as the old code was. There's already a precedent for using numbers after __unused to avoid conflict, and so the new code is more consist
918.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I gotta think that the primary concern is WiFi hotspots. It's easy to create a bogus hotspot that spies on your communications.
919.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I'm pretty sure those athlete sex reports are highly exaggerated. Those numbers are based on a ridiculous calculation where they took the number of condoms shipped to the Olympics and divided it by the number of athletes.
920.
by TwoBit 13y ago
His use of the word "dead" seems a bit dramatic, though the online dictionary has one definition of dead that is: "lacking power or effect"
921.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Well he may mean that, but that's not what comes to mind when most people think of the word "dead." And picking that particular word to use as liberally as he does comes across as overly dramatic.
922.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I feel like the reason cities court sports teams to their possible economic detriment is due to the selfishness of the city leaders. Who wouldn't want to be mayor of a city with the Super Bowl?
923.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Two factor is irrelevant when they will give up your account for just the last four card digits.
924.
by TwoBit 13y ago
The Terms of Service agreements for those companies probably all allow them to get away with it.
925.
by TwoBit 13y ago
What do you mean by Dropbox data leak?
926.
by TwoBit 13y ago
Of course it's the fault of the person presenting them. If they are competent enough to understand what they are presenting, they are competent enough to adjust a y axis baseline.
927.
by TwoBit 13y ago
You trust your own engineering opinion over that of an expert professional engineer? The doofus who used to own my house was one of those kinds of people and I am still paying for it.
928.
by TwoBit 13y ago
I'm hoping that some day a lawsuit is successfully taken against a device maker who does this.
929.
by TwoBit 13y ago
You all have it wrong. Universities are obsessed with leadership because those kinds of people are the ones that will donate to the school later.
930.
by TwoBit 13y ago
You're assuming that Internet usage equates to app usage. I use the Internet a lot on my phone but hardly run apps. In fact my usage of the Internet surely eats into time I might spend running apps.

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