ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Oh, come on. Not only is your comment needlessly insulting but it's completely unconstructive. What types of CSP things should you do in Rust, then? Which should you not? Why is this code not a demonstration of a slowness in Rust but
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> (Oh I'm sorry, did I just libel Her Majesty's judicial system? How careless of me. I should watch what I write). Look, this is getting old. We had a massive libel reform which, while not as revolutionary as many people wanted
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I'm British and I did things like this constantly throughout school and university. Then again, people do keep asking if I am American...
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Awesome tip, thank you. I have an 8.1 license but have to install Windows 7 first, and hadn't bothered with the extra time to upgrade it yet. I know what I will be doing this weekend :)
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Morally yes you are correct (imo). But which product are users going to go for - the one that goes the extra mile to keep them safe and help them out, or the one that doesn't give a damn about them? We have to deal with reality, not id
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> Starbucks could have chosen not to store the password on the phone, but users would then be forced to key in their username and password every time they wanted to use the app to make a purchase. These aren't the only two options.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
The only reply to the comment you replied to is yours. Hardly an endless debate. You could have scrolled down just one comment to skip it - now there is an entire screenful of meta debating which has absolutely nothing to do with the topic
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Snowden leaked a huge amount of data to journalists that he trusted to decide what was in the public interest and what would harm national security. I actually think they have mostly done a good job. I think this story, and the previous one
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> DRM only works if you don't know how it works. That's not entirely true, I don't think? What about AACS, which uses a very clever master key / sub key + key revocation mechanism. People figured out exactly how it wo
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Back in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 I remember this stuff actually working quite well, a lot of people I knew were running Windows with non-default DPI settings. As newer versions came out, and also as people started using third party GUI to
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
One of the most depressing areas of Windows to look at is the various control panel screens. Some of them, I kid you not, will show different bits of text in up to three different sizes. If Windows itself doesn't deal with different DP
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
This is why you should have a page describing your security reporting process. > (1) Have a security contact, (2) publish a GPG key and accept GPG mail, (3) respond promptly with a "security flaw ID". https://news.yc
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> I agree that the law about cookies is not much use Have you actually read the law in question? It seems fairly sensible to me, it's the implementation guidance that was ridiculous. The banners we have at the top of every page now
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I'm confused as to why you are under the impression that restraining orders are 'normal', or that they hand them out to anyone asking, based on a single data point of one person getting one restraining order?
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
In the UK the editor of the Guardian was pulled up in front of parliament (like congress but with a two drink minimum) and one of the questions he was asked was "Do you love this country?". It immediately brought to mind McCarthy.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
In terms of effectiveness: Boycotting all EMC subsidiaries > boycotting just RSA > doing nothing Nothing wrong with keeping it small scale and only boycotting RSA, if the alternative is doing nothing at all.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
It's really a matter of both taste and situation. I've seen some very compelling examples from the Linux kernel where this is definitively easier to follow than the alternatives (Linus has made some good defences of goto for this
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
An advantage of using goto to handle errors is that you don't need that condition checking in the teardown: int result = ERROR_CODE; FILE * f = NULL; char * s = NULL; if((f = open_file()) == NULL) goto end; if((s
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I quite like Spotify + musixmatch: http://i.imgur.com/S4rn5ug.jpg?1
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
I agree; I just shrugged and made a mental note to use Bing whenever I look for lyrics. I already use it for image searching and translation.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
This is a ridiculous practical weakness to the web we have created. At a technical level it is designed to be relatively decentralised and fault tolerant, but what we have built on top is anything but :(
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Statistically speaking because I am short I am less likely to do well in my career compared to tall people. If you told me that my code sucked because I was short, I would be pretty mad at you. Yes, there are differences between the genders
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Why, when assessing people's abilities and shortcomings, do you reach for the two categories "men" and "women"? Why not: Is it really wrong to say that brunettes could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> I believe that the whole dust up is a matter of gender-based difference in interests. Nothing more, and not a real problem. Which is why YC is scratching their heads about how to solve it. This argument doesn't entirely follow and
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> You argue that it's as simple as just doing merit-based analysis, which implies that because women are so scarce in the field, it's because they've failed these impartial merit based tests. I'm arguing that it'
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
Does they play Megadrive games? If so I know a really cool nerdy trick: Sonic & Knuckles was a pretty awesome Sonic installment for the Megadrive that had a really weird cartridge. On top, it had a flip-open cartridge slot... You could
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> To argue that women can't make it as hackers is like arguing, post-Jackie Robinson, that blacks can't develop professional baseball skills. You might want to reword that last part slightly, maybe? winces I feel I should war
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> Many women SIMPLY do not code for the same reason many men do not code. Well, yes, I suppose this is true. If you pick a random woman who cannot code, that is probably the reason. What about the women who have been driven out of coding
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> Is this really YC's problem to solve? I think it's up to everyone to do their part. This problem, like all big problems, is made up of lots of little problems.
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by ZoFreX 13y ago
> and thus not be able to contribute to actually solving the virus problem So I am expected to believe that the makers of anti virus programs have an interest in solving the virus problem, AND that they are actually capable of doing this

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