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by adekok 12y ago
Google is very good at building tech to support search. That's no small feat. But they're terrible at sales, customer support, etc. People buy Google ads because everyone uses Google for search. So Google doesn't need to
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by adekok 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth That makes it 95.6% oxygen. Probably good enough for most purposes. And the bulk (96%) of the non-oxygen is argon, which is inert.
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by adekok 12y ago
> A major problem with the GPL from the point of view of a closed source software vendor is that you can't integrate it into a closed source project. Commercial software usually has the same problem. Those dang companies won't
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by adekok 12y ago
> Do you need anonymity if you're selling towels? Yes. When I sell towels, I put my business reputation on the line. Not my personal one. The customers don't know my real name. Tell me this. When was the last time you k
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by adekok 12y ago
> I believe that the OpenSSL API allows one to implement the actual transport of the TLS protected data however one choose. Yes. Through the terrible BIO_* API. It's imperfect, but it lets you treat TLS as a "black box" t
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by adekok 12y ago
> To me, this looks like it still requires sockets or fds. Yes. Which makes it useless for protocols that carry TLS. e.g. EAP. So I can't use it in my pet project: http://freeradius.org/ The new API is useful if
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by adekok 12y ago
The Seattle police lost a lawsuit about the ability to use overwhelming force: http://crosscut.com/2014/10/20/law-justice/122409/judge-toss... But they won't use any force against known crimi
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by adekok 12y ago
Locusts are simply grasshoppers who bumped up against Malthus. Literally. http://www.asknature.org/strategy/33ba1618fc358f29f0be63a19e... The grasshopper population grows until they start physically bumping into each
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by adekok 12y ago
I'm not "zenning over" anything. I need a computer to get work done. I don't need to be mucking with the computer to keep it working. My choice is to use a (mostly) closed system, because it meets my needs. Other peo
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by adekok 12y ago
> I'd really welcome the anti-systemd ranters to just do some work that makes them feel happy, such as making a new distribution that has the exact init system they want. Most people are already working on things that make them happ
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by adekok 12y ago
> Debian has always seemed to be about choice. ... Obviously they are going to have to require systemd And that's the issue. See my earlier comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415564
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by adekok 12y ago
> Maybe you are the problem. I don't know a single OSS developer that is more hated than you. Lennart's complaints about Linus are on point here. But not for the reason Lennart thinks. Linus has scathing personal insults. And
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by adekok 12y ago
> I do think it would be interesting to implement a Make -> Ninja compiler; the devil is in extracting all the correct dependencies. See my other comments for a set of GNU Make scripts I've been using: https://github.c
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by adekok 12y ago
I've had luck using https://github.com/dmoulding/boilermake It's a GNU Make framework which allows you to create non-recursive Makefiles. I've re-worked it a bit, and used it in my pet project: https:&
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by adekok 12y ago
> It is not the job of the SQL server to prevent SQL injections True. But perfectly valid SQL shouldn't cause the SQL server to be exploitable. And the application has no idea which SQL statements are exploitable. > Similarly
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by adekok 12y ago
strncpy() zero-fills the array. Which seems overly wasteful. char buffer[1 << 24}] strncpy(buffer, "a", sizeof(buffer)); will set all of the array to zero, instead of just copying two bytes. And as you noted,
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by adekok 13y ago
I'm reading the comments, and surprised at what's missing. What happened to the business approach? The US government is delivering a large number of products with wildly varying costs, efficiencies, and price points. e.g. unempl
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by adekok 13y ago
Only if you make git that complicated. Steps 2-6 can be replaced with: git commit -m "commit message" file1 file2 ... When you use a tool inefficiently, don't blame the tool.
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by adekok 13y ago
The code is tiny. It already runs on OpenWRT, so there's no issue there.
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by adekok 13y ago
I suspect they're mixing theory with practice. The darcs theory is very good. But that doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to it. They could add memoization or git-style content-addressing as a backup to the patch theory. I
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by adekok 13y ago
Please see the "master" branch of FreeRADIUS. https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/ It can accept both DHCP and ARP protocols, and will decode them into attribute-value pairs. Those can then
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by adekok 13y ago
> You cannot take deposits without falling under federal regulatory compliance. It sounds like there's a need for a "safety deposit box delivery" service. They'll deliver a safety box to you, which you fill with what
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by adekok 13y ago
I have friends working in traffic departments for various cities. They tell stories of sending out speed recommendations based on the design of the road, houses, intersections, etc. The speed limits come back from the politicians much red
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by adekok 13y ago
> they are much more likely then men to be the victim That's the common belief. How do we know it's true, and not a "just so" story? My investigations into this led me to CDC reports (and others) showing that DV &#x2
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by adekok 13y ago
> we would need to compare it with the terribleness of having no expedient legal recourse ... We largely have this data. Historically there were no TROs, and domestic violence was higher than it is today. However, there is no evidence
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by adekok 13y ago
> It seems reasonable to me that courts should be able to issue temporary restraining orders without requiring much evidence, as long as it's generally understood that that's what happened. The potential for abuse is high. The
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by adekok 13y ago
> It's a good analogy Yes, a manager is like a manager. :) The difference is that the band manager is clear he works for the band. His goal is to help the band do what the band does best. A bad SW manager often operates under the
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by adekok 13y ago
> They are a way for the management class to divest liability or responsibility for decisions I'd also say they are a way for bureaucrats to blame the victim. Someone's complaining that they were attacked? Kick them out of s
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by adekok 13y ago
This seems to me a typical US response. Let me give you a perspective from the rest of the world. I've lived for years in multiple countries on multiple continents, so I'm not just talking out my backside. In the rest of the wor
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by adekok 13y ago
Yes. If you have separate server certs per user (as suggested above), then you can tell which user is using the service. If you have separate client certs per user, then you call tell which user is using the service. The Lavabit response to

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