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by afhof 14y ago
I know its a limited view of reality, but I was debugging ffserver, found the bug and mentioned it on FFmpeg's IRC channel. Michael added my own one-liner change and listed me as the author for the git commit. This is a GREAT feeling for
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by afhof 14y ago
Aside from SNI (which the article mentions HAS to be submitted in plaintext) you might be able to randomize the supported ciphers. Just like faking the User Agent String, you might be able to randomly select a cipher suite equal to that of
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by afhof 14y ago
Without having read the book in question, I feel this advice is good but partial. A lot of what he mentions in this post is mirrored in Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". I feel that Carnegie goes much more in dept
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by afhof 14y ago
I would agree in full, those oddball machines don't come up very often. But when they do, its really nice to have something that makes as few assumptions about the underlying hardware as possible. If I recall correctly C89 doesn't make an
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by afhof 14y ago
Some things come to mind when looking through the source. Perhaps they are pedantic gripes, but perhaps they need some work. I had these observations while looking through memcpy.c: 1. Assumption of power of 2 word size. The ALIGN macr
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by afhof 14y ago
I like esoteric languages as much as the next geek, but not being Turing-Complete puts a real limit on the coolness of a language. I think it's much more salient to say you can do anything in a ridiculous language rather than limiting it.
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by afhof 14y ago
Maybe I don't use Nmap enough, but I find the Nmap switches very difficult to remember. It usually takes a few minutes in the man pages, then a few more minutes in Google before I finally figure out how to do what I want. Perhaps this goe
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by afhof 14y ago
Maybe I'll be the only one to say it, but this doesn't work with NoScript. Maybe this actually is a JS free Stopwatch, but the site doesn't work without JS enabled. Perhaps the title of this should be changed, or relinked to a JS free ver
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by afhof 14y ago
Sure, people like all the things the author listed, but the author doesn't say why /Facebook/ isn't a fad. Didn't Friendster or Myspace have huge amounts of personal data before they went under? The author mentions it briefly with Myspace
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by afhof 14y ago
This is a poor example since python can chain the comparison: if 1 <= c < 20: # statement I think this is more intuitive for someone first learning a language.
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by afhof 14y ago
I am always impressed (although often repulsed) by spammers. Getting someone to look you up on Google is a a clever way not only to get people to see your ads, but to solidify your position in the search rankings. Clever!
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by afhof 14y ago
You have to be careful with that idea since it can still lead to poor quality. My campus's radio station (WREK Atlanta) seems to play just weird music for the sake of being weird. They never play popular music, but they rarely play any g
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by afhof 14y ago
Sure, you could change it back to the old way, but should you have to? I think this is a good question to ask whenever some bothersome thing happens such as a poor redesign. You /could/ fix it, but should you have to?
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by afhof 14y ago
Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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Zombers: A Frantic HTML5 Game Demo(rkive.org)
2 points by afhof 14y ago|0 comments
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by afhof 14y ago
Seems like it may take a little more than one line, this errors for me: >>> a = tree() >>> a.__getattr__ = a.__getitem__
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by afhof 14y ago
I would be interest to see this using the __getattr__ rather than __getitem__, so that this is also possible: users = tree() users.harold.username = 'hrldcpr' users.handler.username = 'matthandlersux'
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by afhof 14y ago
Using tmux is a Python daemon antipattern? And then "there's so much wrong about this approach" that he doesn't bother explaining why? Isn't that why we are reading the article: because we want to know why? If the author is trying to conv
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by afhof 15y ago
Hmm, there seem to be a number of syntax errors highlighted when viewing the source code. If I was inviting people to view the source, I would probably want it to be clean. Here's validator output: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3
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by afhof 15y ago
This may be slightly OT but having the auth in the url has some benefits when using a handler for certain file types. The Android Browser violates this if you go to a site requires auth and then links to video/audio. When the media player
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by afhof 15y ago
Any critique or things that should be changed?
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HTML5 Fluid Simulator(rkive.org)
2 points by afhof 15y ago|1 comments
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by afhof 15y ago
One of the Mozilla devs articulates some of the more technical problems with WebP. One of the more noticeably shortcomings of JPEG is the lack of alpha transparency, which isn't address by WebP. http://muizelaar.blogspot.com/2011/04/webp.
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by afhof 15y ago
I am quite pleased with this idea. This is what NoScript does by default and pages load noticeably faster. In requiring flash objects to be clicked first provides a increased protection against the all too common Flash zero day exploits.
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by afhof 15y ago
Is there a link to the C&D or the court case details? I'm sure we can agree that helping people with zipcode data for free is laudable, but reading only one half of an argument isn't a good way to make decisions.
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by afhof 15y ago
I am going to go out on a limb and say this article has little to no content. I am surprised that it has 69 points despite being very light on content. More over, the comments here are mostly tangential to the article (except in the sense
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by afhof 15y ago
One very curious thing to me is that for the upcoming SHA-3 standard, Wikipedia lists the cycle timings for each hash method. I would have thought that slower hashing speed would be a good thing, but the faster the candidate algorithm the
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by afhof 15y ago
This was brought up recently: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html I actually followed the guide (not just read it) and got a working mail server in a few hours.
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by afhof 15y ago
Site seems to be down, heres the cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by afhof 15y ago
Marco's posts are always short, sweet, and to the point. I wonder if anyone in a position to make these kinds of decisions will heed his advice.

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