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by alexeiz 10y ago
Hack 1: > Ran mysqldump against the production database, creating 1.txt Hack 2: > Ran mysqldump against the production database, creating 1.txt Anybody else sees a pattern here? We need to forbid creating files named "1.txt&quot
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When you get stuck, start talking. You should not be silent at the whiteboard trying to flash out a complete solution all at once. Talk. Even if interviewers are not saying anything or ask you any more questions. There are multiple adva
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by alexeiz 10y ago
This is a typical outcome. You worry about some hypothetical threat, spend countless hours mitigating the threat instead of working on useful features, money goes down the drain, and then the project gets canceled. Security is just one of
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by alexeiz 10y ago
> Downloading the PDFs [1] and comparing their sizes takes less than a minute. shattered-1.pdf and shattered-2.pdf have the same size and sha-1 hash, but git is still able to recognize that those are two different files and creates two d
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Zed lost his credence. It's hard to take him seriously after what he's said in the past. Besides, the book is rather light on content.
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I don't know about Nim, but Infoworld is a pile of garbage.
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* Giving excessive importance to estimates Seen this one. It was used as a excuse not to do code reviews because they cause to miss estimates. "Look, the feature is done, but because of the code review requirement I cannot mark it &#
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Yoda conditions suck. You don't compare a constant to a value of a variable to make sure that the constant has a certain value. Such comparison is backwards. Unfortunately it is extremely popular at Microsoft among C++ programmers. The
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by alexeiz 10y ago
I've been using the CAF library for a while, and the experience so far has been very positive. It's surprisingly capable and flexible at the same time. The use of modern C++ in CAF makes your code very clean and idiomatic. Othe
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by alexeiz 10y ago
The FIX protocol uses the SOH control character to separate message fields.
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Yeah, that nipple on Thinkpad keyboards really bothers me. Why is there only one? I have two hands, so I expect two conveniently placed nipples on each side of the keyboard.
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Dell Precision can also be configured to have Ubuntu installed instead of Windows which not only saves a few bucks but also guarantees that the machine will come with the right Linux drivers.
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Is this what you saw in those emails? Time to send your resume to DNC!
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Is the paper available in public domain? If not, I won't regret much. Looks like it's badly written and filled with un-idiomatic C++ code.
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The demand for mechanical keyboards and switches is as high as ever. Countless Cherry MX clones are flooding the market. Cherry just can't keep up with the quality and the lower cost of clones. They could only be profitable while ho
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by alexeiz 10y ago
If you look at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/doc/html/variant/design... , Boost variant has no performance penalty due to backup storage if any of its bounded type is nothrow default-cons
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by alexeiz 10y ago
If you don't have testers your users become testers. Microsoft is learning this fact the hard way.
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They do have false positives. Quite a bit. They just fool themselves into thinking they minimize false positives by their hiring process.
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by alexeiz 10y ago
I used to love South Park. Now I can barely stand it. Am I getting too old? I rewatch old episodes with pleasure though. It's the new episodes that make me cringe. It used to be about fart jokes and silliness. Now it's all p
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Zed Shaw's books remind me of Herbert Schildt. In fact, Schildt is also on that "to be avoided" list! Books from both authors are practical and interesting to read, but contain serious mistakes and omissions. Back in the d
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by alexeiz 10y ago
What's the point of such forced diversity? Diversity of gender or race doesn't promote diversity of ideas.
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by alexeiz 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if NASA had a different definition of "error" than a typical "bug" in commercial software. My video player plays every single mpeg/avi/mkv I through at it. Yet it has dozens if no
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by alexeiz 10y ago
One. Half-move.
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Bullcrap. Just look at the examples of hires he has in mind: co-founder of a startup, VP of marketing, CEO, "Could Hollywood execs have started Netflix?". This guy is a fly-high investor. Unless you're in a similar positio
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Say yes to Soviet-style apartments in Manhattan!
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This Bash on Windows is not created to replace Ubuntu desktop. It's created for running Ubuntu in the Windows-based cloud, Azure. You can already run Linux services in Azure with Docker, but the performance is sub-par, because Docker
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by alexeiz 10y ago
Sorry, xclock is not good enough. I need at least xeyes to work.
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I looked at Zed's books but didn't find them either containing much of useful material, or written well enough to be worth reading. Granted, I'm not a novice to subjects he writes about. But still, I find it peculiar that h
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A variable space font is good for a programming book where it can be a challenge to fit 80-character wide line of code on a page, but awful for actual programming.
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Why is it that some people get Git naturally and some experience a world of frustration trying to use it? I think the kind of problems you describe usually come up if you approach Git with a mindset formed by another SCM. They are typical

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