alricb

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   by alricb 12y ago

   SPJ isn't a developer, or at least not mainly a developer. He's a computer science researcher, one of the top researchers of his generation in his field. Among his peers, what counts are the contributions you make, not what shoes
2. 302.▲
   by alricb 12y ago

   And yet, they couldn't develop an anti-mortar radar in time for D-day.
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   by alricb 12y ago

   Chicken, meet egg: We did not include special instruction set support for over ow checks on integer arithmetic operations. Most popular programming languages do not support checks for integer overflow, partly because most architectures imp
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   by alricb 12y ago

   On reason that's mentioned in the article: paranoia. If the chip is open-source, you can at least theoretically audit its manufacturing to make sure no backdoor is being inserted. Also, return to the taxpayer. To me, a publicly-funded
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   by alricb 12y ago

   Not to mention: In a well-insulated, well-designed house, you won't have any worries about frozen pipes, even with a low thermostat temperature, since all pipes will be inside the insulated enclosure. There's a whole community of
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   by alricb 12y ago

   "I keep seeing a lot of 'Rust vs Go'" That's unfortunate. We should be arguing about Ocaml vs. Rust or Ada vs. Go!
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   by alricb 12y ago

   Many of these regexes should not be used on user input, at least not if your regex library backtracks (uses NFAs), because of the risk of ReDoS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS Trying to shoehorn NFAs into parsing s