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by amenod 13y ago
Probably not. But they can contact a security reseach company so they make a "crowdsourced" audit project, perform it and still leave a backdoor or two uncovered. TrueCrypt gets an official audit and NSA keeps the backdoors - win-
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by amenod 13y ago
There is an aspect that the article doesn't present sufficiently - why do people have their name? Do they perform differently because of the name or is their name a consequence of something that altered their behavior? For instance, if
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by amenod 13y ago
Nice, can't wait to try it out! Though in my case (single node installations) hot backup missing feature is a deal breaker, so I'll have to wait till RethinkDB supports it. The current workaround (replication, stop the slave, back
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by amenod 13y ago
> ...unless you're dealing with a pathological liar. (so far, I haven't personally hit one.) Or he was really good. :)
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by amenod 13y ago
I completely agree with the parents about Map Reduce. However I would justify using MongoDB for totally different reasons, not scalability. It is easy to setup, easy to manage and above all easy to use, which are all important factors if yo
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by amenod 13y ago
That's an advantage in my book... it is testing the unit (function in this case) and it is testing all the corner cases... do you have a name for each of them? Description through comments is much more suitable IMHO.
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by amenod 13y ago
Thank you! I never had any idea this kind of things exists in python... I can already see some code that would benefit from this (it would be insane to put it everywhere of course).
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by amenod 13y ago
It is really helpful if you are web developer. For instance, if you need to alter some layout that was made some other units, it is good to know how the units relate to one another.
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by amenod 13y ago
This happens when a developer and designer start talking about pixel sizes... ;) I'm a developer, so: yes, zoom will break things. but the users (usually) notice this and (sometimes) know how to correct it.
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by amenod 13y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with most of the article, except for this: "To put it more simply (and, perhaps, too obviously): if you see someone excitedly grabbing problems and acting on them, chances are you have a good programmer on your
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by amenod 13y ago
The idea to do something like that is just plain... ugly. It's almost like guessing MIME type based on the file content (hint: IE). I wonder how long it will take until someone finds a security exploit of this "feature"?
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by amenod 13y ago
To be exact, programmers should stop using their own password systems (unless - well, let's not go there :). Writing them is actually an excellent exercise, and humbling one too. Especially if you show your code to some skilled hacke
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by amenod 13y ago
I like this one. We should have a HN poll. :)
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by amenod 13y ago
Unbelievable... I never knew how Windows looked before 3.0 - thanks!
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by amenod 13y ago
I was really looking forward to checking FFOS out. But this article puts so much emphasis on carriers that I am a bit alarmed - I hope Mozilla manages to keep the FFOS open.
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by amenod 13y ago
The main problem with IE has never been its speed. I hope it dies a long agonizing death for all the hours I have wasted when developing two versions of each page - one for all the other browsers and one for IE. Its market share finally rea
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by amenod 13y ago
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html ?
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by amenod 13y ago
Yes, exactly - the said men from the government assured us this was so. :)
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by amenod 13y ago
This is definitely better, but what I would expect is a short explanation of what happens to REST requests - why are there fewer of them? Are you caching the responses, serving them to clients (who are still polling, but they are polling yo
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by amenod 13y ago
Finally! Can't wait for jailbreaks for 4S and 5 to come out now... :)
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by amenod 13y ago
Finally - I hope the jailbreak for 4S and 5 will be out soon now. :)
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by amenod 13y ago
Apart from Nook, is there any other "glowing" alternative with buttons? Kobo Glo doesn't have them either AFAIK...
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by amenod 13y ago
I think you missed the point - there should be no frequency. Data should just "be".
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by amenod 13y ago
Actually it stood the test of time quite well. System directory names are lowercase, short and mostly-standard. Granted, there is the /bin/, /sbin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/local/bin/... stuff,
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by amenod 13y ago
> All of the names it makes fun of have perfectly sensible explanations. Yes - OP just posted them. :) (for the record: your explanations, while they may be true, are not much better than the OP's)
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by amenod 13y ago
Yes, Microsoft innovates. Their innovations just don't stick. For instance, MS had a "PC tablet" (WinXP based) much before Apple, but it took iPad to make a revolution.
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by amenod 13y ago
When it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. OP's main mistake was not checking where he was adding value - why they were paying more for his BTC.
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by amenod 13y ago
Yes, "extortion" - give me more data about you if you want to use our so-called "free" services. Extortion in my book too.
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by amenod 13y ago
> And it has nothing to do with any sort of concerns that Google provides the NSA direct access to its servers. > (Google's security engineers can be trusted, I think.) A bit off-topic, but I'm not sure what you mean here. Y
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by amenod 13y ago
While you are at it, you can check to see if your browser properly shields you from this and other similar techniques: http://www.canyoutrackme.com/ edit : shortened and clarified.

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