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by anon1385 11y ago
>There are plenty of uses for getting the length of a string where you will not be running into combining characters, clusters or any other things which would require special handling. How do you know that? Any user supplied text may con
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by anon1385 11y ago
The correct answer is that strings shouldn't have length methods. There is no such thing as the 'length' of a string because as you pointed out there is no clear definition of what a 'character' is. https:/&#x
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by anon1385 11y ago
You really don't remember what happened with the forced merging/conversion of YouTube accounts into G+ accounts, the forced use of 'real names' on YouTube and the changes to YouTube comments? Before the final forced conv
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by anon1385 11y ago
If you want to understand why the topic of lead brings out a lot of political comments when it should be something fairly uncontentious then you need to understand the history. Also I make no apologies for calling out organisations that lit
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by anon1385 11y ago
The toxicity of lead is actually a longstanding political argument in the US. Lobbying against lead regulation was one of the original motivations for the development of modern american libertarianism. Even fairly recently libertarian organ
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In the Name of Love(jacobinmag.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Would you voluntarily give more taxes to your governments? I already voluntarily pay more taxes than I need to. It's pretty easy to (legally) pay much less tax if you are running your own business. Also, I and quite a few other peo
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by anon1385 11y ago
The web has done more to centralise computing and take it out of the hands of ordinary people than any other technology. People don't even control their own data anymore, never mind having control over the software they run. It's
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Aren't there any employment laws surrounding this? Not in most US states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_will_employment
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by anon1385 11y ago
The people disabling javascript are also probably aware that javascript crypto is utterly pointless with the current browser security model. Javascript crypto aims to protect you from the server, but you must rely on the server sending java
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by anon1385 11y ago
See http://androidvulnerabilities.org
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>There is a difference between something that is legal and something that is illegal but difficult to prove. You seem to be conflating the two issues. Isn't that what he said? That many of the schemes are clearly illegal but the aut
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by anon1385 11y ago
The current claimed size of the market is irrelevant to the argument. The argument is that there is more money being made from advertising than actual advertisers are paying and that this isn't sustainable.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Just because famine no longer exists doesn't mean people aren't having to worry about putting food on the table. In the UK over a million people had to visit emergency food banks last year[1], compared to only 125,000 in 2012. Hos
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by anon1385 11y ago
My understanding is that HPKP can't protect you on the first visit to a site since the browser doesn't know anything about it before it connects to the site for the first time. You explicitly replied to a post about wanting someth
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by anon1385 11y ago
Ok so I'm searching trying to work out how to get the cert for my blog pinned in Chrome or Firefox so that readers of my blog can detect the NSA MITMing them even on the first visit, but I'm not finding anything. Maybe I'm ju
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Flippant Accusations(tamino.wordpress.com)
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Human Cost Rises as Old Bridges, Dams and Roads Go Unrepaired(nytimes.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
There is a world outside of SV you know.
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by anon1385 11y ago
>It's not an improvement to exclude functions that you know everyone wants from the API. Which functions have they excluded? You mentioned counting characters, but you haven't actually specified which definition of characters y
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by anon1385 11y ago
The problem with strings is that there is very little that is easy. The lesson is to avoid using strings as much as possible, although sadly fashions in programming seem to have been heading in the other direction for a long time. I don&#x2
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by anon1385 11y ago
Based on Github searches I've done in the past a lot of code calling length on NSString was broken. Those people probably thought they were in the 99% who just needed the convenient 'normal' length. People not realising that
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by anon1385 11y ago
>You also cannot infer that the majority of people disagree with them. The majority of people voted for non-Tory politicians. >It sounds like you're proposing a system where we're perpetually under a coalition government to
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by anon1385 11y ago
Google Analytics may be modern but that doesn't make it good (or legal) to install on government websites.
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by anon1385 11y ago
That depends how sinister you think it is to have Google Analytics used on the websites where you fill in your tax return. The people I see who defend gov.uk seem to always be people who never actually use the government websites other than
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by anon1385 11y ago
The right wing party (Conservatives aka Tories) just won a general election in May and now have a majority for the first time since 1997. They have been in power since 2010 but were moderated to some extent (at least on these kinds of issu
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by anon1385 11y ago
Being less pro-Tory than the Telegraph is hardly a challenge. The Telegraph is the propaganda arm of the Tory party. As in they literally run press releases from CCHQ as news stories. The BBC should aim for their coverage to reflect facts,
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Source please – I've not seen this language indicated anywhere. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/1... >Poor information security isn't a crime. https://en
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UK police seek powers to access browsing history of computer users(theguardian.com)
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UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop(independent.co.uk)
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