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   by austincheney 10y ago

   Google will track even on non-Google products by virtue of their various media and analytics products that are prolific on many sites. No consent required. A couple of years ago they were caught collecting private home wifi traffic from t
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   An unintended benefit of this law passing is moving a common practice closer to the user. Let's not forget that Google and Facebook already normalize your traffic and sell it without your consent. Now ISPs can enter that market direc
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   I have asked the wife on several occasions if I could get out of software and take a job doing something else for less money. I am tired of software... at least in the corporate space. Don't get me wrong I love writing software.... b
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   For a long term solution you may be better served with a domain specific tool that fits your needs directly. In the mean time the Pretty Diff tool, http://prettydiff.com/ , is language aware and offers a fair number of feat
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   The minimum number of data passes is two, one for each submitted sample. The Pretty Diff algorithm, in the subject of this thread, uses three complete passes through data without any repetition. Therefore the number of iterations is simpl
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   > I imagine you get to linear time without much loss by heuristically throwing out chunks of the table where i is far from j. I originally tried a delete as you go approach to the hash map where you remove entries that were no longer nee
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   I still cannot reproduce the problem of 9 differences. I have tried in Edge, Chrome, and Firefox on Windows 10. I will try on OSX in just a second. The reason why it changes output after using square braces is because the tool is language
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   > I might be wildly misreading the code, but it seems like [1,2,3,a,b,c] diffed with [a,b,c,1,2,3] is going to appear as six lines of replacement. A bit of a pickle. The challenge I experienced with this is that either there are 6 change
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   by austincheney 10y ago

   I had trouble reproducing 9 differences. I tried these samples in a couple different ways (on the same line or broken onto different lines) in different browsers and always came up with 6 differences instead of 9 differences.
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Typo converting "<" to "<" in preparation for the HTML. Fixed, thanks!
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    Making a good diff algorithm(prettydiff.com)

    314 points by austincheney 10y ago|60 comments
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    This article is full of assumptions. First of all you don't need a college education to work in software development. I have a Bachelor's, but not in CS and I have known some great developers who have no college at all. I am com
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    There are two schools of thought on this: it is and it isn't. For people who believe code isn't literature descriptive names are wasted characters. The biggest difference between code and literature is that code is structured wh
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Allow private tweet capabilities and charge for it. This is really all you can do. Twitter is largely a broadcast system and echo chamber, which perfectly explains the type of people who gravitate to it most directly.
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    How insidiously toxic. I cannot think of a better or more perfectly descriptive word than toxic (at least this is the word we use in the military for environments less bad than that). > Therefore, it hurts me to say that despite my grit
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    The things I have seen work: * Solve the problems other developers are unwilling or incapable of solving. * Create helpful (and portable) tools * Learn analytics and increase your communication skills * Be helpful
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Speaking as a long time US soldier here is how the military perceives code: * There is no copyright and plagiarism doesn't exist. Internally to the military everything is libre to the most maximum extreme. While people do get credit
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    I didn't form my account there until 12 Sep 2000. I was late to the party as the site opened about 6 weeks prior. Before DeviantArt there was Deskmod.com.
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    The article is both very true and not yet completely true. Some developers still believe having a large community or online social media presence is important. It might very well be, but it has no bearing on code. Code is objective. It s
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    What protocol does this use or does it require a specific application? Is it HTTP or something else? If I wanted to use Upspin to host files for my biddle project ( https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle ) how would I re
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    I absolutely agree. Most of the negative comments on here are nothing more than apologists for incompetence. Like with all security research the solution is to expose the defect to the world. If people didn't want their passwords an
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    You don't have to have a multi-million dollar exit to go through this. You just have to find yourself in a position where you had some amazing responsibility and direction and now you don't in a way that mere mortals cannot relat
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Reading that list one thing kept popping into my head.... design patterns.
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Fine, then substitute Kayne instead.
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    > Equally, what's to stop them being in the know of exactly what he's doing and abusing their privilege to allow him to do it? You assume he's acting alone... what if he wasn't? Because violations and exceptions to po
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    You need optical media to transfer content from one network to another without setting off alarms. The network admin knows if you plug in mass storage devices within about 2 seconds. Mass storage devices require a mounting process that co
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    You couldn't transfer it over the network anyways, because the networks are physically separated from the normal internet (NIPR). You cannot use massive storage devices either (like hard disks, sd cards, flash drives). He would have
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    > I stand up and point my finger again in the direction of decentralization. Try out a project I am working on named biddle for your distribution needs: https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle biddle fights censorship
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    Evidence of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5q9gxg/es6_feat...
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    by austincheney 10y ago

    I cannot speak to my current employer as my handle is not anonymized. I will say that in prior employments the level of stress was directly correlated to the incompetence of the staff and developers. Incompetent people tend to create two