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by awda 13y ago
Is it? I just updated to Cyanogen 10.2.1 and TextSecure is definitely a different app from Messaging. Or is this an 11.x feature? Edit: Oh, I see. Added as a silent feature in 10.2 messaging app. There is no visible indication that secure c
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by awda 13y ago
Ok, problem number one: Without looking at the code, what day is number 3?
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by awda 13y ago
Cops already have that power, yes. But random assholes on the internet didn't have that power, until now. That's the problem with this sort of bound-to-be-insecure remote shut-off technology (trolls or criminal abuse).
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by awda 13y ago
Ah, and here I thought the title was linkbait for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Children .
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by awda 13y ago
Linux distros will not ship ads that kick money to individual components. The only way this will land in e.g. Fedora is if Firefox pulls the ad-laden page from Mozillas servers during startup. And I don't see them being too happy with
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by awda 13y ago
Yes, they did: """Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department). The sheriff's letter says that
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by awda 13y ago
By break0, it looks like we're just writing Haskell-ified C. (Lots of ugly, similar safety guarantees.)
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by awda 13y ago
Tax deductible doesn't mean they save $7 bn.
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by awda 13y ago
More sophisticated C unit testing libraries (libcheck, for example) use nice compiler features beyond ANSI C, like linker sets, in order to avoid error-prone duplicating like you see in these examples. While that may not work in some enviro
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by awda 13y ago
Maybe just add a shared-memory front-end to memcache?
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by awda 13y ago
Durable shared memory -- like, a (loocal) database?! I'm kind of amazed at the degree of wheel-reinventing going on here.
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by awda 13y ago
Yep. Among the US population as a whole, lifetime illicit drug use is something like 50%. So I wouldn't be too surprised if it was that high among SV engineers.
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by awda 13y ago
Independent of state (medical or otherwise) marijuana laws, employers still drug test (even in WA, where personal pot use is legal, for example). Pot users aren't a protected class for discrimination purposes, afaik. I agree that it se
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by awda 13y ago
Hurray, for $300 in labor you get a free $60 computer!
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by awda 13y ago
"New in GNOME 3.10: Select to copy is disabled (but we let you keep middle-click to paste)" Thanks, GNOME3.
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by awda 13y ago
Yeah, it's not illegal, just totally unsafe due to vigilante mobs enforcing perceived societal values. TOTALLY different. </sarcasm> Relative to each other, maybe it's better for gays in Russia than Qatar. But they&
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by awda 13y ago
Tries have hardly been neglected. "Path-compressed" tries were very recently added to FreeBSD[0] for use in the vm subsystem. [0]: http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/sys/pctrie.h
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by awda 13y ago
This. As a corporate user of FreeBSD (with conservative lawyers), we're stuck with the last GPLv2 GCC release -- 4.2.2, which is now over 5 years old. Believe me, recent GCC (4.7, 4.8) is worlds better than 4.2. We pine for something b
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by awda 13y ago
Sure -- but if you're happy being an employee, not a founder, the $$$ is great. </big_corp_cog>
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by awda 13y ago
Any pair of colors except (red, green).
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by awda 13y ago
We push data over 10Gbit - 40Gbit ports, but the point still stands.
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by awda 13y ago
Yeah, but what does that mean, for someone who has a reasonable grasp of crypto, math, software engineering? For example: "Unlocking encryption." We've heard that they haven't actually broken (some?) crypto primitives (c
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by awda 13y ago
How exactly is the NSA cheating and breaking internet crypto? Can someone clarify? Edit: Downvoted? Is it a bad question?
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by awda 13y ago
Well, I'm happy they're totally wrong about me. Married ?! Two children ?! German ?! At least they got Male right...
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by awda 13y ago
You need less cars to serve the needs of the currently-in-motion population than for everyone to own their own car. The idea is, a smaller percentage of cars are parked at any given time, and can meet demand with fewer cars. Fewer cars, les
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by awda 13y ago
Easy answer? Low population density, lots of space, relative to Europe (totally unfamiliar with Beijing). UW (U district) is a bit cheaper than capital hill (when I lived in U district, 1 parking spot came w/ rent, an additional spot w
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by awda 13y ago
Maybe First Hill is special, but parking in Seattle proper and Capitol Hill (both near First Hill) is extremely crowded and finding a spot can be hard. The mythical building plot described in the article sounds wonderful relative to my expe
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by awda 13y ago
This should be okay, though: char *p1 = 0; int pv = (intptr_t)p1; char *p2 = (char *)pv; I.e. NULL must round-trip through intptr_t.
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by awda 13y ago
What makes you think this is pushed by the government? I'm envisioning opt-in.
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by awda 13y ago
The only event you know of . I find the botnet idea much more probable, given the increased usage across many countries.

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