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901.
by azth 13y ago
volatile to the rescue!
902.
by azth 13y ago
That particular human error would have been impossible if using another popular language (other than perhaps C++).
903.
by azth 13y ago
While it has its good points, Go lacks the performance and memory footprint of C programs in constrained environments, or at the system level.
904.
by azth 13y ago
True, though hopefully it will make people thing that, no matter how smart the programmers working on a project of a similar caliber are, there will be, for the most part, vulnerabilities like this caused by using C.
905.
by azth 13y ago
> I love that it imposes a discipline that prevents me from using that flexibility in stupid ways. What discipline? Am I missing something? > maybe we have to move away from C. Hopefully, Rust will facilitate this transfer.
906.
by azth 13y ago
The real victims are already dead :(
907.
by azth 13y ago
Furthermore, by making a blog post about it, it seems that they have pushed more of their userbase to delete their accounts (judging by reading the comments section on the blog post).
908.
by azth 13y ago
While I know what you're getting at, it is possible to have X > 50% of a sample be better (or worse) than the average -- just being pedantic :)
909.
by azth 13y ago
Talk about trying to make money off of a negative incident.
910.
by azth 13y ago
I think it is somewhat telling that even gcc switched to C++.
911.
by azth 13y ago
Is the page down for anyone else?
912.
by azth 13y ago
Actually, even "modern" C++ is a step up from plain C. That being said, I am really looking forward for Rust.
913.
by azth 13y ago
Are you still in the game dev field? Great job on the book by the way. Edit: Oh, are you the one whom Herb Sutter used his benchmark in the Build conference talk about C++ a few days ago?
914.
by azth 13y ago
Looking forward to it :)
915.
by azth 13y ago
> Tarsnap would be ideal if it was actually Free Software, but the current license is a deal breaker. I looked at it from the angle that it is basically a 1-person company. The bus factor is too high! :)
916.
by azth 13y ago
I've been meaning to do something like that myself. Did you use off the shelf tools for crypto, or did you write something yourself?
917.
by azth 13y ago
Out of curiosity, who is your VPS provider?
918.
by azth 13y ago
Regarding vowels: what is the first letter in the Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew alphabets?
919.
by azth 13y ago
> As an American living in a Middle Eastern monarchy, multiple government agencies are likely monitoring my internet traffic Ironically, living in the democracy of the United States would have yielded a similar situation (except remove &
920.
by azth 13y ago
That's mainly the conclusion I came to as well. I find Go nice to use for writing web apps and services. For anything more complex/critical and/or with a high demand for correctness, I find using Rust to be a no-brainer compa
921.
by azth 13y ago
> Sum, Max, Min are pain points that surprised me indeed. I doubt the parent post meant sum as you used it. Look up "sum type" or "tagged union". Explicit + concise error handling are not mutually exclusive.
922.
by azth 13y ago
http://privatekeycheck.com/perhaps/
923.
by azth 13y ago
You pasted the same gmane.org link twice :)
924.
by azth 13y ago
Out of curiosity, is it just the OP link, or is the entire alum.mit.edu domain blocked?
925.
by azth 13y ago
> No I'm saying that sms arabic is a transliteration or arabic into latin script... I see your point. Though that still does not advance Luxemberg's claim. > In modern arabic, sort-of (spoken, yes, written, not really, same
926.
by azth 13y ago
> Would you consider a "beginner in islamic studies" to be the least bit scientific ? The whole study field is, by definition, prejudiced. That was a figure of speech/hyperbole. If by the "whole study field" you
927.
by azth 13y ago
> That's what muslims claim. Actually reading the thing does not at all give that impression Did you read it in Arabic? Do you even speak the language? > don't immediately recognize is greek it becomes a lot easier. One rea
928.
by azth 13y ago
I have had mostly good experiences with Wikipedia regarding technical subjects. I think this was the first topic I came across that really stuck in my mind where Wikipedia was conspicuously wrong (which I affirmed even more after doing some
929.
by azth 13y ago
You stated that Kufic is a dialect of Aramaic, which is completely false. Kufic is a script used to write Arabic, which people still write in to this day for your information. The way the Quran uses language is very intricate. It would not
930.
by azth 13y ago
I have come across that page before. Unfortunately it is full of false information (I researched it). For instance, the Alexander romance incidents that match the Quran were actually copied from the Quran, not the other way around. Furtherm

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