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by bananas 13y ago
That's what pastebin is for.
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by bananas 13y ago
Yeah because strings with a length prefix/field are just as secure! 200,"STR" We know where that got us... Programming 101, rules 1&2: 1 - never trust your inputs 2 - always check your invariants.
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by bananas 13y ago
I think I'd have the same problem. If it's not got 88 keys or strings I'm probably not going to use it.
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by bananas 13y ago
No they were single threaded forked. Aware of that.
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by bananas 13y ago
Sorry I agree it was rather incoherent - I was distracted half way through posting. I'm not suggesting they are sounder but I'm suggesting that async designs are simpler and simplicity rules when it comes to safety. sync designs
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by bananas 13y ago
I think the rise of async/select based and privilege separated designs tend to suggest that threads don't work well for system programming.
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by bananas 13y ago
Yes: steps: Open mp4 file in Firefox 28 on Android. actual behaviour: Shows in tiny partial window inside browser. Content is small, laggy, impossible to control, cannot be made full screen. expected behaviour: opens with default android me
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by bananas 13y ago
For anyone who hasn't played this, it is one of the finest games out there and this is great news.
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by bananas 13y ago
Well it'd be good if the HTML5/H264 video player wasn't a piece of crap and it integrated with Android intents etc properly...
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by bananas 13y ago
I don't think they want it. It's flock behaviour. Panic is infectious. One person panics, everyone else follows. It didn't take long for people to realise they could artificially create the panic and profit from it.
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by bananas 13y ago
I got given some of this in the UK when I had the sniffles during the panic. I didn't actually go to the doctors for that problem. Ultimately I didn't take them and I suspect that most people didn't or they were disposed off
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by bananas 13y ago
I market myself as a Microsoft stack technical architect in the UK. I'm equally as good with clang, python, Linux, postgres and redis as well. However the pay for that stuff is shit here and the utility of it isn't great. Most pay
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by bananas 13y ago
The mg implementation that ships with OpenBSD has a fair few insults in it as well under the command "theo": http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/theo.c?...
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by bananas 13y ago
Great analysis. Theo is always up front on this sort of stuff which is commendable.
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by bananas 13y ago
That will never happen. Then again the NHS here in the UK just rewrote a ton of stuff in RabbitMQ, Riak and Erlang from Oracle...
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by bananas 13y ago
Well anything from embedded systems (even high level java) down to VHDL. What did they teach us in class that is of use today? Very little. We did all the mathematical requirements of programming (which for most are very little) at school.
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by bananas 13y ago
Agree. I did electrical engineering at university in the UK. All of my colleagues are either unemployed or doing something completely different. Half our tech team were engineers. They write boring business code, not mangle with fluid dynam
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by bananas 13y ago
Flying car means flying idiots. Idiots are bad enough when they are attached to the ground.
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by bananas 13y ago
This is probably what will happen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqyUtQv1WoQ
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by bananas 13y ago
I think you just described most corporations. Despite the PR otherwise, they're all rotten to the core like this. However in this specific case, if Mozilla issued a takedown to w3schools, would we be up in arms about it? Vendors are ge
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by bananas 13y ago
For me this is not about whether it is too late or not, but what is the underlying motive? We can agree that these recent changes and releases are superficially good but what is the long term impact? Is this just another ploy to lock people
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by bananas 13y ago
Damn I missed one. Thanks for the reminder :)
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by bananas 13y ago
Let's list it then shall we: We've had DRM hell, lots of proprietary crap (media formats/interfaces/software), impossible to get parts for most machines after a year (I've repaired a lot of Sony kit), poor support,
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by bananas 13y ago
Sony really don't need bad press at the moment. They are circling the drain. Time to make a big thing about this and push them over the edge. Nothing I've had from them has been anything but pain for the last 15 years.
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by bananas 13y ago
Great read actually and definitely on topic - thanks for posting :)
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by bananas 13y ago
One of my teachers did this in the 1980s with eproms. You could get a reasonable 1bpp silhouette out of a 2716 and a couple of lenses out of a broken pair of binoculars. You had to program it first then use the sun to erase the picture onto
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by bananas 13y ago
Obfuscated C is always with caveats. The fact that it uses terminal escapes and stty suggests its not going to work on anything other than a colour xterm, if you're lucky, there are no sunspots and the wind is blowing in the correct di
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by bananas 13y ago
Been there. Unreal Tournament (facing worlds FTW) nearly ruined me. I was playing so much I was in the top 5 on ngWorldStats for 3 months and lost sleep if my rank went down. Fortunately after about 9 months my graphics card blew up leaving
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by bananas 13y ago
Were you expecting WINAPI wMainMain(...)?
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by bananas 13y ago
Perhaps I'm paranoid but I'm seeing a lot of tentacles extending around a few ecosystems from Microsoft. I see lots of praise but some rational analysis and caution might be worth considering. For ref, I deal with Microsoft a lot

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