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by baudehlo 14y ago
To achieve that CS would have had to put everything with a new variable inside a new function scope, having a major impact on performance and readability of the generated code.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
No they don't. http://serverfault.com/questions/154991/why-do-some-tld-have...
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Indeed it does - the only way to truly validate is to get that confirmation email through. On the flip side I do think there's some value in a service which provides a check on the domain - that way you can prevent someone typing in usernam
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by baudehlo 14y ago
The Qt port of webkit is also really unstable. Quite a surprising number of web sites cause PhantomJS to segfault.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
This is just awful. A quick scan of the code brings up the following problems: * It fails to deal with the case where there is no MX record for the domain (fall back to A record) * It fails to sort the MX records, potentially falling foul t
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by baudehlo 14y ago
That validates RFC822 addresses, which is the full syntax of the From/To/CC headers. You don't want that for validating an email address on a web form.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
I wonder what the statistics look like when taking into account injuries too. You can't get very injured in a pool (I guess you can slip outside the pool - but you can slip anywhere playing so does that count?). But there are probably more
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Whoosh. Perhaps you should re-read the start of the article. It's about how atheists don't understand how the religious feel when you attack their religion with logic. Clearly you just felt attacked - well that's what he was trying to make
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by baudehlo 14y ago
We may be talking about that, and that would be the figure to find, but that's not the figure the Freakonomics article used. That's the point. Here's the quote from Freakonomics: "In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every
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by baudehlo 14y ago
That's exactly what he's saying though - that the Freakonomics article does NOT break the numbers down sufficiently, for either Drownings nor Gun Deaths. As such the 100x figure they came up with is bogus. And yes, the Maths is simple. But
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by baudehlo 14y ago
It most certainly is NOT new. We were writing about it at MessageLabs (now part of Symantec) years ago (in 2007 or earlier IIRC). What's surprising is that I gave a talk twice for Schneier's company Counterpane on tour with him in Texas, to
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by baudehlo 14y ago
That's interesting, because PDFs are an inherently un-streamable format. It requires seeking within the file to work (hence why command line PDF tools can't take STDIN for the PDF file - or they fake it by copying to a temp file first). I w
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Your last sentence hides another option which is the route we took: outsource devops. It cost us about $2000 in consultant fees for a fully setup system, easy to expand and add hardware to, and much more cost effective long term than AWS or
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Or if you're using Node, it's just: util.inherits(Point3d, Point);
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by baudehlo 14y ago
I think it very much depends on the language and platform/environment. I've been programming professionally for nearly 20 years, in languages ranging from Perl to C/C++ to Javascript, and the only times I've used GDB in the last 15 years ha
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by baudehlo 14y ago
It used to be the case, but very rarely with new phones.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
I know that here in Canada, even if you buy an iPhone full price from anyone but Apple, it is locked to that vendor. Which seems ludicrous to me.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Bear in mind that Gmail by default doesn't display images, so their tracking won't work for gmail unless users click "Always show images from ...". I don't know whether Yahoo displays images by default or not.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
The point of bcrypt is you can't use a rainbow table.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
The internet and need to transfer files between systems killed any concept of this sort of thing remaining working. The AmigaOS had it decades ago. Making it work when transferring a file to different OS's or even between the same OS using
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by baudehlo 14y ago
PhantomJS 1.6 is massively unstable. Downgrade to 1.5. I'm really surprised this hasn't been fixed yet - there are bugs in their tracker related to it.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
> - No proof that people are who they say they are, we have PGP/GPG but no one uses it. Do you have that proof with any other communication medium? You have some level of authentication provided by the service provider, sure (e.g. with
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by baudehlo 14y ago
But the protocol does keep track of it. Just because some end implementation is violating the protocol doesn't make the system broken. It makes their implementation broken.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
You don't have to do this with npm either. You can provide a URL to a tarball or a git repository and npm will install from there.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
And npm ships with node, so this is no different. Furthermore npm can install git URLs directly too, including tags and branches if you need a particular one. Just specify the url as the "version" in your dependencies section of package.jso
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by baudehlo 14y ago
OKCupid. Started and continue to do most things in C++, though I believe they now also have some Node.js stuff in there too.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
That's just a limitation of MySQL, not relational databases in general. In Postgres you can do it live in a transaction.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
Voxer does 170m https hits/day and 2 billion http hits/day on node.
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by baudehlo 14y ago
And not only that, your application becomes littered with: if (data.schema_version === 1) { ... } else if (data.schema_version === 2) { ... } UGH!
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by baudehlo 14y ago
The problem comes when you mix the two. Try it. Try scaling it (to a hundred thousand connections). I've done it and it doesn't mix. Sure programming-wise it's nice to have sync. No argument there.

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