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by bazzargh 13y ago
They've 2 use cases, this test one, which has a rationale linked from 'workload' in article: "Run end-to-end, the 7,000 trunk tests would take about half an hour to execute. We split these tests up into subsets, and dis
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by bazzargh 13y ago
This is (at least) the third time you've submitted this today. You seem to be deleting the article and resubmitting so that it stays pinned on HN's 'new' page. That doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the guideline:
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Reading this I'm reminded of Alisdair Gray's "Poor Things" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things ...wherein the narrator believes he has brought a woman to life, Frankenstein-style, and is teach
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398018 My comment there... This seemed very familiar, then when I saw phrases in the Kickstarter like "You are the computer and they get to order you around&qu
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by bazzargh 13y ago
That new OO looks way, way too much like Google are now owned by Mastercard.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Published in the Journal of Cosmology? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Reliabili... "The quality of peer review at the journal has been questioned. The journal has also been accused of promoting
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by bazzargh 13y ago
More likely it was never 'designed', but evolved from a memory dump, with inconsistencies appearing as the architecture changed over the years.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
A bit of context: yesterday a link was posted to the Robot Turtles kickstarter, and I wondered whether anyone was teaching functional languages to kids instead of imperative ones... then today Brian McKenna mentioned the 'Girls Can&#x2
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Fun programming in Roy with Turtle Graphics(turtle-roy.herokuapp.com)
1 points by bazzargh 13y ago|1 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
This seemed very familiar, then when I saw phrases in the Kickstarter like "You are the computer and they get to order you around", the lightbulb went on: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-trai
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by bazzargh 13y ago
I disagree with this type of form builder. In a previous job, we built lots of forms (for gov/banking sectors), had a formbuilder product, and used multiple commercial formbuilders too. They were all more complex but fundamentally the
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by bazzargh 13y ago
The name for that feature is 'IVR' (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_voice_response ). If you google 'ivr answering service' you'll find several companies offering this.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
So I raised an issue with Surespot, and it is indeed the case that Android uses UTF-8 everywhere by default, independent of locale (much more sensible than Sun's Java!). The code is correct. Nothing to see here, move along.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
It was pretty obvious that this site wasn't the origin of the pics, since there's no photographer credit and the rest of the site is linkbait. They've been ripped from all over eg the photos of the church were by Rick Harris:
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Just thinking about that - this class of error gets reported by Findbugs and other static analysis tools. So, this bug indicates that there aren't tools like that in the build - for a security app, where correctness should be top prior
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by bazzargh 13y ago
BTW, this code would have trouble sending messages between locales. I had a quick look at the encryption code, and found this: public static String sign(PrivateKey privateKey, String data, String derivedPassword) { r
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by bazzargh 13y ago
It's not the whole UK - just England & Wales. ROS do the same job in Scotland ( http://www.ros.gov.uk/); not sure about NI. The land registry is woefully incomplete. Things only get into the registry when there&#x27
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by bazzargh 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I can see a problem with schemes along those lines. MD5 (and similar) extension attacks also take advantage of the padding added after the thing you want to hash; so eg Secret: secret Message: foo&bar Let's includ
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by bazzargh 13y ago
btw: isn't the scheme you posted vulnerable to replay attacks too? Much easier than the timing attack. edited to add: don't mean this as a nitpick. I've seen that very mistake made by two S&P 500 companies that had 'homebrew' SSO we had
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by bazzargh 13y ago
It's not just you. Almost my entire interaction with google reader is hitting the space bar. After hitting 'u' to get rid of the rest of the ui. Newsblur does the spacebar thing, (Feedly doesn't), but I can't see a way of getting rid of eve
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by bazzargh 13y ago
I did say 'like' an Instaflater - it's the mechanism I meant. The thermarest pump sack doubles as a stuff sack, so it's not dead weight like the Instaflater. I'm a bike tourer, not a backpacker, so I tend to shave weight when I can drop a p
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by bazzargh 13y ago
The Klymit Inertia X-Frame is like what he described. A Balloonbed is even smaller, but takes a fair bit longer to inflate.
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by bazzargh 13y ago
The stuff about inflating with your mouth is a bit of a straw man. If you inflate say a Thermarest NeoAir or a Packraft you're more likely to use something like an Instaflator now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLVYfg88TE (Thermarest h
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by bazzargh 13y ago
I found the talk (in the comments on Shaver's 2008 blog article that cropped up in another comment - I was close on the time at least) It's by Stewart Smith, it's called "Eat My Data: How Everybody gets File I/O wrong", and it's well worth
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by bazzargh 13y ago
There was a great short talk by (I think) Richard Hipp - or possibly Ted T'so? about mistakes people make trying to 'just save your data to disk'. I can't find the one I remember but this does cover a lot of the same material (in a less sna
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by bazzargh 13y ago
"Finally the Java property file format was used (with UTF-8 encoding) which while having bugs in the import and export escaping these could at least be worked around." The java property file format is ISO-8859-1 not UTF-8. I have to wonder
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Heh. A decade ago, I read this article on duplicate code detection in PMD: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/12/pmd_cpd.html?p... ... and sent Tom a much faster solution based on the BWT. (I tokenized the codebase, applied the
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by bazzargh 13y ago
They have been saying since they started that they were trying to open source the project. See eg this blog: http://www.cyclestreets.net/blog/2012/01/09/open-sourcing-ef... And, tantalisingly, the codebase is on github - it's just that th
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CycleStreets looking for routing engine developer(cyclestreets.net)
10 points by bazzargh 13y ago|9 comments
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by bazzargh 13y ago
Spot on. We had this problem taking on some legacy code during a round of layoffs. They had checked in /their own/ DLLs from subprojects. It turned out that one DLL had unknown modifications not in the source code, and another had no source

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