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by bcoates 14y ago
Greenmountain's link below (and the Wikipedia page for Rainbow Table) cover it, but you do a space-for-speed tradeoff by basically re-hashing your hash repeatedly, and looking up if the result is in the table, which gives you a short-list o
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by bcoates 14y ago
Google's web search by date works by parsing dates on pages, not by loading actual historical search data, so it's possible to backdate information with it.
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by bcoates 14y ago
for MD5 GPU bruteforce would be practical and not require any storage. You can do hundreds of millions of trials per second per GPU without having to manage all that storage.
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by bcoates 14y ago
It's not just that template, it's an "obvious" 3 digit number, a 4 letter dictionary word, and "123" with shift held down. If you had some sort of statistical password ordering it wouldn't be that far down the list.
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by bcoates 14y ago
Is the weird kerning on the lowercase i intentional? More than anything it reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 font http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Fonts . I wonder if they're both the result of some optimization process.
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by bcoates 14y ago
Syntax flexibility is not a virtue. Creating restrictive rules about what I can do to an object or how functions work ties my hands when I try to do tricky things, but syntax only limits my artistic urges to do esoteric code layout. The C s
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by bcoates 14y ago
Mathematical notation is much harder to read than prose. It does a very good job of serving as a mnemonic for something you already understand, and a very poor job of explaining novel (to the reader) concepts. It's also as bad as natural l
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by bcoates 14y ago
I'd like to see more detail about the real problem he was facing in python. It sounds like he mostly wants a non-blocking background job "I don’t want to set up another daemon, I just want to send some email in the background!" Why not jus
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by bcoates 14y ago
It shouldn't matter so long as redundancy between headers and body result in a smaller cyphertext.
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by bcoates 14y ago
In 2001 Java had much broader ambitions than the (large) niches it has found itself in. Java's zeitgeist definition of success back then was creating a "anything and a JVM running Java" software monoculture even more extensive than C's.
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by bcoates 14y ago
Javascript would be an obvious choice for anything centered around creating UIs. Palm-now-HP's nice WebOS platform is essentially a recent direct competitor to Android and did that.
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by bcoates 14y ago
How do you consider .NET and C# built on top of Java? They're certainly designed a direct competitor, with C# + .NET built to check every box that Java + JVM does, but most of the things in common between the two weren't new in Java. In th
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by bcoates 14y ago
That shouldn't be any harder than updating one pointer atomically, modern x64s have two-pointer sized atomic exchange operations.