bitanarch

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by bitanarch 15y ago
I can't contribute open source code now for.. some reason. But, here's one of the more impressive JS demos I've seen: http://www.ro.me/tech/ .
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by bitanarch 15y ago
No. If you really pushed the world forward (notice the scale involved), then you logically should have a significant positive effect on the $14.12 trillion dollars of production every year - e.g. increased it by 3% over 10 years. So your co
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by bitanarch 15y ago
The GDP of the USA is $14.12 trillion dollars. If you're truly the kind of people who seek to move the world forward, 58 million dollars is nothing.
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by bitanarch 15y ago
He changed how normal people viewed technology. That's much more important than the volatile numbers made up by Wall Street.
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by bitanarch 15y ago
Agreed. Money is not really the thing in shortage, the ability to execute is. And the ability to implement the product, and by extension, understand what and how much resources are needed to implement a product, is a big part of that.
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by bitanarch 15y ago
Ok, I'm using WSGI every day but I haven't delved down into the details of it. But what would be the benefits of using WSGI Lite instead of the regular WSGI? Performance?
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by bitanarch 15y ago
This might have to do with thinking styles instead of malice - and it's a very common way to misunderstand people not working in the tech or science industry. If you have some free time, go read the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from V
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by bitanarch 15y ago
20,700, Hong Kong Chinese living in the Bay Area.
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by bitanarch 15y ago
Narcissus https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus/ It's been used as part of the Narrative JavaScript project to parse the JavaScript-like njs language and compile it back to JavaScript. http://www.neilmix.com/narrativejs/doc/
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by bitanarch 15y ago
But selecting a list of similar items in plain JavaScript would be troublesome.
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AFeature - Interactive JavaScript console for mobile HTML5 applications(martinkou.blogspot.com)
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by bitanarch 15y ago
tl;dr version: it shouldn't be possible to pull out somebody's account information based solely on the UDID. It's simply wrong to authenticate people based solely on UDID anyways - what if the same user have one iPhone 3GS, one iPhone 4, an
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by bitanarch 16y ago
Looks awesome.
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by bitanarch 16y ago
That's a pretty good life actually, not being bothered by people outside of his field constantly.
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by bitanarch 16y ago
To be good at programming, you first have to enjoy it. Try contributing to an open source project, and make a few friends in the FOSS community. Treat it as an art. You'll be good at it and happy eventually.
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by bitanarch 16y ago
One word: bazooka. Removes the roof as well, so you'd automatically solve all future snow-on-your-roof problems in one go! I call it an O(0) algorithm. (for those without a sense of humor, of course I'm joking)
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by bitanarch 16y ago
That's not even imaginative enough. We'll be living in space and the rich will own whole solar systems with strong AI civilizations dedicated to working for them and worshipping them. The poor will barely be able to afford immortality and a
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by bitanarch 16y ago
I've been notified that Gowalla is also having the same problem - and unfortunately it's confirmed. I've uploaded another screenshot showing the same problem with Gowalla 2.2.1 on iPhone: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_UrFI48Xbj8g/THD6IyfkCYI/AAAAA
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by bitanarch 16y ago
Yes, that's basically the way to do it. If you're doing it on a mobile phone you can even add HMAC (via SHA-1 or SHA-2, MD5 is still ok for that but we all know it's possible to produce MD5 collisions now) on that token when you're talking
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by bitanarch 16y ago
You can follow Facebook Connect's example. A few points there.. 1. Logins must be done on HTTPS. On the SSL level, the client must authenticate the server's certificate - i.e. the client must check whether the server's certificate is proper
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by bitanarch 16y ago
Thing is.. very few people go into random restaurants and login (and I mean, login, in which you type in your password) to sites like Hacker News or Slashdot every day. The chance of you opening a public AP in a crowded place and getting ba
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by bitanarch 16y ago
The damage of an intercepted cookie is limited to the site you're logged into - if I intercepted your Hacker News cookie, I can't use it to log into your bank account. The damage of an intercepted password is much bigger. It's a fact that m
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by bitanarch 16y ago
A lot of people use the same passwords for GMail, bank, credit card, Facebook, ..., and Foursquare. So it's a big deal if you can easily collect passwords from any one of these services.
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by bitanarch 16y ago
Double, and triple checked. You can reproduce this yourself. I'm using a MacBook Pro for this. 1. Plug your MBP to wired ethernet - you have one of these in your home, right? 2. Open an ad-hoc network in your MBP, and share Internet access
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Foursquare iPhone app sends passwords in plain text, don't use(martinkou.blogspot.com)
119 points by bitanarch 16y ago|52 comments
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BSON codec for Objective-C(blog.thinkbulbs.com)
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by bitanarch 16y ago
That depends on how the setTimeout() actually schedules things in the JavaScript engine. Recall that JavaScript is (before Chrome and worker threads appeared) traditionally single threaded - normally, even when you say setTimeout(fn, 0) - i
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by bitanarch 16y ago
btw, it's possible to run Tornado on $NUM_CPU forked processes, have them listen to one port and so you wouldn't need nginx load balancing. Just read httpserver.py and you'll find a fork() there. The downside? Assuming you're still running
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by bitanarch 16y ago
I've been building a web backend for an iPhone app with it in the past two months. It's ideal for serving simple JSON requests that depend on other I/O stuff (like, contacting Facebook) - but it's got plenty of problems: 1. The callback arc