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1. 31.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   Quick, someone call Kevin Rose!
2. 32.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   Every "bad interview" story that graces the front page of HN has this common theme that the interviewee is an infallible genius who aces every question. I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to
3. 33.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   That sounds like an interesting story. Are there any more details that you're willing/at liberty to divulge?
4. 34.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   It's missing the BASIC: 10 tequila 20 GOTO 10
5. 35.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   Ah, thanks. I missed that that whole part was talking about the K10.
6. 36.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   I know you said that, but I disagree that it has a negligible contribution to security based on the distribution of skill level of potential attackers. You are definitely right about my leaving the computer alone example. That was pretty a
7. 37.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   This was really interesting, but one thing it didn't fully explain was why the fact that ret imm16 was fastpathed would make it a worse choice for this optimization than repz ret. Excuse my noobiness, but can anybody explain that to m
8. 38.▲
   by bookface 13y ago

   I disagree. Maybe if anybody who would ever have physical access to your computer has the technical chops of the average HN commenter, it wouldn't do much for you. However, for somebody leaving their computer alone for a few minutes