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by brl 18y ago
Don't forget to stuff the kernel buffers with a few (or many) megabytes of data before getting those connections 'stuck'. The amount of time it will take for them to die off (as per the TCP spec) is 'infinity' since there is no provision in
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by brl 18y ago
This announcement is not about jailbreaking the new 3G iPhone hardware. A huge attack against the first generation iPhones was discovered in March which completely compromised the secure bootloader and made it possible to install any unsig
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by brl 18y ago
What's 'new' are the implications of the attacks everybody already knows about. Nobody really thought it through all the way to the end 10 years ago when DNS cache corruption was discovered and mainly only ever used for creating vanity hos
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by brl 18y ago
I don't know if I can agree that copyright infringement is intuitively wrong as my own intuition tells me the exact opposite: Legal enforcement of an artificial scarcity on our cultural and intellectual artifacts so that a minority of indiv
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by brl 18y ago
At that pace I think I would definitely be holding you back. Maybe I'll try to tackle something a bit less steep, like Mount Fraleigh. Have you already studied some abstract algebra, or would you mainly be learning it through this project?
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by brl 18y ago
Do you want a hiking partner? How fast are you planning on going?
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by brl 18y ago
It's not just identifying with some vague general points of the description. For some people reading an INTP profile for the first time is blow-your-mind-and-shit-your-existential-pants amazing. INTPs would be first in line to understand a
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by brl 18y ago
You really only need one question to test for INTP. Do you have a constant compulsive need to correct people for even very small errors in logical congruency regardless of the social consequences? Can you detect cognitive dissonance from
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by brl 18y ago
INTP poster boy here.
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by brl 18y ago
I know what you mean. Reading INTP personality profiles online was a life changing experience for me. Suddenly everything made so much more sense.
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by brl 19y ago
Our secret weapon is Blub.
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by brl 19y ago
Mine.
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by brl 19y ago
Other than avoiding coffee this exactly describes my life too.
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by brl 19y ago
Don't worry, you're doing it right. I've felt like that every single day for the last 8 months.
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by brl 19y ago
Me too, I'll be there
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by brl 19y ago
I only tried it every single day for the last 6 months. Works for me.
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by brl 19y ago
Famous last words.
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by brl 19y ago
I guess that's the end of OpenMoko.
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by brl 19y ago
I wish somebody would have told me they were having a contest. Here's my entry from my last job: http://darkcalgary.com/mydesk.jpg My workspace is the grease stained chair with only one arm. I chose that one on purpose because if I had a
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by brl 19y ago
Most programmers are not nearly as good as they think they are. Learning how much you suck at programming is the very first step to getting any good at it.
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How to be a genius(newscientist.com)
77 points by brl 19y ago|37 comments
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by brl 19y ago
I think the way to translate this principle for hackers is: "Continually aim to be the stupidest person in the room". If you want to improve quickly you must work on projects with people who have a lot more skill and experience than you do.
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by brl 19y ago
I think it doesn't matter if you play people who are slightly better or far better players than you are. The secret is getting your ass kicked as often as possible.
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by brl 19y ago
Not only that, but to implement diffie-hellman key agreement correctly you have to authenticate the exchange in some way. This is usually done with cryptographic signatures and that means implementing at least one other number theory algor
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by brl 19y ago
It seems like such nonsense to talk about how one operating system is more secure than some other operating system since every single operating system ever written has had its ass handed to it over and over and over again by security resear
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by brl 19y ago
Ask payment to who exactly? The 'community'?
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by brl 19y ago
> Why not doing it in the first place, then? We don't want to do it at all and probably never would. I'm only mentioning it as something that somebody evaluating risks from the other side might imagine that we could do. > If the in
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by brl 19y ago
If they can't even afford to pay even a single paltry developer salary then a can't see what they could possibly be bringing to the table.
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by brl 19y ago
Hey I love John Perkins as much as anybody, but conspiracy theories about how the CIA and World Bank is teamed up with multinational corporations to go around the world deliberately overthrowing democracy is not appropriate material for Hac
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by brl 19y ago
2% and no compensation? If it's such a great idea, walk away and go build it yourself.

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