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by bwarp 15y ago
I tell people it's half right :-)
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by bwarp 15y ago
I used this a while ago for a small integration project. Worked nicely. I tend to go for ZeroMQ for similar use cases now though for no particular reason other than I was bored.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I'm fine with that if it stops vendors customising windows too much. There's nothing worse than removing Acer or Dell branding from a new laptop.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I like Arch as a whole but I've found that for my purposes it is a time sink compared to Debian for example. Debian has lots of sensible well thought out defaults. Arch has lots of disparate defaults each provided by the package vendor (as
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by bwarp 15y ago
Apple should stay out of education. The last thing education needs is lock in (content and application walled gardens) and a high entry cost (expensive hardware requirements). Education should be free and open.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think you are confusing product creation with engineering. Engineering is solving a problem or need. Product creation is trying to artificially create a need. Marketing and sales get involved in the latter. Engineering is a byproduct of
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by bwarp 15y ago
The store front for it is however.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've turned down positions at two of the aforementioned organisations in favour of much smaller companies (<50 employees). It's worth it. It's better to be a well known and respected employee in a small company than a fungible cog in a
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by bwarp 15y ago
I agree. 21 years elapsed since I started. I cut my teeth on Z80 assembly at the age of 11 by building my own computer from stuff I could get my hands on (discarded and broken RM380Z and some VIC20's for RAM) and books from the library. I f
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sounds feasable. It's not like they're not selling any Series 40 phones [1] .... [1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/nokia-s40-sales-reach-1-5...
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by bwarp 15y ago
password is the weakest form of authentication on open systems i.e. ones which you have to hand over to monkey grade users. If you have a reasonable password policy yourself, I very much doubt it will cause you any problems. I've been attac
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's MSE thinking that something has modified the hosts file and resetting it. I'd go for an ad blocker rather than a hosts file hack. Adblock plus works fine on Firefox and Chrome. There are TPL subscriptions for IE that block everything
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by bwarp 15y ago
You can use function pointers. Functions in C are not first class (they are not a type) but you can emulate higher order functions crudely using function pointers. It gets ugly pretty quick though.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Spot on. Why do you need a book on backlogs? That's just insane. That's like buying books on driving cars: "volume 4: the steering wheel" and "volume 5: the indicator stalk".
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by bwarp 15y ago
Whilst not supporting first class functions, C is pretty easy on you in that respect. I reckon there are suitably small lisp implementations in C (less than 100 lines). It all really depends if your lisp implementation uses the language's
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've come to the conclusion that AV software gets more attrocious the more you pay for it or the more it requires advertising every 5 minutes on television. They push it on you via scaremongering every day at least once. HOWEVER, I've been
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by bwarp 15y ago
Racket and SBCL are very fast.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Exactly. I reckon you couldn't invert the process i.e. write Ruby in 32 (short) lines of lisp.
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by bwarp 15y ago
This is really cool. Having just done a large and complicated S3 integration into a legacy soup of 20 year old filesystem based document management kludge, this would have made life much easier (and considerably cheaper!). Not only that, i
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by bwarp 15y ago
I've learned not to trust big corporate IT companies. Apple is one. I've been through the IBM/Sun/Oracle era, the Microsoft era and am now living in the Apple era. It's like a perpetual screwing ground extracting cash however they can. Th
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by bwarp 15y ago
That is correct. You can issue Subject Access Request under the Data Protection Act to find out information about an individual (yourself) and who this has been shared to. You can only issue a SAR in writing and there is a capped charge f
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by bwarp 15y ago
The man-in-the-middle proxy adds the phone number based on your IMEI. You could probably send someone else's number down and it'd change the header back to yours in the proxy. The SMS spoofing issue (which has been around forever) is far w
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by bwarp 15y ago
That is fantastic. Just what I needed!
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by bwarp 15y ago
They aren't age verified any further than walking into a video shop and asking for an 18 film, or off license to buy cigarettes or alcohol in the UK requires verification. We take that for granted. It's the same thing really. The mass cen
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by bwarp 15y ago
You'd think so but they don't see through ground planes.
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by bwarp 15y ago
So true. I'd argue it's probably a waste of time on greater than 2 layer boards myself (having had the pleasure of doing this on a Telequipment D83 scope amp module) unless you want to boil them and get the laminated layers out and then don
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by bwarp 15y ago
> However, most porno filters can sometimes be bypassed in 5 mins. That's the most non-deterministic sentence ever.
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by bwarp 15y ago
You don't have to have a "government ID" or present ID. That's a fallacy. You just have to provide reasonable evidence that you are a not a minor. Pubic hair is usually enough. It's a choice the providers made to protect their arses from
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by bwarp 15y ago
The "can't parse XML using regular expressions" argument is possibly flawed as it's a false dichotomy. XML is a superset of text therefore it is parseable with regular expressions, but in the context and constraint of text, not as structur
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's called due dilligence. All it takes is one clever individual to fill a school up with tor-users, much as Napster spread like wildfire.

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