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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
I didn't see you mention this, but the point of the coding interview is not to see how optimal your solution is (although it helps). It's also to see if you're a good person to work with. If you nail the problem right away bu
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
"Once installed, DOUBLEPULSAR is a stealthy backdoor that’s difficult to detect and continuously relays new information back to its controller." Seems to contradict itself? If it's continuously relaying information, wouldn&#x
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
Great section of the article. It reminds me how much my kids watch and learn from me. The author's father shaped so much of how he sees the world and aspires to be. This was a good reminder that your kids notice every kindness you pay
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
In the 90s I spent a lot of time on my website and I loved learning how web crawlers worked. I started using a robots.txt file without really understanding it. I ended up blocking everything thinking it would make my site faster for visitor
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
Same here. Macros worked inconsistently, finding matching parens, and search/replace using registers just was off. I use sublime, atom and VSCode every once in a while when pair programming but apart from intellisense/autocomplete
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
Yes! 1,000 times this. Everyone thinks that when they announce their product is released that they'll have hundreds of signups the minute you launch. What really happens is no one notices or cares. You have to put on your sales hat bef
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
SHIP IT. Even when you are embarrassed about it. Ship it and try to sell your ugly baby. If you can't sell it, ask why and iterate on that. I've seen what happens when you keep the product secret, trying to perfect it before you s
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
I'm going to find Vega's script and replace it with NOOPs. I hated playing Vega. He would climb that wall like a spider and then jump with a shrill yell and then body-slam me. I think that's the most rage I've ever exper
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by c0achmcguirk 9y ago
I would recommend vim-easymotion and command-t for a big speed improvement over relativenumbers and CtrlP. In my experience Sublime is _much_ slower than Vim.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
diff't = different
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
I suppose you could argue that, but it's just semantics. In the Byzantine Generals Problem the generals are trying to achieve consensus. Their messages to each other need to be stored in a cohesive form, like a log file. The very defin
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Bit bitcoin uses SHA256, not SHA1. SHA256 is much more secure. As an aside, even if SHA256 were vulnerable like SHA1 is (in extremely contrived circumstances) the amount of effort to present an alternative, false block would be harder to pu
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
All the "solutions" to the Byzantine Generals Problem required a centralized server of some sort. Bitcoin was able to solve the problem without a centralized server by using a blockchain. It isn't perfect, but it's good
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
The page seems to have been slashdotted....or HackerNewsed. Google cache is here [0]. [0] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vM3Pd-w...
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
The state actor in your scenario can't steal anyone's money. They can only create transactions for addresses they control with a private key. If you listed everything that would need to happen to cause a 51% attack to be successf
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
And yet it hasn't failed to solve that. It's only a problem in theory. It requires hand-waving and speculation and then, in practice, it could be a problem. If you're worried about a double-spend, wait for 6 confirmations.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
but couldn't someone with 51% of the power rewrite a block at any point in time in the past, and change history. In order to change history your miners would need to solve blocks much faster than the rest of the network consistently
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Yes, in a sense. The longest blockchain is the "truth." But with independently acting miners and mining pools there isn't a "majority" in the sense of a group of actors bullying the minority. The 51% problem describ
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Anonymity - good enough to protect criminals, not good enough to protect citizens against a state If you really want anonymity, bitcoin isn't the only blockchain technology you have. I know you were focusing on bitcoin in your answer
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Comment started out good, then started to flag, then it went to the moon. Outstanding.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
The numbers seem crazy inflated. Granted I'm in the midwest, but still, this guy's throwing around millions like candy.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
I think the pendulum will keep swinging between the minimalists (React/Vue.js) and the frameworks (Ember/Angular). Ember is completely underrated and overshadowed by React right now. It takes some of the best ideas from React (com
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Good books, all classics. Weinberg's book is frequently cited by one of my favorite tech books, Roy Osherove's Notes to a Software Team Leader. @otoolep, your spam detection missed the one comment to this post. :)
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
My company always works a "Big-O" question into interview questions. It's funny how we ask about the complexity of the algorithm and maybe 50% of applicants even know what Big-O notation is. It doesn't seem to impact hir
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Which of the scrolls are you referring to? Were they from canonical books?
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Was going to post the same one. Great talk!
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time to share that.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Thanks for the insights, I've must have understood the expression differently. I did find references to the contrary like [1] where the interpretation I've always had is expressed. Why are you so certain? [1] http://www
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Wow, that's a lot of downvotes. Mind telling me why?
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
It's a woman on a pedestal, like the expression: "women should be placed upon a pedestal." The phrase is usually understood to mean that men should treat women with respect, treating them as if they are more important than th

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