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by codahale 17y ago
Precisely. Just because one has a very sharp knife does not mean one should wave it around in casual conversation.
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by codahale 17y ago
I simply don't trust ruby-core to produce software with decent operational characteristics. I'd rather use JRuby.
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by codahale 17y ago
This is where Google Collections comes in handy: Lists.newArrayList(1, 2, 3) Or, if you don't need to modify it: ImmutableList.of(1, 2, 3) Such an awesome library.
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by codahale 17y ago
Speculative work? I'll pass.
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by codahale 17y ago
You said "Do you have the audacity to call him a conspiracy theorist? He's only one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century. What kind of track record do you have to belittle Dyson?" That is an explicit appeal to authority.
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How Not To Fix A Security Bug(codahale.com)
6 points by codahale 17y ago|0 comments
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by codahale 17y ago
Ok, so this may come as a surprise to you, but technology startups are not the only way that people make money. Weird, I know. But true. These folks -- http://www.sportscanholder.com/ -- could sell their business for more than a million d
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by codahale 17y ago
You can't sell your startup like you can a successful startup. (The odds of you having a successful startup are about that of you having a profitable beer cozy "company.")
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by codahale 17y ago
Online anonymity is just a leftover from the early days of the web - a time when there really just weren't other options. What, you mean when services expected your machine to be running identd? When finger worked? When your IP uniquely i
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A Working Theory About RC4(matasano.com)
8 points by codahale 17y ago|0 comments
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by codahale 17y ago
No. It integrates with a system (GrowlHelper.app) which runs with all your permissions and hasn't received any security scrutiny and was designed to take input from a few, trusted sources. What could possibly go wrong?
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by codahale 17y ago
Evolution is not teleological. Your question is meaningless.
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by codahale 17y ago
Atwood thought cryptography was easy and screwed it up. Then he thought teaching people about cryptography was easy and screwed it up. I, for one, am terrified by what the third derivative of his ignorance might be.
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by codahale 17y ago
I just ported it to Java. It took me five minutes. It's 40 lines of C++, most of which are of the `k *= m;` variety. You literally paste in the C++, fix the type declarations, and replace the point increment looping with standard indexed ar
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by codahale 17y ago
More traps! More black eyes! Nary a feather in your cap! Had you any friends I would urge them to see to you. The ideal candidate for this job knows when -- as Kenny Rogers put it -- to "hold 'em" and when to "fold 'em." By not simply walki
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by codahale 17y ago
Again with the traps! First, you're chasing an irrelevant point. My grammatical nitpicking has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I'm writing down "easily distracted by internet arguments." Second, you're assuming importance. By bringing
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by codahale 17y ago
Ho ho! You fell into my trap! "It's" is a contraction of "it is." You mean "its" -- the possessive form. Another black eye for you; another feather in my cap! (Seriously, though. You're demanding tolerance of your cognitive differences -- w
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by codahale 17y ago
That's "you're right." Engineers must have excellent writing and communication skills. You're fired.
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by codahale 18y ago
Oh, and for double-extra bonus points add in the fact that you might have more than one presenter for a single model -- content type negotiation, don'tchaknow.