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by corentin 18y ago
There should be no paperwork at all .
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes. Some ideas expressed in this book are really creative.
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by corentin 19y ago
* "Applied Cryptography" by Bruce Schneier. The first chapters are a great introduction to cryptography, but I found the few following chapters presenting cryptographic protocols mind-blowing. Some of them are so simple yet very clever. * P
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by corentin 19y ago
Tell us more! I'm not doing embedded gigs right now, but as I'm once again leaving my 9 to 5 job, I may be forced to sell myself soon :)
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by corentin 19y ago
I had a quick look at the firmware (file "NK.bin" in the firmware .zip file I found on Samsung's website). From "strings NK.bin|less", I learned that your frame was designed around an RMI (formerly AMD) Alchemy DB1200 reference board, runni
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm interested in the software side of hardware :) (firmware)
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by corentin 19y ago
Here's a better overview of password authentication: http://www.matasano.com/log/958/enough-with-the-rainbow-tabl... It explains why using fast hash algorithms such as MD5 or SHA1 is a bad idea for the purpose of password authentication.
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by corentin 19y ago
Here's my definition: work is a necessary pain.
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by corentin 19y ago
A really cool tool is Natural Docs (at www.naturaldocs.org). It's a program like Doxygen, to generate very nice-looking HTML documentation from embedded comments. The nice thing is that comments are (as the name implies) "natural" (there ar
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by corentin 19y ago
SCons is good but a few things can be quite complicated, especially if you have complex builds. It took me some time to figure out how to structure things and use Repository and BuildDir correctly. edit: I do use SCons for cross-platform de
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by corentin 19y ago
Considering the fact that SQL is a declarative query and data definition language, I don't know what kind of nasty, low-level stuff you would want to abstract away. SQL may not be perfect, and there probably is a mismatch with the programmi
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by corentin 19y ago
You end up with a lot of people who are relatively poor but practically rich, whereas socialism promotes a system in which nobody is richer (or poorer) than his neighbor but with the nasty side effect that everyone is practically poor
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by corentin 19y ago
I don't; so don't steal my lunch :)
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by corentin 19y ago
Yeah; that's what free-market anarchy is all about in the first place :)
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm claiming that whatever I build with natural resources I find is mine. You happen to disagree with that statement. Fine. Now, tell me how you would practice what you preach (socialism, wealth redistribution, etc.) without attacking me (o
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by corentin 19y ago
This is one of the best articles I've read here. Initially, when left alone, the kids had a free-market society: they owned the resources (lego bricks) they found and exploited (stuff they built) but, nonetheless, they weren't excluding peo
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by corentin 19y ago
Value is in the eye of the shareholder ;)
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by corentin 19y ago
Yahoo stock is trading around $29 a share, yet Yahoo's board say that Microsoft's offer of $31 a share "massively undervalues" the company?
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by corentin 19y ago
I actually liked the video. Dell is selling lots of cheap computers to schools, governments, big and small companies; it doesn't have to be trendy.
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by corentin 19y ago
Run-time enforcement of contracts and functional "stress" tests are the cheapest and most efficient way I've found to write correct-enough microcontroller software. Static checks are good (and I wish C was better in this regard) but you can
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by corentin 19y ago
There's no conventional name in English for the WHAT and WHAT of a pair? :)
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by corentin 19y ago
I'm sorry but it's bullshit. I taught myself programming with BASIC when I was a kid, my first programs were horrible, unstructured things with GOTOs everywhere and redundant code and yet I was able to teach myself Scheme as well a few year
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by corentin 19y ago
If it requires more and more heroic efforts to just keep it working, it probably means that your organization can't manage a software project; either because your developers are not experienced or, more likely, because management doesn't un
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by corentin 19y ago
Sorry, I don't have an answer; but I do have a question :) Why rewrite the thing in the first place? It's not too late to trash the Ruby on Rails project and focus your effort on improving your current asset (the Windows app).
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by corentin 19y ago
"The unluckiest russian was Yuri Gagarin: he circled around the earth and landed back in the soviet union." (french humorist Coluche)
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by corentin 19y ago
I don't get it. I don't design systems including databases, so I may not be qualified to speak (I've studied information system design a bit, though). What's wrong with relational theory and Codd normalization rules? It looks like a good wa
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by corentin 19y ago
> why are books cheaper in France [...] I buy quite a lot of books, both in France and from other countries through amazon.{com,co.uk,ca} and I see no indication that books are any cheaper in France. The problem is that I don't buy the
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by corentin 19y ago
Of course it wasn't part of the official curriculum. But you're wrong about the "wouldn't last long part"; you simply can't fire a teacher in France.
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by corentin 19y ago
Yes, I'm french. The Economist article is right. I even remember having been taught, in biology classes in middle-school (something like 10 years ago), that AIDS was designed by the Pentagon or some other US agency to kill people in the thi
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by corentin 19y ago
French people just don't get economics. It's not taught at school except as an option in high school programs, where you're only taught keynesian, if not marxist, economics (french universities are less biased). They're not really good at r

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