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by deathanatos 12y ago
> rand() is shared across the whole OS, so another program calling rand() could make you skip a number; or another program could reseed rand. Then you've lost determinism. Is there actually any implementation of rand that does this?
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> I find it disingenuous to imply that developers should not be venturing outside the little garden of code they or their company has written except on certain days and that the developer will even have a choice in the matter. I don&#x27
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I don't insist on the tiling WM — they certainly don't work for everyone —, but I feel OS X's default WM falls on its face in a lot of cases simply as a "normal" style WM. You mention Cmd+Tab and Cmd+`, which is a g
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Not quite, I think. With a .so, I can ask `lsof` which services on the machine require restart: the ones that haven't are linked to a deleted so. And you wouldn't need to restart the clients with static OpenSSL — you need to reco
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I have mixed feelings about that article. To get anything done, I feel like the general programmer[1] is allowed to assume, at a bare minimum, a Proleptic Gregorian calendar. Anything else just makes handling early (pre-Gregorian) dates mad
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Sorry about the slow reply. We're using a mix of Precise/Trusty[1]; we're not (presently!) using Rust in a production setting, I'm only using it to experiment currently, but it's still something outside the package
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I was also thinking this would be related to DST. The "tricky" bit about Australia is that DST is "backwards", at least compared to those of us in the northern hemisphere. Because the seasons are reversed from those nort
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Are there any CAs issuing these? How do I get a CA certificate with a name constraint for my domain?
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by deathanatos 12y ago
We would fail your rule on so many cases. We run Ubuntu, which might be our mistake, but off the top of my head, I think our installations of nginx[1], Python[2], pip[3], rust[4], mongo, consul[4], openldap[1], gcc[3] and several other thin
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by deathanatos 12y ago
These services always dock me for including RC4 ciphers. I understand that these are bad because RC4 is broken or near broken; I shouldn't be using it. However, I'm simply using load balancering sevices provided by AWS and Rackspa
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> Here's what I don't understand: why is there any focus on alternative VMs for specific languages? Surely all this effort should be going into a VM for some kind of highish-level intermediate representation that's trivial
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by deathanatos 12y ago
The replica in Nashville, TN has concrete in its construction. The original, I believe, is made of marble. (but I'm less certain. I've never seen the real one, sadly.) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthe
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I don't know if Boost's intrustive containers are necessarily quite the same as an internal linked list. std::list<T> is internal but not intrustive; the difference between the three is something like… external: class
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> Yet another testimonial that something is wrong with Git UX :) I'm not going to debate whether git's UX is good or bad, but I don't feel like this is much of a testimonial to that. Bearing in mind that git and bash'
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by deathanatos 12y ago
So, this… 3Vÿÿª§ò·wudÕLÜØE(@Àï¦ìµQ$"`$´´$¤ª @az«hÀ@( @ @ ¢KBB@ / …isn't an "ascii stream". You can look at the source code for "covertBinaryToAscii", and i
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Especially in higher-level languages, I've wished language designers would move toward using variable-size/bignum integers instead of fixed size integers (Python does this, for example). It eliminates overflow, and the need to ana
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> Google’s Chrome browser is not vulnerable to the FREAK bug, but the browser that comes built into most Android devices is vulnerable. Is this true? Both Chrome on my mobile device and on my laptop show as vulnerable on freakattack.com.
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Note: there is some justification in the slides; the article itself just lists the "recommendations" outright. (from the article) > net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 (from the man page) > Allow to reuse TIME_WAIT sockets for new con
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I was responding to you. :-) > I'd argue that if your VCS server is mismanaged you'd better change the person managing because a badly managed VCS means trouble all around. I agree. The first time I read your argument, I interp
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> Wait until you see a badly managed git server that serves a central repository. You'll quickly change your mind if pushes start failing randomly. But I can't code a better sysadmin into either git or Perforce. A badly managed
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Basis, an Intel Company — San Francisco, CA — full time — frontend/backend engineers Basis is a fitness wearables company; we're the company behind Peak[1], a watch that can measure everything from movement and heartrate to the st
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> a mind blowingly dizzying number of permutations to get from A to B. Yes, but I don't think that's what most people desire to enumerate (or what the parent of your post had in mind). A simple enumeration of the flights availa
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by deathanatos 12y ago
I've always belived that source control was for source. Source is any piece of data created by a human being, which includes things such as large binaries, such as psd files (mentioned in a sibling). This belief excludes, however, larg
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> It's a well know issue the problem that git has with large files, True to some extent. (Large files I will agree with.) That wasn't his only argument: the other was about large repos. I've seen many places try to attempt
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> Every new feature is add-on (not "upgrade" and not "migration"). Just to nit pick, but there were actually breaking changes introduced in the latest C++ standards. See http://stackoverflow.com/a&#x2F
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Today I learned globbing happens after word-splitting. Can someone explain the following: for file in ./* ; do # Prefix with "./*", NEVER begin with bare "*" if [ -e "$file" ] ; then
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by deathanatos 12y ago
The key itself — Caps Lock — I believe is useless, and occupies valuable real estate. The concept of caps lock, I'm undecided. As programmer, the most common arguments I hear are usually about the occasional use of it for say, C_IDENTI
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by deathanatos 12y ago
Some of these cooperatively multithreaded implementations have "green" varieties of all your standard functions; these are greenlet-aware (that is, aware of the cooperative threading & I/O loop that's happening) func
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> The issue is it makes it difficult to notice that a function might return when scanning through a function. What other solutions are there? The only other approach to error handling I've seen is exceptions (e.g., C++, Java, C#, JS
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by deathanatos 12y ago
> on a commercial timescale one year is nothing. I've worked in commercial environments where common invocations of `tar` did not work, because `tar` was a decade out of date. I had to learn things and habits that had died before

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