devcpp

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by devcpp 13y ago
Because if you admit that it's a possibility, then the Facebook login security measure accomplishes nothing at all.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Fair enough, you know much more than me in that domain. :) Are you going to argue about the famous general instability of Windows compared to its large competitors though? It seems like a good indicator of bad design in low level implementa
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by devcpp 13y ago
You make some good points but you lost me there: >Windows is one of the great engineering feats of CS Do I have to point out all the lame exploits and bugs which take so long to get fixed, the terrible design, the "things which shou
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by devcpp 13y ago
Well, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that anything Microsoft produces is out of question. The reason for that is that whenever I use one of their products, it progressively turns into a locked proprietary program and getting
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by devcpp 13y ago
Everything that remotely relates to health is risky. The problem is simply the lack of regulation.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Huh, I'll remember the "take it to HN" option if I ever run into big problems with a high-tech company.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Exactly. After all, it's pretty much how Apple made its historic unprecedented profits: more designers than engineers.
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by devcpp 13y ago
According to Wikipedia, Bell Labs most notably contributed to the invention of "radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the UNIX operating system, the C programming language&quot
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by devcpp 13y ago
Your body generally prevents you from drinking too much water, and from eating too much food, etc. Besides, water and food is a necessity while heroin is not (far from it, almost no one will ever need it). And that's what the person ab
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by devcpp 13y ago
Again, these applications are important to their customers (advertisers), not to the users. And while the research might be reused somewhere else, these companies are so big that the negative impact to users will be much larger.
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by devcpp 13y ago
A more proper analogy is: do you think it would be helpful to everyone to know the process for making laws?
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by devcpp 13y ago
I doubt it, he replied to himself.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Gabe was the 271st employee at Microsoft[0] and "was the producer on the first three releases of Windows"[1], so I suppose that, even if he hasn't contributed to the very same code as Bill Gates did, there must be an earlier
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by devcpp 13y ago
I got a scrollbar too but the page is neatly arranged to fit the browser's window so I didn't pay attention to it. It's the first time I've seen a footer from the top of a scrollpage.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Very legitimate concern. Jolla is a company that strives for profit, unlike Mozilla. And as such we can't expect them to have the same motives to keep their platform free. However, Mozilla also doesn't have the same influence, bec
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by devcpp 13y ago
Like they said, "Your level of privacy is up to you". It seems like most people are competent enough to manage keeping their wallets safe...
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by devcpp 13y ago
Politicians often pull this sort of "I'm not here for the money and I'm proving it" trick. Please don't compare them with corporations.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Agreed, there are relatively few idiots on /b/, most posts there just have a special kind of humor. Not for everyone, but certainly enjoyable for the people who can get used to this. Youtube, on the other hand, is simply plagued b
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by devcpp 13y ago
Decentralized email, uh? It's been attempted, but the issue of storage remains the most bothering. A mailbox can be pretty big and having it distributed over the network is difficult. Not to mention spamming problems. Maybe some day we
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by devcpp 13y ago
Yup, same on the latest Firefox Nightly. This isn't really acceptable behavior for a released product.
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by devcpp 13y ago
I don't think so, otherwise we'd still have black and white operating systems, because colors add so much memory usage. If Apple doesn't let its apps get more intricated, competitors will do it first...
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by devcpp 13y ago
And the CEO of Facebook of all people. If one non-public person in the entire world deserves scrutiny, it's Zuckerberg.
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by devcpp 13y ago
On the other hand, the POTUS is at least supposed to look powerful in the eyes of the citizens. By recognizing that he doesn't know (and can't know) what's going on, he is announcing to the world that he is a puppet and that
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by devcpp 13y ago
Agreed, it struck me as unique that the author says anything about women. I have seen dozens (if not hundreds) of programming tutorials and that was the first one that said anything about genders. The problem is somewhere else.
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by devcpp 13y ago
Exactly. I have never heard of Google sending emails on my behalf through gmail without me knowing about it.
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by devcpp 13y ago
As everyone said, you have created a stream cipher. But I feel that I have to add that your idea (OTP with small key) is usually implemented this way: the small key is a counter used an input to some PRNG specifically designed for this (you
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by devcpp 13y ago
He meant free (as in freedom), not open. "Proof" of that is in the submission's article. It's not exactly a formal proof but it has convinced most people here. Unfortunately, this highlights some weaknesses in the GPLv2,
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by devcpp 13y ago
Problem is, the prompt doesn't appear until the encryption has ended, the key has been sent to the servers (it's kind of complicated, it apparently tries to find servers on its own, I wonder if it can be fooled) and that key has b
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by devcpp 13y ago
I share that opinion so I'll answer. IMO, China letting control over currency just slip away is as realistic as China letting control over anything slip away. AFAIK it's still an authoritarian state. It could happen (it has a rela
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by devcpp 13y ago
This is for personal reasons. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#On_web_browsi...

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