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by dexen 14y ago
The `Too Big to Jail' was coined by Matt Taibbi in http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre... , which goes through great many details on the matter. I believe the catchy phrase did much to bring popular awareness to th
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by dexen 14y ago
> It would be possible to obfuscate a secret by storing it in several parts and combining them at run time. Then run `strings' on virtual memory image of the offending process. Same difference.
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Also worth noting is the (linked) tongue-in-cheek http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/04/01/cipher-of-advanced-encr...
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Strangely enough, Adblock Plus failed to filter this press-release-cum-review.
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by dexen 14y ago
It is, but only for a very short time. `Evaporative cooling' and `dead sea effect' will quickly cause the better employees to jump the ship and the weaker to remain solidly entrenched.
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by dexen 14y ago
In Poland, the most common layout is the `Polish (programmers)', virtually the same as US layout, with extra right Alt switching for polish accented characters. The alternative is `Polish (typewriter)' layout, with accented characters repla
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by dexen 14y ago
Reminds me of behavior of (mouse- or touchpad-driven) Acme editor: http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/samsung-copy-paste-bug-aka-n...
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by dexen 14y ago
I have used, and loved, the handwritting recognition of Sony Ericsson P910i. It was very fast to use -- while stylus based. Every friend of mine who dared to try it loved it instantly. I wonder how it stacks, long term, against finger-based
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Konged(nowiknow.com)
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To elaborate further on the volatile and memory barriers in C: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git...
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by dexen 14y ago
For performance of compilation . Go compiles crazy fast -- think two seconds for complete compiler and runtime on a notebook. This provides for rapid hack-compile-debug iterations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&
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by dexen 14y ago
> If farmers are permitted to replant seeds then how are companies making the seeds supposed to make money ? I'm not a biologist, but I assume it is possible to make 1G grains edible but infertile -- incapable of sprouting a new plant
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by dexen 14y ago
For context: Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
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by dexen 14y ago
http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html
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by dexen 14y ago
Discussed before: (meta: how's that for reverse bloom filtering? ;-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251536 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4251759 tl;dr: > Specifically, it functions the same as a cache with a random re
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by dexen 14y ago
Seems somebody has decided "7450px ought to be enough for anybody" (div#video_header)... what about dual T221s? ;-)
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by dexen 14y ago
While interesting, that is property of decimal notation rather than the integer number itself. In hexadecimal notation, 2013 is the first (since 2007 -> 0x7d7) with duplicate digits ;-) 1987 -> 0x7c3 1988 -> 0x7c4
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by dexen 14y ago
Ironically, One Time Pad is breakable in practice, due to mistakes made, shortcuts taken[0] and side-channel attacks[1]. Besides, it relies on securely distributing the pad itself before information exchange can take place, which in turn is
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by dexen 14y ago
> The primary function of a legal department is to provide advice that prevents legally actionable mistakes. This advice does not have to be sane, or efficient, (...) Strong disagreement. As a counterport, would you agree to the follo
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How Software Companies Die - Orson Scott Card(cs.cmu.edu)
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That's too damn bad, wish they come back from it. THQ means one of my fav games, Red Faction. Fun to play and with innovative `geo mod' technology. Also worked just fine on Linux via Wine.
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by dexen 14y ago
> The more interesting question in my opinion is "should there be laws regulating voluntary agreements". Yes, and they serve important function -- leveling the playing field in case of strong imbalance between the parties. Consider fo
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> Guns are tools that kill. They have no other purpose. The other† purpose is to keep countries and people in check. The mere ability to immediately use firearms is enough to stop a lot of possible troublemakers. A country keeps armed
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by dexen 14y ago
Particularly ironic is PHP ranking high for ``This language is likely to be a passing fad''. Given its 17 years of history and recent the recent progress with versions 5.3 and newer... whoever voted on this position either wasn't aware of P
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by dexen 14y ago
The obligatory jwz link: http://www.jwz.org/bookcase/
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Noncompetes Are Lame — Let’s Set the Creators Free(wired.com)
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This analogy only muddles the picture. We are talking about private property, but not a home, more like a shop or pub. Its only raison d'etre is to serve certain guests. We are talking about a commercial server that is managed by a professi
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by dexen 14y ago
That's a strawman; the bots never indicated intention to read. They indicated (via `User-Agent' header) intention to index content and got HTTP 200 OK response to that . Nothing in the HTTP protocol specs (RFC 2616) even suggests it is onl
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> the publishers never gave permission to use their content Yes they did, yes they did. The publisher explicitly granted access by putting up the news content in an public subdirectory of a public webserver. News items don't just mag
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> Did you ever learn how to read code at university? Were you shown loads of different code, in different languages and different styles, and then asked to explain what the code did? I don’t think code comprehension is a normal part of

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