dfranke

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by dfranke 17y ago
Well, Debian is the worst-maintained distribution out there, except for all the other ones.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I agree that systems Hungarian (tracking types) is a lose. Apps Hungarian (tracking semantics) is a win in languages like Python, but the need for it is a symptom of a wimpy or non-existent static type system. If you can encode a semantic
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by dfranke 17y ago
Note that it's disabled in Debian because the package maintainer has some stupid notion that it's a security hole.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Botha took the words out of my mouth: Roelof Botha: I don’t like it. Money was invented for a reason, we’ve seen people try to use beans etc. and it doesn’t work. I wouldn’t invest. What problem does this company solve that banks and bond
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by dfranke 17y ago
I was hoping it was an API for selling your startup to Google.
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by dfranke 17y ago
That's literally across the street from where I work... guess I'll be there.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Anonymization is in essence a cryptography problem, so any anonymization scheme should by default be considered insecure without extraordinary evidence to the contrary.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I don't think I quite understand what misconception people hold which leads them to believe that any environment in which two or more human beings are in social contact could ever be free of politics.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Nothing is ever free unless your time has no value. I've published and contributed to a great deal of open source software, much of it successful. I've been among these communities for a very long time and understand the social expectatio
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by dfranke 17y ago
Why? It's not as if CK is trying to get it into the mainline. What does one have to do with the other? If I'm going to spend the necessary 20 minutes to compile a new kernel using CK's patch, I want some evidence that I'm going to be gai
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by dfranke 17y ago
The company that sells the software insists it is not putting kids' information at risk, since the program does not record children's names or addresses. Unless, y'know, one of those conversations happens to begin with "hi billy".
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by dfranke 17y ago
From my understanding, your interpretation is not correct. BFS is about latency, not throughput. Ingo chose all the wrong benchmarks. Then how about CK showing up the right ones? Also, it's a dick move by Ingo. CK hasn't even made a publ
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by dfranke 17y ago
> two-socket, 8-CPU system Which is exactly the kind of machine that I'm sitting in front of at this very moment and have owned for more than two years. I realize this puts me on the leading edge, but any scheduler that can't cope wit
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by dfranke 17y ago
I think CK's reply just put me off for good from taking the time to try out his patches: /me sees Ingo run off to find the right combination of hardware and benchmark to prove his point. [snip lots of bullshit meaningless benchmarks showin
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by dfranke 17y ago
Put it in a chroot jail on a dedicated server with SELinux, GRSec, and AppArmor all running at the same time, behind at least four layers of firewalls. Store the server in a lead-lined room with no net connection, and a good sturdy lock on
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by dfranke 17y ago
You mean to tell me that you don't have a 35.1 ton weight sitting around anywhere ?
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by dfranke 17y ago
Depending on the problem domain: either C, mentally compiling into pseudo-ASM, or a sort of blend of Haskell and math notation.
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by dfranke 17y ago
There is one very important difference between what can be built as an experiment and the commercial Segway: The commercial one has a lot of safety features, redundancy and fool-proofing. Mine has none whatsoever (Well, it does have a kill
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by dfranke 17y ago
It's old and it's somewhat lame, but it is an attack. CSS and the DOM were designed not to allow this sort of information leak. They missed a spot.
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by dfranke 17y ago
100mg would be a pretty big portion. Maybe a grande from Starbucks (with notoriously high caffeine content) is about that. Isn't a normal cup about 40mg?
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by dfranke 17y ago
Don't tell lies that can be falsified by looking up publicly-available data. Is this really so hard?
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by dfranke 17y ago
Modern treatment of the elderly is a matter of economics and demographics, not one of moral decay. There are simply too many elderly and not enough workers for the elderly to be afforded the same treatment as a generation ago.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Hackers appear to have a startlingly low divorce rate.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I know the author of this; he's a good hacker. He also happens to be the author of LOLCode.NET :-)
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by dfranke 17y ago
Thanks, got the mail. After a quick glance at it I'm not betting on having an easy time breaking out, since you're basing on the sandboxing primitives built into mzscheme and aren't abusing them in any way that jumps out at me immediately.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Can you provide the patch to arc that you're using? I want to see if I can break out of the sandbox.
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by dfranke 17y ago
They already sell several solutions to frustrating packaging: http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-Caledonian-Edge-Md/dp/B000N... http://www.amazon.com/Poulan-400E-18-Inch-Electric-Chain/dp/... http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-
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by dfranke 17y ago
Definite meme potential here if you can flesh this out to the length of the /. spam solution form.
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by dfranke 17y ago
The heavy, cream-colored two-button serial mice were the best on the market at the time, and the Sidewinder Pro was a very nice joystick. The mice they sell today are simply ordinary, and no keyboard of theirs has ever held a candle to the
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by dfranke 17y ago
Octave is decent at what it does, but nothing in the open source world comes remotely close to Mathematica. Having easy access to it (and more importantly, being able to expect my peers to have the same) is one of the things I miss most ab

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