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by dfranke 16y ago
How is that nice to know? It'd be much more edifying if he were rich precisely because he doesn't make this kind of mistake.
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by dfranke 16y ago
I picked up this trick from reading the scrypt source code. A few months later I was asked it in a job interview. Thanks, Colin :-)
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Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran(eff.org)
6 points by dfranke 16y ago|0 comments
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by dfranke 16y ago
You'll never get selected. In most any lawsuit, if you have a three figure IQ, then chances are that one lawyer or the other doesn't want you on the jury.
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by dfranke 16y ago
You don't have to understand the library, the author's coding style, or even much of the language in order to answer a question like this. You grep the codebase for '302' to find the constant that represents a redirect, and then you grep f
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by dfranke 16y ago
Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS.
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by dfranke 16y ago
I used LFS exclusively between about 2001 and 2003. My motivation then was mostly the fact that every distro sucked so badly. That's no longer the case, but I definitely recommend it as a learning experience. Afterwards you'll no longer
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by dfranke 16y ago
In this particular case, they have some decent mens rea protections. You're only criminally liable if you "know" that a law was broken, and only civilly liable if "in the exercise of due care [you] should know". Your broader point stand
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by dfranke 16y ago
Here's the law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode16/usc_sec_16_0... "It is unlawful for any person... to import, export, transport, sell, receive, acquire, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce... any fish or wildlife
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by dfranke 16y ago
From the rules for .IO domains that he links to (emphasis mine): "No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation " It's obvious that the
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by dfranke 16y ago
You should change "total" to "subtotal", and have the full total include how much extra you'd have to pay in order offset the deficit. Then at the bottom, "balance outstanding": your share of the public debt.
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by dfranke 16y ago
What historical evidence is there for this? In every case I can think of in which a Google product supplanted an established competitor, it's been pretty clear that it did so through merit. As a converse example, I don't see Google Finance
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by dfranke 16y ago
Considering that vendors already include Chinese government CAs voluntarily , I don't think they'll have to be forced into much.
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by dfranke 16y ago
What good would that do? Any malicious app will just lie about its reasons.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Although I agree with jgc that banning is deserved here, I don't think there's any need for it. The community's condemnatory reaction to lionhearted has so far been appropriate, and I think it will be effective in deterring similar bad beh
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by dfranke 16y ago
That's a lot more of a response than you owed to anyone, and also a lot more graceful than the one that would have come from me had I been the object of this debacle.
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by dfranke 16y ago
This. I would find this post mildly creepy even if it were written about someone's who's an actual public figure. Writing it about someone whose claim to fame is writing a Bingo card generator and being #4-ranked in karma on a niche inter
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by dfranke 16y ago
I think the takeaway is a lot broader: never assume that a company won't do evil things with your data if you don't have a service contract with them saying that they can't. See also: http://xkcd.com/743
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by dfranke 16y ago
You've been here a year and a half and should know better than to post comments like this one.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Primarily, the fact that Amazon really has its act together with respect to security. That silly HMAC canonicalization bug notwithstanding, they've made a whole lot of good design decisions. I currently use Linode. A year ago, I reported
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by dfranke 16y ago
He did, in reply to my question about whether it would ever happen. Now that it finally has, I'll be migrating over to EC2 shortly :-)
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by dfranke 16y ago
It seems to me that there are two possibilities, and either way, Hurd should win: 1. It is possible for Hurd to work for Oracle without disclosing HP trade secrets. Then Hurd is not breaching his agreement by working for them. 2. It is not
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by dfranke 16y ago
You can make them do less, but you can also make them spend less time doing nothing at all. Concurrency optimizations and prefetching fall into this category.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Wake me up when somebody has a means of inducing the condition that they can show is more reliable than a placebo.
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by dfranke 16y ago
It's going to take more than a handful of cherry-picked anecdotes to convince me that this condition really exists.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Better not let Zed Shaw read this. http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
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by dfranke 16y ago
You kind of need the menus. A lot of modes rely on them outright, and even if they don't you still don't want to memorize a new set of keybindings for a mode that you'll only ever use once. The toolbar, though, isn't much besides a waste
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by dfranke 16y ago
Yes. When I saw the headline I was expecting that Oracle did something gratuitous and stupid like renaming a standard package to start with com.oracle or whatnot. But for this, the Eclipse folks have nobody to blame but themselves.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Related point: at the same time that the machine allows me to be more efficient, and to be more precise without being rude, it also lets me be less efficient without being rude. An automated kiosk doesn't care how many times I ask it the
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by dfranke 16y ago
I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. I'm not so sure this is true. It's true of me; it may be true of you; it's probably true of most HN readers. However, non-geeks who know me well enough to observe th

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