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by dlitz 14y ago
> A good portion of why people like to mock PHP is due to the way people end up using the language rather than the language's ugly parts. Are you really going to trot out that old lie? Why not read this, instead? http://me.veekun.com/
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by dlitz 14y ago
I doubt it. Look at what happened to RIM.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Who cares? There are going to be millions if not billions of Secure Boot ARM devices manufactured. x86 doesn't make this not a problem.
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by dlitz 14y ago
Or an internet?
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by dlitz 14y ago
IIRC, it was supposed to put Iran's nuclear program behind by several years, but because it escaped into the wild---and thus endured far greater public scrutiny than it would have otherwise---the Iranians found out about it much earlier tha
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by dlitz 14y ago
If Assange's appeal succeeds, doesn't it just mean they can still try to convince a Swedish judge to make a new extradition request? Is that too much to ask for?
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by dlitz 14y ago
I see something wrong with it if everyone is required to keep logs and to "know their customers", just in case someone comes along with a warrant. Such requirements destroy the ability to offer free public wi-fi.
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by dlitz 14y ago
A less fear-mongering note: If you're designing a language or a compiler, there's a good chance that you'll have adoption problems if your standard runtime environment constrains people's license choices. That isn't exactly news, either. T
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by dlitz 14y ago
I think the Camper website needs more animated GIFs, Javascript image rollovers, MIDI music, and a tiled background.
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by dlitz 14y ago
But this is about the LGPL, not the GPL...
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by dlitz 14y ago
It's not so bad if your automation tools have a really long shelf life, and if the time that you spend learning to use them can easily be reused for other things. i.e. If you use Linux command-line tools. I've been managing my email using
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by dlitz 14y ago
So, if I understand this correctly, it's like Johnny Mnemonic, but you don't have to store the data only in your brain. I bet if you used your entire skin instead of just your brain, you could store a whopping 500 gigabytes!
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by dlitz 14y ago
Voiding transactions is a poor technical solution to a social problem. A better solution is to track down the recipients, prosecute them, and have a court order them to pay back a certain number of Bitcoins, just like you would with cash.
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by dlitz 14y ago
So then, can you give an example of a regulation that you don't think is morally wrong?
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by dlitz 14y ago
As I see it, "burnout" in this context means that point where you stop thinking clearly and your productivity sharply drops. You could be making $10M/year or $10K/year and still experience burnout.
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by dlitz 15y ago
> Myth? MS built a very successful business on it. It's also an unsustainable business. How long do you think MS will be able to maintain backward full compatibility? 100 years? 200 years? > Customers don't care why your software
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by dlitz 15y ago
This wouldn't be a problem if you accepted Bitcoin. ;)
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by dlitz 15y ago
Well, if this sort of agreement becomes widespread, it would effectively opt them in to being sued by other companies who have patents assigned under a similar contract. Also, it would be in breach of any other IPA contracts they've made w
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by dlitz 15y ago
Employers and investors who have a problem with this are going to have to weigh the cost of these restrictions against the cost of turning away high-value engineers who can afford to be selective about where they work. During the hiring pro
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by dlitz 15y ago
> I'm confounded that such an attitude can survive in a large engineering organization like Twitter. I'm not surprised. A bit disappointed, but not surprised. Have a look at the original OAuth specification sometime. Note how they mis
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by dlitz 15y ago
Read the bit about TC39. "This code will break in the future." There's no point in patching the minifier to support this when the patch will have to be reverted pretty soon anyway.
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by dlitz 15y ago
They're all creeps. Some just get away with it.
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Passlib.hash - Password Hashing Schemes(packages.python.org)
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by dlitz 15y ago
I wasn't aware that anyone suggested using bcrypt for key derivation. The idea, as I understood it, was to avoid writing your own password hashing implementation. Bcrypt is a complete password-hashing implementation, so use it, rather tha
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by dlitz 15y ago
"Forward slash" is a goofy name anyway. There are: - "slash": the character you use in English and when typing fractions; and - "backslash": the Microsoft-slash: backwards, like everything else they do. Another way to remember is that (at
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by dlitz 15y ago
> You might just be more patient than I am, or a better Java programmer. I don't know. All I know is that I end up experiencing kidney failure every time I have to interact with Java code. I don't experience kidney failure, just a sudde
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by dlitz 15y ago
Imagine that we're talking about accounting fraud. The prosecution might be able to prove that the relevant accounting records exist, and have grounds to believe that these records would prove that fraud occurred, but not have the actual
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by dlitz 15y ago
What it's actually doing is un-breaking HTTP caching and proxying semantics, so that we can meaningfully deploy those caches and proxies in a few years. That should help with scalability, and performance at scale. For example, if PUT is a
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by dlitz 15y ago
> I know that GIT and the like have made it really easy to fork and run, but does this fundamentally help? Yes, it does. What ends up happening in practice is that forks are almost always short-lived. They either get merged with the m
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by dlitz 15y ago
> All pirated material, movies, etc are forcibly taken by someone . Really? What force was used to take them?

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