drblast

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by drblast 10y ago
I wanted to make a simple, fast loading site to put essays on. I thought, "Surely modern browsers render html 5 with these fancy new article tags on any device in a readable format, right?" Nope. Not at all. Shockingly bad. "
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by drblast 10y ago
There is a demand for reverse engineers in the security field. If you know how to use IDA Pro and you're confident with reverse engineering malware, which most people find intensely boring and tedious, you can probably find a job doing
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by drblast 10y ago
Welcome to your 30's. I don't mean that to be dismissive, but more to tell you that feeling the way you do is completely normal and has happened to just about everyone I know. Most of my life I felt like I was doing all the right
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by drblast 10y ago
This made me throw up in my mouth a little. Duplication is not inherently wrong as there is a point where you should stop abstracting and live with repetitive code, but that point tends to be way further out than most inexperienced devs w
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by drblast 10y ago
I just want to shake the hand of the person who made the OpenBSD installer the way it is. In case you haven't used it, it's dead-simple, command-line based, and it may take a few times to get it right if you don't know what y
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by drblast 11y ago
I love that last paragraph, and the idea of management-as-a-hobby. That's a great way to think about it. You can make plenty of money as a programmer. Plenty, as in, I have enough to enjoy my job and my family, be relatively independen
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by drblast 11y ago
Seattle weather is horrible. Traffic is horrible. Housing prices are rising to insane levels. Everyone is depressed. Please don't come here.
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by drblast 11y ago
Well now, come on. This is basic algebra, and you can also use a calculator, although it's not even necessary for any question here. I feel like these are good questions that test a student's ability to reason about the problem, r
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by drblast 11y ago
I do most of my work in C# now, and templates are what I miss most from C++. The syntax is, well, horrible, but the things you can do really help eliminate what would otherwise be redundant code. Just make sure you comment the hell out of t
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by drblast 11y ago
You don't have to wait for the user to click anything. Just read each key press and send a message out. Hard to believe this is still a common vulnerability. Of course, even in 2007 a significant number of bank and credit card web site
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by drblast 11y ago
Wow! Funny to see this...I started this project as a hobby in grad school and never thought it would stick around this long. The current maintainer had been working on it for years since I couldn't anymore and has done a fantastic job.
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by drblast 11y ago
My wife and I played AOM obsessively, it's such a great game. There's a small time commitment, the AI had just the right levels of difficulty to help you work on your rts skills while still having a blast. I always felt like the A
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by drblast 11y ago
When I was growing up channel 1 (on the cable box) was used for pay-per-view.
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by drblast 11y ago
I've always loved Bill Murray's comedy. He's funny in a timeless way. But my favorite story about him is how he calls Kelly Lynch's husband every time Roadhouse is on TV to tell him that she's having sex with Patric
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by drblast 11y ago
I was in the last class to have the old celestial navigation class. It's not a difficult thing to do. You take a measurement with a sextant then consult a fifty pound book full of tables, get the two closest numbers to what you want an
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by drblast 11y ago
It's a hit song called "Ironic" that's devoid of irony in its lyrics. You'd expect the lyrics to be ironic. Alanis Morissette is either not that smart, or a complete and utter genius.
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by drblast 11y ago
PowerShell is less like bash and more like a .net based DrRacket. You can instantiate .net objects, query their state, manipulate them interactively, and pass them around. You can also trivially write new shell commands in C#. If you go t
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by drblast 11y ago
Here it is, it's a comment on the Elves post that I was thinking of: http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...
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by drblast 11y ago
One of the best comments I've ever read on Hacker News was about this topic. I wish I'd saved the link. The point was that this engineer took the removal of any perk as a sign to leave, and soda/snacks was a huge one. Why? Du
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by drblast 11y ago
This might be politically impossible because of my mom: Mom: "The democrats are taking away Bush's tax credits. They're a bunch of idiots. It's my money, not the government's." Me: "Yeah, I think it would
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by drblast 11y ago
Not sure how welfare programs, which already exist, don't have this same problem and yet, we manage. But even if you did this on a global level and gave everyone $20, think about what that impact would be. It's an interesting thou
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by drblast 11y ago
This was a great reverse engineering trick. A lot of "hackers" would make their tools super-secure by packing the binary and then protecting it with VMProtect. Because, that's way better than just using VMProtect by itself,
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by drblast 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand this given the way the question is posed. We're doing a single experiment, and I am put to sleep without remembering either once or twice, and then awaken (potentially a third time) after that? Or could t
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by drblast 11y ago
Young people tend to severely underestimate how much luck and timing play into success. When I read, "When I was in 9th grade...and Googled..." I realized why the article sounded like it did.
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by drblast 11y ago
Yeah, I get it, but think of the things you can do with that digital signature. Joe and Bob - were they together on Sunday at 2pm? Well let's check the digital audio signatures to see if they match. Or, John just uploaded a signature
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by drblast 11y ago
So you let a third party record whatever you're doing for a few seconds for security purposes?! Oh, my. Edit: before you shout "but it's just a signature!" Think of a large entity with huge resources that goes ahead an
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by drblast 11y ago
FWIW, I'd be interested in the thing that sat on top. Seems like that wouldn't wear out and would be cheaper than the combination. I have an older car with occasional electrical gremlins. My battery is fine, but an ounce of preven
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by drblast 11y ago
Or as a separate component you could drop in and then use whatever battery you want. I'd pay almost as much for that.
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by drblast 11y ago
Anyone who would argue that restrictions on government power aren't important, that surveillance isn't an issue, and you don't have to worry if you have nothing to hide should review the events described here. Even if someone
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by drblast 11y ago
These aren't problems, these are things you learn in a matter of weeks/months from on-the-job experience. Why would you expect a recent graduate to have that? And why would it even matter? If someone is smart enough to talk about

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