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by drblast 11y ago
Also, tests aren't for you, they're for the next guy who inherited your code and is trying to make a change, hoping his assumptions about how it all works are correct. The tests are a way to provide a backstop, but also another wa
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by drblast 11y ago
Don't listen to him. Drink the Coke. Watching Pete vomit on the court, clearly ill, and immediately come back with several aces to win the match was one of those astounding and inspirational moments in sports. Sucked to be Alex Corretj
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by drblast 11y ago
This is drilled into you when you join the Navy. Then you get to an aircraft carrier. You're the in port officer of the deck. You know the rules. You make sure every sentry is checking ID's. Then someone tries to get through wi
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by drblast 11y ago
This doesn't make sense if the group buying the shit ton of tickets is making money. Overall more money goes out than comes in. If someone puts $600k and get $660k out, you can't make that up in volume. If the lottery is still mak
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by drblast 11y ago
I've never been poor in the terminal sense, but there was a time when I had no money. I wasn't desperate, and I was beginning a career with a lot of promise, but I was also too proud to ask for help from friends or family. During
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by drblast 11y ago
Any attempt to correct for a non-heterosexual population? I'd imagine anyone who doesn't fit in to red-state society would flee to a city and, at least until recently, not get married.
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by drblast 11y ago
I think it's time that we consider that the problem might not be that we're hiring people based on the wrong things, but that the simple indicators of future success just might not exist. How long does this have to be an unsolve
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by drblast 11y ago
This book is fantastic, by the way. It's a great resource, but I really appreciate the clever dry humor, like: <C++11 code example> Very cool. In C++14, the temperature drops further, because... Scott, if you're r
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by drblast 11y ago
The "it's all there" part is important, and sometimes not being a stream is a big advantage. When you write a protocol using TCP you inevitably have to send the "content length" as part of the protocol, and then you
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by drblast 11y ago
I'm sure VC's are doing that calculus, but they're not chasing risk, they want to be the insurance company. They want to invest in enough risky things that the success of one or two of them is certain and more than covers the
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by drblast 12y ago
Oh the manuals that came with the machines...they had schematics in them and explained every part of the machine and what it did. It was glorious. It would also be difficult to do now as the machines are more complex. But if you imagine tod
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by drblast 12y ago
Progress, the way you think about it, is defined externally. It's drilled into us that we have to get good grades, get into a good school, get the best job, keep working and moving up, up, up. Even if you do those things perfectly it p
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by drblast 12y ago
I'd hate to have to worry that I'll cut myself on my laptop. Is there anyone that's super-excited about a thinner Air? My preference is always for greater battery life. I'm curious if there are people that wish their alr
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by drblast 12y ago
If I set _name_ to "../../blackhat/myhackedconfig/" will that cause problems?
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by drblast 12y ago
What's a browser? I think I remember something like that, but now I just use my Active Desktop Channels.
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by drblast 12y ago
SW is great for all the reasons mentioned, but Jet Blue's leg room is amazing. I'll only fly either of those two airlines if I have a choice.
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by drblast 12y ago
Surely PG doesn't have an ego big enough to allow him to write prescriptively about intractable problems in good conscience.
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by drblast 12y ago
I like C++, but using it to teach beginners who have no knowledge of C or compilers in general is a horrible idea. My college CS101 course was taught using C++, and I was lucky because I already knew multiple programming languages before t
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by drblast 12y ago
C# has replaced scripting languages for me. It might be faster to write a python program to do something simple, but the amount of time saved on such small things is minimal. As soon as a project gets large, it outgrows the scripting langua
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by drblast 12y ago
Projecting confidence is an invaluable skill to have when you're trying to get people to charge up a heavily defended hill or take a building by force. Anything else, not so much. I've witnessed many Marines try and fail to do som
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by drblast 12y ago
Since these are all string literals you really don't need any concatenation function at all except to concatenate with the output of getIMEI(). char *a = "Hello " "world!"; Works just fine. Edit to add: You c
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by drblast 12y ago
Cool, but it's odd that the sail rotates around its own center point. Probably would be more realistic to have it rotate around a mast at the leading edge. I'd also love to see centerboard or keel forces since that's what mak
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by drblast 12y ago
Me too :-) Love that story.
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by drblast 12y ago
I think the don't section is far too specific and short. I also think you can learn a lot more from failure than success, but I might be biased there. My management experience is in large bureaucracies. Here are my top ways to fail as
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by drblast 12y ago
The backstory is pretty simple; I analyze malware and this was a sample. It's difficult to talk about publicly because if you reveal too much, it's a chance for the malware authors to recognize they've been made and change w
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by drblast 12y ago
I don't know what to call it, maybe the contrapositive, but if you do this for a living it's kind of surreal when you interview for a dev position and fail because you go too in-depth with underlying details. I've been told,
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by drblast 12y ago
It's very possible. Recently I had to manually patch code that was (in assembly) a conditional jump on conditions that at runtime were always true or always false, so the "conditional" part was a red herring. The fact that t
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by drblast 12y ago
If only there were some automated way to convert those images to text.
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by drblast 12y ago
Crackme's like this are like a handshake in the reverse engineering world. This is a basic problem and standard for what I'd expect as an interview first step.
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by drblast 12y ago
This is fairly basic stuff. If you want to meet hundreds of people who do things like this every day you could attend RECon in Montreal. Or send me an email. We're an expensive group to hire though. :-)

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