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by drostie 14y ago
"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it
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by drostie 14y ago
It still seems like there would be an opportunity for a smarter language here. Like, the reason that `goto` appears here is because the language does not know how to clean up the mess that it's making, thus the code requires humans to jump
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by drostie 14y ago
Given that they might not have very good CSS skill, you might embed a CSS comment or CSS properties which look like they do something but don't -- a would-be stealer probably wouldn't delete something which they didn't understand.
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Illumos/OpenSolaris: "I needed to live 6 weeks in my old Mercedes."(openindiana.org)
1 points by drostie 14y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 14y ago
It is worth pointing out that the traditional problem of robots is control -- if just once, some bucket is 1mm off target, some robot arm which grabs it will grab it off-center and torque it, and when it drops it will spill, which ruins s
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by drostie 14y ago
That last point isn't particularly deep; the same techniques used in http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ can be used for two files which are UTF-16 encoded and contains sections which are commented out. With this said, that is a c
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by drostie 14y ago
I am not the person you replied to, just another sufferer. So, for me, depression feels very similar to what both darius and the original article were saying. It's like an erupting storm. It starts with something small -- some tiny failure
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by drostie 14y ago
There's a bit of a barrier to entry for Datomic because it really doesn't look quite like anything that you're familiar with if you're just used to SQL and NoSQL. The basic starting point is one big many-to-many relation, what in SQL might
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Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the US to spy on you(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by drostie 14y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 14y ago
If you want, you might get in touch with me. Projects are always better when they're being done for/with someone else, and maybe we have overlapping interests. Reply to me if that's your will. I want to share one comment about distraction w
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by drostie 14y ago
Just to give a little more context, because I think this gripe is very common: There exists a proof that NAND gates are all you ever need to compute an arbitrary boolean function from M bits to N bits. Actually, you also need a "copy" gate
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by drostie 14y ago
The Civil War is a better example than Vietnam -- not only because public support died in the US with Nixon's "Guam doctrine", but because it wasn't a particularly existential struggle for the US -- that is, my point was that there is a "na
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by drostie 14y ago
In my libertarian college days it seemed like bureaucracy was a horrible waste of resources, but the more and more I think about it, the more and more it seems like our social institutions are "memes" of a sort; a military which does not us
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by drostie 14y ago
What's very interesting here is the SICP-style recursive looping, combined with the fact that the non-programmer doesn't expect to be able to pass variables but rather expects to make stateful queries. That is, the infrastructure expected (
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by drostie 14y ago
In the meantime, for SSL on team projects which are not yet released-to-the-public, there is a web-of-trust certificate issuer called CAcert.org which can be installed on relevant machines and used. At one point they were trying to pass an
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by drostie 14y ago
More details at: CrowdStrike: http://blog.crowdstrike.com/2012/11/http-iframe-injecting-li... Kaspersky: https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193935/New_64_bit_Linu... Both links were submitted to HN but didn't make the front page; I g
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by drostie 14y ago
Feedback -- not of the 'comments and criticism' variety. Think of any successful project like a nuclear chain reaction. If you are not familiar with nuclei, some of them are "too heavy" and want to fall apart, spraying neutrons everywhere;
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by drostie 14y ago
Beautifully done if a little overresponsive on a touchscreen.
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How much has password cracking improved?(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
3 points by drostie 14y ago|0 comments
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Experience: a head injury made me a musical prodigy(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by drostie 14y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 14y ago
Thank you, it's much appreciated.
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by drostie 14y ago
That's what the original poster is saying, yes. JS does not support a formal separation between the 'attributes' and 'keys' of a hash, so it's a security risk waiting to happen. In some cases the JS approach is very nice and useful: in Pyth
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California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation(creativecommons.org)
283 points by drostie 14y ago|73 comments
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by drostie 14y ago
A rough idea of why the Fibonaccis and the golden ratio are related: in making a golden rectangle, you take an existing rectangle, attach a compass across its long end, and use that compass to construct a square. You add the square to the g
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by drostie 14y ago
I've noticed that these are not immediately marked [dead] by the Hacker News admins like some other spammy topics, and I guess this is a sort of gray-area. On the one hand, it is in some sense a "new thing" and it affects the community; on
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by drostie 14y ago
(1) The big problem I see with that characterization is that CC-BY-NC doesn't establish any price for commercial use; it rather forbids it totally. (2) I don't know how something can be orthogonal when it correlates strongly. The reason you
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by drostie 14y ago
Well, the moral rights available to most authors are not generally Orwellian. One of them, for example, is a right which you cannot waive to say "I made that" and perhaps to coerce others into admitting that "she made that" (i.e. attributio
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by drostie 14y ago
I talked about this at one point with a band named Jim's Big Ego, which had released their album They're Everywhere on CC-BY-NC. On the one hand, you want to make the radio stations and the big movies and the studio compilation albums pay
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Internet Archive Newsletter 4: Petabytes, Recap, and Ramadan(blog.archive.org)
1 points by drostie 14y ago|0 comments
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by drostie 14y ago
At least in my case the results were wrong: I was labelled as 16% "above average" (may or may not be true but I am beginning to have trouble with my contacts not letting me read far enough signs); and I was labelled as "longsighted" because

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