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by drostie 15y ago
Maybe. Tail recursion optimizes itero-recursive algorithms, turning them into iterative algorithms by eliminating the overhead. Confused? Here are the iterative, recursive, and itero-recursive ways of writing the factorial function: f
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by drostie 15y ago
He already indicates in the paragraph just before that he technically could redirect the traffic -- that he offered to send all IPs from Belgium to some Belgian company which had accidentally used his QR code in actual advertisements. (An
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by drostie 15y ago
Even that's not an absolute assurance, as millions of people who have failed to renew expired domains can attest. And the HTTP status codes have a whole block of redirect codes while just about every web server permits backend proxies. When
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by drostie 15y ago
Brevity is a feature of clarity, and clarity usually attends very powerful notions like reuse and application to a new domain. What's truly orthogonal is some notion of "expressiveness" or "teachability" or otherwise being-able-to-read-and-
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by drostie 15y ago
I don't have a drivers license either, and in the US I find myself cycling a bit. Cars don't really know what to do with you there. ^_^ When I mention that I'm not cycling to work and it takes me 30 minutes to walk, even my fellow Nederland
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by drostie 15y ago
Just to add, while HTTP 418 is an April Fools joke, I had a semi-legitimate usage case for this at one point with http://drostie.org/ . The idea was that I might have domains configured on my DNS which resolved to the same machine. And if
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by drostie 15y ago
I have to say, I don't know his actual response, but he gives a hint within the article that perhaps, when one wants to get performance in algorithms, one will start to look at the way the constraints are phrased. So when you've got to writ
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by drostie 15y ago
I'm not so sure. TrueCrypt is first and foremost an encryption program. The fact that you have it might suggest that you encrypted something somewhere, but it doesn't directly suggest that you took the time to use its advanced "hidden volum
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by drostie 15y ago
This is a common mistake in security -- assuming that the hacker plays by your rules. The police would just use a copy of the program which forgets to delete when the "on duress" password is provided. I imagine it'd require commenting out a
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by drostie 15y ago
I commented on the original but I think that others here might also value this here: I liked this post and the way that it turns the question of piracy upon itself, but I still felt like there were about three dramatic ideas missing, so I w
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, let me phrase it a little more analytically, then. The biggest reason to switch UTC to atomic time is hacker-cultural. Basically, many countries have said, in law, "we use UTC." This causes most specifications -- in particular NTP, Ja