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by feralchimp 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the researchers are describing features of particular Key Pairs that have been generated by Users of the RSA algorithm. The 'garbage-in, garbage-out' rule applies. If your RNG sucks, you're going to get weak keys out
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by feralchimp 15y ago
No need to apologize; you're exactly right. The article is more about why someone should quit their job "gracefully", and "without burning bridges" (duh) and gives no real argument for why quitting is necessary in the first place.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
It's such a pleasure to read well organized, well commented code. I'm a total JS n00b, but I feel like I could learn the language very quickly with examples like yours to follow. Cool library, too. :)
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Perhaps we're both overthinking it. Lots of people are good debaters. Lawyers are good debaters and more of them want the job .
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Laptops and tablets are the most distraction-prone pieces of technology yet invented. That anyone would expect dropping them into the hands of children to increase their consumption of traditional rote-learning curricula is just bizarre .
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Because you like it, and want it to be successful so you can keep using it? Makes more sense than paying to advertise a political party or a sports team...
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Why do Americans elect lawyers? Laws and contracts are the operands of government. Money and a convincing demeanor are the operators of elections. Government is not really an experimental enterprise. Science is about constructing interest
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by feralchimp 15y ago
As Lyons notes, the debate around pay-to-play or other more subtle conflicts of interest in tech journalism has been around for a while, and is probably here to stay. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that anyone publicly s
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> Posts are about 50GB a day. Follower list updates are about 2.7TB a day. Holy schnikeys ! The graph changes are two orders of magnitude larger than the content additions.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
If you're looking for more doc / research on GAs, be sure to include 'evolutionary computation' in your searches. The tough parts to using EC/GA on your problem (which this article doesn't discuss at all, unfortunately) are going to be: a)
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by feralchimp 15y ago
If I were in the OP's position, I would just run my preferred Linux dev environment inside a VM.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
While the Doctrine can be looked up, a reliable definition for Reasonable Person cannot. Concise != objective and static.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Is JSON guaranteed to be ASCII? To clarify: Any "lookup table" that maps hex values to assumed character values is a portability red flag. When using them, it's polite to add comments to explicitly call out the code page dependency and arg
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by feralchimp 15y ago
All you need to know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNDTjqVLVEQ Kid is nasty. A little like Rondo, but he can shoot!
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by feralchimp 15y ago
This attack is hot precisely bc it blurs the local/remote line. Physical access is relative. 'Remote' vulns are still exploited with some level of physical access: i.e. via a network that lets you touch bits on the other side of the machin
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by feralchimp 15y ago
With 20 people riding in a $1.5M raft, you need to know exactly where you're headed and why. Security-wise, you'd almost rather be in an actual raft.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> Game developers often experience a horrific "crunch" (also known as a "death march"), which happens in the last few months of a project That word again was months . Is that common in game dev?
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The HiJack energy harvester can supply 7.4 mW to a load with 47% power conversion efficiency when driven by a 22 kHz tone from the output of a single audio channel through the iPhone/ipad/itouch headset port, no extra energy source is need
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by feralchimp 15y ago
This "Getting Started" post is only likely to actually get you started if you're already familiar with Ruby, Heroku deployment basics, and Sinatra's dependencies. There is nothing in this guide that lays out all of the components in the too
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> The downside to being a hybrid coder/designer is that you never really have a deep understanding of stuff like memory and architecture Not until you bother to understand them.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> if you are a programmer, your thought process should be molded in a way you start finding these things obvious > had I not known about parsers, the solution would have come naturally to me Your use of "obvious" and "come naturally
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The most likely explanations for a company like Google using whiteboard questions: - These interviews are easy to give for someone without good interviewing skills, which is basically everyone. - These interviews are relatively easy to scor
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I would pay money to have all these quotes attributed. Who went to college with Jobs?
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by feralchimp 15y ago
What, as exactly as possible, is the desired user experience for contacting people for voice calls? Serious question. All the discussion around whether phone numbers / something-like-DNS-for-phone-numbers-but-with-failover / GrandCentral-l
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> It is possible that the internet has gotten so public that we should all just stop worrying about privacy. It's notable that the core of Facebook's pitch, to users as well as investors, is "we should all just stop worrying about priva
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> More jobs and businesses have been created by the decline of IBM than lost in Armonk. Actually, IBM and its mainframes/midrange have continued to prosper along with all of the newer growth markets in business computing. That's not ju
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The biggest problem with all of this, and which I'm surprised no one else has mentioned, is that my Address Book isn't principally "personal data about me, which I wish to keep safe." It is "personal data about other , often more importa
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Great-looking tool and an even better post. It does a very thorough job of explaining Twine's value to someone who might not already understand localization pain points on iOS. If Apple's own localization doc were this straightforward, we
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by feralchimp 15y ago
What's the statute of limitations on negligent homicide?
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by feralchimp 15y ago
>we proactively rolled out an opt-in for this on our Android client a few weeks ago and are rolling out the opt-in for this in 2.0.6 of our iOS Client, pending App Store approval. "Proactively?" How do you get into the Social Networkin

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