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by finnw 13y ago
> ... Apple pulled them all from the store because they have mobile payment ambitions - and one doesn't let predators into ones own garden. And yet Pingit is still in the app store. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/a
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by finnw 13y ago
More importantly, Java's main rival C# has an (incomplete) version of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa664765(v=vs.71).as...
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by finnw 13y ago
Products like this have existed for a while now but have never sold well.
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by finnw 13y ago
gets has no right to exist. But sprintf does. It's a workaround for some old embedded C compilers that lack the safe string copy functions (strcpy_s, strlcpy.) char dst[5]; sprintf(dst, "%.*s", (int)sizeof(dst)-1,
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by finnw 13y ago
> ... to avoid a software change. "It's OK, it doesn't need any code changes, just a modification to the configuration files, so the approval process does not apply." That company's developers just need to lear
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by finnw 13y ago
> ... you have unprotected sex with people with HIV (you're already +, so what does it matter?) That is a bad idea, even if you are 100% certain the result was correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_superinf
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by finnw 13y ago
Not by itself, but with a USB miner.
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by finnw 13y ago
No. That's what obfsproxy is for. https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
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by finnw 13y ago
You can call me a "male" if you like. I do not find it offensive at all, even if intentionally used in that way. I am an animal after all. It's only double standards that I would have a problem with.
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by finnw 13y ago
> Here's an example of StackOverflow working for a fairly deep question, about the maximal possible asymptotic slowdown due to purely functional programming But there is (now) a better SE site for this: http://cs.stackexc
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by finnw 13y ago
> That's why I consider /r/programming a better place to find fruitful discussion than StackOverflow There is also http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=65767
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by finnw 13y ago
Funny, I see a lot of closed questions on SO, but most of them are from HN links. When I google for a solution for a programming problem, I usually find a high-scoring (not closed) SO question with useful answers.
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by finnw 13y ago
> Wait, does that mean that iterating across the members of a Lua table is not in deterministic order? Yes. And it is documented as such. Any dependency on repeatable iteration order is a bug.
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by finnw 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8oH8JHaE00
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by finnw 13y ago
> ...FP's answer to OO's AbstractSingletonBeanFactoryStrategy That does not really belong to OO. You would be unlikely to find an AbstractSingletonBeanFactoryStrategy in a Smalltalk project for example (even one under the co
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by finnw 13y ago
But you already got the "Famous Question" badge for it a year ago: http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/28/famous-question?user...
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by finnw 13y ago
No, but they send you mail that you inadvertently asked for, and mail that you initially asked for but have since decided that you no longer want.
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by finnw 13y ago
Yes, why is this not mentioned more prominently?
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by finnw 13y ago
Detergent is optional, but it sometimes helps. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/02/tide_becomes_...
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by finnw 13y ago
I can understand this - I know some C++ but I am not very good at it, so I usually go for C with "greenspunning", i.e. using an embedded scripting engine, e.g. guile/lua/spidermonkey
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by finnw 13y ago
Even if there is a route that takes 2-3 minutes to walk, what is to stop you deliberately taking a longer route?
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by finnw 13y ago
I did mean cheaper (i.e. a low-end machine being cheaper to buy than the time it would take to install and configure the VM.) But yes, it is probably safer as well.
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by finnw 13y ago
It is probably cheaper to use a dedicated (physical) machine.
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by finnw 13y ago
Maybe they could argue that their employment contracts were not in effect during that period (especially as they are not being paid.)
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by finnw 13y ago
Those are the ones that took me the longest. There are so many minor variations of C/Java/Javascript/Lisp that it takes a while to figure out which one you are looking at. It's the languages with very distinctive featur
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by finnw 13y ago
> Other more quaint languages like Java may have type systems that check properties such as "The program does not add numbers and strings" Poor example. In Java, number + string means "convert the number to a decima
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by finnw 13y ago
Hopefully somebody will create an unauthorized patch that enables LAN play and then Blizzard will have to release an official patch to compete with it.
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by finnw 13y ago
Unless the Bad Guys already have the MD5 hashes
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by finnw 13y ago
Breaking SHA2 (i.e. developing an economically-feasible preimage attack) would indeed crash bitcoin, but the converse is not true. A near-collision attack on double SHA256 (if you treat it as a single hash not a pair of independent hashes
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by finnw 13y ago
And in some of these jurisdictions, the clock restarts when you are informed that your appeal was unsuccessful (even if the collecting agency likes to pretend otherwise.) So check the rules first.

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