gaelow

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by gaelow 12y ago
Building a fully functional connection-oriented transport layer protocol. Looking back it was not even that big of a deal, but my first serious project as a student. Not even close to the complexity of TCP, but it implemented all the basic
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by gaelow 12y ago
'I possess the only truth and you need to prove me wrong not the other way around'. I witness this so often I'm starting to believe it's the motto of the software industry. The drift to fundamentalism about TDD over the
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by gaelow 12y ago
correlation does not imply causality
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by gaelow 13y ago
You are absolutely right: https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks
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by gaelow 13y ago
It took me some time using PHP to realize it wasn't as bad as its bad rep had lead me to believe. It's old, it has been through a lot of changes, most of them great improvements (although leaving some ambiguities behind, I admit)
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by gaelow 13y ago
I started with gw-basic at 9, qbasic at 11. An old ZX spectrum 16K was my first computer (486 were already on the market) and "Basic for kids" was my first programming book, with some kind of mr. potato clippy thing guiding you th
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by gaelow 13y ago
I find interesting that scrypt asics are on the way: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/kncminer-sells-2-million-wo...
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by gaelow 13y ago
I've been programming in java for years and I still cannot make a program that compiles on the first try, unless I 'cheat' using an IDE or peeking at the API. I couldn't even do the 'read-from-input write-to-output&
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by gaelow 13y ago
I think despite facebook already having an "I don't want to see this" smart filter that works pretty good, user privacy concerns about sharing their friends' feeds with a 3rd party, and the constant API and policy change
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by gaelow 13y ago
Great article, pretty much sums up my opinion on the language. (And the same goes for Dart, TypeScript and many other `Newspeaks`: "Run in masses towards our beautiful shiny freedom handcuffs!")
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by gaelow 13y ago
Behold! Some "researcher" just updated his Wifiway for the first time in the last 2 years and realized it comes now with a `crack WPA2` feature! "What's this all about?" He asked to a couple of fellow "research
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by gaelow 13y ago
No pseudo-inverse, no singular value decomposition, no least squares regression, no k-nearest neighbors and I'm sure I'm leaving many other things, all fundamental algebra very much needed for understanding and developing of compu
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by gaelow 13y ago
I don't know. But for the fifteen years I've been doing it, every weekend when I go out with my friends I can feel my IQ dropping down with every drink. And don't even ask me to solve the simplest crossword puzzle on a Sunday
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by gaelow 13y ago
Of course I can. If I manage to stop drinking.
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by gaelow 13y ago
I like it, not because I like cheating but because I think it exemplifies how bullshit this notion that more commits == more commited is, and how it encourages people pulling shit all the time. Even Linus is mad about it xD
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by gaelow 13y ago
My point being: choose Firefox, or Chromium, or whatever OS alternative.
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by gaelow 13y ago
1 good reason not to: It's not open source.
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by gaelow 13y ago
Social AND Anonymous? Now, that's an interesting oxymoron. I can imagine its users paranoically checking all the data they are sharing with people they don't even know to see if there are any traces of something that could identif
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by gaelow 13y ago
Working on a car in a shop is about engineering about as much as driving a car to work is about piloting an F1 race car.