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by gengkev 10y ago
That is true, but my point is that in the context of an interview, the purpose of "char *p;" might simply be to indicate the type of p, but not necessarily to indicate that it is uninitialized. It's hard to know what the inte
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by gengkev 10y ago
Which is why I would disagree with this example. I suspect the interviewee's answer was due to a misunderstanding rather than a lack of knowledge. For example, change the first line to: char *p = ...; Now, the implication is n
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by gengkev 10y ago
Back when we had different connectors for different things, we knew one thing: if it fit, it worked. But the proliferation of incompatible connectors, driven by the advancement of technology, meant that nothing fit! So we created one connec
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by gengkev 10y ago
That doesn't actually make sense, since the exploit is to leave securityQuestion0 unset...
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by gengkev 10y ago
There have been zero-days in the past that only require loading a website, right? So loading links automatically should be a massive concern for iOS security. Back in August, when zero-days used by the NSO Group were discovered, it was only
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by gengkev 10y ago
I'm quite surprised to hear that! Thanks for sharing.
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by gengkev 10y ago
The threat to murder was more of an expression of the mother's grief than an actual threat — in such grief and shock, humans tend to want to find someone to blame. In her right mind I'm sure the mother would never truly consider m
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by gengkev 10y ago
The reason this type of cheating occurs is that a college degree has external value. If the cheaters aren't even the ones doing the learning, I doubt that the quality or nature of the college's education would affect their behavio
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by gengkev 10y ago
For papers, Google Docs basically does this — except that the revision history isn't as accessible as it is with Git. I think this would be a good idea to implement, but it still doesn't solve the main problem that this article pr
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by gengkev 10y ago
Kind of a silly comment, but is this really anywhere on Earth? What about Death Valley? Antarctica? North Korea? Syria? Siberia? I'd imagine they use the profit from domestic shipments to help subsidize more costly international ones,
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by gengkev 10y ago
Isn't that the point of having backup codes for Google, etc.? I can use those to restore my account, and secure them however I like. Backing up the secrets to a third party makes them vulnerable to anyone who can hack your Authy accoun
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by gengkev 10y ago
YAML... really? Looking at the examples in the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML ) gives me a headache. Fortunately, most actual YAML files I've seen are not that complicated.
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by gengkev 10y ago
Did anybody else click CrashChrome.com (or equivalent) in the sidebar?
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by gengkev 10y ago
NSO Group claims not to launch attacks itself; rather it only sells tools to do so. So it might even be that the same government has targeted him with all three hacking tools.
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by gengkev 10y ago
I guess that's why you're not supposed to take your seatbelt off until you get to the gate...
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by gengkev 10y ago
But technology that would be able to send spaceships significantly faster would probably cost significantly more, so it might not be worth pursuing given the cost.
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by gengkev 10y ago
So did I. Why was the article title prefixed with "NYTimes:"? I haven't seen that before on this site.
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by gengkev 10y ago
How does this compare with approaches used by other governments to limit freedom?
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by gengkev 10y ago
Not related to the content, but in the Background section I tried to click on "Provably secure" sort of expecting it to expand. Meanwhile under ORE constructions, the similarly-styled "Semantically Secure Order-Revealing Encr
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by gengkev 10y ago
Meanwhile the offer of a free upgrade to Windows 10 supposedly ends on July 29, 2016. I wonder what'll happen then...
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by gengkev 10y ago
Haven't there been cases where Windows 10 installed itself, only to have the EULA pop up after the installation finished?
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by gengkev 10y ago
I have a machine that got stuck at around 42% through the upgrade process and I left it there for a whole day before holding down the power button to shut it off. Then the recovery process started.
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by gengkev 10y ago
This is exactly my issue with the forced upgrade. With a browser like Chrome, automatic upgrades are there from day one. Everybody expects them, and they happen silently anyway. On the other hand, Windows 7 users never signed up for forced
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by gengkev 10y ago
From the TechCrunch article: "At the moment, you can just dismiss the notice and go about your business. But this summer the warning will become an impenetrable wall, and your only option will be to download the official Messenger app.
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by gengkev 10y ago
With a well-designed graphical UI, options and menus are (or at least should be) easily discoverable. But for text-based UIs, I'm forced to resort to scrolling through "man tmux" or "java -help", or etc. to find the
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by gengkev 10y ago
Would public key pinning stop the MITM of Google, even in this case?
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by gengkev 10y ago
In Python, I believe function declarations work dynamically, just as variable declarations do. When I'm writing Python scripts, I usually have some code at the global level that calls functions, which must then be above that code. (Thi
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by gengkev 10y ago
Self-driving cars that have even the slightest hope of considering such questions in split-second situations will, undoubtedly, already be better than any human driver. So when we get to the point where we have to actually ask questions lik
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by gengkev 10y ago
Hmm. It seems that in languages such as C and Python, the bottom-to-top order is encouraged, because functions can't reference other functions that are defined below them. But because that ordering constraint doesn't apply for cla
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by gengkev 10y ago
I write dates that way too, but because mm/dd/yyy is ambiguous in an international context. Sorting correctly is great as well!

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