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by gpcz 10y ago
There was/is no RFC for the ZIP file format (there is for gzip and the DEFLATE algorithm). It was Phil Katz releasing a text file called APPNOTE.TXT describing the file structure (latest version is available at https://pkwa
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by gpcz 10y ago
Another great suite of debugging tools not mentioned is Valgrind ( http://valgrind.org/ ). The default application (Memcheck) can help find memory leaks and off-by-one errors. Cachegrind/callgrind are great supplemen
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by gpcz 11y ago
The Art of Unix Programming dedicates a chapter to the advantages of using text for the input and output of programs: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/textualitychapte... . They also note tha
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by gpcz 11y ago
The US Government had serious trouble reproducing FOGBANK ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK ), and one cause was that even the original chemical engineers didn't fully understand the role of a certain impuri
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by gpcz 11y ago
...then you end up in one of Peter Norvig's Google search history haikus: http://www.codersatwork.com/peter-norvig.html
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by gpcz 11y ago
Google and Facebook, which Gelernter says the very best people go to, have interview processes that filter out people who don't have a good command of fundamental topics taught in formal computer science college programs. Presumably t
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by gpcz 11y ago
The "Relevant Conduct Provision" of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines allows uncharged but related criminal conduct to be used to determine your sentencing at a standard of the preponderance of the evidence. That means that if yo
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by gpcz 11y ago
I think you're underestimating the scale of this problem. According to http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/18/faceb... , people upload 350 million new photos per day, and they have 2
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by gpcz 11y ago
Getting in might be possible, but then the attacker would have to covertly exfiltrate and store all of Facebook's content to do a dump. Does J. Random Attacker have enough storage to do this?
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by gpcz 11y ago
Is an internationally-available Internet service running legally in its source jurisdiction obligated to prevent people from using it to break their local laws either legally or ethically?
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by gpcz 11y ago
The documentary "Once Upon Atari" explains the story of the consumer division (Atari 2600). Some of their best game developers left to form Activision after they tried to renegotiate their compensation with the new CEO and failed
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by gpcz 11y ago
Post-WW2 America had less income inequality than now, but it was far from a "very level and equal society." In 1945, the share of the total income of the richest 1% was 11.07%, while in 2014 it was 17.85%. For the richest 10%, 32
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by gpcz 11y ago
If there isn't already an intricate system of landed class and privilege, who are "these folks over here" that give the money for the welfare and benefits?
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by gpcz 11y ago
At what scale would you consider it to be terrorism?
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by gpcz 11y ago
A related really cool thing I learned in grad school is that you can implement Deming regression ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_regression ) by storing the moments (outer product sum and point sum) of the trainin
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by gpcz 11y ago
Using violent methods (such as intentionally sabotaging a car on a busy freeway with someone in it) to get media attention in order to further a political goal sounds a lot like the definition of terrorism.
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by gpcz 11y ago
Can you provide some links to the scientific papers asserting that media doesn't fundamentally change people's philosophies? Also, if media can't change people's philosophies, what does according to science?
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by gpcz 12y ago
In this pizza recipe metaphor, are the recipes or the pizzas supposed to be the analogue to software? If recipes, then the metaphor makes no sense. You can use the "recipe" that is LibreOffice to produce "pizza" that is
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by gpcz 12y ago
In the early 90s during the era of game copiers, people made crack intros for Super Nintendo games and wrote SNES demos. I've been a fan of their music for years since zophar.net used to have an SPC collection (I can't find it on
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by gpcz 12y ago
If the group retains the attribution notices in the source code, hopefully this will be found when the VC does due diligence and then it's up to the VC what to do. If the group removed the attribution notices and you can somehow gathe
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by gpcz 12y ago
Can you supply some details about the business-related dynamics at play here, specifically whether or not you're being paid any flat rate (or just equity), what your share is compared to the marketer, and whether you have a contract th
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by gpcz 12y ago
I did some searches for (all without the quotes) "privacy patriarchy", "privacy protects men", and "privacy feminism," but I mostly found old articles from the 80s and 90s about how Roe vs. Wade should not have
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by gpcz 12y ago
This program makes me nervous because its primary use case is to obstruct justice, which the author tries to get away from with a thinly-veiled excuse that it could also be used to defend against criminals. I understand that technology is
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by gpcz 12y ago
The real meat of the defense-in-depth analysis is on page three of the article. Spyro had a two-layer defense-in-depth scheme: one layer that looked like a normal PSX cracking problem, and another that would look fine for a while and then
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by gpcz 12y ago
The biggest takeaway of this article is that effective security comes from proper threat modeling and analyzing the cost dynamics. Most media companies in that era attempted to build an "uncrackable" system which always got cracke
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by gpcz 12y ago
I read this article a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I've had trouble solving Default Permit in practice. Does anyone know of a free software operating system that white-lists its software (say by having the white-list b
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by gpcz 12y ago
This phenomenon is a symptom of the Relevance Paradox [1]: people trying to solve a problem try to minimize how much information they get (seeing most of it as irrelevant), when a seemingly-inconsequential piece of information may be the so
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by gpcz 12y ago
I'm having trouble understanding the definitions of these roles. I see the chart, but the terms are all vague to me. What does a data scientist do that a mathematician or scientist doesn't do, and what does a scientific programm
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by gpcz 12y ago
For the people asking questions about the experiment details, here is the full paper in Science (registration required): http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6143/275.full . Based on the paper, it appears th
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by gpcz 12y ago
Assuming that exposure is indeed the best way to treat PTSD, there is still the ethical matter of patient consent to consider. In the second linked article, the patient is exposed to the triggering content with full consent in a controlled

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