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by gwu78 13y ago
Meet User A. Rather than trust the certificate signing activities of a random selection of "CAs" who have all paid a fee to a self-appointed "CA root" (as do all "modern" browser), she has created her own CA r
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by gwu78 13y ago
Thanks. Are you saying that the shell (or C or assembly) is a language closely tied to a system, e.g., a CPU, a kernel and utilities - a system that can produce various types of errors? Whereas APL is not tied to such a system, other than m
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why do "modern programming languages" return 0 for true? APL returns 1.
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by gwu78 13y ago
I think this is great. For the sole reason that it implies the data being transferred fits on a floppy, or a series of floppies. And that in turn implies that it's free from the senseless bloat and inefficiency that often makes &quot
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by gwu78 13y ago
I would think someone would have been able to figure out who is behind this by ascertaining who registered the domainname mentioned in the article. It is, practically speaking, impossible to have an anonymously registered .com domainnname.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why should anyone create PDFs that are 100's of MBs in size? At some point "convenience" becomes annoyance. Because instead of encouraging people to do the sensible thing like breaking documents into smaller, digestible piec
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by gwu78 13y ago
Off-topic: I alwyas liked the idea of like loose source routing. And the original netcat supports it. Does your kernel support it? Would you use it if you could?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Aside from those who enter fake addresses or addresses they do not control, the folks who set up websites like this can also connect each email address with an IP address. This might be useful, e.g., for determining geolocation. It is sad
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by gwu78 13y ago
"The API key is to prevent someone from coming and taking all the bread at once and leaving none for everyone else (i.e., computation/network capacity)." I disagree. The data dump gives the developer/user the ability to
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by gwu78 13y ago
Good question. The answer is that it depends on how frequently the data changes. Some data might change often, some might not. If the data falls into both categories, there will be a trade off if we treat all data as "dynamic"
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by gwu78 13y ago
I respect sites that provide data dumps (e.g., Wikipedia) far more than ones that design "API key" systems. If these API keys are for "developers", then why is there an assumption that the developer cannot (or does not w
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by gwu78 13y ago
You're most welcome. What OS are you using?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Is this like the first time you've read a Blogger blog in years? Google mandated the Javascript nonsense quite some time ago. Because I feel your pain, I wrote you a quick, dirty fix. # how to fetch a blogger.com blog # without
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by gwu78 13y ago
Perhaps we eventually see generic Retina displays with open standards ports.
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by gwu78 13y ago
I don't want a "smartphone". I want a handheld computer, the size of a "smartphone", with a cool form factor like a "smartphone". But, it needs to have Ethernet ports, USB ports, SD card slots, CF card s
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by gwu78 13y ago
Good answer. Although you do not even need pfSense. You just need a BSD with pf. You can run your own customized BSD image with a Soekris or Alix board. Can you run BSD with Ubiquiti's boards? What if I do not want a Linux-based sy
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by gwu78 13y ago
"Pretty much every piece of technology and algorithm that I use has been known since the 70's and the only thing I do is hook up those technologies in various ways to accomplish a goal. To say that it is "novel" or &quot
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by gwu78 13y ago
Yes, I didn't mention it, but I have seen this before as well (other projects aimed at secure communications who "launch" but "delay" the release of the source code); I find this "delayed/promised open sou
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by gwu78 13y ago
Surprise. Another purportedly "secure" application where the developers are not releasing the full sourse code. I just don't understand what the theory is behind a closed source application that purports to be "secure&q
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by gwu78 13y ago
Can you post your ,v file somewhere? I'd like to try to replicate your experiment, using my rcs(1) and cvs(1). While I'm impressed that your Python script is quick, I'm not sure that Python is ever "small" compared
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by gwu78 13y ago
For anyone arguing that there is some causation behind a startup's success besides "luck", I challenge you to prove it. It is not easy to prove causation. For example, startup says "We did X and this was the direct cause
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by gwu78 13y ago
I more drawn to assembly languages than OO languages. Less granules to deal with. :) I welcome limitation. It is what fuels my creativity. I make no attempt to persuade others to mimic my personal tastes.
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... only makes sense once you're working on a codebase too big to understand." My aim is to never reach this point. When I can no longer understand it, it's too big. That said, I will remain curious about OO.
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by gwu78 13y ago
You can use cpp. As for "capture groups", you can use lex. I wrote a "code generator" shell script to produce .l files and another script that compiles .l files to one-off utilities. There is perhaps more coherence to t
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... survivorship bias ..." Yes. Look at who is successful, note some random characteristics of these individuals or businesses and then come up with your own theory of how success is deliberately attained. The share it over the
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is a great comment. Thank you. I have had the opposite question from one posted to SE: What enlightenment will I attain when I can move beyond thinking of every solution in programming as a FSM? I have never understood the obsession
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by gwu78 13y ago
See my other reply. In short (pun intended), it is part of the heuristics I have developed over the years for evaluating software. I like small programs. That's not unheard of. I also look for programs that compile quickly and easily
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by gwu78 13y ago
Thank you. But that computer entrepreneur's products do not interest me. In fact they have cost me countless hours of wasted time. Another "computer entrepreneur" I know writes terse code. His company is on that db list. I
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by gwu78 13y ago
Yeah, it's not easy to measure, since there is so much use of third party libraries.
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by gwu78 13y ago
This is a decent list. Columns I'd like to see added: 1. Language the db is written in 2. Lines of code Popularity tells me little about how capable the developer is and the quality of the software.

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