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harry8
12y ago
You can always define something as not a monopoly by asserting the truth that people spend their money on a variety of items so the monopolist is competing with manufacturers and purveyors of beer, diesel and kites for the sales. The existe
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12y ago
"There is deep, mythical knowledge in programming, and it is acquired with sweat on your brow and a pickaxe in your hand chipping away at a coal face made out of Why Doesn't This Freaking Work." That is a beautiful sentence.
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13y ago
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." --Richard Feynman All of us need to learn this, re-learn it, revisit it, internalise it, live it and breathe it every
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13y ago
Not obvious is it. It's only ssl so it's not like it's important. The non-obviousness of it and the spectacularness of the goto fail is, well, in my view, the whole point. C should not still suck this bad. One line un-braced
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13y ago
If you missed it the 35th and 36th occurance of goto fail that really does go directly to fail. if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0) goto fail; goto fail; Compulsory bracing of bloc