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by icambron 14y ago
Let me know if you do; I'm certainly interested.
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by icambron 14y ago
Can you explain the one-time pad application a bit more? It seems to me that if Alice and Bob can share a bunch of entangled qbits, they could just as easily share a classical one-time pad. What am I missing?
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't know the answer to that, but the problem may be that Rust is decent enough name to overcome any proposed name changes. I've always thought you should use implausible codenames for just this reason. It forces you to change it instead
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by icambron 14y ago
"Driven" would be my choice of words there.
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by icambron 14y ago
Right, you sandbag and then you look like a hero. That argues it's a good idea, but if anything clarifies how artificial it is.
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by icambron 14y ago
When you exceed your sales target, the thing you did was set your target incorrectly. It's great that they're selling lots of cars, but "exceeded the target" is a wholly artificial accomplishment.
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by icambron 14y ago
*stalk
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by icambron 14y ago
Why? I don't see any reason that Github has to be that just because that's how most people use it. I find this particular project a bit silly, but there's nothing wrong with it as a use of Github.
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by icambron 14y ago
It isn't new, and people have been joking about finger smears since this kind of unlock mechanism came out (I remember making this discovery myself and promptly switching my phone back to using a number pad). But it is worse than shoulder-s
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by icambron 14y ago
> The median value for indoor air...is 0.68 µg/m3; the average value was 7.36 µg/m3 That's a big skew. It would be interesting to know what the distribution here is, but it sounds like most places have very little trichloroethylene and
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by icambron 14y ago
I find this challenging. I want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but when you get let down over and over, you start taking mental shortcuts, even unfair ones. Humans are good at that. I was at PAX East, and there were a lot of
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by icambron 14y ago
Sigh. I was worried I'd see this comment when I clicked "discuss". Look, I think having a dance performance at your tech conference is a bit silly. But so what? It's definitely not actively bad, it's not like it's somehow mandatory if you a
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by icambron 14y ago
It does. But consider all the other times this record must have been broken -- wasn't a big news story. Incremental increases in the bytes/second record just aren't, by themselves, that interesting.
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by icambron 14y ago
This has long been my argument for the long-term desirability of socialism. But in my thinking, it's a bit more complicated than you make it out to be. Consumption doesn't really contribute to the economy in the relavent way; labor does. Th
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by icambron 14y ago
FWIW, I think it's great. One of the things that bugged me about this whole sordid business was the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes, or that if you think they're funny, then you're against wo
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by icambron 14y ago
> And yes, I realize how ridiculous that is, but that's just kinda how these things work. Maybe they work that way in the common view of things, but if you think it's ridiculous, then why do you think it? You get to decide.
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by icambron 14y ago
Me too. I love CoffeeScript, but even after writing tons of it, I occasionally get frustrated by some whitespace/precedence issue.
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by icambron 14y ago
It would be pedantic, I think, if I were to say, "you shouldn't say that because it doesn't make sense." But I genuinely hope that it does make sense and that someone will explain it to me.
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by icambron 14y ago
I'm certainly no enemy of GM foods and I generally find Food Democracy Now to be so, so lame, but I'm going to push back a bit here: > I'm pretty sure the point of judges is to uphold the law, not to do what they think is protecting con
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by icambron 14y ago
Leaving the content of the article completely aside, I've never understood the "Don't let your X write a check that your Y can't cash" meme. (Other common example: "Your mouth is writing checks that your body can't cash", which I think mean
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by icambron 14y ago
Right, I worded that poorly. You need some other vulnerability for the attacker to pull this trick off. But, like homokov says, there are a lot of possibilities for that. Obviously, such a vulnerability is bad on its own and the site owner
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by icambron 14y ago
If I understood, it works like this: 1. You register foo.com as your redirect with FB. Your oauth endpoint is actually foo.com/fbauth, but Facebook is OK with just the domain. 2. Somewhere else on your site, you allow open redirects, like m
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't disagree with the OP's basic point about not making "get 1% of huge market" your strategy. As SoftwareMaven points out above, getting 1% of a market is not a strategy at all, it's a result, and it's not going to happen just because
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by icambron 14y ago
Yup. Wasn't meaning to disagree with anything you said. Just putting a different emphasis on it than you did.
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by icambron 14y ago
> Someone in that industry would approach it from the other end, and say that they can write a req and get some commodity software to solve their problem from some developer half-way around the world. I agree that's how they'd like it t
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by icambron 14y ago
The upvote question is easy to answer -- this is Hacker News . Of course we upvote programming. And I agree with the point about writing. And I think we shouldn't read "everyone needs programming literacy" from hacking a ROM any more than
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by icambron 14y ago
Yours is better, FWIW
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by icambron 14y ago
Deduction is great, but what I read here was how much experience matters in debugging. You have to know what to look and test for to provide fodder for your reasoning capabilities, or else you're just shooting in the dark. The OP here had a
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by icambron 14y ago
My thought too. What are the supposed advantages of using linear algebra for this problem? Edit: my guess is divide-by-zero conditions.
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by icambron 14y ago
This is a really terrible attitude. Apparently, airplanes are this magical place where you're not supposed to be treated like a human being. By "acting entitled", you seem to mean "acting like he's entitled to fly on the plane he bought a t

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