icermann

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by icermann 1mo ago
There are (at least) two problems to solve. The first is to anonymously verify properties about the user (e.g. age) and the second is to only allow the legitimate person verify themself. An national electronic id would provide users with th
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by icermann 7mo ago
MS Office and Open-/LibreOffice are using zipped xml files (e.g. .docx, .xlsx and .odt). Svg vector graphics is xml, the x in ajax stands for xml (although replaced by json by now). SOAP (probably counts as the predecessor of REST) is
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by icermann 2y ago
It's explained on the web page "After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and has reverted the rights to us. We have published Elements of Programming in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperb
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by icermann 3y ago
Reminds me of the quote by Kent Beck (allegedly): "Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast". First throw something together that works, then refactor it to make it "right" (clean, readable etc). Finally optimize it if
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by icermann 4y ago
Maybe I didn't make myself clear, but the image in the article looks like it could have made both one and two passes through a Xerox machine before it ended up in the paper.
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by icermann 4y ago
I think many of us has heard about the Xerox copying machine changing digits on copies, using a "visually similar enough" replacement algorithm. https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-c
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by icermann 4y ago
By NPM do you mean the Node Package Manager? Last release was a few hours ago according to the github release page https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.14.0