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by james412 6y ago
PuTTY was written back in a time when SSH was proprietary software. It predates the first release of OpenSSH, which I believe was BSD-only at the time, by almost a year. That aside, the official SSH implementation has never been any princes
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by james412 6y ago
This is one of those replies that rekindles my faith in the always double-edged HN spirit for another few months :) "Dalit and proud" could literally be the baseball cap powered cultural revolution India needs to be swept up by, a
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by james412 6y ago
> They just took what Wirecard gave them to confirm what Wirecard told them for something as important as accounts that were supposed to hold almost all the cash the company had The same thing killed Barings Bank in the 90s, only on that
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by james412 6y ago
It's not Chinese text, it's an arithmetic-coded stream of bits mapped so the bits fall within the range of some codepoints. It's basically a variant of base64 except for Unicode. (Side note: aren't these codepoints very
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by james412 6y ago
The reference to dependence on system integrators tells you all you need to know.. they will never have some 5-click signup process. Probably each new customer presently involves a fuckton of multi-vendor custom engineering over stupid time
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by james412 6y ago
This is possibly the most fabulously pompous faulty comparison I've ever read. To think that somewhere, someone might place the work of the common developer alongside that of a mathematician is hilarious. Sure, it's possible to sa
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by james412 6y ago
The race car in this instance would be the paper, it is well presented and assuming it survives scrutiny, eternal. One particular manifestation of it for one contemporary system might better be thought of as the garnish on the free salad bo
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by james412 6y ago
There must be some name for the effect seen here so regularly, which might best be described as the contrast in magnitudes of something being posted to the comments made about it. In this case we have a fundamental contribution to mathemati
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by james412 6y ago
Flash take: huh cute, these students wrote a paper formalizing something so simple I can have opinions about it After browsing paper: holy cow that's awesome, where do these rocket scientists get their crazy ideas and when can we have
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by james412 6y ago
NT had it first, but NT didn't really get much of any consumer exposure. Windows 95 was much closer to the Windows 3.1 everything-shared memory model: 16-bit apps (which were still in widespread use) continued being able to access hard
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by james412 6y ago
Aside from the deep consistency of 2000's UI (after all it more or less progressively improved on the 3.x traditional widget set with in some cases little more than a recompile required to get the new theme), 2000 was the first consume
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by james412 6y ago
Robin Hood has various tricks allowing your buying power to be inflated artificially, there have been a bunch of reports about it. It also appears RH users get margin accounts by default, at least from everything I've read. If that&#x2
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by james412 6y ago
This makes it sound like following the work of IETF is an idle task, and all required is to subscribe to a mailing list, but neglects to mention this inevitably means following endless overlapping and often redundant discussions on multiple
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by james412 6y ago
That's the attitude of just about every successful company in history. Once large enough, some of them (e.g. YouTube) even force industrial changes to accommodate all the theft that made them successful. Meanwhile on the topic of attit