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by jbarham 16y ago
It depends on the state. And even then it's only for 12 weeks vs 52+ for Europe or Canada.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> It's asymmetric because the agencies' eventual win cannot be undone, but the cryptographer's win will be. How can the agencies prevent crypto without backdoors being implemented on top of their crypto with backdoors?
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by jbarham 16y ago
> don't start planning your End of Time Party Rats, there goes my idea for building a Restaurant at the End of the Universe!
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by jbarham 16y ago
So the theory is that the mafia guys they're trying to take down for extortion and murder will meekly submit to government mandated encryption? Sounds plausible to me!
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by jbarham 16y ago
Don't they simultaneously also have to ban all forms of encryption without backdoors?
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by jbarham 16y ago
> If South Korea is a better place today, it's because of the Koreans themselves far more than the US. Agreed. Which makes the inability of the North Koreans to escape from under their repressive regime all the more tragic.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Although D has been around for longer, it's worth out that the Go amd64 (aka x64) compiler is the most mature compiler in the Go compiler suite (ARM, x86, amd64) but AFAIK the D compiler is only available for 32-bit x86.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Fair enough, if you define a "systems programming language" as one in which it's appropriate to write a real-time operating system kernel, Go is very likely not the language for you given its built-in garbage collection. Its suitability as
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by jbarham 16y ago
FYI, Korea is divided into two countries, North Korea and South Korea. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out which one is a dynastic totalitarian Stalinist state in which millions of its citizens have starved in the pas
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by jbarham 16y ago
No, UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson. Source, by Rob Pike: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt Key quote: "Looking around at some UTF-8 background, I see the same incorrect story being repeated over and over. The inco
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by jbarham 16y ago
It appears you are being intentionally obtuse, so I repeat: Neither the current C and C++ language standards provide any support whatsoever for concurrent programming . Therefore you cannot do concurrent programming in either of those la
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by jbarham 16y ago
I've found PHP very useful as an indicator of what jobs I do not want to apply for.
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by jbarham 16y ago
> C++ and Java are the gold-standard for library-centric concurrency methodologies The last time I checked concurrency isn't possible with standard C++. And multi-threaded programming in Java has been called many things, but "gold-stan
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by jbarham 16y ago
FWIW, if you're interested in Plan 9 it's also worth checking out Plan 9 from User Space ( http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ): "Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port) is a port of many Plan 9 programs from their native Plan 9 environment to Unix
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by jbarham 16y ago
IMO Plan 9 didn't gain critical mass because Unix is still "good enough". It's also very difficult to keep current with hardware drivers for a niche OS. However, there are some things that came from Plan 9 that are very much mainstream, th
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by jbarham 16y ago
Absolutely. For example PLY ( http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ , "Python Lex-Yacc") has been used to implement simple C and BASIC compilers.
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by jbarham 16y ago
I was almost hoping they'd be upgrading to a 32-bit ARM chip vs. the 8-bit Atmel. Can anyone recommend ARM boards with similar I/O capabilities to the Arduino? I'm interested in something that you could use for embedded robotics but powerf
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by jbarham 16y ago
But only if they have local fulfillment. I can't see how it would be cheaper to ship boards from Italy vs. say Sparkfun for US customers.
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by jbarham 16y ago
I've been there: my first job out of university in 1996 was re-writing a COBOL program that was originally written in 1972, and I'd bet it hasn't changed much since then. 24 four years between re-writes sounds about right on the COBOL tim
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by jbarham 16y ago
Actually I would argue than in the niche of batch record processing on mainframes COBOL still very technically competitive. Unfortunately, unlike Perl, batch record processing on mainframes is essentially the only niche COBOL is suited for
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by jbarham 16y ago
The same thing could be said of COBOL. ;)
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by jbarham 16y ago
More generally it's been my experience that Python is more broadly used than Perl in the tech-heavy industries around LA. Python is used heavily in the animation and post-production houses around Hollywood/Burbank (e.g., Dreamworks, Sony) a
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by jbarham 16y ago
I'm in greater LA and the reason I didn't take a Perl job is that I took the Python job instead. I personally much prefer to program in Python. As with any situation where people have a choice, they will take the option that is most attrac
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by jbarham 16y ago
Yes, definitely. A well-designed and aesthetically pleasing site adds instant credibility, especially for people who are non-technical (i.e., the people who often make the final buy/no-buy decision). And it's rare for a strong systems or w
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by jbarham 16y ago
FYI, I'm getting a 404 for the link to the Part B follow-up lesson.
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by jbarham 16y ago
Adobe's Lightroom is a good example of a successful hybrid language app as a big chunk of it is written in Lua. Here's a presentation on its architecture: http://www.troygaul.com/LrExposedC4.html
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by jbarham 16y ago
My first job out of university was working on the mainframe systems for the Canada Pension Plan (equivalent to US Social Security). Every now and then some upstanding citizen would go in to register for their retirement benefits only to be
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by jbarham 16y ago
> If they break even for the rest of the existence of the business, they're still doing pretty damn well IMO. Presumably Facebook's investors are hoping for more than to merely "break even".
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by jbarham 16y ago
> The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency... Presumably subprime mortgage backed securities are the exception that proves the rule...
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by jbarham 16y ago
> ...hack together stuff that will be thrown away in 2 years Hah! Just like those all those VB6 apps that have been thrown away?!

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