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by jedsmith 16y ago
You dismiss the power of Samuel L. too quickly. If anything, he made it more serious.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I know this goes against the old guard, but I'd much rather laugh at a post like this once in a while than have HN be serious and dry, every day, every submission. That's never going to happen, but I haven't gotten as much amusement out of
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by jedsmith 16y ago
10% of the book royalties is fair, I think. :>
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by jedsmith 16y ago
This page needs this badly, motherfucker: http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/programming-motherfuckers.jpg
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> grumpy old men have always complained about how those changes are destroying the language I'm 24.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> Chrome's still got issues (i.e. excessive memory use, instability/slowdown sometimes due to orphaned processes) Not to ignite a browser war, since I use and like both (and there's no point bickering about it), but: I've had my copy of
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The sarcasm wasn't evident? I thought the ellipsis and last two sentences put it away that I was tongue-in-cheek frustrated. As for point 2: yes, English is certainly devolving. I graded papers in college -- "u" and "lol" and "tho" being pr
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Pretty good GeoIP, it seems; do you know where the GeoIP data comes from?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Fair enough, but it did not resume normally when I gave it focus again.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Sorry to be Debbie Downer, and a little bit off topic: when will the trend of dropping vowels from names end? Googling for "Receivd" autocorrects, and I doubt they're going to be expedient in fixing that. Domain names are now responsible fo
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> I'll there fore be running Python alongside the Clojure/JVM stack. Yikes, really? That sounds even worse than a clean break. You don't shed your perceived problems with Python and instead get to manage two codebases and stacks. Your o
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Four spaces in front of each line will preserve formatting. int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf("whee!\n"); return 0; }
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I won't commit HN suicide by questioning his choice of Clojure (edit: the downvotes and only positive replies are interesting, though), but I will focus on the original impetus: it's interesting to me that a few problems are explained in Py
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by jedsmith 16y ago
"An interesting new phenomenon" is used an exception to the rule that politics (and so forth) shouldn't be posted. In the paragraph right before that quote, we find: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. [...] anything that gr
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by jedsmith 16y ago
According to paperwork leaked by Mark Klein, they have/had a "Narus STA 6400" in the room. It's described as a supercomputer that sounds, to my ears, similar to Carnivore. I doubt that they even try to collect (too much data), and instead s
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Fair enough -- text is hard to parse. No hard feelings. I don't see why it's a meaningless distinction. To pull off a MITM, you need quite a bit more than a Perl script, and you're pretty much not going to do it on a network that you do not
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I'm not sure why you condescend me by writing my name in responses to me, but it bugs me to death. That's the second time you've done it to me (you did it when I took the unpopular side in the Square credit card bonanza, too), and I am capa
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You're somewhat correct in principle (I agree with the major thesis) but largely off-base in the details. Maybe 20/80. Here's why: Since this is a mirrored copy of their entire backbone, they're also catching traffic to and from peering poi
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The leading browsers were fairly stubborn on caching SSL resources for a while -- specifically to disk -- but (I think) most of them now obey the magic words: Cache-control: public Some data here: http://stackoverflow.com/question
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> Firesheep showed MITM over HTTP to be trivially easy. Firesheep does not perform MITM attacks (the media made this mistake too). It catches sessions out of the air and impersonates them, which is session hijacking. As you wrote your
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> A self-signed cert provides effectively zero protection. From the other end. I had this debate with someone in person, and they tried to tell me that since you cannot trust the other end with a self-signed there is no point in protect
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by jedsmith 16y ago
IE9 will never run on XP, so you're right, just not in a way you expect.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
And we'll all have muscle memory to add the exception through the browser's four-step "I know what I'm doing" UI.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> "virtual host" (i.e. a host running as a VM rather than on bare metal). That isn't what virtual host means, particularly not here. Your "they mean ___" is exactly what virtual host means. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Imagine the trademark possibilities, though, once you wander away from 7-bit ASCII.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I wasn't. ¡
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by jedsmith 16y ago
In certain Ethiopic languages, sarcasm and unreal phrases are indicated at the end of a sentence with a sarcasm mark called temherte slaqî or temherte slaq (U+00A1) (¡), a character that looks like the inverted exclamation point. [1] Make
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> I get such "would you like to explore" letters twice a week too; and I turn them down also. Yep. If you don't currently get them and want them, post on some FOSS-related mailing lists. Like magic, you'll get dozens! A third-party Goog
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Source: http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
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Randall Munroe infographic puts radiation dosages in perspective(imgs.xkcd.com)
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