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by jefffoster 13y ago
Something like the proposal for C++ Concepts captures some of the semantics via axioms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_(C%2B%2B)#Axioms ) seems like a really interesting solution for this idea.
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Develop Node.js applications inside Visual Studio(visualnode.info)
2 points by jefffoster 13y ago|1 comments
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by jefffoster 13y ago
I've always thought inheritance is used to model is-a relationships. Sharing code may be a side effect, but it's certainly not the reason to use it. Using inheritance to share code is usually better achieved by factoring that code out to a
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by jefffoster 13y ago
This is "a variant of Win32/Injector.Autoit.HG" trojan according to the ESET antivirus on my machine.
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by jefffoster 14y ago
Isn't this what omniscient debugging is? http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/ Great quote from that page, "The ODB is as close to a silver bullet as you can get. Why don't people use it?"
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Building a desktop app on web technology(ec2-174-129-28-157.compute-1.amazonaws.com)
3 points by jefffoster 14y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 14y ago
I tried it out and the CircleCI team installed the latest Haskell platform, so I was up and running with cabal tests in five minutes.
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by jefffoster 14y ago
I saw a good analogy of the tax system to computer code. The inland revenue express their intent of the tax system in code (or at least legalese). It's the job of accountants to exploit bugs in the tax system. To misuse a famous quote: "T
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by jefffoster 14y ago
In Java, the compiler won't tell you that a variable may be null. In Haskell (at least when you compile with -Wall, strange this particular warning isn't the default) you'll get an error if you've failed to handle all the variations of dat
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by jefffoster 14y ago
I found a similar file to this (a zip file that contains itself) and e-mailed it to a friend at work. He never received it, but I thought nothing of it (I assumed the email filters just destroyed it). A days later the mail server stops wor
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by jefffoster 14y ago
I think that quote is appropriate if you fear collisions with your own data set. The worry with a cache scheme like this is people would be actively seeking to find cache collisions.
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by jefffoster 14y ago
Actually, for a poker hand evaluator the last thing you want to do is sort the hands. There's a small enough number of unique card combinations that you can arrange it so that you look up in pre-computed tables more often than not. One cle
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by jefffoster 14y ago
There's a great write-up of why doing cryptography in JavaScript isn't a good idea at http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ . The browser is a very difficult environment to run your code in a trusted way.
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by jefffoster 14y ago
There's also Amazon Direct Connection ( http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/ ) if you happen to be on the same backbone / data center.
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by jefffoster 14y ago
There's no mention of the computing at school ( http://computingatschool.org.uk/ ) group - is there any link up between the two?
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption Implementation(hcrypt.com)
2 points by jefffoster 15y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
There's an interesting area of research called Homomorphic encryption ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption ). In this schema, certain properties of the data are maintained even after encryption. In the general case you wo
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by jefffoster 15y ago
I did something similar at http://methodnamer.com/ and also some useless graphs and rants about the long names in Java ( http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2011/05/method-names-in-java-develop... )
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When push came to shove(airforce-magazine.com)
1 points by jefffoster 15y ago|0 comments
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by jefffoster 15y ago
There's also Intentional software ( http://intentionalsoftware.com/ ) who offer a similar product. It was hyped quite heavily a few years ago, but I've not heard much about Intentional Software's product or MPS. Is anyone seriously using
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by jefffoster 15y ago
There's a handful of Haskell videos on ontwik at http://ontwik.com/category/haskell/ . There seems to be quite an overlap with the Galois talks though (but thanks for pointing that resource out as I hadn't seen it).
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Has any work been done to solve reusing passwords with homomophic encryption? (this is a scheme that allows you to perform operations on the encrypted text without decrypting it).
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Interesting! The single page view is at http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=278114,00.asp?h...
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by jefffoster 15y ago
An excellent web site! I first came across it when the topic of my PhD thesis was noted as a half-baked idea! ( http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/gait_20recognition ).
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by jefffoster 15y ago
I got annoyed by some of the daft names in Java, so I went through and found some of the worst offending method names. The longest method names I could find are "supportsDataDefinitionAndDataManipulationTransactions" (for Java Developmen
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by jefffoster 15y ago
I hadn't heard of the Carrington event ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 ). Even in 1859 it caused havoc, so it's interesting to think what it would do to modern infrastructure. From the article: Telegraph systems all ov
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by jefffoster 15y ago
Do you mean seam carving? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving )
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by jefffoster 15y ago
The team I worked with tried something similar where we broke down tasks into cards, where each card represented something that should take about a day to complete. Knowing how bad I am at estimating how long tasks take, I was sceptical wh
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by jefffoster 15y ago
I just use it for my boxes. It doesn't stop me putting something silly in a make file (as in the example here), but it does stop me getting burnt by it.
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by jefffoster 15y ago
I use the safe-rm ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/safe-rm ) package to help me avoid doing this kind of thing.

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