jjnoakes

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by jjnoakes 9y ago
TypeScript has the same number problem that JavaScript has.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
I want to like JavaScript, but the type coercion land mines and the lack of a real numeric tower make me a little queasy. When I have to use JS I stick to the transpile-to-js languages mostly for those reasons.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Right, but then you should store it "in a chip designed against physical attacks", as the person you replied to mentioned.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
For the truly paranoid: have two amazon accounts, one for services (AWS, Kindle, etc) you care about, and one for purchases that you wish to protect.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
I haven't checked git, but even if git uses exec*() directly and skips the shell (which I suspect it does), the problem still exists. The issue isn't one of shell quoting, but one of ssh treating the argument list ["ssh"
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
It's interesting to me that the fix was pattern matching the ssh hostname and banning a starting hyphen, rather than (say) passing "--" to ssh to signal the end of the intentional options so a hostname of "-oProxyCommand
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Is there a high level write up about this somewhere? I can't figure out off the top of my head how a hostname that starts with a hyphen and gets mistaken for an ssh option causes arbitrary local command execution. Wouldn't the fir
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Depends on the language.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
One of your coefficients is not non-negative.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
> Economics isn't a zero-sum game. People with better jobs spend more money to buy more products Nothing I said suggested otherwise.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
> If this large block of people were earning more, they would be spending more Nothing I said disputed that.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Is that true? I don't know much about macroeconomics but it seems to me that even though these folks aren't earning at their full potential, the jobs are being done by someone. In other words, if these folks were earning more, som
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
I wish the node ecosystem would learn from more mature ones. I would like to see a curated set of popular libraries that are stabilized and blessed, and a core group that handles security updates and upgrading packages in the blessed set.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
It is almost like hn is made up of different people with different opinions.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
How would that be a compiler bug? Assuming g() is never called with a NULL pointer, this code should not produce any compile-time errors: int f(int *x) { if (x == NULL) return 0; return *x; } int g(int *p)
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
There's a little randomness in the Catan deck of cards: the bottom 5 cards of every shuffle are not used. Not as much as dice, but also not a guarantee for certain numbers to come up a certain amount.
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
There's no branch required on architectures I'm familiar with. What branch do you refer to?
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
One can do it without restricting the range as well, if the full range of inputs is needed. In C: (n / 8) + !!(n % 8);
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
If you were bored playing Monopoly, you were probably not playing with the real rules (i.e. you had no auctions, you used free parking, etc). Played correctly, Monopoly isn't a terribly long game, and (usually) once someone gets ahead,
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Are those internal projects? Or external?
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
> Did i claim that one requires the other? Sure sounded like it: "compared to bazillion new keywords that can't be used by user programs" > Comparing understanding scheme is equivalent to "divination by tarot cards
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Some people find s-expressions hard to read because they are almost too uniform. Having different brackets and braces mean different things can aid those folks. There are languages that allow user-defined syntax and aren't only parenth
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
I'm a proponent of declarative init systems, and I'm against systemd. I don't think getting into the specifics is going to be productive here, but I just wanted to point out that the debate shouldn't be framed as "s
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
> always careful to avoid putting a number on it Why assume it is them being dodgy? Perhaps it is really hard to put a number on it. What number would make me risk my life on a low-shoulder highway in the middle of the night with my son
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
Sure, if you return an index. I bet the parent poster was discussing returning a pointer, though. Imagine look4 returned a pointer to the found element. Making look4's signature const-correct in C is not possible. (Think of strchr).
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
It all depends on what opportunities you miss because you break down, right? Weighed against the chance of a break-down? Of course even new cars break down, but the chances are probably much lower. I imagine some people may not take your &q
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
I prefer to buy rented cars over previously leased cars. I think (no data to back this up) that a majority of leasers don't care to do routine maintenance (oil changes, etc) while the rental companies do. I also think that folks who re
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
True, although most C libraries ought to use those features in the implementation files and not the headers if they want to be used widely. And even if some things leak into the headers they might be accepted by compiler extensions. But yes
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
> provided they don't make use of the few cases where C language features and C++ are no longer compatible, e.g. VLAs or structure initializers Wouldn't one compile hiredis in C, their app in C++, and link the two together? In
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by jjnoakes 9y ago
You continue to argue against points that were never made and you claim my position is something which it is not. At this point I have to assume you are doing it intentionally, but either way, I'm not interested in being misrepresented

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