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by jleader 15y ago
In my experience, HR is often staffed by "phone people", not "email people".
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Two words: spam filters.
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The CIA is (more or less) not allowed to operate in the US. Historically, that has not always stopped them.
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Heh, I'm embarrassed to admit that the protocol-buffer system I'm using at work looks kind of like that. Our most common message types contain a repeated field, each one holding a name value pair, instead of just containing a list of non-re
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by jleader 15y ago
I wasn't addressing the egregious police-stateness at all, one way or the other (which I suppose is downplaying it, by not addressing it, but that wasn't my intention). I think that there should be incredibly strict bounds on what can be se
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by jleader 15y ago
My impression (having used mysql at a number of jobs over the years, and talked several very sharp pgsql fans) was that pgsql used to have a big lead in cool features that mysql didn't have. That lead has been eroding, but I don't think m
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by jleader 15y ago
Keep in mind that the FBI agent-in-charge's perceived cost for pissing off some small web companies is pretty low; their perceived cost for tipping off whoever they're after, and blowing the entire operation, is much, much higher.
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by jleader 15y ago
But indexing is not counting. It bears some similarity to measuring, though. If you look at a ruler, does it begin with a "1"? Or does it have a "1" one unit from the beginning?
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by jleader 15y ago
Keep in mind that ultimately the chain of custody must be explained to a jury, to convince them that what they're being shown actually comes from the defendant's computer, while a defense attorney does his best to sow doubt in the jury's mi
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by jleader 15y ago
Perl has 3 ways to iterate over a hash: "keys", "values", and "each". The first two do what you'd think; "each" in array context iterates over key/value pairs. All three return their results in an "apparently random" order. You can also use
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by jleader 15y ago
I don't think state machines are anti-modular, but I've seen situations where a cartesian product of several state machines was modeled as one big state machine, rather than as several largely independent state machines running in parallel.
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by jleader 15y ago
The original scheme recognized a particular sequence of code; recognizing particular behavior no matter how it's implemented is in theory equivalent to the halting problem, I think.
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by jleader 15y ago
I am using Firefox 4.0.1 on Windows XP Pro; however, it seems to be working now.
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I get "Error Could not download manifest data from server Exception: undefined".
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Did you read the article? Who will you trust to build your "trusted execution environment"? What tools will they use to build it?
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by jleader 15y ago
I assume a company can be a startup even if they haven't yet seen the need to pivot, assuming they're prepared for (maybe expect?) that eventuality? Or are 2 founders in an apartment hacking away at a prototype not a startup until after the
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by jleader 15y ago
Binary analysis only addresses this if you manage to analyze everything involved in the system: OS kernel, utilities, device drivers, bootloader, ROM BIOS, etc. And then you have to not let any untrusted tool touch any of those components.
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by jleader 15y ago
I think of this essay whenever someone talks about making something "100% secure".
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It also depends whether that "few months" was solely spent learning the technology, or whether it was also spent iterating on the concept. It could be that if he'd hired someone, he'd get a prototype of his initial concept in a day, but the
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by jleader 15y ago
One drawback to the various forms of invisible bans is that they aren't visible to the rest of the community. The HN "showdead" feature allows the banned comments to be seen, but relatively few people (I assume) use that feature. One good w
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by jleader 15y ago
I remember seeing this about 9 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645291 I think at that point, it was still only 33MHz (he now has it running up to 50MHz), it sounds like he's also got a slightly more mature software toolch
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by jleader 15y ago
I'd say it's somewhere in between; it starts with a single-chapter overview that shows enough Perl that you can start writing programs, and there's definitely a progression through the chapters, but it's also got a pretty thorough coverage
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"Modern Perl". Well written, covers pretty much everything you should use, good, clear examples. Available free online: http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/
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In the future, everyone will be a social media expert for 15 minutes.
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I think it's interesting how many people react to the article as if it's saying "those other people use emotion rather than rational thought, we're not like them", when it actually says that reasoning and emotion are inseperable. For all of
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by jleader 16y ago
Keep in mind that as much psychology research as possible is done with college students as subjects. After all, requiring your Psych 101 freshmen to fill out a questionnaire is a lot easier, quicker, and cheaper than recruiting a wider rang
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by jleader 16y ago
You make it sound like CPAN has "an aggressive authoritarian requirement on documentation, coding standards, and unit testing" (or at least that Lisp would need that to make a hypothetical LPAN successful). CPAN definitely does not have tha
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My understanding is that prior to creating Perl, Larry Wall had studied (natural language) linguistics, with an aim towards perhaps designing a writing system for some natural language. I believe he's explicitly rejected the ideas (common i
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I just wanted to say that I like the way the article refers to "great teachers" in the plural, and to "the one" bad teacher in the singular. Also, to misconception #4, I just finished reading Gowers' "Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction"
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It's not that they think they're that easily replaceable, it's that they fear that the decision-makers see them as that easily replaceable. In other words, they're not that foolish, but they fear that their bosses (administrators, politicia

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