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by jleader 14y ago
The news articles I've read said SHA-1 for LinkedIn, and MD5 for eHarmony, though I can't find the references right now.
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by jleader 14y ago
I've heard 2 ways to do it: 1. Add a flag column to your password database; whenever anyone signs in without the flag set, encrypt their password the old way (for checking against their old entry in the database) and the new way (for storag
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by jleader 14y ago
The common wisdom at Burroughs when I worked there in the 80s was that back in the 60s and 70s, Burroughs often invented something, then 5 years later IBM would "invent" it, and then the industry press would start talking about what a good
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by jleader 14y ago
But... "better" than the other choices, which are only getting 1/10th the traffic. The amount of traffic sent to a choice should be a function of how good you currently think it is, and how much more data you need to be sufficiently certain
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by jleader 14y ago
Prompting the user seems like a bad thing for an automated test to do! The whole point of automating tests is so you can run them unattended: at install time, or under a continuous integration system after code check-ins, or for git pickaxe
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by jleader 14y ago
It seems to me that A/B (or A/B/C/...) testing as described by btilly, and epsilon-greedy multi-armed bandit optimisation as described by Steve Hanov are two points on a continuum. In A/B/... testing, you're exploring 100% of your traffic,
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by jleader 14y ago
If you're in Los Angeles, check out http://perl.la/ . I know my employer (oversee.net) is hiring, and I'm pretty sure many of the others on there are as well.
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by jleader 14y ago
Your rule ("don't change anything") is also an argument for never adding features! There's a tradeoff here that you're glossing over. Given that each newer version is presumably some amount better than the previous one, eventually the benef
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by jleader 14y ago
I thought implicit deref of references was coming in 5.16 or 5.18, at least in cases where it was unambiguous?
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by jleader 14y ago
"There are a lot of older coders who can't code" Sturgeon's Law applies to coders of all ages. That, combined with the facts that coders vary very widely in their productivity, and it's hard to reliably measure a coder's productivity quickl
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by jleader 14y ago
For some interesting history about the development of the B5000, see "Stories About the B5000 and People Who Were There" ( http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html )
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by jleader 14y ago
Well, when I started as a professional programmer in 1983, I was hired by a woman. A year or two later, my boss, my boss's boss, and her boss were all women (this was in software development at a Fortune 500 computer manufacturing company).
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by jleader 14y ago
I don't know how old you are, maybe you've got better info than I do about America in 1962. I wasn't aware of much in 1962, but by the time I could read newspapers in the late 1960s, there very definitely were "no-go zones" for white peop
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by jleader 14y ago
The New Yorker just released their 1993 interview of Sendak by Art Spiegalman from behind their paywall. "Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!" http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1993/09/27/1993_09_27_080_T...
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by jleader 14y ago
One flaw in the car hypothesis is that the car seat to roof distance declined significantly from about the 1920s to the 1950s. Early motorcars had enough headroom for their gentlemen owners to wear their tophats. The change was partly motiv
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by jleader 14y ago
1. Laws against murder. 2. Laws against theft. 3. Contract law. 4. Traffic laws (right of way, behavior at stop signs and traffic lights, etc.). None of the above are perfect; all of the above have been used abusively at times; all of the a
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by jleader 14y ago
"Saying that regulation is necessary might be too strong"? Some regulation is always necessary. How would you expect contracts to work without contract law (i.e. regulations governing how contracts are to be interpreted, enforced, disputes
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by jleader 15y ago
Languages are tools to be used by people, not by identical automatons. "This tool doesn't mesh well with the way I approach this class of problems" is a perfectly valid objection.
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by jleader 15y ago
I don't agree that "OOP entered the scene and became dominant in a short amount of time", though I guess it depends how you define "entered the scene" (Simula 67? Smalltalk 80? C++ in the mid 80s? Java in the mid 90s?) and "dominant" (presu
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by jleader 15y ago
In my experience, the inventors often are working somewhere else by time a patent gets litigated. In particular, patent trolls usually acquire patents without also acquiring the labs, inventors, etc. that created them.
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by jleader 15y ago
I think it means that if you created a model that used IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours as inputs and tried to predict pay across all jobs in the US, it would predict that science jobs should pay higher than they actually do. Whic
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by jleader 15y ago
I can't imagine the casinos haven't thought of this; some reasons they might not do it: - People already think "the longer I've played without winning, the greater the chance I'll win now, because I'm 'due'", so there's no need to actually
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by jleader 15y ago
You forgot to mention "brings his katana to meetings" (the sword, not the Suzuki motorcycle). It's kind of "friend-of-a-friend", but I had a boss who told me about working with a developer who actually did that, I think at a game company in
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by jleader 15y ago
Heh, thanks! I read through the whole thing very carefully before posting, and couldn't find it. Now I see it's in the Introduction: "Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just switched version numbers so the book could
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by jleader 15y ago
From what I've read various places (but can't find a reference at the moment), the version bump from 3 to 4 was just to be able to have the Camel book coincide with a major version (i.e. "this book describes Perl 4" instead of "this book de
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by jleader 15y ago
How many "interesting fields" have been "born or discovered by women" since the 80s? Can you name any of these hypothetical fields? In your 2nd paragraph, are you saying that the statistics about the declining proportion of women CS are wro
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by jleader 15y ago
"Tortious interference with contract rights can occur where the tortfeasor convinces a party to breach the contract against the plaintiff..." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference ) In other words, if the employer (Tortfeasor
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by jleader 15y ago
"Tortious interference with contract rights can occur where the tortfeasor convinces a party to breach the contract against the plaintiff" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference ). In this case, the employer would be the tortf
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by jleader 15y ago
OK, maybe not intentionally vindictive (only the reporter really knows her motivations for publishing the personal information), but it still bothers me that there's an incentive for the reporter to punish a non-cooperative subject as a way
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by jleader 15y ago
I really liked "These systems end up being large hunks of monitoring, tests, and operational procedures with a teeny little distributed system strapped to the back."

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