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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
I tried setting up with Vagrant once. Gave up since I rarely ever have to spin up new VM's enough (and my preferred distro is now Arch) to actually get with it, although I might take a second shot. IIRC though Vagrant requires that you
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
Are you sure that it was Dyn that was down, or if there was a break somewhere in the nameserver chain? I know that the digs I was running periodically were getting SERVFAIL responses from Google DNS even though my local nameservers were act
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An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development [pdf](people.brunel.ac.uk)
406 points by joatmon-snoo 10y ago|323 comments
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
How has Bruce Tognazzini's stuff not been mentioned yet? Tog on Software and Tog on Interface are great. https://www.amazon.com/Tog-Software-Design-Bruce-Tognazzini/... https://www.amazon.com/Tog-I
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
IANAL but OTOH I would argue that Alice isn't very relevant here. The chief rationale behind that case was the triviality of the core algorithm being described: if there isn't enough money in an account, you don't withdraw
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
It also occurs to me that something like Bruce Tognazzini's Tog on Design may be very applicable to thinking about UI/UX if he only went in recently. (Not strictly programming, but very relevant.)
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
On a CS-theory level, there's a fair amount of stuff he can learn in terms of just "thinking", but it won't come very close to being able to putz around with code and watch it fail. Suggestions for absolutely no computer
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
I've road tripped through Atlanta at least a few times now, and without fail, no matter where the other people in the car are from, Atlanta drivers always inspire misery.
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
As a univerity senior, thank you for this. Oracle was already low on my list of companies to apply to for a full-time job, and this put the nail in that coffin.
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
Was going to say that then I saw this!
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
If your lawyers didn't catch that the contract with Utah was in violation of federal law, then they fucked up their due diligence. That's on you. It's also on Utah. Besides, liability laws are a clusterfuck.
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
A lot of misconceptions here, unless I'm misreading your post. The seed control stuff is really just Monsanto being incredibly shitty at PR. See NPR[1]; also, in the past 10, 20 years or so, there's only been one lawsuit between M
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
It's a problem with GPLv3, but for most other open-source licenses (e.g. BSD MIT) it isn't.
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by joatmon-snoo 10y ago
Thinkpads are fantastic, but no matter what you do, do not purchase any of the T*40's (T440, T540, etc) - Lenovo fucked up that round of releases hard (tried to move from discrete touchpad keys to integrated touchpad). If you're
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by joatmon-snoo 11y ago
The thing that terrifies me specifically is that there's been work done - I believe it was a branch of the US military studying network traffic patterns - showing that you can reconstruct profiles based on behavior patterns and link th
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by joatmon-snoo 11y ago
That was sort of the idea of BTC, that a decentralized currency would mitigate this. Nakomoto's original paper actually devotes some attention to this, discussing why they don't want to rely on a centralized authority, and in the
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by joatmon-snoo 11y ago
As a current uni student, this was an absolutely terrifying realization. Still don't think the reality of it has hit me yet.
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Nihilistic Password Security Questions(mcsweeneys.net)
2 points by joatmon-snoo 11y ago|0 comments
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In-depth Security Analysis of TrueCrypt: “code base is probably alright”(sseblog.ec-spride.de)
2 points by joatmon-snoo 11y ago|0 comments