josephlord

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by josephlord 12y ago
Sounds a bit constipated to me. To be serious it depends greatly on the definition of asshole. If it means that racist, sexist, other discriminatory behaviour and general mean or vindictive behaviour is not tolerated that is good. It does n
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by josephlord 12y ago
You get shown a key fingerprint at first connection. If you verify that with a secure source you can confirm the host you are communicating with. Actually bothering and having a secure way to verify the fingerprint are exercises left to the
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by josephlord 12y ago
Good point. I missed that. Trouble with reading blog posts is getting relevant bits of code together on the screen, should have opened a second browser window (or third to include the HN discussion). Value types are actually copy on write i
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by josephlord 12y ago
enums and structs are value types (and Result is an enum) so I think that you could just return self for the error case (gaining cleanliness and a little efficiency). Objects (of classes) are reference types so if Result was a class there w
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by josephlord 12y ago
Yes. func f()->Bool { return true } func f()->Int { return 5 } let i:Int = f() let b:Bool = f() println(i) // Prints 5 println(b) // Prints true // This would be compile e
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by josephlord 12y ago
In general "citation needed" on its own is frowned on as it is lazy and negative adding little to the discussion. My guess is that this is the reason for downvotes. Some claims do have to be called out and this might have be one o
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by josephlord 12y ago
It often seems like most use on Hacker News gets this wrong (so it isn't surprising people pick up bad habits when learning English) and I regularly have to resist my inner pedant. If the screw is too loose it could fall off and you mi
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by josephlord 12y ago
Scala is the only language that I know of that marries the world of FP and OO and thus does not need to “throw the baby out with the bathwater”. Have you had chance to try Swift yet. It could do with Tail Call Optimisation but I do think
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by josephlord 12y ago
Yes I had to think about it and test it (not done much Python recently). The decorating function is called as soon as the decorated function is declared. These are the results of a simple test in the Python console. >>> def dec
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by josephlord 12y ago
> Some of the secrecy was to make Churchill look good. Surely the secrecy was critical to the ongoing success (if the Germans suspected they could improve their opsec if not completely change their systems)? Given that how do you instruc
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by josephlord 12y ago
> Any lunatic could have bombed any theater in the country next week and Sony would have been liable. Source? The bomber would be liable but why would Sony be? (Provided that they informed at least law enforcement and certainly if they m
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by josephlord 12y ago
Agree they should all be tried but in practice the best sequence may be to start at the bottom and establish there that crimes took place and have the defences establish the orders given as mitigation to build that case against the politici
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by josephlord 12y ago
Do you really think that? Even when something really bad happens? 9-11 type incident or worse. Only following orders is no justification for war crimes including torture. The world needs to see that America believes that and that it doesn&#
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by josephlord 12y ago
Actually what if one of the blocks used for the critical data was deemed degraded and removed from the pool and replaced with a reserve before it was overwritten. No way to delete then although expensive to retrieve it might be possible. De
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by josephlord 12y ago
Like others I would probably install if open source or in the store. Of course you are entitled to do as you choose and this isn't a complaint. How are you liking Swift by the way? I'm really enjoying it.
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by josephlord 12y ago
They do at least in theory establish a legal entity that is responsible. It also provides a mechanism for removing the app if malicious behaviour is detected and reported. You are right about "DROP TABLE" risk in this case but som
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by josephlord 12y ago
I know the contacts list gives them a lot on its own but I at least try to make it hard for them. I know this sort of ridiculous because they are on FB and I don't mind them requesting me but I don't make friend requests on FB bec
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by josephlord 12y ago
Speak for yourself. I go to considerable lengths to minimise the data FB has on me. No pictures, minimal interaction on FB (I switch to email to respond to people), no school, employer or detailed location past or present. FB app isn't
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by josephlord 12y ago
I've just realised that my last sentence which you quoted could be read as saying that what is currently being worked on won't be as relevant when it was really intended to mean that there is probably some things that are being do
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by josephlord 12y ago
Xen largely came from the Systems group at Cambridge I think. Seems fairly relevant to the current state of computing to me. Not sure what is being worked on now that might be relevant in a decade and a half from now [edit to add: but there
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by josephlord 12y ago
That is an incorrect massive oversimplification from what I understand: https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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by josephlord 12y ago
Which finger to use is essentially password (albeit less than 4 bits) which presumably you don't have to reveal. Ask the policeman which finger he wishes you to place on the scanner and don't register you thumbs.
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by josephlord 12y ago
I think that is wrong. Having the finger print makes longer (or even just enable at all) pass codes practical. The passcode is also a part of the key used to encrypt the on device data and is not stored on the device so by having a longer k
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by josephlord 12y ago
I suspect that is because touchID is required so no plain iPhone 5 support.
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by josephlord 12y ago
In most of the civilised world there are significant costs to just shutting down a business especially redundancy costs for staff. This is in addition to considering outstanding debt in the business being sold and makes zero or negative pur
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by josephlord 12y ago
You responded to a well argued post about how Apple could moderately tweak the market to make things better for all sides of the market and your response was "blame the market" and "change your business model" which is w
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by josephlord 12y ago
If it was something intended to be public there is no harm in Google having it (they will scrape it off the web anyway) as the NSA are welcome to publicly access the content. Most people don't treat Dropbox/Google/Facebook (n
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You can't report death threats against someone else to Twitter(twitter.com)
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by josephlord 12y ago
I agree with your main point but while there is a pay gap between men and women in similar roles within a company it is particularly an issue for gender paid less (in practice women).
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by josephlord 12y ago
Potentially offline access to comments.

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