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by jquast 11y ago
If anybody here has serious expertise on this subject, please consider reviewing my python implementation of Markus Kuhn's wcwidth, updated for the latest Unicode Specification (programmatically by "python setup.py update").
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by jquast 11y ago
Furthermore, see an example of setting the mode explicitly from PC-DOS: https://github.com/johannesl/EditANSi/blob/master/ea.asm#L23 and http://fleder44.net/312/notes/18Graphics
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by jquast 11y ago
The default video bios mode is used as-is here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_BIOS There is no terminal emulator here. This hello world text is written directly to video memory -- and yes, there is a character ro
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by jquast 11y ago
Well I didn't want to reproduce the entire thread. The basic summary is Linus feels that labeling bugs as a security threat should not be pointed out as such, rather keep such information private, even though the fix is public. Because
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by jquast 11y ago
A: They don't. https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/15/705 > IOW, when we fix security issues, it's simply not even appropriate or relevant to you. - Linus
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by jquast 11y ago
the internet runs on fetchmail?
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by jquast 11y ago
your side is encrypted to the telecom systems switch hosted by silentcircle, unencrypted outbound from there.
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by jquast 11y ago
Blackphone for ~4 months. I never used an android before purchasing the blackphone. I previously used an iPod with silentcircle. The blackphone is pretty poor. Maybe most androids are this poor, but I feel ripped off. I re-enabled the iPod
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by jquast 11y ago
And the reverse for me, its just the classic CLI vs GUI personal preference. Every time I touch the mouse in PyCharm, I cringe with the feeling of delay. Python since 2001 here, so there wasn't much GUI python until recently, perhaps I
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by jquast 11y ago
just vim, https://github.com/alfredodeza/khuno.vim and https://github.com/hynek/vim-python-pep8-indent
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by jquast 11y ago
My experience working for one of "the big 3" automakers is that the very best employees take the buyout offer, confident that they can find a better job for better pay elsewhere. Years after the employee buyout programs began in t
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by jquast 11y ago
I think the lack of implementation was that were vulnerabilities in design that I don't think were ever resolved, it simply can't work as the only line of defense. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=200
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by jquast 11y ago
Agreed. I call this "flowery language" and I try to ensure it is omitted in guides, api documentation, source code comments, etc. Humor, frustration, anecdotes, complaints, etc. do not belong in a technical guide. Maybe in a blo
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by jquast 11y ago
I did look at checkmate. It was my mistake in believing this was the total sum of the checker used in quantifiedcode. One problem I have with such monetary solutions is that in business where I am willing to pay, I could not provide a SaaS
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by jquast 11y ago
agreed, git hooks are a terrible place, they can actually impede progress and can also be skipped/disabled/never installed in the first place. The time for rejecting a build for linting is at time of merge to trunk/next relea
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by jquast 11y ago
This looks like a poor clone of http://landscape.io/ - viewing what they have to offer on github, I'm not very impressed at all, the internal tool of landscape.io, https://github.com/landscapeio/pr
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by jquast 12y ago
C. After I wrote a scripting language in C from out of a book, errors from all other programming languages themselves written in C (Java, python, ruby, tcl, perl, php, etc.) made perfect sense, especially in regards to tokens and AST's
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by jquast 12y ago
I wrote a document trying to clarify the meaning of 'ANSI', which is a misnomer of sorts, https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integrati...
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by jquast 12y ago
also http://textmod.es/
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by jquast 12y ago
time_t is 64-bit on openbsd since last year, http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/
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by jquast 12y ago
How about an article on why real hackers are still breaking into Kevin Mitnick's personal computers?
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by jquast 12y ago
1) You are not chasing a pipe dream. Being the smartest person in the room is a terribly taxing position to be in, especially if you are not compensated by title or pay. I've been in that position enough times that my current primary
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by jquast 12y ago
I billed 8 hours work to a company to fix a python bug that was exactly this problem. After a lot of refactoring by someone inexperienced in python, something was indented inside of a loop that should have been outside it. 8 hours work for
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by jquast 12y ago
OpenSSL cannot share with OpenBSD team because the OpenBSD team would not think twice about committing those fixes, making those issues public. [A founding value of OpenBSD is about making anonymous access to their code repository: they dev
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by jquast 12y ago
For the same reason the other 20+ net-daemons are: http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc/... With OpenBSD, you can actually avoid the ports tree all together and still play a c
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by jquast 12y ago
From Edsger Dijkstra: https://youtu.be/RCCigccBzIU?t=13m54s > ...just after the first successful moon landing [...] I knew that each Apollo flight required some 40,000 new lines of code. [...] I was duly impressed that t
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by jquast 12y ago
I cite Dickey's site often in documentation regarding terminal programming. I enjoyed learning about curses history and ESR being a dick http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html
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by jquast 12y ago
one of my favorites is using diff across output of two programs, diff thinks they are files: diff -u <(zipinfo archive.zip.bak) <(zipinfo archive.zip)
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by jquast 12y ago
If you write to a named pipe, the call to write(2) will block until somebody opens it for reading and begins to read(2) it.
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Both mbuffer and pv by default contain fairly large in-memory buffers for pipe data, and accept parameters for particularly large buffers. http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html http://www.ivarch.com/program

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