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by jsaxton86 13y ago
One of the most interesting parts of this code to me was the switch statement in the main loop. Professionally, I have run into programs that have massive switch statements with hundreds of cases in them, which I've always considered a
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
I can't find the original paper, unfortunately. With that said, it's interesting to compare the OP with the BBC's reporting of the same story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25269698
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
I don't think you understand why people approve of what the NSA is doing, which is why that's usually going to be an ineffective argument. The NSA promises a safer country, and all we have to is let them do a little bit of surveil
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German intelligence agency to step up counterintelligence(reuters.com)
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
It seems that the majority of Big Data/Data Science applications are designed to give advertisers insight into things I don't really want them to have insight into. That really sucks, because the technology is cool, but I don&#x27
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
This sounds like an onion headline. Is this story being reported by more mainstream sources?
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
I just signed up for an account, only after the fact to find out that you don't have data for the Portland, OR market, which is unfortunate since this is definitely a tool I'd like to use in my upcoming apartment search. Two thing
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
This is a really cool idea, I like it a lot. With that said, I'm not convinced that your pseudocode actually works. Specifically, the following doesn't make sense to me: pos_a = key[0]; pos_b = key[1]; pos_c = key[2]; ... pos_a =
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
This isn't perfect, but it's a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008_Top1percentUSA.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United...
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
Git is designed so that branching is cheap. Why not create your own development branch off of the feature branch? Then use the feature branch as an integration-only branch?
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
I used to drink two cans of Mountain Dew per day. I was 100% dependent upon it -- without my Mountain Dew I couldn't function at all. Anyway, I recently took a few weeks off between jobs, and during that time, I decided to quit caffein
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
There are two parts to this story: -Estonia has an internet voting system -Estonia just released the source code to their voting system Even if internet voting is a terrible idea, a transparent election system is a very good idea, and relea
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
What advantages does this have over existing link aggregation implementations? Edit: one advantage I can think of is you don't have to ask your users to set up a bond0 interface, for example. Any other advantages?
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
This link might be helpful: http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/01/how-to-fire-co-founder.html
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Bitcoin Casino Provides Provably Fair Shuffling Through Cryptography(techblog.bitzino.com)
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by jsaxton86 13y ago
Let me get this straight. You're saying that you're entitled to a salary that is substantially higher than developers with more experience (and likely more skill), and you're the one who feels insulted? Give me a break.
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
From the FAQ originally shared by edwinvlieg, you are still vulnerable: The vulnerability allows users to use a command-line switch for a PostgreSQL connection intended for single-user recovery mode while PostgreSQL is running in normal, m
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
Does anyone know how they managed to not only bypass the C10k limit, but bypass it by a factor of 60?
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
"We use Gmail for email and Google Groups for lists." "What we have today works pretty well for our current size—around 45 people." So if I can manage to get the Google authentication credentials for just one of Stripe's 45 employees, I can
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
A much simpler solution is to comment your code: # Invoke curl in silent mode (-s), pipe the output to grep # and use an extended regex (-E) to only show the resulting # digits (-o: only print matching text, not the whole line): curl -s che
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
A more technical overview can be found here: http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792262/Red_October_...
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
This family of JRE attacks is far too common. Basically, when an unsigned applet runs, the JRE tries really hard to prevent it from creating a ClassLoader object. However, if you manage to create a ClassLoader object, it's game over -- you
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
You can wind up with "an unmaintanable mess riddled with security holes" in any language -- that's not unique to C. Regarding the flaws you have mentioned in C: Its flaws are very very well known, and this is a virtue. All languages and im
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
KeePass works on almost all mobile platforms, even those without web access, and KeePass isn't going to have downtime like password.ly.
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
You can get a fancy status bar with screen, you just need a screenrc file: http://www.mbeckler.org/blog/2012/11/28/my-screenrc-file-cir...
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
Yeah, I had the same thought. In fact, in the interview, the author actually picks up a copy of K&R C and looks through the index for "threading" and finds nothing, whereas Go was designed with concurrency in mind. On the other hand, as
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I would assume patio11 doesn't intend to directly make a lot of money off of this book. Instead, he wants to be able to tell potential clients he has written a book on conversion optimization, which allows him to charge a higher rate.
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I disagree. Sure, in the short term, taking on that technical debt may have made sense, but in the long term, this is a perfect example of how technical debt added significant maintenance costs to a project. What if dropping Pinball was not
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
I think the author was alluding to the following: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...
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by jsaxton86 14y ago
This post mortem has me thinking about the best way to handle the situation in which you can't SSH into your server. The OP decided to trigger a kernel panic/restart on OOM errors, but I have a couple of concerns about this approach: * If m

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