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by jsn 16y ago
I don't know; I suppose "mature" wrt software is not unlike "mature" wrt human beings -- it means "when you stop growing fast and changing unpredictably", and maybe "when other people rely on you". Or something like that. I don't think GIL-
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by jsn 16y ago
10 years in development, and it's not a mature platform. I wonder how people working on perl6 / parrot bear with that. I mean, if it's on your CV, it basically reads like "I worked on something for 10 years, and nothing was delivered (nothi
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by jsn 16y ago
Duh. Where exactly did you get the idea that your private key would be lost ? It's no longer private because the attacker can use your forwarded connection "to authenticate using the identities loaded into the agent". It's right there in s
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by jsn 16y ago
Exactly. Actually, I haven't yet seen a scenario where ssh agent forwarding is useful. It always increases the risks: the machine you're forwarding to may be compromised, and in case it is, your private key is not private anymore. And the a
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by jsn 16y ago
I probably used a somewhat similar approach to Scheme, here's my just-for-fun implementations: http://github.com/jsn/sillyscheme . Eval is not that straightforward, though -- you have to implement tail-call elimination and call-with-curre
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by jsn 16y ago
The question is, was it worth it? Did he get paid enough to feel well compensated for his frustration? If yes, then why all the venting? And if the answer is no: You should always be ready to walk away from the deal. You don't have to accep
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by jsn 16y ago
What are the problems with setjmp/longjmp? (a honest question; I've drafted a proof-of-concept implementation of C coroutines yesterday, just to see how long it will take me to get it working -- http://gist.github.com/491302 ).
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by jsn 16y ago
No, you stop having the Tetris effect after a while. My theory is that you experience the effect only as long as your brain is busy figuring out / internalizing how Tetris works. After you have learned to recognize all the patterns instantl
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by jsn 16y ago
it's neither 6 nor 9 there, actually :) it's 7.
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by jsn 16y ago
Well, it's not a complete blackout; you can provide the 5-day estimate beforehand, you can send progress reports or two along the way. The point is, they still are much more comfortable with the demonstration that you are willing to spend a
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by jsn 16y ago
I find my customers through the people I know personally, mostly. The relationships are mostly long term, so I don't need many. I never wrote technical articles, so no opinion on that; should work pretty well, theoretically. I do have a blo
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by jsn 16y ago
Consulting maxim: You must give the customer The Warm Fuzzy Feeling (tm). Consulting maxim: You are primarily in the customer service business, not the technical business. Here's the most counter-intuitive part of it -- or at least it t
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by jsn 16y ago
> maybe someone can explain why this would be a bad idea, but I'd really like to see a system where if you buy a stock you are not allowed to sell it for a fixed period of time that would be measured in months, and not seconds. Um, sure
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by jsn 16y ago
It's definitely not Hong Kong and not a charter city -- whatever they mean by "their own something something", it definitely doesn't imply any comparable levels of autonomy. So yes, it's basically a SEZ, I suppose. It could as well work if
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by jsn 16y ago
Heh, Skolkovo is on Hacker News now. The author paints quite a grim picture there; the reality is probably even worse, though. Just to give you some idea about it: one of the main selling points for Skolkovo, for potential russian players,
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by jsn 16y ago
I was just trying not to drift too much into complicated parts of the problem, since the society is obviously unable to fix even the most obvious and simple parts of it. Yeah, maybe there should be some rules about corner cases like that (w
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by jsn 16y ago
I'm not sure there is a one-size-fits-all solution to that. But, in general, I think that what matters is the real damage done. I mean, if you do harm others, you should be punished/restricted, and if you do harm others repeatedly under the
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by jsn 16y ago
Basically, if someone is going to make a decision affecting my body while I'm unconscious, I'd rather have someone I picked for that job to do it (like, I don't know, my doctor or my wife or my dad or my friend or even my insurance company)
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by jsn 16y ago
No, it's not, but your point definitely is irrelevant. You see, it's my body, so I can put whatever I want in it, be it aspirin, heroin, thalidomide or cyanide. And yeah, I may wish to make an educated choice about that, but then again, I
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by jsn 16y ago
If you have no children, you generally don't retire. Or, well, you can try to live on government/municipal pension (my wild guess is $30-$100/month range covers the 95% of the population). You will be very poor, but it's doable. Bear in min
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by jsn 16y ago
Ya, really. I'm in Russia, I'm on jabber since forever, ditched ICQ completely 2 or 3 years ago -- I just don't need it anymore, almost everybody I know is on jabber already. (admittedly, quitting Skype is noticeably harder).
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by jsn 16y ago
For obvious reasons, you're much better off generating a new keypair for that (not reusing any existing private keys).
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by jsn 16y ago
1. If you are setting up servers, you don't need to transfer private keys anyway. You may want to transfer client public key to server, but that is absolutely unrelated to man-in-the-middle, paranoia or anything. 2. If you are setting up se
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by jsn 16y ago
Say what? scp is perfectly secure (not open to man-in-the-middle attack) without transferring any keys or using any PKI. scp (just like ssh) asks you to verify remote key fingerprint on first connect.
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by jsn 17y ago
Umm, because that valid URL uses "mailto" protocol, which doesn't support "GET" requests as you described?
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by jsn 17y ago
The most epic of my chokes probably was on icfp contest of 2007. Plenty of pressure, tight deadlines (icfp contests take 72 hours). There was a hard to reproduce bug in my fast dna vm implementation, and it took me like 18 hours to find tha
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by jsn 17y ago
You do understand that it wasn't my assumption, don't you? It's what ced assumes, I'm just exposing some errors in his calculations.
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by jsn 17y ago
> However, if I know that it's a binary or ternary phone system, then the right numbers are 1 and 2 instead Not really, it's 1 and 1.66(6) (you never listen to the 3rd option). Also, for e.g. 1000: in base 3 a lot of 7th level menus wil
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by jsn 17y ago
I suppose the DoS you mentioned should be relatively easy to prevent. They don't have to cache all flows, just the most hot 20% which consume 80% of bandwidth. Probabilistic caching and/or ruthless pruning of cold flows can probably render
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by jsn 17y ago
> Feel free to correct me if there exists a RDBMS which can use an index on a "like." huh? mysql does that for 'like' queries which don't start with a wildcard (that's exactly what you need for breadcrumbed trees). also (i didn't read T

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