just2n

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by just2n 12y ago
Well that decision is pretty necessary when you realize that JS has no syntax to indicate a function is variadic (we use the arguments magic variable, but use of it does not necessarily indicate that a function is variadic) and that impleme
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by just2n 12y ago
There are so many good WTFs in JS, but this is not one. parseInt expects 2 arguments and Array.prototype.map provides 3 to the callback it is given. Both of these facts are very well documented and known. var mappableParseInt = functi
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by just2n 12y ago
> Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a few dozen engineers. Small teams can have a big impact because software development (and deplo
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by just2n 12y ago
My expectation is that if they were serious about this initiative, they very likely would've stepped forward with some vulnerabilities for disclosure. But it seems like it's just words and business as usual. I'm curious what
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by just2n 12y ago
My solution for 4 was quite efficient in design (and very simple). I was able to be very inefficient in the rough implementation (being lazy and copying arrays, reading the entire input file at once and breaking it up into lines in memory)
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by just2n 12y ago
So all evidence suggests that the 3rd problem is the hardest, by far, which is likely just some number of non-obvious edge cases. Curious why the "hard problem" disclaimer is on the 4th? The 4th also has a 90% solve rate (with 50%
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by just2n 12y ago
Really it means (as everyone assumed in the first place) that anything a web server might have in its heap needs to be totally thrown away. Private keys. Passwords. Credit card numbers. Security questions/answers. Sessions. Anything yo
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by just2n 12y ago
What do you mean "multiplayer"? In the spirit of this challenge? A single exploitable endpoint where any number of N people are to go at the same implementation? You can't tease this hard, man. Also, Friday launch? :)
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by just2n 13y ago
I agree with most of the points, as needless complexity and especially complexity to "add simplicity" (as this seems to be the justification). I believe it's generally a side effect of backwards compatibility -- we'd rat
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by just2n 13y ago
Maybe it's because you don't typically see an "app" that is just completely unusable on your device. When the vast majority of simple websites (not even applications) have terrible experiences on mobile web browsers, i
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by just2n 13y ago
They generally require a deliverable, though. If the product is successful, backers get some form of tangible benefit. I don't see why this can't be some share of the company. Giving away 10% for a huge chunk of seed money ($2.4m
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by just2n 13y ago
It's up there with the price of my enthusiast RIVB, 4930k, 2x GTX 780 Ti, 64GB 2133 RAM, 256GB Samsung 840 PRO... Seems silly.
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by just2n 13y ago
This needs a donate button. There's more fun here than in most AAA titles. Hell, you could turn all of these into Android/iOS apps and make millions.
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by just2n 13y ago
This seems like a problem that can easily be fixed with technology. We're in the industry of replacing inefficiencies. Why don't we just replace ICANN?
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Why are domain renewals getting so expensive?
7 points by just2n 13y ago|9 comments
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by just2n 13y ago
I feel like that would stem from the belief that people only watch movies once, ever. I mean, people re-read books. People listen to the same music many many times. And I don't know a single person who hasn't watched a movie they
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by just2n 13y ago
I never understood this. Parents tend to get off work around 5-6, right? Schools were so adamant, in my experience, about getting kids out of there (and sending all the staff/faculty home) by 3:30. This is at every grade level, includi
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by just2n 13y ago
Do most games that use Lua for scripting (addons, UI, possibly game logic) actually use LuaJIT? As far as I could tell, 100% of the AAA titles that use it that I tested (3 in total) did not. And in profiling, Lua was actually consuming a lo
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by just2n 13y ago
I missed where anyone gave us the option of streaming new releases online. Movie theaters offer neither convenience nor comfort. It's 2014, not 1914. Further, they are epicenters of disease transfer and otherwise completely and utterly
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by just2n 13y ago
A simple strategy of building along one side will get you to a 1024 tile every time, but getting to 2048 seems largely dependent on RNG. If you get tiles spawning where you want them, it's very easy. If not, it can actually be impossib
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by just2n 13y ago
No, but it's not easy (in fact it's quite hard to do well) because of how insecure the browser is. You can take advantage of the fact that you can store private information in closures. To prevent malicious code from overwriting a
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Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console(pastebin.com)
248 points by just2n 13y ago|162 comments
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by just2n 13y ago
This kind of stuff reminds me of these as a child: http://www.amazon.com/1-5-inch-Rubber-Poppers-Pack/dp/B002R2... The memories.
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by just2n 13y ago
Crockford does opinionated wrong. It's fine to be opinionated, but it's not fine to give absurd (often stupid) justifications for actions and beliefs that are wrong: "I removed pointers from C because I saw people were using
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by just2n 13y ago
Sure you avoid the games, but they're clearly making tons of money. People find things that "work" -- they earn tons of money. They repeat. Other people see that it works. They copy. Suddenly the world is full of games that h
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by just2n 13y ago
I'm not saying it would. But the point is that it should, and it's stupid that it doesn't. It's 2014. "Someone stole my car by using a packaged exploit that is easier to find and abuse than breaking anything on DVL&
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by just2n 13y ago
I don't think there's any other way to apply pressure to these companies other than regulation, unfortunately. They don't care much about what we think, and their customers don't care, so outside of forcing them to use a
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by just2n 13y ago
It doesn't because 99% of people are entirely and completely ignorant of these systems and their importance. And no amount of discussion or even car theft is going to put it in terms that they understand. Here the news item is "wi
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by just2n 13y ago
I don't think "government" means "good engineering", I think that it should be thoroughly vetted by sufficient expertise. I'm not sure if the FDA or FAA are capable of doing that, given how the government is re
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by just2n 13y ago
During the daytime, your solar panels are dumping power onto the live grid. The same grid your car at work is plugged into. And all your neighbors'. And every other car in the garage or parking lot. During an outage, unless it's a

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