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by jw_ 14y ago
A commenter in another thread on CTF recommended io.smashthestack.org. It's very well done - I only got through a half-dozen levels or so before my attention wandered but I really enjoyed it.
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by jw_ 14y ago
What a obnoxious write-up for a pretty straightforward optimization. I don't really see how this is worthy of any discussion, unless we want to discuss how some developers think they're a lot more clever than they really are. "Developer pro
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by jw_ 14y ago
Reads more like a Haskell tutorial with some random nuggets of NLP stuff thrown in for fun, unfortunately.
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by jw_ 14y ago
> To be fair, those were considered reasonable expectations until the last few decades Ahistorical nonsense. "People USED to save! That's why people used to generally end up desperately poor when they were elderly, and also is why the
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by jw_ 14y ago
Ramen in the US refers to instant dried noodles that come with a packet of bouillon, not with the labour-intensive-but-awesome real article.
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by jw_ 14y ago
The clauses in your lease which expressly forbid this sort of activity would actually probably count as the "first you heard from your landlord that he didn't want you AirBNB'ing." It's not like you were unaware of them - you wrote that you
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by jw_ 14y ago
I don't think it's the same situation as somebody reselling goods you've sold wholesale. As other posters mention, running a commercial operation from a residential apartment brings with it a number of insurance concerns for the landlord, s
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by jw_ 14y ago
> Why not just buy an android phone? > I don't think I've ever advocated Android
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by jw_ 15y ago
Such things exist and are horrible to work in. I worked in a very large dev office that was essentially a gigantic low-height cube farm and sound carried for-frigging-EVER - conversations 20m away may as well have been in your lap. Plus, if
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by jw_ 15y ago
What nonsense. I'm Canadian, I had symptoms of an arrythmia, went to a GP to describe what was happening, and I had an ECG done and bloodwork drawn at a nearby lab less than an hour later. This was all while I was not exhibiting symptoms. L
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by jw_ 15y ago
I really like that background script, might have to give that a try. If you use Emacs, you might try org-mode - it includes an archive feature that allows you quickly toss subtrees into a second associated text file, which I find handy for
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by jw_ 15y ago
I think this is different from the usual situation where somebody finds a vulnerability and goes to the vendor to see if they'll patch it instead of immediately going public. He found that they were apparently deliberately misleading consum