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by jwatzman 13y ago
Engineer working on Hack here. It's complicated. If you use partial mode, which doesn't enforce that every function is fully typed, then it's trivial to break the type system by just using an untyped function. In order to eas
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by jwatzman 13y ago
Arg stupid typo, fixed, thanks.
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by jwatzman 13y ago
About a year ago I did the same thing with IE 5.1 for Mac, which was Microsoft's couterpart from this era. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150673019866971.... It had its own set of insane quirks, even worse than Windows IE5. I
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by jwatzman 14y ago
Spriting is very common. For example, here's how the Facebook logo on the homepage is rendered: https://s-static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yO/r/_2cdInypv2b.p...
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Unfortunately what we nowadays call "regular expressions" aren't the regular expressions from math class -- they can match against much more than regular languages. I believe PCRE, i.e., the "regular expression" language for most regex libr
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Breastfeeding mothers are just fine: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=340974655932193#Does-Face...
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by jwatzman 15y ago
One of the most insightful points in the article, summing up much of DEF CON, got buried near the end of the article; it's worth emphasizing: It's not about breaking the lock [...] it's about learning the lock can be broken.
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by jwatzman 15y ago
An interesting feature of app-specific passwords -- which helps to mitigate the complaint in the article -- is that if you are logged in with one, you cannot access some core settings to the account without going through the two-factor proc
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Interesting idea, but oh dear does the dating site need some serious help from a web designer.
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by jwatzman 15y ago
I just used one of your invite codes -- thank you very much!
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Indeed: http://www.circlehack.com/
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by jwatzman 15y ago
The difference is that with a web browser, you can switch from IE to a superior browser and all your favorite web sites will still work (apps built for IE6 compatibility notwithstanding). This isn't true of switching from x86 Windows to som
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by jwatzman 15y ago
From the second paragraph of the article: "The deal, almost three years in the making, was announced early Thursday, and includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon."
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that it's something approximately like this: In the event of an error and journal replay, the filesystem metadata can be recovered, but not necessarily the data itself. ext3
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by jwatzman 15y ago
What is wrong with your WRT54G? I have a WRT54GL with DD-WRT on it and have had no problems.
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by jwatzman 15y ago
My favorite PHP design misfeature: what does the following code do? <?php $foo = array("a", "b", "c"); foreach ($foo as &$bar) echo $bar; echo "\n"; foreach ($foo as $bar) echo $bar; echo "\n"; The "&" i
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by jwatzman 15y ago
But then it means that "==" is no longer transitive, which I see as very unnatural and confusing (even if the underlying reasoning sort-of makes sense).
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by jwatzman 15y ago
My understanding is that this was a bug with the previous authentication scheme, before they rolled out OAuth. Changing your password revokes old tokens for all authentication schemes and thus mitigates the problem.
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by jwatzman 15y ago
Exactly -- this is an important point Harper misses here. In SML, you can have functions of type "unit -> unit" and have no idea what the heck it is doing. The language allows effects, and so it could be doing anything . Even a functio
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by jwatzman 15y ago
I was unable to get the Java application to create a valid gzip file on OS X -- it appeared to write the header but no data. Anyone else have any luck?
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by jwatzman 16y ago
I'm curious what the point of using this app is after Facebook introduced a feature allowing you to download your entire profile a few months ago. It comes down as a zip file containing a nice, offline-browsable HTML minisite with your wall
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by jwatzman 16y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for a cross-platform (Mac/Windows at least) video chat program usable by casual users and which works fine through a NAT? Skype is quickly becoming annoyingly unusable for the reasons the article discusses
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by jwatzman 16y ago
I have been unable to find an alternative that allows me, a Mac user, to do a video chat with my girlfriend, a Windows user, with no fuss when both of us are behind separate NATs.
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by jwatzman 16y ago
He said it in a lecture, but I'm pretty sure he was dead serious.
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by jwatzman 16y ago
He once discussed NULL pointers. He made a well-reasoned argument about how a proper language should use some other method to properly distinguish between NULL and "I really do have a pointer here", such as ML's option types or Haskell's
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by jwatzman 16y ago
The problem with C0 (it's "C-naught", not "C-not") is that it is a toy language used for the compilers class which has somehow made it down into the intro curriculum. It is not useful in the real world; absolutely no one outside of CMU uses
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by jwatzman 16y ago
Note that this has been coming for a while -- the "announcement" cited is from Harper's blog, as is the bit about "anti-modular and anti-parallel". The quote cited is Harper's opinion, and was not necessarily the opinion of everyone invol
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MobileNotifier iOS notification replacement(peterhajas.com)
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by jwatzman 16y ago
When I had dinner with a bunch of engineers, they talked about some examples of things that their code was used for. It assists our military, for example, in collating data and mining it so that they can more effectively kill people. They a
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by jwatzman 16y ago
I interviewed with Palantir last fall. After failing to impress me (and honestly coming across as a bit too evil for my taste), I brought my job decision down to being between two other companies and told Palantir that I was appreciative of

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