ktRolster

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by ktRolster 9y ago
Audits cost money. Tons of money. And they don't guarantee anything - bugs in OpenSSL have not been discovered for years despite thousands of people using the code, poring over it and billions depending on it. Any reasonable audit of
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by ktRolster 9y ago
claiming that there is virtually no intellectual property protection for fonts in Germany, and how it would have been impossibly expensive to register for type protection… but somehow a lot of hobbyists and small fish managed to do it. Wh
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by ktRolster 9y ago
I would go further: it has a very strong religious/spiritual aspect. A manifestation of 神道 practice.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
is there anything which indicates that this is imminent? This article seems to be arguing "no." The biggest thing missing I think is an understanding of how human memory works.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
The best argument I've heard is that we can use a computer to model any physical process.....the brain is a physical process, therefore we can use a computer to model the brain. If you think that there is some process in the brain that
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Maybe you can think of a new approach to clothing. You might be happier!
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by ktRolster 9y ago
At first I thought Marie Kondo hated stuff, and wanted me to be minimalist. That is absolutely wrong. She doesn't mind of you have stuff. She wants you to only have stuff you enjoy. All those extra things that are like a load on you, w
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by ktRolster 9y ago
You should measure what you want more of. Unless for some reason you want more lines of code, then use a different metric.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
It's not about shitty or good, it's about management. Whatever you reward, that's what people will give you. See also: https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/courses/cps108/code/java/harp...
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by ktRolster 9y ago
If you use "number of lines of code" as a metric for productivity, soon people will double-space their code. We went through that in the 90s.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Everything there is to be said about agile has been said. Really? haha
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by ktRolster 9y ago
IT always entertains me that Agile companies tend to be so focused on process, and yet the agile manifesto specifically de-emphasizes process. Agile is almost always a process. It doesn't focus on improving the people and interactions.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Truly, the only way to have security is to encrypt the message with the receiver's public key.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
How do you avoid receiving spam messages?
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by ktRolster 9y ago
It's too bad so many people look at personality instead of focusing on the ideas. I try to watch myself, and if I catch myself focusing on personality, try to switch back to focusing on the ideas.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
How do you deal with the spam issue?
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by ktRolster 9y ago
That's missing the point. You can either learn from his techniques and improve your skill, or you can argue about definitions and not improve your skill. There is no doubt that DJB has good coding skills.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
It works because people actually do care about kids. The hard part is figuring out what will help them.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
a foundation not meant for UI's that is pretty much required to be abstracted away leakily (HTML, browsers) This is the problem, right? It's not that the other problems are unsolved, it's that we're buiding on a lousy
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by ktRolster 9y ago
With the way callbacks work in Javascript and jQuery, you lose some flexibility in organizing your code. It is true the types in Javascript make it difficult to build large projects. These drawbacks can be overcome, of course, but this is a
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by ktRolster 9y ago
UI is hard dude. It's been a solved (and re-solved) problem for decades.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Oh, exfiltration? Yeah, you're like every other malware 'protection' snake oil salesman.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
IT's kind of like saying, "This river is not the same river that it was upstream, and yet it is. The river is not the same water of last year, and yet it is the same river." The phenomenon is entirely well understood by all i
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by ktRolster 9y ago
This photo was right at the beginning of totality and in no way captures what I saw, It amazes me how inadequate every photo ever taken is compared to actually seeing the eclipse. They just don't capture the beauty of the corona.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
It helps to read other people's code bases.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
These churches pop up in the news every now and then, but somehow after a while, they all die out.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Security products flag cookies as malware, so your point is kind of doubtful.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Your comment sounds like a commercial mainly.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
AV doesn't make your system immune from risks, AV makes your system more vulnerable to malware. I get the idea that we should ditch an AV if vendor sucks at producing and maintaining the AV software They all do suck.
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by ktRolster 9y ago
Let's take a pessimistic guess at the efficacy of antivirus software and say it blocks 50% of the new malware generated in a given day. AV is unlikely to do that well against new malware.

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