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by l0b0 8y ago
I'm reminded of the saying that "Publishing research without data is simply advertising, not science". Not even publishing the research means it doesn't have a chance at advancing the state of the art. I don't under
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by l0b0 8y ago
Not this again. ORMs are some of the most impenetrable code you'll ever see. Understanding the performance characteristics of a CRUD application using SQL is vastly simpler than trying to puzzle out the arcane ways in which ORMs decide
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by l0b0 8y ago
For any given paradigm, has useful software been written using that paradigm? If so, it is not "bullshit". And it's not exactly surprising that well-known academics and theoretical computer scientists smack talk Java - it&#x2
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by l0b0 8y ago
Just did a rough ordering and then went through swapping each to see if that improved matters, and ended at a score of 0. I wonder if years of amateur photography and editing has helped, similar to grinding through IQ tests.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Or to put it another way: Holy shit, it's just a year away!
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by l0b0 8y ago
I for one love the fact that companies I dealt with once who knows how many years ago are begging me to click a link to "keep in touch." Good bloody riddance. This is possibly the best privacy news of the Internet age.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Sure, but "Hell" could equally apply to underground on Earth or the surface of basically any of the planets of the solar system. The conditions on most of them would kill anybody within seconds in pretty gruesome ways. Swapping th
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by l0b0 8y ago
$ cat reduce-clickbaitiness.sed s/Hell/Venus/ And it's portable to every major news outlet.
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by l0b0 8y ago
Is this meant to be shocking? When I was a consultant at a big European telecom company the department got a new manager who started by saying that there should be no multi-year consulting contracts - within a few months of hiring a consult
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by l0b0 9y ago
The problem is that you can't even identify, much less stop, the cash sinks - nobody seems to be able to do it in any sort of large corporation (or any other sort of organisation). Fixing some random bug that you have no impact numbers
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by l0b0 9y ago
This sounds so bizarrely immature to me - like the trolls that sabotage their vehicle's noise suppression. I wonder if they realise they catch people's attention because the onlookers are simply waiting for them to leave so they c
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by l0b0 9y ago
The most interesting thing about this was how the "map" part of it was completely irrelevant. From a quick scan every single large interconnected subgraph contained only completely or virtually identical sites.
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Insecure links highlighter Firefox add-on(addons.mozilla.org)
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by l0b0 9y ago
Smart meters. Since working in IoT on a "dumb" meter I figure the killer feature isn't automatic temperature and power regulation, it's knowledge. Once you know where and when you are using lots of power you can easily f
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by l0b0 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I've read[1] that primality machines in normal computers rely on a heuristic to determine whether the factors produced are very, very likely to be prime, and that security focussed organisations subsequently use
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by l0b0 9y ago
Side note: Can't reach over HTTPS, access denied via Tor. Why do so many security-related sites use awful hosting providers?
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by l0b0 9y ago
QED.
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by l0b0 9y ago
Just the availability of this kind of tech would scare anybody sane shitless. From that day, you'd better hope you don't ever piss off anybody within a 1000 km radius enough to find your photo and address online (easy in most coun
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by l0b0 9y ago
Liabilities would be a well-defined measurable impact, and much needed since the industry obviously isn't going to change in this environment. $X per user, $Y if the information includes anything that could be used to do serious damage
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by l0b0 9y ago
If you like this, try http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/ . Less PC, but also hilarious in places.
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by l0b0 9y ago
"Can we talk about this later? I need to get <task> done by <time>." isn't rude (at least by my barbarian standards), and it would be very rude to ignore such a request.
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by l0b0 9y ago
The easiest way to achieve that is simply to remove functionality until only the bare essentials are left. I'd argue this (the UI change, not identifying what can be removed) is always going to be simpler than making the existing UI
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by l0b0 9y ago
The obvious advantage for Microsoft is that they can now influence OSI. Even if they don't get voting rights immediately (which I would expect them to push hard for) there will now be the everlasting threat of pulling the funding to ke
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by l0b0 9y ago
Thanks, that clears things up massively. I've never heard anything negative about the Red Cross (International Committee or otherwise) in Europe, and was a bit shocked to see their (collective) name pulled into the dirt.
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by l0b0 9y ago
It's still frustrating to be at the receiving end of this. It's infuriating when this is the response after spending hours or days researching, then trying and retrying various things, being meticulous in recording every step invo
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by l0b0 9y ago
Just generate a pronounceable word, for example using KeePass*.
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by l0b0 9y ago
Yeah, yeah, the world is going to shit and nobody cares. How about doing something about it instead of telling everybody it can't possibly work? And why do we need the rest of the world on the bandwagon for it to work? The web was buil
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by l0b0 9y ago
You wouldn't need to scrap all of it by a long shot. You could take a small subset of the stack and make something enormously simpler to implement. Start with supporting only one version of HTTP, TLS, (X)HTML, CSS and JS and fork them
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by l0b0 9y ago
The first alternative is still preferable, since it's actually readable. You can also do $'\t' in at least Bash (and probably Zsh).
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by l0b0 9y ago
Yep, this is a typical example of statistical lying[1] - clearly the data is not represented in such a way that you can get the accurate numbers from the visualisation. I really don't understand why the parent is being downvoted. [1]

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