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by leif 15y ago
it's also got pretty poor unicode support, which bugs me just a little
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by leif 15y ago
If newegg can get your plaintext password, chances are an attacker can too. The distinction is pretty slim, to me, though you're right that it's there.
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by leif 15y ago
Oh I didn't mean that at all, it just brought up a question I thought was interesting.
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by leif 15y ago
Sort of off topic, but I wonder if you can copyright or otherwise do something legalish with specific word frequency distributions. It's not nearly enough information to, say, reconstruct a corpus, but it's often sufficient information to
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by leif 15y ago
> At that point you also need to make sure that you aren't downloading more in the process of applying a series of patches than you would need to download for a full update, which also means you need to start being aware of multiple upd
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by leif 15y ago
rand10=Math.floor(Math.random())*10 // before rand10=0|Math.random()*10 // after The first is not random, it will always return zero (this error is very common). The second happens to be ok because * binds tighter tha
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by leif 15y ago
That's what I'm saying they shouldn't do: if your intro class flunks a bunch of students, you need another intro class before your intro class. If students aren't learning anything in a class, let them skip it or test out of it. Maybe thi
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by leif 15y ago
First, my school started us with a course in theory (sets, counting, probability, recurrences). Only second semester did we start programming (and continue with theory: regular, context-free languages, turing machines). This is the track
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by leif 15y ago
Anyone have a description of this service? I hate signing up for something just to find out I don't want it and I don't want them to have any information about me.
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by leif 15y ago
Every time I see this, I can't decide whether to cackle in sadistic delight, or grimace in empathetic disgust. It's quite a workout for my face.
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by leif 15y ago
Thanks. Of these, some seem like they are linux-only features that are used , not linux-only features that are required (but I don't know specifics, maybe I'm wrong): - get_current_dir_name() - canonicalize_file_name() - /dev/urand
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by leif 15y ago
Answering "is this available on other OSes and how do I fall back?" is a good way to think through your algorithm and ensure that it makes sense. Didn't know that about cgroups. Has anyone tried to kill a process tree on bsd or solaris and
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by leif 15y ago
So it's like a local service inetd. Since you seem to know a lot about it, could you answer my question? What linux-specific features are necessary? EDIT: I don't know, I upvoted your comment, it was very helpful.
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by leif 15y ago
Why should it be bsd's job to port code they didn't write, when gnome can do it for far fewer man-months because they already know what will need porting? If gnome really wants some fancy linux feature, they can ask bsd to implement it. I
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by leif 15y ago
This is exactly why I don't run gnome: I don't like running a bunch of code that only serves to slow me down. I ran gnome on freebsd for a while and it was noticeably faster. This is due in part to the fact that I wasn't running all the c
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by leif 15y ago
Hence my question: what nice things? Let me elaborate. Good Programmers write Portable Code. This means checking for supported features and using them if they exist, falling back to less desirable methods otherwise. So either the systemd
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by leif 15y ago
probably is bud light now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_InBev
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by leif 15y ago
"The argument in favour of just focussing on Linux exclusively goes like this: why should GNOME be held back by advances in technology simply because Solaris and the BSDs can't keep up with the fast pace of development in the Linux kernel?"
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by leif 15y ago
If it were not an array, the "undefined behavior" wouldn't come into effect. If it were a pointer, it would not have been eliminate (I'm pretty sure).
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by leif 15y ago
> The world of statically typed languages has the same framework (Scala’s Lift). But the implementation for Nemerle is based on macros and recognized standards such as LINQ. I can't stand it when people parade around the "recognized sta
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by leif 15y ago
This addresses the wrong question. As soon as you start using encryption, you also start using passwords and secret keys. The US government can detect encrypted messages and find those passwords and keys pretty easily. Better to send scat
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by leif 15y ago
I keep trying to get more active in math.stackexchange.
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by leif 15y ago
often don't eat lunch, just snacks and coffee throughout the day
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by leif 15y ago
You probably can't create a google account for your cats either, but that didn't stop me from making each of mine one (only so they could sign up for facebook though ;-3). How is this newsworthy? (p.s. any facebook employees, please don't d
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by leif 15y ago
boilerplate is what you start with, not what you publish what's the big deal
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by leif 15y ago
I thought the point was that they broke the sandboxing.
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by leif 15y ago
I was going to comment exactly this.
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by leif 15y ago
Sadly, one aspect of security is psychological acceptability. If nobody will do the secure thing, it's not secure.
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by leif 15y ago
"Why not? This is highly specialized research that not even well-paid Google employees were able to do." Correction: not even well-paid Google employees did . They may yet be able, and an existence proof may be all the help they need to f
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by leif 15y ago
Considering wrapping the perl interpreter to get a performant powershell implementation. Extra lols from the "download spec page": > Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Server 2008 R2 > Microsoft Word or Word Viewer

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