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by lmb 12y ago
The only downside being that the Yen is a strong currency, which kills the whole budget idea. The central bank has been trying for a long time to induce inflation, without much success. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines
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by lmb 12y ago
Same here, installed both JDK and JRE today and no crapware screns.
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by lmb 12y ago
Coincidentally, ASN.1 (specifically it's DER encoding) is used in X.509v3, better known as TLS certificates. For a taste of the crazyness that ensues check out Peter Gutmann's x.509 style guide [1]. Personal highlights: * Many dif
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by lmb 12y ago
Things like the CGB / SGB compatibility are stored in the ROM header [1]. So yeah, been there done that. [1] http://www.enliten.force9.co.uk/gameboy/carthead.htm
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by lmb 12y ago
BT is the worst. Their Internet Hub or whatever they call their router does not allow changing DNS settings, because that would circumvent their crappy filtering. Would someone please stop thinking of the children!
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by lmb 12y ago
If you look at uIP you'll realize its pretty much a gigantic function [1] with a lot of gotos and ifdefs. Not exactly what I would cite for sane code. 1: https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/blob/master&
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by lmb 12y ago
Last time I checked (about a year ago), support for PSK was pretty abysmal on the server side of things.
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by lmb 12y ago
That is pretty bad advice. RSA is slow, needs a lot of memory and is difficult to get right. Just go with AES in CTR mode if you absolutely have to. And remember that encryption != authentication.
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by lmb 12y ago
Didn't see this was up here. Yeah, it's using WebRTC.
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by lmb 12y ago
Remittances are all about cash management, where BTC doesn't help. There is (was) a company called Buttercoin that wanted to do it, but I think they have since switched to a white label exchange model.
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by lmb 12y ago
Well, Fb gave a presentation that said interaction with their web utils (so storage if you want to call it that) actually happens in the action itself, with pending, success and failure "actions" (events really) being dispatches t
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by lmb 12y ago
To me it feels like they are both trying to solve the problem of modifying state in a react app. Flux is probably more manual, by explicitly creating actions that modify state in a store that is listened to by components. With these cursor
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by lmb 12y ago
Rust looks very interesting for the embedded programmer. Imagine a leightweight OS with minimal runtime requirements, similar to Contiki[1], but done right. [1] http://contiki-os.org/
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by lmb 12y ago
Thanks for the pointers. Regarding 3), access control was probably not what I was thinking about. More like, how do I use distributed Erlang without allowing everybody access to the node (even without knowing the cookie) and how do I preven
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by lmb 12y ago
Thanks for the write up, especially the part on relx was enlightening. I've been toying with Erlang, and have three questions I have not been able to find good answers to. Maybe someone could elaborate? 1) How well does Erlang deal wit
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by lmb 12y ago
That's pretty cool, thanks for the hint. The original PDF seems to be from 2001, does this still work?
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by lmb 12y ago
This code will lead to a nice, self-inflicted bug that will sometimes break your network connection. The low two bits of the first byte of the MAC have a special purpose and should be kept at 0 [1]. Learned this the hard way when developing
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by lmb 12y ago
Kinda like the Occulus, which are also charging more for the DevKit. Why do you think it should be cheaper? It's not like they have an app store they want to promote.
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by lmb 12y ago
Be careful: these are two distinct devices. One works with gas heating, the other with HVACs.
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by lmb 12y ago
I've never signed up to the site, but find this quite interesting. Does that mean you only consume the content via email or do you click through? Sounds like a massive headache for Quora in the first case.
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by lmb 13y ago
Makes it easier to target embedded arches. For example, LLVM doesn't target the MSP430 from TI, but there is a gcc fork for it. Sure, you can write a new backend for LLVM, but that's a whole different ballgame. This way it would b
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by lmb 13y ago
That seems to be a non-argument to me: you shouldn't implement TLS yourself anyways. And given that spiped is a younger project than say OpenSSL will mean less eyeballs applied to finding bugs. And the cryptographic primitives spiped u
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by lmb 13y ago
Seems like there is room for a PostgreSQL-only ORM that specifically makes all these nice features available. Anyone heard of such a thing?
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by lmb 13y ago
A friend of mine, who is working in the publishing industry, always tells me how publishing is about the book (as a physical product). When she does that I always reply that it's about the story, not the way you deliver it. Why is it b
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by lmb 13y ago
You could use also Apollo, ActiveMQ's successor, which comes with an MQTT adapter and runs on the JVM. Has the added benefit of supporting other messaging protocols as well. I'm not sure how well mosquitto would hold up, do you ha
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by lmb 13y ago
You can: http://hn-filter.appspot.com/#preset=bitcoin
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by lmb 13y ago
Essentially, Ghash.io would be in control of the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing double spending of BTC and other nefarious deeds. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses#Attacker_has_a_lot_of_... Edit: According to the
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by lmb 13y ago
I've used Bloom filters to implement simple breakpoints in an emulator. It makes sense since checking for membership happens every emulator step, and is essentially constant time with a bloom filter.