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by lucian303 14y ago
Which you can then use to recompile your OS easily (FreeBSD, some Linux based OS's) and tune it to a specific machine / configuration. That's why people like Kernighan and Ritchie (RIP) are so well respected. They wrote C to the target lang
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by lucian303 14y ago
Nice. Your reasons all do make sense. Doing is learning. I will definitely check it out if only to learn more about Zend internals. Maybe update the github readme with this? It would help a lot, IMO.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Yes, even with just PHP templating, you still would need at least wrapper functions around things like print htmlspecialchars($input, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); Otherwise, yeah, someone will miss one instance and that's all it takes. One attack
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by lucian303 14y ago
Yes. And SQL injections are still #1 followed by code injection as #2 app vulnerabilities (I believe that's from last year but I wouldn't expect changes). XSS is up there. Why not? It's so easy and there is no excuse for any of this. None.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Yeah, the OP is a really nice person. Because FB doesn't deserve this, not for $3.5k, maybe for $35k but more for around $350k to $3.5m. Guaranteed by contract.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Hacking books (especially tech books) or hacking code? What's the difference? Both are just as technical. I will agree, the post could have been titled better. What's relevant here is not the money but the OP's change of attitude from live
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by lucian303 14y ago
All those negative commenters can shove it up their ass. This is one of the few really interesting posts in the last few _months_ on HN. If they can't see the connection between business and "hacking" (whatever the fuck that might be in the
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by lucian303 14y ago
Thank you for writing such an honest post. Your courage is great and your view of work to live rather than live to work which has obviously changed quickly is inspiring. I too had this revelation a couple of years ago, but have always thoug
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by lucian303 14y ago
Nice. Just needs an API and HN to tie into it and reject posts that are grammatically incorrect that come from English speaking countries, especially people who think that knowing their programming language is more important than knowing th
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by lucian303 14y ago
And without GNU tools, Linux by itself is also useless without GNU tools (unless you can compile C by hand). GNU/Linux is the OS. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. are distributions of this OS.
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by lucian303 14y ago
The OS is way more than the kernel. Device drivers for example. Compilers (while technically ran in user-land, try to build a kernel without them). Etc, etc. I don't know what they teach you at school, but I'm sure you can figure it out fro
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by lucian303 14y ago
This isn't a problem with just India and the US. A lot of the world's countries don't even have laws against rape.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Sweden has a much higher (3-4x general crime rate) and an even higher violent crime rate (about 12-14x) than Romania. ( http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.... ). I don't see anything surprising here.
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by lucian303 14y ago
And in the US, it's about nothing at all because unfortunately one of the protections against voters and one of the most ill-conceived ideas of government has been the electoral college. If you're not in the small percentage or so whose vot
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by lucian303 14y ago
Yes indeed. Easy fix: every elected official who doesn't make good on his or her promises gets executed at the end of the term. Guarantee there will be no more false promises. Period.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Linux is NOT an OS and Linus did not create the OS. The OS is GNU the kernel is Linux. Thus you are comparing numbers for a kernel (Linux in Android OS versions) vs. numbers of OS's (Windows, OSX, iOS). This isn't a technicality either. Get
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by lucian303 14y ago
Democracy does not mean civilized society. On the contrary, the same goes for other "democracies." Sad indeed.
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by lucian303 14y ago
... and not a standard.
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by lucian303 14y ago
I thought the whole fiscal cliff thing was quite nasty but this ...
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by lucian303 14y ago
It's always about the data, never about the code.
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by lucian303 14y ago
because more languages are better ...
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by lucian303 14y ago
When engaged in war a country does not need explicit martial law as it is under no law at all.
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by lucian303 14y ago
True, but why bake it into the language if it's not enforced? Most OOP requires encapsulation which requires private members and the ability to enforce this privacy. It should not be up to the user to enforce it, as that will never happen.
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by lucian303 14y ago
What's wrong with it? It's a bug by design that allows a useless feature (access to private members ... why not make everything public then?) and allows the destruction of a key concept of OOP: encapsulation. Which is perfectly fine if you
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by lucian303 14y ago
Only a fool would have loyalty to an institution (business) that has no loyalty to him.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Actually it can be quite a useful function. In your __unsubstantiated__ opinion it's dumb. EDIT: You want to talk about dumb. An incomplete object model that has no concept of protected members and doesn't enforce encapsulation on "private"
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by lucian303 14y ago
It's named quite well and explains exactly what it does. If you think this converts text to html you haven't read the manual. RTFM before programming or get out of the fucking field.
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by lucian303 14y ago
Just another case of superior tech losing out. Sad but true. All too often.
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by lucian303 14y ago
That's the problem when you live in a state with permanent martial law. You get tortured/jailed/killed for doing nothing wrong.
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by lucian303 14y ago
"its users traded valuable personal information" != cash and is not really protected under most laws. Instagram has a right to do whatever they want. Yes, voting with your feet is a priori, but by this time, if you don't get that social med

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