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by m0nastic 13y ago
I'm happy to see things like this, as the easier it is for folks to use Haskell, the better it is for the platform. I might try to experiment with some personal projects on it, although unfortunately, I can't use it for any of my
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That's true, but I've spent a good portion of the last year and half dealing with them and disagree on the likelihood of them ever achieving any widespread adoption. My company would love for me to be wrong about this.
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My argument isn't that the NSA hasn't backdoored TPM's (which I freely admit I can't convince you of), it's that TPM's are not "The Crown Jewels".
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I'm still unclear on the government's ability to compel falsehoods (even the discussions around National Security Letters seem to indicate that they prevent disclosure, but can't require lying), but I don't think I can c
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I keep finding myself in the awkward position of trying to refute conspiracy theories, but not being at liberty to share everything I know about these scenarios (I really need to work somewhere besides DC), so I'll tread lightly. Takin
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by m0nastic 13y ago
In that particular instance you weren't wrong[1], but that's the problem when stories like this come out, is that it makes it much harder to know what's a crazy conspiracy theory and what's real. [1] Those claims made by
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I haven't been able to get the site to load, so I'm committing the venial Hacker News sin of commenting without reading the article, but I'm assuming this is somehow "trademark-related". I don't know what the b
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Part of the philosophical justification for the "full-disclosure movement" is the belief that, much like scientific discoveries, they almost never happen in a vacuum by a lone brilliant researcher. Which is to say, that it is enti
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I guess that the reason I've been able to migrate almost entirely to using my iPad for everything must be the way I used to use my computer previously. I've pretty much always ran applications "full-screen". The only tim
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Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC(haskell.cs.yale.edu)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Thanks, I've been testing out a bunch of hare-brained schemes and it didn't even occur to me to just use HDFS directly (and seeing you and karterk both suggest it helps). Basically, at a high level, the system I'm working on
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by m0nastic 13y ago
At the risk of hijacking what seems like a linkbait article, I'll ask folks here a question: Does anyone have good experiences/recommendations for storing a "reasonable" amount of unstructured logs/pcap files. By &q
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This is both awful, somehow unsurprising, and COBOL is a piss poor scapegoat. I've talked on here in the past about how crazy it is that some of my customers had huge financial systems that were written in COBOL, quietly still plugging
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Do people wonder about why there is no General Motors John Gruber? Apple has a lot of people who write about them because they check off all of the boxes in the type of person who would write about them. Just having a product (or an ecosyst
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I feel like you don't understand what a community is... Hacker News is an online community. It has a pretty open membership policy, which is that, if you show up here over a period of time, and manage to not get hell-banned, you'r
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by m0nastic 13y ago
In the scenario you describe above, the unencrypted contents of your email are now generally stored on at least 4 machines (maybe 3 depending on what the recipient's POP settings are), with only one most likely being under your control
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by m0nastic 13y ago
"Why server-side development in Javascript? Seems like a headache." People like to use what they like.
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You would then basically have the airport screener version of Antivirus software (signature-based). I suspect you'd end up having all the same problems that Antivirus software has (basically an arms race, I guess quite literally).
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I'll walk back calling it a "textbook example" (because I suppose ultimately it's probably up to the quality of the lawyers involved), but the part of 18 USC 1343 that I think would be argued by the prosecution in the &q
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I was referring to tptacek's statement: "This is, literally, an argument that if you stumble across a text file full of credit card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV codes, it should be lawful for you to put it up on Pastebin.&qu
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Wire fraud, for one. That's pretty much a textbook example of it.
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I can at least entertain the argument about being pro-bank, and pro-totalitarian; but tptacek has gone too far in believing that anti-humans should have rights! Where does it end? If you recognize anti-human's rights, then they'll
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I have a soft spot for interactive fiction. The only game I ever finished writing was an IF game that took place on my college campus (I created it using AGT[1], and was impressed that I could keep track of time to have locations behave dif
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I just hope (selfishly) that this doesn't impact their release of the Digitizer (which I'm currently super excited about).
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I did not; which I actually think is even more of a testament to how positive the experience (and interviewing with Cody in particular) was.
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Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman[pdf](research.microsoft.com)
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I just want to echo the sentiment that Cody is a great person to be offering this. I had the experience of being interviewed by him a while back, and he made what could easily have been a very intimidating (especially as it was a long inter
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by m0nastic 13y ago
The Apple documentation on Quartz 2d is pretty good (although depending on how familiar you are with the rest of the system, you might need to follow some of the links to read about the other parts): https://developer.apple.com&#
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That's suggesting that they have even the slightest compulsion to not be hypocritical. I'd expect them to hit him hard on this (and good for them, even if their reasons for doing so might be dishonest).
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People's answers to whether or not you need to learn CS fundamentals have a habit of being self-rationalizations, so be careful with what advice you take (I say as I'm about to give advice). How useful things are in "the real world" varies

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