maffydub

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by maffydub 10y ago
I think the challenge here is: if the users don't care, why should the CEO of your company? ...and if the CEO doesn't care, why is he going to want to pay developers to (as you say earlier) "always include security robustness
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by maffydub 10y ago
"I was driving at night and saw the indicator LED on my phone flashing blue out of the corner of my eye. When I stopped and checked it, it turned out that it was actually yellow." I quite often have a similar experience... I alway
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by maffydub 10y ago
If you enjoyed that, you might also enjoy It's Behind You ( http://bizzley.imbahost.com/ ). It talks about porting R-Type (side-scrolling space shooter) to the ZX Spectrum... and similar fun around squeezing down high-e
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by maffydub 10y ago
"Most people figure out what they want to do first and then start a company." ...and then figure out that no-one wants them to do that, and hopefully pivot to something people do want? </cynical> ;)
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by maffydub 10y ago
A 30% saving is roughly what I would expect. Commonly JPEG separates the image into 1 channel of luma and 2 channels of chroma. It then downsamples the chroma to half the luma resolution, meaning that you have twice of much raw luma data a
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by maffydub 11y ago
I'm not sure you need every merchant - I think you only need a significant proportion of the merchants that a specific population use. I probably make most of my purchases with a very small group of retailers - for example, in terms of
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by maffydub 11y ago
You _can_ actually do this with just one quad per plane (or maybe 2 quads - one for the front face and one for the back face)... although you're right that you can't do it using CSS (yet). A few years back, I wrote a tech-demo^W g
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by maffydub 11y ago
I'm not disputing your comment, but can you provide a citation for this? I did a quick google but the only reference I could find was a report (editorial?) in the Wall Street Journal called "Highways are safe at any speed".
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by maffydub 11y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/98/ The squirrel pictures bring a smile to my face every time I see this.
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by maffydub 11y ago
;) So how much notice did you get that your employee would need to leave the UK? Was it that their visa was suddenly withdrawn, or was it that their visa was expiring but you hoped (but ultimately failed) to get it renewed? I'm only a
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by maffydub 11y ago
"Turned out we couldn't [find a Brit to do the job]." You genuinely couldn't find one? What kind of skills were you looking for?
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by maffydub 11y ago
Really minor nitpick/trivia point: I think Stewart Lee said that Joe Pasquale stole some of Michael Redmond (another comedian)'s material, not Stewart Lee's. Definitely agree that Stewart Lee's bit on this is genius, tho
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by maffydub 11y ago
I've read and reread the article, and I just don't see anywhere where the EFF are suggesting companies publish their code - can you provide a quote? Maybe it's in another article? What I see the EFF asking for is a DMCA exem
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by maffydub 11y ago
Maybe I misread the article, but I don't think the EFF are actually calling for car manufacturers to _open_source_ their firmware. Instead, I think they're arguing for a DMCA exemption on reverse-engineering the firmware. At the
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by maffydub 11y ago
I think the key word you use here is "guide" - I completely agree that a mentor shouldn't _guide_ you down the wrong path. ...but maybe the mentor wasn't _guiding_ you, but enabling you (by answering your questions) to f
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by maffydub 11y ago
I would say "three July twenty fifteen". It took me a while to figure this out because actually it's quite rare to speak a date including a year without reading it - most spontaneously-spoken dates are this year (so the year
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by maffydub 11y ago
As a British English speaker, I'd say "yes". Technically, I'd drop the "th of" and just say/write "11 September 2001".
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by maffydub 11y ago
Agreed. It looks as though the researchers saw that as a possibility too: "It is possible to temporarily mitigate the flaw by implementing the following workaround: Researchers have demonstrated that ITP can be operated over TLS/D
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by maffydub 11y ago
I don't know anything about the provider in question, but funds might integrate multiple data sources (e.g. the described tweet analysis, last financial results, competing companies) - in other words, a lot more than what an analytics
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by maffydub 12y ago
It's a good observation, but I was trying to work out what this actually says. I read this as being fraud accounts for 0.1% of the value of all handled transactions. The transaction fees of a payment processor seem to vary between abo
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by maffydub 12y ago
It would probably be quicker if it cached, but don't underestimate the speed of gcc... A year or so ago, as part of my work on Project Clearwater ( http://www.projectclearwater.org/ ), I was using a Ruby tool to retrieve
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by maffydub 12y ago
Hmmm... I'm not sure that's true. Looking around my desk (in London, UK) I have - a few flyers (A5) - much more convenient for people to hand me in the street, big enough to get information across on, not to big to big cumbersome
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by maffydub 12y ago
I think it depends on how many counters you want. For example, I might want an approximate counter of number of reads of each row of a cache. Assume my cache has a lot (millions?) of rows, each of which stores a small amount of data. With
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by maffydub 12y ago
"Second, latency is a big thing in user experience. Go ahead, follow this author's advice, and do your JSON-to-HTML rendering on the client. See how it affects your latency. See how it affects your user experience. See how the lat
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by maffydub 12y ago
I think you and I might disagree on the meaning of self-documenting. ;)
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by maffydub 12y ago
It's taking an integer (representing an operation) and printing out the name of that operation. First thing to say is that "* ++le" is the integer representing the operation to perform. This basically walks through the array
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by maffydub 12y ago
Thanks for that link - I was looking for it to reply to this trail. I completely agree with others' points about being non-judgmental. However, the point I see is to _help_, and (statistically) that doesn't mean giving money dire
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by maffydub 13y ago
With regard to your comment about complexity, the cunning thing here is that these algorithms find a substring in a string very quickly, often without even looking at every character in the string. For example, Boyer-Moore ( http:/&#x2
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by maffydub 13y ago
Me personally? Because I don't actually need secure email (and so didn't use Lavabit or CertiVox). My point is that if I did want secure email, I wouldn't trust a company whose email system architecture meant that they could
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by maffydub 13y ago
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I have an email I want to be secure. Why am I giving this data to Lavabit in a form that they can decrypt? (Forget the government for the moment.) Why aren't these systems engineered to mean that only

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