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by martinced 14y ago
Exactly. They tried that in France at a moment where everybody was euphoric: the two germanies had recently been re-unified and GDPs of nearly everybody were growing like crazy. Instead of France trying to reimburse its own public state deb
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by martinced 14y ago
+1... I've said here repeatedly that Usenet and Usenet readers were, 15 years ago, way more advanced than things people are using now. Questions about, say, Java in comp.lang.java.^ were leading to more interesting answers than what is av
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by martinced 14y ago
zdnet? really? This "thing" has always been the low of the low and they've been constantly defending MS everytime MS did embrace, extend and extinguish. Actually zdnet is a pro-MS propaganda medium. Who does seriously take this junk serious
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by martinced 14y ago
I remember the very first integration of code coverage into IntelliJ, a very long time ago: way before the community / paying edition (because I remember that then I switched to the free/community version and it didn't have code coverage
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by martinced 14y ago
"The entire industry is based on risk." The entire industry is based on a business model which only a monkey could fuck up, yet the industry manages to fuck it up (as Taleb writes). You do realize that all these risk computation are total
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by martinced 14y ago
"Due to a misplaced parenthesis..." Is this RNG written in Lisp!? Sorry, couldn't resist ; ) (big fan of Clojure and elisp here btw)
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by martinced 14y ago
So you mean that the strength measurement is send from the client to the server alongside with the hash+salted password? Password are hashed+salted on the client side right? They're not transmitting password "in the clear" to hash+salt th
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by martinced 14y ago
"hypocrisy is the one thing that drives me insane" Me too because hypocrisy is clearly a form of intellectual dishonesty in itself and I don't want to lose time with intellectually dishonest people. As simple as that. If someone I know i
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by martinced 14y ago
Do you people realize that women, when between women, can be just as gross as men? They talk about guys as "food" and "expendable" things. They really do. Also they typically give way more details about their sexual life to their women f
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by martinced 14y ago
I'm sorry about the harsh tone of my other comment (most upvoted comment so far) but the tone of the author is aggressive so... Now on Cappucino's website I read this: "Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing appl
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by martinced 14y ago
Do not vote this up. The title submitted to HN is everything that is wrong here.
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by martinced 14y ago
There's no way yet another webapp framework, no matter how close it emulates the desktop, is going to gain lots of traction when it mandates users to use... Objective-J and JavaScript. Seriously: being on your high horses and all is fine
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by martinced 14y ago
"not having to implement my own password-management infrastructure, ..., as well as insulating me from the hard security problems that come along with such a beast." But you do realize it does definitely create another, much more serious,
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by martinced 14y ago
Exactly. But sadly you're in a tiny minority of people thinking about the security implications. Most developers don't: which is why we're having countless OAuth exploits and whatnots. Schneier wrote a long time that anything too complex ca
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by martinced 14y ago
The biggest problem with "social login" ain't about advertizing companies like FB and Google having all your infos. The biggest problem has actually nothing to do with social: the problem is security of all these single-sign on / unique ID.
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by martinced 14y ago
The problem is not displaying a username. The problem is using the username to login . Because users forget that. If you're stupidly using your email as your username then your email becomes public should the site you're on show, at any
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by martinced 14y ago
I'm sure that Rails is great and powers many websites and that many devs loves it. I'm also sure that people are working hard to fix these recent security issues and perfs issues. But as a non-Rails dev I can tell you one thing: with all th
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by martinced 14y ago
+1 to you and -1 to the aggressive and insulting comment that prompted you to comment. I see this a lot on HN too: people who've experience some level of success (as pg would say the first thing you learn when you get rich is that there are
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by martinced 14y ago
Video ain't working on Chromium / Linux (no Flash, no Java). I really hate that: on a lot of sites videos plays just fine on Chromium / Linux without Flash. How hard is it to create a website which serves videos in several formats depending
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by martinced 14y ago
I totally disagree. The Ultima series had that ability to transport you into these universes (or this universe) that Lord British (aka Richard Garriott) created. When there are threads on forums about one game to pick if you had to choose o
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by martinced 14y ago
There was a recent article on HN saying that spam was pretty much a non-issue nowadays to people using mail services with correct spam filtering. Since I moved to GMail I don't know what spam is anymore: everytime people complain about spam
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by martinced 14y ago
+1 great comment... Especially the '"emperor has not clothes" random splotches' part ; ) There are however great differences between gold and diamonds: liquidity of the market and buy/sell price. As TFA points out you're getting scammed ev
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by martinced 14y ago
"you subconsciously believe that people will flock to your door if you build the perfect mousetrap." Why be so harsh with him? A lot of sales people are utter jerks praying on stupid person: my mom is getting old and a bit losing it and r
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by martinced 14y ago
Is this just like String that are actually mutable on most JVM implementations out there where the underlying char[] can be accessed using reflection?
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by martinced 14y ago
"This speaks about Internet scale and the vast problems of security we shall face in the coming decades" Exactly... And the very fact that even people don't see anything wrong with "autonomous cars", probably "because this time the compan
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by martinced 14y ago
As an expert on security, what makes you think that in 2013 every webapp out there should still be backed by SQL and running SQL queries? I mean is SQL something inherently so secure that all webapp devs should use? If you're not a DB exper
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by martinced 14y ago
"How difficult would it be to switch out Datomic for PostgreSQL? " Seen that Datomic can be backed by many different types of storage, including SQL DBs, this sounds like a very weird question... I mean: if you want SQL, just use SQL as
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by martinced 14y ago
Funny... No latter than yesterday I used something very similar to Lisp macros to add function profiling to Clojure functions. Took very few lines of code, like you'd expect from a Lisp. Parenthesis serves the purpose of homoiconicity and i
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by martinced 14y ago
"Floats are terrifying. Maybe not as terrifying as unicode, but pretty darn terrifying." Good. At least someone else than Schneier realizes Unicode is a major PITA from a correctness and security point of view. Schneier said it best: "
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by martinced 14y ago
There are mere mortal programmers, there are geniuses and then there's Fabrice Bellard. In french slang: "Tu peux pas test". Go read the list of Open Source project he's done: it's a humbling experience (even for those who managed to make

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