matthewaveryusa

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by matthewaveryusa 10y ago
Signed data implies that at least 1 bit represents the signess of the underlying bytes. C did not want to impose which bit must represent the sign of the integer because that may have implications on the performance of hardware that was bui
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by matthewaveryusa 10y ago
Furthermore websockets mask the payload so that naive proxies that do deep packet inspection to find HTTP requests don't fall to the poisoned cache trap. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36930/how-d
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by matthewaveryusa 10y ago
1. Is an awesome idea. Will it work for the tail-end of the log where most maliciousness will occur? The scenario I see is the hacker grabbing the log, and appending transactions to its copy of the log. When you go to contest those transact
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Herb Sutter addresses this issue in his latest post: https://herbsutter.com/2016/03/11/trip-report-winter-iso-c-s... I agree, it feels like not a lot, but when you look at the standardization process I think
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I ended up renting for longer and saving more in the hope of real-estate having a lull in the next 5 years -- can be a horrible mistake but only time will tell :)
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
For me the interesting thing happening here isn't the encryption debate itself, but the fascinating friction between politicians and engineers. It's the juxtaposition between individuals whose profession relies on using rhetoric t
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I moved from NYC to Cambridge thinking I could get a decent 1 bedroom for 500k. Boy was I wrong.
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I'm with you on this one. I've never owned an iphone because I'm cheap, but when you see a poor person with an iphone it's not a phone they have in their hands -- it's _the_ only device they have to connect to the i
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
We havent seen a group of 50 militants take over a city and reck havoc because our surveillance systems can detect such levels of organization. As horrible as this sounds, anyone with an IQ above 60 can plot and kill 30 people because there
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
They already have node which is a mix of javascript, C++ (v8) and c(libuv.) Go is a fine language, and it's ok to want to write infrastructure code in go, but they shouldn't be giving false reasons.
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
>Because Node.js is single threaded, background refreshing can tie up the CPU for an extended period of time (e.g., for CPU-intensive JSON parsing work), causing a spike in query response times. I'm not the biggest node fan, but tha
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I'm genuinely interested: jeeves weighs in at ~20k loc. at 50 lines of code/day that's a 1 year endeavor. I know there's a lot of research upstream, TAing, writing papers, and so on, but 50 loc/day is something very
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Another reason to take on debt, as an individual, is to leverage your position -- It's indirectly related to provide income in excess of interest payment. An example would be to take on debt to purchase a vehicle to broaden the area wh
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Tangle of gotos? Those gotos all look reasonable -- they go to return conditions no longer than a few lines. Buffer allocations? They allocate to 2-3 buffers. That's all very reasonable. allocations and gotos aren't the devil in C
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that when you generate a prime you're using the Miller–Rabin primality test in which case you only probabilistically choose a prime. In fact, the is_prime functions in openssl don't check if a number is prime.
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I have a pair and they are great. Just remember these aren't miracle products: you'll get multiple miles in the mountains if you're in the same valley, but I only got 500 meters in Urban areas. It really makes you appreciate
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Great to see fresh ideas! One thing I don't like in the presentation is that tapir is presented as doing better than what is out there without stating the conditions. First off there's quite a bit of hand-waving when it comes to l
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Perhaps you mean link time? If you're spending a lot of time compiling you are probably suffering from other problems. Most of C++'s issues with compilation come from needing to re-compile entire .cpp files because of a change in
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
This was on my todo for years. I never liked the idea of using a cloud solution for privacy and price reasons. I recently bought a QNAP NAS which provides amazing custom backup solutions. I raided the disks, and continuously backup all pers
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Same, The first program I ever wrote was a counter-strike script to automatically buy weapons. Due to network latency, I added artificial 50ms wait() calls and immediately fell in love with automating things. I thought I was so pro figuring
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
Finally I get to dispense this random piece of information I researched when I wondered why there were so many water fountains in US buildings but not in european buildings! The law requires at least 1 fountain per 1000 capacity (usually 1-
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I freeze my tasty fresh bread and then double-toast it -- it'll lose some of its flavor but it's still >> wonder-bread
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
>A group of automobile manufacturers said that opening the code to scrutiny could create “serious threats to safety and security.” I think it is tremendously difficult for the layman to understand that obscurity is not security. In fact
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
The sinister in me asks "Well, who tends to make shitty decisions?" The innocent asks "How is this legal?" The realist middle-classer I am asks "Are my tax dollars going to be used to fix this shit again?" The
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
MIT PhD authored article may float your boat a little more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/11/upshot/new-data-gives-clea... Or http://www.brookings.edu/about/projects/bpea/
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
You work at a startup don't you?
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by matthewaveryusa 11y ago
I worked at bberg for 4 years. Changed about 2 lines of fortran code. Some people do more, others so less, but the norm is you'll spend a sliver of your time in fortran. Great place to work, too bad it's in NYC
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by matthewaveryusa 12y ago
MVP, got to start somewhere right?
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by matthewaveryusa 12y ago
that would be easy to check and restrict on the client side.