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by moserware 15y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I joined a startup (kaggle.com) at the start of the year and that has used up most of my time I had for blogging. I'm hoping to get back to writing again sometime before the end of the year. Unfortunately, it take
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by moserware 15y ago
I think it's fine. 4xx is a way of saying the client did something wrong that it can potentially fix (i.e. slow down requests). 5xx is more opaque meaning there is nothing the client can do to fix the problem.
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by moserware 15y ago
You're right that there's more to it to build a full working implementation (including generating and sharing keys). I tried to show that by dissecting HTTPS (TLS): http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h... I didn't
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by moserware 15y ago
I was a bit surprised to wake up and find this on Hacker News again! I had no idea how popular (~340k+ views) this post would become when I wrote it two years ago. I wrote it out of frustration after reading the Rijndael book that I linked
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by moserware 15y ago
I disagree. A better model helps them better understand customer behavior. Disclaimer: I work at Kaggle and have been involved with setting up the competition.
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by moserware 15y ago
Try using an private/incognito window/tab
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by moserware 16y ago
I didn't really give much thought to the name other than "it's a paper/document with math in it." I honestly had no intentions (or even hopes) of trying to deceptive anyone into thinking I was a mathematician. I can see your point though an
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by moserware 16y ago
I'm the guilty party, so I can provide some background :) I used LaTeX in college for my math homework and it worked well for my needs back then. However, it had been a few years since I used it and I thought I would mainly use the accompan
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by moserware 16y ago
Brief summary at http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/11/update-on-googles-infras... Longer summary at http://doubleclix.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/google-a-study-in...
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by moserware 16y ago
(Windows Media) video at http://ee380.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/videologger.php?target=101...
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Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned(stanford.edu)
9 points by moserware 16y ago|2 comments
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by moserware 16y ago
(From the alt text on the hyperlink where I said that): Yes, it has the 'class' keyword, but [it seems] that was bolted on relatively late and wasn't the primary focus in PHP's design. See the linked article: http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/
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by moserware 16y ago
Thanks! I was tired of all the language-bashing out there and wanted to look at it objectively.
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Notes from porting C# code to PHP(moserware.com)
70 points by moserware 16y ago|25 comments
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by moserware 16y ago
It's probably tied to the start of Microsoft's PDC 2010 conference on purpose.
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by moserware 16y ago
No real content here. Perhaps we'll learn more on Thursday at microsoftpdc.com
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by moserware 16y ago
I explained more of the details and some of the "why's" in http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advan... , but most people seemed to stop reading before getting to them.
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by moserware 16y ago
It's nice to see Browser Wars 3.0 having benefits for the whole community.
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IE9 Public Beta Release Today(fastcompany.com)
30 points by moserware 16y ago|37 comments
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by moserware 16y ago
What about archive.org?
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23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail(npr.org)
34 points by moserware 16y ago|20 comments
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by moserware 16y ago
Excellent! It's fun to read about his impact from his friend's perspective after meeting Alan in person ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/a-visit-with-alan-k... ) Btw, the 32MB PDF under CC license: http://piumarta.com/pov/point
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by moserware 16y ago
> * SSL requires that you decide which certificate authorities you want to trust. One subtle point is that governments can force seemingly great certificate authorities to give them a certificate so that they can do man-in-the-middle at
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by moserware 16y ago
Garry Kasparov made a comment recently that in the era of 3000+ ELO chess computers, poker seems like a good match for humans still beating computer for now given that both sides don't have complete information. This could explain why top c
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Docs.com (Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps + Facebook integration)(docs.com)
33 points by moserware 16y ago|25 comments
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by moserware 16y ago
The author, Robin Hanson, has done some really great work in prediction markets. One of his papers directly led to the founding of Inkling Markets (YC06). I sort of get the feeling that this article was indirectly referring to his involveme
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by moserware 17y ago
Similiar ideas came up in the Mix10 talk "Cloud Computing Economies of Scale": http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX01
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by moserware 17y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I try to write posts that would have helped me understand a topic. I've found that I can get to a hand-wavy understanding of a topic in a reasonable amount of time and then an actual understanding that I can commu
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by moserware 17y ago
(copied from the comment I left on the post) I think a lot of programmers were turned off to math by boring classes that focused way too much time on how to calculate rather than applying it. This typically happened early in their life and
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Computing Your Skill(moserware.com)
19 points by moserware 17y ago|0 comments

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