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by moserware 17y ago
You might look at OMeta/JS: http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#JavaScript_Compiler OMeta is based upon PEGs and is worth a look because it has some great meta-meta ideas from the 60's that were ignored. (Also, there are several ports of OMeta
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by moserware 17y ago
I didn't mean to trivialize horrible things that have been done by evil people in the past (regardless of their IQ). I think that there is a general definition that an "intellectual" is someone who is, at best, detached from reality in a wa
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by moserware 17y ago
I don't think it's proud of being ignorant, but rather an anti-intellectual. Geoffrey Canada (a guy who's doing some great work as CEO of the Harlem Children Zone) had an interesting comment during an economic competitiveness summit on a si
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Is It Cheating to Use Wolfram Alpha for Math Homework?(blog.wolframalpha.com)
1 points by moserware 17y ago|1 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
Good thoughts. The general idea is that it's more important to have a good algorithm with a lot of data than a great algorithm with little data. Norvig's "Theorizing from Data" talk is very similar to this one: http://www.facebook.com/tech
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Learning To Learn: Pencil, Then Ink(betterexplained.com)
35 points by moserware 17y ago|11 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
Same goes for saying you're too old: "it isn't that young people learn that much faster; it's just they have more time. When I would put time in, I made progress." - Dan Ingalls
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Introducing the New Cybersecurity Coordinator (Howard Schmidt)(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by moserware 17y ago|0 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
Steve Gibson has a decent DNS Benchmark tool for Windows as well: http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm (Level 3's DNS servers were slightly faster than Google's for me) It has a list of several public DNS servers.
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by moserware 17y ago
I'm embarrassed to say: each one took about 10-25 minutes. The math ones took a lot longer. I used up two Sharpie markers in the process. My handwriting was hard to read, so I had to do a lot of editing with Paint.net to make them legible.
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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)(moserware.com)
178 points by moserware 17y ago|8 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
Right. You could effectively create a new git revision for the document on each keystroke and then allow branching/merging, but the UI would be challenging and probably not worth the effort.
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Just Enough MBA to Be a Programmer(moserware.com)
40 points by moserware 17y ago|10 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
I went ahead and added a link in that paragraph to your signature forgery series since I wasn't aware of that attack.
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by moserware 17y ago
Thanks for the kind words! It's humbling to have a security pro like you even read it :). I dabble with this stuff because I find it interesting (especially the number theory). The Wireshark'ing was to see how things really worked. Hopefull
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by moserware 17y ago
Good point! If I update the post to indicate that the length is also checked in secvfy.c: http://www.koders.com/c/fid7EBD6C04C1D001D6410ED86171294E237... and link to the matasano series, would that better address your concern?
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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection(moserware.com)
236 points by moserware 17y ago|33 comments
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by moserware 17y ago
Another good account: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23Netflix-t.html?...
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How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work(moserware.com)
62 points by moserware 18y ago|6 comments
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Rebooting Computing: Why?(moserware.com)
3 points by moserware 18y ago|0 comments
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Wetware Refactorings(moserware.com)
18 points by moserware 18y ago|1 comments
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Meta-FizzBuzz(moserware.com)
2 points by moserware 18y ago|0 comments