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by mreiland 12y ago
Not even the research bears that out.
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by mreiland 12y ago
It's a hell of a lot more complex than that. A developer with a short deadline is going to design things differently than one with a longer deadline. That superior design can often result in better long term maintenance. There's
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by mreiland 12y ago
This is why I don't trust TDD proponents. I'm not against TDD itself, or unit testing as a whole, but I'm also not 20 y/o college kid. There is absolutely no way the increase in workload of TDD doesn't have a cost
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by mreiland 12y ago
The analogy still holds. If I hand you a blueprint for a skyscraper and I realize there is no lock specified for the front doors. Does that mean it's a lockless skyscraper or I'm speaking to a jackass who forgot a critical functi
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by mreiland 12y ago
self assessment is worth plenty.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> I hope it's not lost on you that history is riddled with corrupt regimes who employ that kind of rhetoric. All governments are corrupt, are you implying governments don't have a need for secrecy? I don't really have an o
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by mreiland 12y ago
yes and I'm racist when I point out someone is being racist. I'm also a troll when I point out someone is trolling. do you know how I turn female? By pointing out that someone is female. It's amazing how making an observatio
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by mreiland 12y ago
It's an arbitrary line. Too many people come up with an opinion and then cast about for a way to make it seem valid.
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by mreiland 12y ago
you're drawing an arbitrary line, that was the point. We specialize and abstract for a reason. No one understands everything about everything surrounded their code, and that includes other software. Don't tell me you've per
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by mreiland 12y ago
It isn't the idea of a timing attack I take issue with. I can understand how that could be possible. I don't understand why purposefully having everything related to cryptography taking a predetermined time doesn't solve it.
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by mreiland 12y ago
You haven't explained why it doesn't solve the problem. My experience has been if I can't understand it, it's because it's bullshit. So why not take another crack at explaining why that wouldn't solve the prob
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by mreiland 12y ago
I'm interested in reality, not an oversimplification for academic reasoning. I thought that was clear.
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by mreiland 12y ago
Why is it people can't ever respond to sanity, but instead assume idiocy? You measure page faults in terms of milliseconds, I was not suggesting you even out the cryptographic timings to the tune of milliseconds, especially when you co
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by mreiland 12y ago
I don't see it. I get what you're saying, but how does latency not swallow that difference? Or load balancing, or routing through the internal network behind the router. It's really hard for me to buy that an attacker c
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by mreiland 12y ago
oh god, what happens if someone adds the vim repo to vundle? Please don't do it, the space time continuum will collapse. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, AT WORK, OR ANYWHERE.
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by mreiland 12y ago
In other words, you're willing to try and try to find a way to convince yourself you're not wrong despite having it explained to you already. good day.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> If an attacker submits multiple requests simultaneously, it would be possible for them to determine if you were actually working, or just sleeping - and you're back to leaking. how?
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by mreiland 12y ago
Can someone explain to me why you wouldn't just count clock ticks at a higher level than the CPU? If the operation finishes early just... wait. I understand resolution and yes you'll probably only be w/i a delta of some sor
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by mreiland 12y ago
why write unit tests when we don't understand the microcode in the CPU? We can't have "tested" it because we don't understand said microcode. Or wait... no, maybe your characterization is wrong. Yeah... that's
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by mreiland 12y ago
not applicable either, the code and program structures serve a purpose and the article specifically described removing parts that are not applicable.
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by mreiland 12y ago
You wrote the article because you feel others can somehow benefit from your glorious observations. But then you went off and created a strawman example that no reasonable person would agree with. Namely that somehow the person who claims t
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by mreiland 12y ago
No idea since I didn't finish the article. When I read the following: "The Tesla Model S will be self-steering." 1. The Tesla Model S does not yet self-steer. 2. Nobody, including Musk, has the ability to say with certainty
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by mreiland 12y ago
That's a terrible terrible way to look at those sorts of statements.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I think that's fair and reasonable.
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by mreiland 12y ago
didn't read through everything, but the example of the contrast with the positive/negative actions is silly. I find it much easier to identify the "bad example" than he good example. It isn't the contrast that&#x27
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by mreiland 12y ago
I just watched you blame recruiter spam on your gender and you think the blame lies in all the talk online about gender inequality? The blame lies squarely with you.
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by mreiland 12y ago
> I dare say that if all operating systems were nix, that might also be a good thing. It certainly would make life easier for developers. How? Windows and Unix have evolved entirely different ecosystems. Most developers have a tendency
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by mreiland 12y ago
Maybe you should stop looking for gender inequality without direct evidence. Crazy thought I know.
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by mreiland 12y ago
I've never experienced that, although I once had someone give feedback that I didn't get hired because I didn't bring a notebook and a pen to take notes during the interview. I did bring a few extra copies of my resume, mind
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by mreiland 12y ago
Here's some more feedback, I cracked open the article, quickly identified it as one of the preachy posts he was referring to, and closed it without reading. I too am tired of people discovering this "blog" thing.

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