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by mustpax 17y ago
Unfortunately, public protocols like HTTP need to manage communication between parties that do not trust each other. This is not a legal matter, so there is no necessity to establish motives or plausibility. A secure protocol is charged wit
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by mustpax 17y ago
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense. Just to be clear, I wouldn't attempt to do this at home (so to speak). I was merely curious about the theoretical differences between the alternate approaches.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Well, people have been sued for breaking ROT13, no joke: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-116424.html?legacy=zdnn
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by mustpax 17y ago
From the vagueness of your statement, it sounds like these forums fall into the second category of being up to no good in the first place.
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by mustpax 17y ago
This might be a stupid question, but why not hash a message then encrypt the hash with a symmetric cypher instead of trying to mix the key material into the pre-hash value? Is that just much slower?
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by mustpax 17y ago
This a very good intro. Readable, fun and concise. Something that caught my eye though: links now have a rel="noreferrer" option. This sounds like a pretty bad idea. It's not supported by any browsers yet, but if it worked it would blank o
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by mustpax 17y ago
You can also use the +subscript feature for that. youremail+twitter1@gmail.com youremail+twitter2@gmail.com. Allows you to filter based on account as well.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Not only is there no metric, but when we force artificial metrics onto programming teams, we are forcing them to pursue a goal other than the quality of the software itself. Any benefits derived from measurability will be eclipsed by the ba
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Nokia sues Apple for infringement of multiple patents(nokia.com)
29 points by mustpax 17y ago|84 comments
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by mustpax 17y ago
This is great stuff, definitely will be using it in the future. It's worth noting, though, that this only runs the JavaScript style Regular Expressions. Escape sequences and such things will vary to a degree between different RegEx flavors.
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The problem with push notifications and firewalls(paksoy.net)
1 points by mustpax 17y ago|0 comments
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Not all rhetorical tools are tricks. Analogies can be informative when taken with a grain of salt. Presenting an analogy a joke is especially honest because invites the reader to not take the analogy too seriously. So I don't think the open
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by mustpax 17y ago
I might very well be wrong about that, my knowledge of English idioms can be lacking at times. However, in my experience bees are attracted to sugary material like honey even though they themselves make it. And a Google image search returns
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by mustpax 17y ago
I would be extremely cautious about connecting to these interim hosts that provide access to the rest of the Tor network. If I were a government bent on surveillance, the first thing I would do after blacklisting legitimate hosts would be t
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by mustpax 17y ago
There was a press release directly from T-Mobile declaring that the data was gone, and it was most likely not coming back. That's as credible as any news can get, and no organization can be blamed for publishing that. Also, the fact the M
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by mustpax 17y ago
Almost all interview spots on late-night talk shows are pure marketing. Without fail, the interviewee always has a book or a movie coming out. Or, at most, is a former or current politician, seeking publicity for their latest cause (a found
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by mustpax 17y ago
At an initial glance it looks like a forkbomb, but it isn't. The program is never going to get past: for (;;) { printf blah blah } So the fork() call is only going to get executed once. It just fills your screen with lo
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by mustpax 17y ago
For all this person claims to be wise and experienced, this is a very contentless and juvenile blog post. The tone is condescending and reeks of insecurity.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Traditionally Unix filenames can contain everything except for / and null (aka \0). This is why the find utility provides a facility for printing null terminated filenames (-print0), when used in conjunction with xargs -0 this is a fool pro
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by mustpax 17y ago
This is one of those times where I honestly wish I was at a time and place in my life where I could take the leap. RethinkDB does exactly the kind of low level, rethink-the-whole-stack systems development that I've been crazy about from the
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by mustpax 17y ago
Tag jumping is also cool: Ctrl-] will jump to the tag under the cursor and pushes the current location on the tag. Ctrl-T pops the tag stack and moves you back to your previous location. Good for checking the definition of a function and ju
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by mustpax 17y ago
I absolutely agree. Python is a wonderful language that made me rediscover how fun programming can be. Still, SICP was transformational experience for me. And it wasn't transformational because it was a kind and gentle intro to CS. On the c
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by mustpax 17y ago
Is that part of the robots.txt RFC or just a happy security coincidence? The bit.ly issue seems like a pretty bad bug that ought to be fixed. You also might be able to fool Google Webmaster Tools or other utilities into thinking you own bit
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by mustpax 17y ago
I imaging if you owned noreply.com you'd get a hefty amount of private correspondence in as well. I bet there are plenty of services out there that use noreply@noreply.com thinking it's the email equivalent of /dev/null for some magical rea
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by mustpax 17y ago
You are making several big assumptions here: 1. Grad students from non-Ivy PhD programs are useless as research collaborators. 2. People doing CS theory need to be smarter than the average CS PhD. 3. People who go to non-Ivy schools are dum
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by mustpax 17y ago
The edit expired, but I feel embarrassed about those first two sentences so let me correct them: The more I play around with Erlang, the more it makes absolute sense. This is concurrency done right. This is the problem with posting to HN
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by mustpax 17y ago
The more play around about Erlang, the more it makes absolute sense. This is a concurrency done right. And I say this having done concurrent programming in Java and C (both pthreads and LAM/MPI). The share-nothing, message passing paradigm
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by mustpax 17y ago
Not really surprising since I believe IBM already uses Lotus Notes for email. Office is just the next logical step. Anecdotally I haven't heard very good things about Lotus Notes though. ( http://search.twitter.com/search?q=hate+lotus ) So
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by mustpax 17y ago
How about regular expressions? It would be interesting to try out some catastrophic backtracking expressions, see if the tweet goes through.
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Not only that, but to last a long time, film has to have been processed absolutely correctly (developed, fixed, and fix-washed) and stored absolutely correctly. Any mistakes, and you are a long way away from an archival copy. This takes exp

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