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by nadams 12y ago
CDNs/Mirrors always downloaded fast for me (<5 minutes). It could be the auto selection not working well for you - which you should be able to overwrite.
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by nadams 12y ago
I tried some of the unofficial mirrors - the ones I could find did not have the latest version.
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by nadams 12y ago
Disclaimer: I've heard lots of great things about #!. However, I have never had the chance to try it myself. I kind of figured distributing the distro over torrent only was a bad idea. For the kids sitting at home - torrenting isn&#x27
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by nadams 12y ago
I don't understand your point - Assuming $2k/month is $40k - that is almost half of $100k. So almost half your salary is going towards just rent. Let's say you made $50k in a suburb area - using your numbers you would only pa
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by nadams 12y ago
Rent alone would come out to about 50% of your take home pay[1] (estimated of course - you would probably get less depending on benefits). Assuming if you hunted you might be able to rent for $1500, but from zillow[2] the rent appears to be
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by nadams 12y ago
> The salary is MISERABLE compared to what you could get in the private sector. That all depends. Many comp sci students are brainwashed to think that if a salary isn't at least 100k then it's not worth their time. The fact is
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by nadams 12y ago
The only reason why I suggested Verisign is because they have been in the industry long enough to know what they are doing (presumably) and not make the same mistakes that were made in the past. Worst case scenario - if Verisign doesn'
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by nadams 12y ago
I'm sorry I didn't make that more clearer - that was a hypothetical question. The question is a loaded question and it raises other deeper rooted issues like what you pointed out (MITM attacks against DNS being one such example).
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by nadams 12y ago
> By design, certificate authorities need to be 1. trustworthy, 2. highly vetted and 3. very few. If everyone is a certificate authority, then no one is. Isn't that the situation we are in now? All it takes is one CA with poor secur
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by nadams 12y ago
Personally the code is confusing to me - the author jumps between OO and non-OO. I'm not saying that's necessarily a bad thing - but from what I've seen is that stuff he has as functions might be better suited for a class. I
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by nadams 12y ago
> great free StartSSL It looks like they cleaned up their forums from when they were last mentioned[1] but I'll still keep my distance. Anything like this is really a bandaid for the real problem with SSL/CA. As in why can&#x27
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by nadams 12y ago
I think it's interesting to point that out that the source is still available (on github no less) - I think Nintendo was unhappy because they were collecting donations (at least one of the comments mention this). The projects I mention
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by nadams 12y ago
I'm on the fence on this one - I could argue either way (I could probably work a books worth of material). However, I think it is interesting to note that the idea of "stealing" a design has been done for years. I just don&#x
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by nadams 12y ago
It could be a solution but that already kind of exists (with forums/IRC etc). However, these "gatekeepers" can be just as unhelpful. I have been studying this behavior for some time - and it's very interesting. I have fo
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by nadams 12y ago
Upon further research it looks like recompiling may no longer be needed. I remember awhile back some feature in a newer version of Apache - however I may be confusing that with my Ubuntu 10.04 (most of my other systems run Debian Wheezy). I
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by nadams 12y ago
That is what I suspected - in order to get an "A+" you have to recompile the web server (the article is for nginx but the same idea applies to Apache). I'm not saying this is a difficult process - but not something I want to
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by nadams 12y ago
I don't think anyone is home: https://forum.startcom.org/viewforum.php?f=8 After I saw the state of their forums/community I ran, not walked, away from their service. Which is rather scary considering they are a t
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by nadams 12y ago
tl;dr; free services are fine - just make sure you have backups of all your data For most individual projects - they are probably good enough. However, the thing to keep in mind is that for free they usually limit features (I think bitbucke
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by nadams 12y ago
After writing a lexer, parser, compiler and virtual machine in C++ and ported parts to Python, Java and FreeBASIC - I think this is a good starting point. Most of the concepts are pretty simple - it's when you get into if/while&#x
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by nadams 12y ago
I think a lot of the comments here are good - but a thing to keep in mind with github is that their free repo hosting is by default - public. Which means that your code is indexed and searchable - by anyone visiting github including anonymo
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by nadams 12y ago
> Then what will you do, if you don't want to tell Big Brother where you are going? Walk? Bike? Hitch a ride Back To The Future style with your hoverboard?
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by nadams 12y ago
I want to point out that Tiobe ranks C++ as the #4 most popular language - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... I'll just say I'm not a fan of C++ and would rather wr