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by necubi 17y ago
For all of the complaints about the W3C and browser vendors and HTML5, there is something indisputable: this is the best time ever to be a web developer. Things are hardly perfect, but for the first time in many years the web is moving forw
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by necubi 17y ago
Cars are, as usual, a really poor analogy. It's true I have absolutely no idea how to fix a car if it breaks down; however, fixing cars is a highly specialized skill (especially these days) and requires expensive equipment. Companies like F
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Two billion-transistor beasts: POWER7 and Niagara 3(arstechnica.com)
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by necubi 17y ago
That's great until someone gets access to their user database and is able to crack every password in very little time. Increasing the key space (both through longer passwords and more allowed characters) makes these sorts of attacks far mor
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by necubi 17y ago
That is a patently ridiculous argument. Allowing unlimited money to be spent by corporations produces a distortion orders of magnitude larger than that of unemployment. Perhaps an unemployed person can have several times the impact of someo
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by necubi 17y ago
The article is talking about the problem of storing passwords in a database in order to authenticate logins. This is for people writing web-apps, not users looking to secure their own passwords.
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by necubi 17y ago
I'm a sophomore CompSci and Econ major located in Silicon Valley (Santa Cruz, to be specific). I'm an experienced rails coder, and am also proficient in Obj-c, java (though I try to avoid it) and javascript. My most recent project was a cla
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by necubi 17y ago
But the vast majority of flash games are useless on the iPhone and iPad, because they expect input mechanisms that those devices don't have. Though there's probably less variety, native games clearly provide a better experience because they
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by necubi 17y ago
According to the specs page ( http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/ ) there is A-GPS, but only on the 3G model.
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by necubi 17y ago
No, because the chip is ARM and therefore can only run operating systems that have been ported to ARM (this does, however, include various linux distributions).
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by necubi 17y ago
These sorts of comparisons are kind of silly, because there is no way to adequately put all these movies on equal ground (the movie market is radically different today than it was in the 1930s). Even if one could, what exactly are they tryi
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by necubi 17y ago
It's depressing how true and yet pointless these sorts of essays are. Very smart people have been pointing out for years that our current security apparatus makes no sense, but it's still political suicide for any politician to admit this o
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by necubi 17y ago
No, because one blog post from (sorry to say) an un-credible source is not comparable to the current noise around the Apple tablet. Again, major newspapers have reported on the tablet as fact. Major sources in the apple-news world (DaringFi
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by necubi 17y ago
Yes, in so far as major, main-stream news organizations (NYTimes, Wall St. Journal, etc.) have treated it as fact for months now. Additionally, if Apple were not about to announce a tablet they would have squashed this ages ago, as they hav