nickcano

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by nickcano 11y ago
I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about security? Are you leaking the other thread into here just so you can feel like you won both, instead of neither? And I never said anything about any C/C++ type system doing anything? But
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by nickcano 11y ago
I give up. You are literally drenched in a dogmatic hate for low-level and far too under-educated to argue with.
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by nickcano 11y ago
That's a horrible example. SQL injection IS the fault of the programmer, not SQL itself. SQL injection is achieved by adding extra code to a query, which is only possible when a programmer allows inputs that can contain code to be conc
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by nickcano 11y ago
And yet, under almost every high-level language that "does all the work that I do manually", what is there? Under Python in C++ Under PHP is C++ Under Haskell is a variant of C called C-- Under Lua is C Under Perl is C Is this bec
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by nickcano 11y ago
So a structural engineer shouldn't worry about the structural integrity of his buildings, only that they stand up under ideal conditions? A car manufacturer shouldn't worry about crash-testing or other safety concerns, only that t
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by nickcano 11y ago
Security Guy: Hey, bank, it seems like your vault is accessible via some old sewage tunnels. Bank: So what? Nobody knows about those tunnels. Security Guy: But someone who finds them, like me, but with less morals, could rob you. Bank: Prov
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by nickcano 11y ago
Are you sour because you don't understand pointers, or something? I'm 22 and I almost exclusively use C++, C, and x86 assembly. These types of languages are not going anywhere, and a fair portion "the next generation of progr
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by nickcano 11y ago
It really, really doesn't matter. WhatsApp has the money to manipulate the law however they want. Small-time developers do not. I came up as an engineer in the bot development industry (for online games), and the history of the industr
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by nickcano 12y ago
Well, it's not 'scanning files'. It's scanning meta-data about directories and files. You can see three calls for each file in the ProcMon logs: 1. CreateFile 2. QueryBasicInformationFile 3. CloseFile Let's go throu
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by nickcano 12y ago
I liked this idea, but noticed the gap between up/down votes was actually quite large, meaning the questions weren't actually that controversial. I went ahead and made a change that filtered out results where ABS(up - down) is les
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by nickcano 12y ago
Establishing a connection isn't considered 'sending a message'.
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by nickcano 12y ago
I made a fully autonomous bot for a 15 year old MMORPG. The bot can completely play the game with very little intervention, and I have about 2,000 people paying $5.75 monthly for it.