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by nikbackm 12y ago
Interesting. I tested with my gmail-account and it was reported as pwned. Then I tested the gmail-account again with this service which also shows the two first characters of the leaked password. https://isleaked.com/en Tur
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Why wouldn't black work? Should give visible messages with white text unless I'm missing something.
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DIY diagnosis: How an extreme athlete uncovered her genetic flaw(mosaicscience.com)
78 points by nikbackm 12y ago|5 comments
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Why does Explorer say “File too large” when the file is not too large?(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by nikbackm 12y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 12y ago
I haven't read much of this, but I recall a scene where Dumbledore was portrayed in a very unflattering light at least. (Something about trying to avoid dying I think)
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Hopefully the general public will soon learn to avoid the big green "Download here" arrows too. But then the ad-makers will probably come up with something else instead.
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Why did it take so long for Windows to support multi-monitor taskbars?(blogs.msdn.com)
70 points by nikbackm 12y ago|94 comments
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Probably more of an issue when all of your strings work(ed) like that, as opposed to here where you must explicitly opt-in to use immutable strings with shared buffers.
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by nikbackm 12y ago
True, but if you need disk encryption you probably use one of those already. I mean, a normal use case is a corporate laptop used when traveling or similar. Normal home users certainly have no need of it, for them it's just something e
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Seems to me they relied on the uninitialized memory of a stack variable as a partial source of randomness for key generation. Initializing the variable with 0 removed that part.
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A Module System for C++(isocpp.org)
1 points by nikbackm 12y ago|0 comments
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Windows NT did have "subsystems" for POSIX and OS/2 along with Win32 back in the day.
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by nikbackm 12y ago
It might be a neat solution if you already have a server process for other tasks anyway and the data access needs are quite simple.
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Wouldn't a database generally be offline when you ALTER it? At least one that is used in scenarios where SQLITE is appropriate. In that case it should not hurt too much if the operation takes some time.
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Maybe, but not having to synchronize your feeds between different devices and platforms is a good incentive to give up that control.
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by nikbackm 12y ago
True, the new Firefox menu is much improved, but there still seems to be no way to access it via the keyboard so it will probably remained largely unused by me. I like the new placement of the real menu bar (when enabled), much better than
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by nikbackm 12y ago
Are there any functional changes other than moving some buttons and menus around a little? I like Firefox and will continue to use it, but I just don't see what good this update is supposed to accomplish.
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by nikbackm 13y ago
It would be inconsistent and not really that helpful. How often do you use (invalid) constant indexes with fixed length arrays? Probably better to handle all out-of-bounds errors the same way.
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by nikbackm 13y ago
D perhaps? It's also designed to compile fast and to native code. Maybe it's not as mature and robust as Delphi yet though.
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by nikbackm 13y ago
Does it cure cancer too?
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by nikbackm 13y ago
Maybe because iostreams are synchronized with stdio by default? It's possible to disable that for a big speed boost. There's also the issue that iostreams might be implemented on top of stdio for simplicity. Hard to make it faster
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by nikbackm 13y ago
True, but since V8 is open-source, shouldn't it now be possible for the Ruby developers to borrow the techniques from it that made Javascript so much faster?
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by nikbackm 13y ago
Seems to me they would apply to Javascript though, and that got quite fast with V8.
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by nikbackm 13y ago
OTOH, with auto the reader never have to worry about narrowing conversions. And any decent IDE should show the deduced type for an auto variable on demand.
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by nikbackm 13y ago
I haven't read Lakos' book sad to say. Since it's a little old now, can anyone tell how well it still stands up today? Are there any rules/guidelines from the book that are outdated?
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by nikbackm 13y ago
Well, since you're throwing an int-pointer then catch(int*) should also catch it quite happily. I guess you mean there will only be a catch(int) in addition to catch(...) so in that aspect you're right of course. Still, I would th
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by nikbackm 13y ago
Well it was mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment (was thinking of yesterday's C++ exception topic), but essentially true as you would not have used the "if + goto" with C++ error handling. Of course you can write the same bug (an
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by nikbackm 13y ago
I don't see the possibility for catching the wrong type (or not catching it) if you get one character wrong. Unless of course you have two valid type names that just differ in one character, but that is a general pitfall and not except
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by nikbackm 13y ago
This could not have happened with C++ exceptions and RAII instead of manual error checking and goto for cleanup ;)
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by nikbackm 13y ago
How are they more broken compared to e.g. Java and C#? (Assuming you don't have a problem with these.) I would think having automatic cleanup via destructors would make C++ more pleasant to use in this aspect as you don't need to

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