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by npsimons 12y ago
These people wouldn't know a ninja if they met one. Isn't that kind of the point of a ninja?
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by npsimons 12y ago
I'll wager most Linux users don't even use TrueCrypt, since we've had FDE in the form of LUKS/DMcrypt since forever, and could not give a damn about being able to read those partitions from other OSes (as if! Since when
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by npsimons 12y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one; when I saw the headline I thought "this fix wouldn't be necessary if people just used static pages in the first place." I've seen headers that stay on-screen while scrolling; even
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by npsimons 12y ago
Middle-click much?
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by npsimons 12y ago
Can you name these soaps which supposedly have antibacterials added to them (like triclosan) that don't list it? Is the following one of them? http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bronners-Magic-Soaps-Pure-Castile/d...
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by npsimons 12y ago
Yes, I know that, which is why I specifically mentioned soaps lacking triclosan .
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by npsimons 12y ago
Here's a start: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-one-button-mystique/
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by npsimons 12y ago
What's interesting is that other people have commented on the back button; see http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-one-button-mystique/ which I also find highly amusing for its link to the state diagram of what the o
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by npsimons 12y ago
It's still fragmented but at least you could go with people like the author who have thought through it rather than an awful corporate designed by committee mess. Some people would argue that's what Apple is doing with iOS. Not
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by npsimons 12y ago
And if you look hard enough, you can find soap that doesn't have antibacterial chemicals (no triclosan). I carry around a small squirt tube of liquid soap for this reason, and also because most soap in public bathrooms is atrocious in
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by npsimons 12y ago
So are we talking Microkernel here or something else? Sorry to constrain by categorizing, but it's what I do sometimes :) and I am thinking of some OSes (mostly research/academic) that went this way (of no layers between userland
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by npsimons 12y ago
Been done before (some would say to death), and the reason we have memory protection between applications is forgotten because people don't realize how nice it is. Sure, sure, your big "well engineered" web browser needs dire
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by npsimons 12y ago
While it's more pragmatic and covers broader ground, "Mind Performance Hacks" by Ron Hale-Evans has its first chapter on memory, and I can recommend it all around.
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by npsimons 12y ago
Forget efficiency, forget "self-importance" (to me, those calling others "self-important" are most often the most self-important assholes around), sometimes it's just therapeutic. How many times have we read that a
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by npsimons 12y ago
Intellectual property law adds the force of the state to concepts/ideas/media/etc that originated by the sweat of my brow, to encourage the creation of more, and to enable me to make a living from it. Except that little pes
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by npsimons 12y ago
Everyone in the comments here are getting caught up in the examples Maybe that's because the examples appear to contradict the thesis of the book - that's not exactly a ringing endorsement. I see this book as an evolution of Th
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by npsimons 12y ago
The interesting thing to me about TDD is it almost feels like science: make a test, specifically a test of your assumptions (you assume the test will fail and you assume that the code you will create will fix it), test it, then modify
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by npsimons 12y ago
"Refactoring" is next on my list, but I started with "UML Distilled", and am currently working on "Design Patterns", partly in preparation for "Refactoring" (and "UML Distilled" was partly i
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by npsimons 12y ago
but in reality the people who disagree often have just as good an understanding of the basic facts, yet disagree anyway. Really? I hate to be the elitist asshole, but if people don't understand that making bits uncopyable is not in t
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by npsimons 12y ago
many major content providers have shown little interest in releasing their material without a mechanism for preventing casual copying (and you can hardly blame them) I can and do blame them and I say: let them die like the dinosaurs th
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by npsimons 12y ago
So very much this. As a developer, I just love "pip install whatever", but as a sysadmin, it makes me cringe every time - how do I manage this? What happens if I have to reinstall? What do you mean, you want to put files in &#x2
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by npsimons 12y ago
Is there a good reason to assume this would only be used defensively? It's Apple, so no.
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by npsimons 12y ago
I hate "best practices", precisely because it implies there is one (and only one) "best" way to do something, and it's usually implied that there is only one tool that does things that way. That being said, I ca
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by npsimons 12y ago
Modern Smalltalks (Squeak, Pharo) have Monticello for code management, and Metacello for dependency management. These work 'in-image', easily and efficiently. See, this is what gets me about Smalltalk and other "cocooned&qu
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by npsimons 12y ago
Why are people downvoting this? Just because you don't like it doesn't make it not true. You may be able to argue that Windows is necessary (ha! for rooting Android? why is that?), but that doesn't make the most insecure and
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by npsimons 12y ago
I think it was posted a while back; it was an interesting enough article that it stuck in my head and I was able to find it pretty easily by googling "why is grep so fast?". Ah, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by npsimons 12y ago
What hit me was the "Processors are so fast now we can Brute force grep over 100GB in a second". Ironically, this may only be because grep uses very well tuned, not immediately straightforward algorithms. See in particular http
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by npsimons 13y ago
My first response to the article title was "I've already gamified my habits - I use org-mode". Trying to check off as many yellows (and reds!) every day as possible, not-breaking-the-chain by continuing the green line. It&#x2
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by npsimons 13y ago
Someone realized this a long time ago, and the Linux kernel is already being audited and tested, with regression tests, etc (see the Linux Testing Project). OpenSSH is also generally well regarded because of the same scrutiny. Someone else
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by npsimons 13y ago
It's somewhat understandable; OpenSSL is a bit of a mess, and the two most recent occurrences have made me seriously think about learning more crypto in order to write a replacement, ala DJB (cf sendmail/qmail, bind/tinydns).

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