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Why Cryptosystems Fail(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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Back in april, The Awl published a list of don'ts[1] and then last week, some dos[2], many of which conveniently appeared in this nyt piece. [1]: http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/some-awesome-things-to-say-to-... [2]: http://www.theawl.com/
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Nobody is suggesting we abolish analytics as a practice, but it's misrepresenting the issues to suggest that content providers will die a sad death if they lose out on whatever benefits those querystring params provide. Content providers al
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by nsfmc 15y ago
So, while this is novel and all, it seems to me that these "resume 2.0" applications indicate a real failure of systems like "jobvite" or whatever backend air bnb is using to simplify their hiring decisions. On HN we've been seeing a bunch
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As a general complaint, i feel like most of these "web/graphic design pattern libraries" miss the point of christopher alexander's original 'pattern language' idea, which specify cataloging as only one part of actually developing a larger,
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:)
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Courier has tons style (i [heart] ny!) and see also [Courier Sans]( http://lineto.com/The+Fonts/Font+Categories/Text+Fonts/Couri... ), and so does verdana. I know, i know, it's verdana, the scourge of late 90s web design but it still has
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by nsfmc 15y ago
There's a few things that i think you're reacting to (i think, because i've had similar feelings, but i could totally be wrong). The first is that Verdana is really nicely hinted, which means that, unlike most other fonts out there, Verda
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this reminds me, although tangentially, that i saw a chapter of a book once that was basically dedicated to dissecting all the boilerplate in a standard C "hello world" program. It would go over details about argv and so forth and then intr
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Ok, so lots of things to tackle here: 1. The commenters seem to imply that java is probably not the most appropriate language for cs1, where syntax considerations often overpower practical concerns. 2. Bright students that 'get it' are n
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Arguably, the most valuable portion of the article: Evidently, there’s always the question whether this matters at all. After all, the bulk of applications that are available for both platforms don’t see much traction anyway,
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you can always use photos from your camera roll in instagram, making it a post-process only app. Or you can take photos in instagram and (unfortunately) not have a 'raw' file left.
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"in the clear over ssl instead of hashing them"? am i missing something here? is ssl insecure? is there some way to charge a credit card that doesn't actually involve sending the number to anybody?
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by nsfmc 15y ago
another, which may be a hard pill to swallow if you've been 'good at math' all your life is: - go to office hours and don't be afraid to ask for help from your TA and classmates.
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the adage i learned in grad school for this was work smarter, not harder.
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i think part of what's going on here is that everyone is taking the position of disliking a mandate to eat with your coworkers, which is arguably a troubling thing. When i interned at pentagram's ny office, one of the nice things was lunch,
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by nsfmc 15y ago
it's an o'reilly user group link where you indicate your user group affiliation and then you select a book and they get back to you. It's not actually a url for a specific free ebook and it feels sorta wrong to attempt to exploit it.
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actually, i think the author does understand this and in the case of stackoverflow, i think he's obliquely making the case that many of the effects could otherwise be achieved with css without creating the performance and memory hits you
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by nsfmc 15y ago
I think the other thing that's missing here is that there's nearly often a conflict between the actual behavior of a function and the overly optimistic documentation which is then amended by a series of caveats. I think i could forgive php
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my other life lesson here is: get a job, at least part time, until you can afford to reliably freelance. and when you take on a project, don't forget to get a contract signed with a pay schedule immediately before working, especially if y
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an aside: i have been asked three times in separate technical interviews (several years apart even) how to leak memory in java (once in python).
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So despite the mostly vapid nature of this article one thing called out to me: "Given the lax nature of JavaScript, it's easy for your application to spiral into a mess of unmaintainable spaghetti code." Let's not forget: it's entirely po
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I understand the desire for structured packages, but even in languages like python that have 'the python way' or what have you, there are still plenty of packages that don't quite fit. This isn't a problem with python, it's a largely philos
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Long Live the Browser
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by nsfmc 16y ago
yes! exactly! i first thought this internet learning thing was total bunk because my only exposure was mit's ocw and basically i hadn't considered something like KA a few years back. I think that trying to change where and how various stage
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by nsfmc 16y ago
This stuff is all free, and is all fully capable of allowing you to do work. The only things you're going to get with Adobe's products is support for their proprietary formats. Actually, the one thing i think most people are paying for wh
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i don't know, i'm a little conflicted here because really, really, i know this is gonna sound stupid but the best way to get good is to make a lot of shit and then, after you don't feel weird about what you made, you show it to people w
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i feel like there should be some way to calculate this by looking at regional cost of living and factoring in scarcity of the profession along with some normalized salary range for the job title, because as mentioned, salary diffs b/w sf, s
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"I've only seen paintings of that painting...." off topic, but there's an artist[1] that exploits this to really good effect, really makes you think about what place 'the original' has in art especially for pieces that are entrenched in t
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facebook also knows as much as your 'friends' choose to tell it about you unless you're vigilant and remove their posts to your wall or untag yourself and so forth.

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