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by null_content 8y ago
> Even back in the 90's Mysql was able to hide the CLI supplied password from the process list. It would be cool if oathtool was able to do the same. This has always been a brittle and not easily portable approach. And doesn't
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by null_content 8y ago
Funny that you bring that up because in 1998, Tcl/Tk already had grid layouts (if I am not mistaken). So yes, you are finally doing UI development like it is 1998. Congratulations. Sarcasm aside, want to know what a proper GUI toolkit
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by null_content 8y ago
Web development is such a pain because the standard is sub-par (decided by committee, so no surprises there) and the implementation is even worse (full of inter-vendor inconsistencies and missing features). Frankly, last time I did web deve
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by null_content 8y ago
They are deep in Uranus.
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by null_content 8y ago
As a general statement, that is impossible in both practice and theory due to the halting problem. You CAN write proven bug free code, but only if you are willing to accept a long series of limitations.
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by null_content 8y ago
We don't tolerate houses collapsing out of nowhere, brakes failing over the course of normal usage and planes falling out of the sky during routine flights. But for some reason, we HAVE TO tolerate software crapping itself once a year?
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by null_content 8y ago
That, and Debian would fuck up the implementation. Lest anyone forgets: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...
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by null_content 8y ago
Pretty much any device these days can run some form of standalone SSH software or, worst case scenario, a shell + openssh (heck, even Windows can do that these days). Setting these up is fairly painless, and they are FAR more flexible than
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by null_content 8y ago
> Sure, but e.g. on Debian /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service is 22 lines. The still-carried shellscript version is 162 lines, and that's before counting any of the per-distro shellscript libraries systemd removed
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by null_content 8y ago
Funny that you bring that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Nami...