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by oconnore 15y ago
> I like looking at attractive women. I like programming ... As a man, is this my original sin? That is not the issue. The issue is that attempting to herd software developers with promises of attractive females is tasteless, exclusive
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by oconnore 15y ago
> The second thing is that while a designer can poke pixels to get an icon that looks good, so can the computer. One of the things you can do is compute the frequency 'footprint' of the image, then change the render until the render foo
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by oconnore 15y ago
This is an interface design/hardware issue, not a display optimization issue. The article makes the bulk of the case for pixel optimization while discussing very small icons, and that's true, but it's a red herring. Interfaces should never
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Poll: do you read/audit your code?:
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by oconnore 15y ago
We have a formal pre-emptive audit procedure and/or code review
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by oconnore 15y ago
We have an informal pre-emptive audit procedure and/or code review
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by oconnore 15y ago
We do not pre-emptively audit, but we formally audit code following a bug report
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by oconnore 15y ago
We do not pre-emptively audit, but we informally audit code following a bug report
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by oconnore 15y ago
In general, we do not audit code
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by oconnore 15y ago
Once code is written, it is for the compiler's eyes only. What am I, a robot?
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by oconnore 15y ago
How would you be losing sleep now? Assuming you were Github, as of now you would have (1) identified the problem, (2) fixed the issue, (3) handled the public relations with a press release that includes a future disclosure policy. You proba
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by oconnore 15y ago
He made an attempt to patch upstream, was shot down, and then proved his point without hurting anyone. Maybe not the best way to get the issue out, but we are talking about it and it wasn't especially harmful. Mission accomplished? I don't
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by oconnore 15y ago
Suburbia in general is only possible with supportive regulation. There is a reason Sonic's business model has only developed in very dense neighborhoods (4000 person/mi^2 vs <1000p/mi^2 for other suburbs). If we are going to live in eco
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by oconnore 15y ago
You just contradicted yourself: "it's hard to say that other companies didn't rip off the 'idea' of the iPhone." and "Of course, the 'idea' of the iPhone wasn't new either". If the idea wasn't new, then other companies weren't ripping off t
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by oconnore 15y ago
Jobs was an idea person, not an engineer. You have to imagine the engineer getting excited about the ideas going into building something. Later, Jobs sees that same idea popping up everywhere, and his natural response is to claim that it wa
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by oconnore 15y ago
(not something I would do, but someone else would) To put them over their account limit.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Occam's razor disagrees with you. It is perfectly plausible that some engineer with little interest in cryptography/privacy implemented the most obvious solution. Also, yes, I typically forgive people when they reverse their actions and ask
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by oconnore 15y ago
(This will be an unpopular opinion) The community response to this is ridiculous. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other company that has responded to community criticism within a day or two with a policy reversal, a software ch
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by oconnore 15y ago
But there are two algorithms in context here, and the more complex/efficient one is the OS preemptive scheduler. It then appears that 'willvarfar' is agreeing with 'ot' in a sentence that is structured as a critique. It confused me... >
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by oconnore 15y ago
> presumed performance is very much the thing that makes the complexity worth it. Presumed performance/complexity of what? That isn't even a comprehensible English sentence, never mind a well thought out rebuttal to the OP.
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by oconnore 15y ago
<Exclamation>, said <identity and credentials>. "<Explanation>". I don't see anything wrong with that.
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by oconnore 15y ago
The last time I looked AT&T prepaid was several hundred dollars cheaper over 2 years for comparable service. The margin is smaller for expensive devices like the iPhone, though. The real problem is that you have to buy the phone up fron
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by oconnore 15y ago
What is your point, exactly? Do you think testing (likely on a different machine than the target) will catch a 1 in a million hardware error either?
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by oconnore 15y ago
Every year there are between 600 and 700 recorded deaths from recreational boating alone (not counting industrial or military accidents) [1]. No matter how safe we make it, there will always be accidents, and those accidents will kill peopl
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by oconnore 15y ago
I'm not the one saying never. Why do you anticipate progress with flash storage but not with optical storage? If we have the optical technology to render a certain number of floating gate transistors in a certain area, we also have the opti
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by oconnore 15y ago
That scheme would be far less reliable. For one, if you corrupt a file and don't notice right away, you lose it forever (which sort of defeats the purpose of backups, doesn't it?). Also, you wouldn't actually do a full backup every day. You
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by oconnore 15y ago
Actually that $24 LTO U-4 800/1600GB is compressed 1600, actual 800GB, which works out to exactly $0.03 per GB (which is the same as for blu-ray).
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by oconnore 15y ago
Read-write media will never be as cheap as write-once-read-many media. Perhaps DVD's are on the way out, but their replacement will not come in the form of traditional USB flash drives. For example, Blu-ray discs are about $0.03 per GB, whe
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by oconnore 15y ago
> "The world would be better with a SSC (sufficiently[1] smart compiler)" Agreed, but there are good reasons that one hasn't been built yet, and they have nothing to do with lack of motivation. [1] Sufficient for all possible measures o
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by oconnore 15y ago
http://clemens.endorphin.org/TKS1-draft.pdf You can also use a scheme like this to improve your chances of making your expired key data unrecoverable to forensic techniques.

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