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by oconnore 15y ago
No offense intended... but I don't understand you, or people like you. The upgraded version is better in every imaginable way. It's like you have a dirty old Honda Civic in your driveway, and someone is offering you a brand new 3 series BMW
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by oconnore 15y ago
It usually takes me about a tenth of a second to hit Control+C, Control+K in emacs, but the file is compiled and loaded into the running Lisp image much quicker than that. Sometimes, I have to recompile several files due to a modified macro
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by oconnore 15y ago
OSX + IOS + Android + Linux + WebGL + Windows vs. Windows And you are calling the game now?
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by oconnore 15y ago
Graphics drivers on Linux have a long ways to go before they need to worry about things like this. I can't even run a composited desktop on my Radeon HD 6310 without tearing, video corruption, horizontal black and white bars and unrecoverab
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by oconnore 15y ago
The virtual machine isn't guaranteed to work: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security-threats/2009/06/09/virt... Unless you know exactly what it can do, you should probably run it on an old machine without [direct] internet access.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Like, Common Lisp? (Clozure) ? (defun plus (&rest x) (apply #'+ x)) PLUS ? (defmacro mplus (&rest x) `(plus ,@x)) MPLUS ? (flet ((plus (&rest x) (apply #'* x))) (mplus 4 9)) 36 ;; Uh oh, looks like my f
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by oconnore 15y ago
Criticism is cool, and even useful! "X is dead" is not.
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by oconnore 15y ago
What does this gain you? It doesn't matter what the version number is, so why not make it a simple integer? Version numbers aren't a way to communicate feature changes, you do that in release notes. Your attitude towards version numbers is
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by oconnore 15y ago
The kernel is not some almighty bug free program. The question is then just whether or not the person who has gained the capacity to run code on your system knows an exploit that will give them root privileges. The Android thing works becau
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by oconnore 15y ago
People who say Windows is insecure aren't comparing it to Flash or Java, they are comparing it to OS X, Linux, or *BSD. Without addressing that comparison, this article is useless.
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by oconnore 15y ago
Physics is far more empirical than economics, which is actually saying something, considering how little we actually know about physics. Economics is more like politics, if politicians were any good at math.
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by oconnore 15y ago
#3 is not true for the type of person he is talking about. If everyone used credit cards like you do, the credit card companies would not be in business.
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by oconnore 15y ago
It will be eventually, but the default behaviour is the most important thing to get right.
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by oconnore 15y ago
1. Why do you need to extract forename+surname? The assumption that your users will even have a forename and a surname is invalid. [ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... ] 2. There are exactly 50 states, so 50 nam
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by oconnore 15y ago
Since when is free stuff an insult?
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by oconnore 15y ago
Linux has been around for long enough that there isn't much Microsoft could do to seriously threaten it (besides releasing a hacker friendly version of Windows with an unrestricted, cross platform C/C++ compiler).
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by oconnore 15y ago
Bitter nerds go home. In business and politics you can't get caught up in history. The people in charge are not the same people that offended you, and they may or may not continue that trend. Expecting an international corporation to paint
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by oconnore 15y ago
Why? Can't you just bail on whatever you are currently doing? How is the entire process compromised by a failed malloc? Resources are limited, sort of by definition, shouldn't good code be able to handle this possibility?
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by oconnore 15y ago
Re 2: Why not? If your disk is encrypted, anyone stealing it might as well not have any files at all.
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by oconnore 15y ago
I suppose my original post was incorrect. The thief's life is never worth less than my laptop. But the thief's life, to me, is worth less than my own life. Society would most likely agree with my assessment of value. A productive, peaceful
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by oconnore 15y ago
It seems like it would give you a false sense of security. You have to think about it in terms of "could an attacker who can spend $1000/hr brute force a duplicate pub/priv key combination that generates the same robot. I wonder if you coul
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by oconnore 15y ago
If they are also attempting to slit your throat at the local Starbucks, then yes.
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by oconnore 15y ago
I don't think you know what you are talking about. If your authentication is implicit in the decryption of the messages, replaying that data will accomplish nothing. For example, if I share a secret "password" with my server, I can do this
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by oconnore 15y ago
Be careful: if you are using a javascript library to encrypt data, you get protection from eavesdroppers, but not from man-in-the-middle attacks. If I can alter data that you send/receive over the wire, I can simply modify your aes function
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by oconnore 15y ago
I applaud his effort (and this certainly isn't an easy project, he's a smart guy, etc.), but felt progressively more and more queasy reading this. I thought I could keep going even once I had realized the necessary lack of a runtime lambda
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by oconnore 15y ago
Not that either. Sorry for the short response, but I think that answers your question. It works great! You should try it :)
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by oconnore 15y ago
Ubuntu, yes.
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by oconnore 15y ago
I haven't had a crash yet in FF5 or 4 (flash crashed several times but did not bring down the browser). Also, I notice about 0 rendering delay.
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by oconnore 15y ago
If a front-end creates a mockup using a certain DOM, it is easy for the back-end to generate that DOM (or tell the front what needs changing). If the back-end generates a DOM, it is typically easy for the front-end to create CSS/Javascript
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by oconnore 15y ago
In Opera typing g + space begins a Google search. The prefix is stripped off before it's sent.

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