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by oinksoft 13y ago
1) Binaries are usually used when space is important (like when developing web applications). They use considerably less memory than lists. Processing binaries or list strings is slow compared to other languages where this is a focus. Erlan
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by oinksoft 13y ago
> These laws weren’t written yesterday just for Mr. Snowden. ... sounds eerily like something you'd hear Carney or some other spokesman say at a press briefing. It's the familiar paternalistic tone that does it.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
People are commenting on the linked article. That's how it works, no?
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by oinksoft 13y ago
It would be pretty neat if you could figure out ahead of time which combinations were possible, disabling buttons for impossible combinations and reserving the "Size not found, please try again" message for weird exceptions where
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by oinksoft 13y ago
If your domain name is goodui.org and you lead with "A Good User Interface ... is easy to use." you'd better be damned serious about user interfaces. That's my take.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Meanwhile a distracting footer covers >25% of the page, and clicking the intuitive "down arrow"-looking thing does nothing, nor is there an obvious close button. You close it with that über-readable burnt-orange-on-charcoal lin
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by oinksoft 13y ago
It's not a bunch of jagged rock. The Altiplano, where this bridge is built, is a plateau between two parts of the Andes infilled with sediment over the past 30m years. Wheels would be quite useful there.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
This is quite real. McCarthy has been published by Oxford Press. Here it is from the horse's mouth: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
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by oinksoft 13y ago
It's my perception that people seriously involved in mathematics, particularly sensitive things like crypto, must have a thick skin. It's a field that is all hard skills and no soft skills, and I'm not sure it could practical
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The JsDoc for the function where var cnonce = MD5.hexdigest("" + (Cryptocat.random() * 1234567890)); occurs is /** PrivateFunction: _sasl_challenge1_cb * _Private_ handler for DIGEST-MD5 SASL authenticati
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Fascinating. For those of us not versed in cryptography, can anyone elaborate on why foo.random() * 123456789 is insecure, and why it is made moreso with the added zero? Is this what the author describes, using floating point to gene
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Precisely. I can't speak for all pacifists, but many, like Tolstoy, outright reject personal self-defense, at least in theory. That is to say, while it is very difficult for man to give up defense of oneself and one's family (prob
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Using war or the threat of war to apprehend peace is antithetical to pacifism. I'm not sure what the American populace's purported will has to do with my view that war and its antecedents are revolting. Certainly you aren't s
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by oinksoft 13y ago
My views are painted by pacifism, so nothing is as bad to me as producing military technology, or providing talent for the military industrial complex. Your Facebook example harps on some of the evils of capitalism (manipulative advertiseme
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Perhaps I've always found it obvious that creating these things, working for companies with close ties to military and surveillance (Lockheed, etc.) is quite near evil and that professionals with integrity would not do that. I think th
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Between your comment and loceng's, there seems to be an agenda, and the latent idea of co-opting programmers and decision makers to make "something" happen. I understand people are furious, but people are furious about all so
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Ah, I see I've arrived at Hacker/USA Government Abuses News. And I say that as somebody deeply interested in these stories.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
What if the website software has decided to turn your vote arrows and "flag" links into placebo buttons? I am certain my votes have no effect, nor do my flags; I've tested it. Silently being relegated to a second-class accoun
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I've always found the comic pretentious and unfunny. Probably because a character almost always is given a mouth-breathing look of stupidity in at least one panel. The joke of the comic has always seemed to be, "look at this thing
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by oinksoft 13y ago
This impression must partially be due to how you write your queries, and the quality of the natural language parsing in DDG/Bing (your query leaning heavily on that). I searched "ruby element in array", Rails not being a prog
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I ceased using Google search except as a last resort when this story broke, and I had no idea what I had been missing out on with DDG: Excellent keyboard navigation . Also, DDG's results compared to a year ago are night-and-day. It se
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I also wasn't so enamored anymore with the idea of spending lots of time on software to help people bill each other. Silly of course, as it's a real need, but I realized it just wasn't where my head was. Could I have made the
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I'm amazed you stuck with a host that lost your data. That would be a complete deal breaker for me; I've never lost so much as a byte with Linode over six years.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I think because it's a relatively easy idea to come up with, and the implementation details aren't earth-shattering. A year ago I was fixed on making a similar business called MeteorBill and worked part-time on it for a couple mon
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by oinksoft 13y ago
That's because there is no holistic US government viewpoint (we hope!). The comments of prominent members of the house are important as well.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
But you can't deny the hard line separating those who take oaths of office and those who do not. A low-level HUD employee's comments have far less gravity than those of a US Senator.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Well, you did say Note though that nobody in the administration has called Snowden a traitor; as though fears begin and end with the Obama administration. A premature and telling defense. It's in the title: "The US Govern
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The drone strikes seldom occur on what a reasonable person would consider a battlefield (weddings, etc.). I think that is what parent is getting at. Certainly American intelligence operatives have murdered their countrymen quietly over the
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Eh, Washington Post has a few of these guys too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-leaks-n...
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by oinksoft 13y ago
This paragraph is the ultimate in irony: He betrayed the Constitution. The founders did not create the United States so that some solitary 29-year-old could make unilateral decisions about what should be exposed. Founders weren&#

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