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by orclev 12y ago
It had nothing to do with Yubikey. Mt.Gox implemented time based 2FA (think google authenticator) via Yubikey. The fact that Mt.Gox subsequently imploded had nothing to do with Yubikey and seems almost entirely to be based around a poor imp
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by orclev 12y ago
Per the FIDO spec they implement the protocol on top of the standard libUSB that's available as part of all current generation OSes. So yes, in a way, the OS does get involved, but only in so far as it treats it as yet another generic
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by orclev 12y ago
As an addendum to this, after looking over the spec, it appears that the FIDO-U2F protocol currently only supports USB, but that support for NFC and bluetooth is planned in later versions of the specification. Presumably a firmware update
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by orclev 12y ago
The Yubikey website specifies that the device registers as a Keyboard, flash card, and flash reader when you plug it in. That said it isn't entirely clear if this new standard utilizes that or if that's merely provided as a fallba
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by orclev 12y ago
Not sure how it will interact with this, but at least one of the compatible Yubikey devices that was mentioned also supports NFC specifically for use on mobile devices that lack USB ports.
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by orclev 12y ago
I think his point was more that if you had an actual weapon you could use it to defend yourself and not need loading into the ambulance in the first place.
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by orclev 12y ago
See, this is how you make an argument in favor of NodeJS. I'm not convinced that it's a particularly good argument in general, but in a specific use case like this is makes sense, you're gaining some nice advantages to offset
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by orclev 12y ago
I think that's the part that annoyed me most about the whole thing. It's pretty obvious someone screwed up somewhere even if we don't know exactly where yet. Whitewashing the whole thing by saying there was an "anomaly&q
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by orclev 12y ago
This seems like a nearly content free article. Aside from the planned and actual orbits and the dates involved there doesn't seem to be much actual information here. TL;DR: Something got screwed up during the deployment of the satellit
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by orclev 12y ago
I propose an alternative solution then, I'll kick the seat of the guy in front of me until he sits up or pays me to stop kicking his seat. I've never had someone offer to pay me to stop kicking his seat, so clearly as per the logi
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by orclev 12y ago
JS is a necessary evil. It's one of the worst languages in terms of design (beaten only by PHP and obscure languages no ones heard of). Learning it as your first language is going to gain you very little since almost none of that knowl
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by orclev 12y ago
Speaking from personal experience, I tried to learn C first and could never understand pointers, then I studied assembly and that was a huge eye opener. I've had very good success teaching people programming starting with Assembly (wel
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by orclev 12y ago
For serious work, starting with something like Python is probably a good idea (as many people have suggested), but if your goal is to learn about programming, I'd actually suggest you start with assembly. Assembly is really tedious to
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by orclev 12y ago
I do, but haven't noticed that issue. The main thing I notice is that when I first navigate to the page when I start to scroll it seems like there's a delay where it doesn't respond, but then it starts working. It scrolls nor
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by orclev 12y ago
I'm curious what everyone is talking about, I'm also on Mac, but I haven't noticed anything unusual about the scroll. It might have lagged a little bit initially (not really sure), but other than that it seems to be functioni
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by orclev 12y ago
Most modern FP languages (and quite a few non-FP languages these days as well) do immutable by default, with carefully controlled explicit mutability where necessary. It's basically the flip of older traditional languages where unless
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by orclev 12y ago
The short version is that the way the credit system in the US works is basically an echo chamber. That one stolen credit card racks up a bunch of fraudulent charges, those charges get recorded by one of the credit reporting agencies and the
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by orclev 12y ago
In some code I wrote for a major corporation who will not be named, that's pretty much exactly what was done. We would use a thread pool to spin off a bunch of workers given Future instances to chew on, and then we'd just block wa
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by orclev 12y ago
The author has no FORMAL contract, but there is certainly an expectation that a series will be finished at some point. It is certainly the case that when someone purchases one of a series of works, unless it is of a nature that it's ex
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by orclev 12y ago
It sort of annoys me how the article keeps talking about a gender problem in "tech" and yet I see no actual mention of anyone technical in the entire article (other than at least some of the people pitching). The article should ha
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by orclev 12y ago
To be fair the article doesn't just say "avoid unnecessary comments" it actually gives some pretty concrete examples of less than ideal comments and ways in which you can make the need for a comment in that situation unnecess
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by orclev 12y ago
Based on this logic I assume you code in nothing but machine code? After all even assembler is an abstraction and therefore must have a cost. Heaven forbid you should do something as extravagant as use C for something, that level of abstrac
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by orclev 12y ago
That isn't unique to functional programming. I've seen my fair share of Java and C# code bases that could best be describe as baroque monstrosities. It's like the authors read Design Patterns and then decided they absolutely
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by orclev 12y ago
I think the "cool kids" part of this is somewhat rhetorical. The whole point of the slides is basically what are the deficiencies of Erlang, and how can we fix them. The results are fairly interesting although not entirely surpris
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by orclev 12y ago
Open source on Windows (and thus github usage) in general seems to be something of a second class citizen. There's Cygwin of course which brings you a lot of the open source tools, but it's far more common for Windows apps to be c
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by orclev 12y ago
Yeah, that was basically my reaction as well. They tweaked Markdown a bit, changed a few things around, but it's pretty much identical to Markdown. I don't really see any big wins here. This XKCD seems somewhat appropriate: http:
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by orclev 12y ago
Exactly, they had their chance, and they abused the privilege, so now we've taken it away.
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by orclev 13y ago
You seem to have missed the point about coming out even. If you seed to give back you actually come out even or possibly ahead so you aren't actually paying in the long run. Of course that's also a bit of a pyramid scheme because
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by orclev 13y ago
Except his actual net worth is probably a fraction of what his theoretical net worth is. It's assumed for instance that he still has access to all those bitcoins, but something could have happened to that wallet. There's also the
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by orclev 13y ago
They're largely one and the same, so both apply.

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