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by pacaro 9y ago
Prior to Vista a lot of code was written on the assumption that the process would be run with administrator privileges. While this wasn't the original security model for windows NT, 16-bit windows, and windows 95 et al didn't ha
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by pacaro 9y ago
UAC was a huge deal for me. I had to write UI that needed privilege in an unprivileged process
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by pacaro 9y ago
My older brother is an IT manager, I'm a Principal Engineer at Amazon, my sister has worked variously in real estate, finance, and education. Of my four half-brothers, I believe that two work in the industry (we're not close). One
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by pacaro 9y ago
My mother was a programmer in the mid to late 60s, a job at which she met my father — at the time married with four children. They were married in September 1969, a month before my brother was born. I doubt that my siblings and I are the on
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by pacaro 9y ago
Thanks! As a parent working in the US, the FMLA is a fact of life, but that isn't true for everyone on HN
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by pacaro 9y ago
I think that expressing these important points as priorities is missing a better way of looking at them. I see them as tensions, the engineer's job and wisdom is in balancing these tensions Except correctness. Code should be correct.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yeah, part of what makes spelling bees so bizarre to me, is that there is no orthography (This is touched on in the mumu muumuu example). Given that they use MW, how long until "dord" is asked? https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by pacaro 9y ago
I understand your position. But (there's always a "but") I have a friend whose kid is severely allergic, their daycare didn't take it particularly seriously(!), for reasons similar to yours. So of course one day there is
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by pacaro 9y ago
People rarely talk about what went well in Vista. There was an effort to componentize Windows. This was extremely hard to do, while the kernel itself had a very clean architecture, the layers on top - less so. "Longhorn Basics" th
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by pacaro 9y ago
I left the Windows division shortly before Vista shipped, so I couldn't say. But from native code, the choices were to do things directly on the win32 API or to use DirectUI which, for all its faults, was much easier to use, and produc
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by pacaro 9y ago
From where I sat in Windows Security (I wrote much of the BitLocker UI) these are a couple of anecdotes: I remember one of the base team architects laughing and bragging about how and why they killed managed code and banned it from the OS —
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by pacaro 9y ago
How do you handle one way gates? Clearly at each deploy there are two different versions running concurrently, and as you make changes you do so knowing that, but as the system evolves their are points in (code) time that you can't go
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by pacaro 9y ago
This article was odd to me. It seemed to be advocating a MAGA world view, that kids used to be taught "values" in school. Is this article a reflection of serious scholarship, or partisan pandering?
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by pacaro 9y ago
Thank you. Your 2 is an aspect I hadn't thought of at all. In reference to sentencing disparity, I was referring to the 100:1 (pre 2010, now only(!) 18:1) difference in sentencing for crack vs coke
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by pacaro 9y ago
The pharma companies have some liability, but there was a perfect storm The "war on drugs", and the racially motivated moral panic about crack cocaine and addiction created a social attitude that casts addiction as a moral failing
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by pacaro 9y ago
No answer to 1. I have no idea what brave's plans are. I can conceive of a locked down ad platform, both whether that would be acceptable to advertisers and worth the tech investment is debatable. On 2, normal market dynamics. If token
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yan tan tethera is usually postulated to be of Celtic origin (it usually uses "dick" for ten, which is presumably a cognate of the Welsh "deg") IIRC the celts moved all across Europe, but that pushes the timeframe back b
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by pacaro 9y ago
Nothing that I'm aware of, but nothing stops their users from using regular Chrome if the payments dry up. There is also scope for click/view fraud also Even if the original token pool is a fixed size, they could choose to issue a
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by pacaro 9y ago
Around the same time, I added a scripting language to a complex desktop app. My initial prototype just used SIOD [1], but my boss took one look at it and told me to think again, that our customers would never accept having to use a lisp to
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by pacaro 9y ago
This is my understanding Put aside blockchain, ICO, and browsers for a moment. Imagine an app that shows ads, nothing more. The users of the app are credited in tokens for viewing and/or clicking ads. The advertisers pay tokens to show
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by pacaro 9y ago
When you stand in a position of power and privilege, then your responsibilities are (or should be) commensurately greater
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by pacaro 9y ago
A political donation is an act of public speech. I think it's ok to care about the beliefs and views of the officers and board members of a company.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Yup, I was just trying to work out why @porter didn't say Brendan Eich, but used indirection.
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by pacaro 9y ago
I think it's ok to name Brendan Eich here. Just saying "[person who] created JavaScript" makes me think "that's either Brendan Eich or someone lying about having created JavaScript" If he's chosen to be th
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by pacaro 9y ago
There is an assertion that the child pid will be greater than the parent pid. While this is usually/often true, it isn't always true. This isn't a big deal per se but is indicative that the author has a limited understandin
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by pacaro 9y ago
Interesting reading the different methods for creating the Voronoi tesselation. I've always built the Delaunay triangulation first, I guess I knew there were other approaches, just never bothered to find out what. If you generate a Vor
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by pacaro 9y ago
This makes perfect sense, I guess they are swamps because that's the combination of rivers and flat ground
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by pacaro 9y ago
I have no idea about Beijing or Moscow, but Paris, Berlin, and London were all located on swamps/marshes.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Lego seems so weirdly disconnected at times, I understand where they're coming from, but this made want to buy the Lego Porsche.
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by pacaro 9y ago
Fun! I'm not sure how the scaling works, but if this was a 1:8 model moving at 46kmh (29mph) isn't that equivalent to a crash at 368kmh (230mph)? At which point the damage seems pretty reasonable

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