palish

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   by palish 15y ago

   I just got back from McDonalds since $1 McChicken is all I can afford to eat. This is the taste of liberation. Mmm.
2. 512.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   They aren't out and about in the city looking to build new ventures, take risks on big, unproven ideas, etc. Is it really like that in SF? I've never lived there, only visited; and almost got mugged at a gas station. The description read
3. 513.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   I'm happy people have begun to see that scientific tests generally have massive assumptions hidden deep within them, or quietly brushed underneath them. Personally, I find this to be a welcome change from the typical "oooh-look-at-the-shiny
4. 514.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   It won't be a success until Local Storage isn't limited to 5MB. Right now there's no way to "install" your game into a browser, which cripples WebGL's ability to be a serious alternative to traditional PC-based gaming / mobile gaming. A si
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   by palish 15y ago

   "Doing a correct benchmark is clearly not an easy task. There are many walls (TCP/IP stack, OS settings, the client itself, …) that may corrupt the results, and there is always the risk to compare apples with oranges (e.g. benchmarking the
6. 516.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   Eh, just pick one. I actually did use a lua JSON module, but I forgot which one. It had a simple interface, though. They probably all do.
7. 517.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   Use LuaRocks. http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/ Very easy to use, and has a lot of modules. lua-xmlreader is the one that I used for a project. It's a wrapper over libxml2.
8. 518.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   Thanks for the analysis! Much appreciated.
9. 519.▲
   by palish 15y ago

   Thanks. For what it's worth, I think you're doing the right thing and are acting responsibly, and making the best of bad situations. Also, that's an interesting hypothesis about the Black Plague. I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for sh
10. 520.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    So it seriously runs in the family and my family has a high survival rate because of the family tradition of looking to nutrition and the like and not just putting things in the hands of doctors. Couldn't it be that your family's survival
11. 521.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    A preset list of salts would still show a different hash for 2 consecutive bcrypt executions. Your example proves nothing. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying you didn't demonstrate proof, so you shouldn't act like you did. I'm extremel
12. 522.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    He didn't say "unwind it". He said "on top of it". bcrypt( bcrypt( "foo", c1 ), c2 )
13. 523.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    What threat of terrorism? When's the last time you were terrorized? There is no terrorism except in the media and in ourselves. Surely as scientists we could take some comfort in the statistics of the likelihood of any one of us actually ex
14. 524.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Right now it takes many orders of magnitude more energy. When electricity was first being invented for human utility, I bet it took several orders of magnitude more energy to package it than to simply light a candle, for example. Or when ca
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    by palish 15y ago

    int some_function( some_variable ) { log("Its important I log that I'm returning %d\n", (some_variable ? 1 : 2)); return (some_variable ? 1 : 2); }
16. 526.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Because more people will understand the longer version than the shorter one. A wiki is not a computer program.
17. 527.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Off topic -- Where is the 'Edit' button on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic#Evidential_basis ? The article doesn't say it's locked, but I see no edit button. I was trying to replace "Opinions differ as to the efficacy of chiropr
18. 528.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    "This wasn't illegal in any sense but it could have backfired on them by pissing the wrong people off." This was illegal in the "this was illegal" sense.
19. 529.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    If there were nothing malicious about what they did, then why didn't they advertise as fake men, instead of as fake women?
20. 530.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Though unethical. If growing a billion dollar company means setting aside what makes me a good person, then I wouldn't want a billion dollar company. Nor would I want to work there.
21. 531.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    If the conversation points are correct, then there's nothing wrong with making them. As something like Bitcoin becomes more popular, people will naturally have questions and concerns. Should they search for the answer before asking? Maybe
22. 532.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    I didn't see any Bitcoin discussion yesterday. To be blunt, you're doing more harm than good by complaining about the discussion. For every person that cries "dupe", there are ten more who are grateful for that dupe. Dupes are a good thin
23. 533.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Except this article isn't on either of those. There's nothing wrong with dupes.
24. 534.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    This is the first I've heard of it. So I'm happy for the dupe.
25. 535.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    If it were possible to verify a single character in a hash, then you could attack a hash by verifying the first character, then the second character, etc, until it results in the hash. So nope. Not possible.
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    by palish 15y ago

    One time, when I was around 9 or 10, I was installing an old CD drive into one of my old computers. ... But I forgot to shut down the computer first. As I was plugging in the molex, Zap! Big blue spark, and the computer was never to boo
27. 537.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    That's a really good idea. I wish I could afford the $100 to join the iPhone developer program. Alternatively, I wish I had an Android phone. I only have $850 of savings left.
28. 538.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Hey, thanks for the advice. I appreciate it. I read through several of your blog posts --- very informative! How'd you get your start? (If I understand correctly, you're a freelance iPhone developer living in Austin. Awesome! That's the
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    by palish 15y ago

    I recently spent three nights porting a C++ game from Linux to Windows, and made $181.90 after RentACoder and Paypal fees, and it was the only freelance work I've managed to find. I'm just trying to keep my cell phone on, but unfortunately
30. 540.▲
    by palish 15y ago

    Then thank you so much for your work on Visual Studio's Designer. That tool is hands-down the best UI layout tool for desktop apps. The Designer is a joy to work with, and is head-and-shoulders above what wxWidgets or Qt has to offer.