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by palish 15y ago
If you want to learn low-level programming but aren't really enticed by networking / operating system hacking, I'd recommend writing a software rasterizer. It's a fun project, and it's satisfying at a visceral level to see your creation
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by palish 15y ago
Strangely, the two posts are slightly different. (The screenshots are different, for example.)
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by palish 15y ago
So... What about security? Would it unlock the door if I captured packets sent by the phone, then replayed them later? (Would that be difficult to do? I've never done it.)
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by palish 15y ago
If a file is encrypted, then that encrypted file can be duplicated. I don't understand your point. The encryption process doesn't result in one giant blob of data. It results in N blobs, where N is the number of files you store in Dropbox
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by palish 15y ago
Which business models are you referring to?
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by palish 15y ago
I was actually just playing Assassin's Creed 2 a few minutes ago. No internet connection required. It was very convenient.
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by palish 15y ago
I had no idea that there was a "Links". I thought he meant "Lynx", but misspelled it. Now I want to write an operating system and name it "Debyan".
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by palish 15y ago
It was tongue-in-cheek. I think it's silly that Microsoft adds "_s" to a lot of the standard functions; it makes porting more difficult. Of course, it was sillier not to write "strcpy" as strcpy(dest,maxSize,src) from the beginning. And "
579.
by palish 15y ago
Erm... "Lynx" whistles innocently
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by palish 15y ago
You mean strcpy_s?
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by palish 15y ago
What's their phone number?
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by palish 15y ago
This is awesome: http://worrydream.com/SimulationAsAPracticalTool/
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by palish 15y ago
foreach( c in doc.getByTag("input") ) { c.checked = (rand()%3 == 0); }
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by palish 15y ago
How did you get a free Pre 2? I've been chomping at the bit to develop for anything besides my iPhone. I just can't afford any new phone right now.
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by palish 15y ago
Why not release it under the MIT license? http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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by palish 15y ago
Real-world video here: http://www.neurowear.net
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by palish 15y ago
You need to know the current block chain in order to know that nobody is fooling your client. In other words, you need to know the current block chain in order to be sure you really did just receive 100BTC from Website X, and that it wa
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by palish 15y ago
Why? Not only do people continue to use AIM -- entire companies use AIM. The last two game studios I worked at mandated this. Everyone in the company either already used AIM, or created a new account with the company initials as a prefix
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by palish 15y ago
Local Storage is limited to 5MB. Bitcoin requires much more than that --- on the order of 500MB. This is because it needs to verify the block chain history, in order to provide cryptographically secure transactions.
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by palish 15y ago
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, ... [Road "First", aka "Scary Road"] And looked down one ... To where it bent in the undergrowth; ... [Road "Other", aka "Happy Road"] Then took the Other, as just as fair, And having pe
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by palish 15y ago
I'd encourage everyone to read Einstein's book on relativity: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/books/Albert%20Einstein/Albert%2... His writing style is beautifully simple and the content is therefore easy for anyone to read and understand.
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by palish 15y ago
I can't pay my bills. I've been in between jobs for several months. I have less than $1k in the bank. I had a confirmed job offer from nVidia. Then yesterday, I was notified they just went into a "hiring freeze" due to their stock being dow
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by palish 15y ago
Occam's razor. You are likely more educated than he is. But why be a douchebag about it? If your goal is to convince people of your point of view, then pissing them off is directly contrary to that. On the other hand, if your goal is to mak
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by palish 15y ago
What I'm saying is, if people decide to donate their own money to charity, then that's fine. But I don't understand the attitude of "It's noble to steal money from some, and redistribute it to others". It seems immoral.
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by palish 15y ago
But... It's not our duty. Why should it be?
596.
by palish 15y ago
If I had to guess randomly, I'd say it's because of the drug cartels.
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by palish 15y ago
Er. Why should the bottom 20% of society be "taken care of"? Is it because we're afraid they'll turn into criminals if we don't? Because that would be equivalent to paying off the mob. Honest question.
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by palish 15y ago
Would you say all that to his face? Chill out. There's no reason to be nasty.
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by palish 15y ago
No client-side method can ever work against a sufficiently motivated spammer. For example... 1) Start capturing packets via wireshark. 2) Fill out the form. 3) Replay the captured packets, altering the username. Presto, now you can sign up
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by palish 15y ago
Do you have any plans for how to handle Bitcoin eventually being made illegal in the US? Or the other side of the coin --- Bitcoin being devalued when the "miners" sell off thousands of Bitcoins (to cash out)? It's kind of interesting to th

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