philbarr

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by philbarr 14y ago
> people claiming that "health care is a right" which is essentially saying they have the right to enslave everyone else for their own benefit. No, it's saying that as a society we're not going to let people suffer and die in the street
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by philbarr 14y ago
Let's hope it doesn't get that bad.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Fantastic tip, thanks! Right click the process and "Set Affinity..."
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by philbarr 14y ago
Exactly, you should really think about when and if you need IoC, just like with any other technique. It can be really useful. Unfortunately, if misused, it can lead to an absolute nightmare. The problem is that when people learn about new t
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by philbarr 14y ago
So clearly some of the license fee payers money is going towards this article, since that picture is hosted on the bbc.co.uk domain.
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by philbarr 14y ago
This would seem to be a pretty important point missed completely by the article. Do you know a better article we could read?
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by philbarr 14y ago
> to accept non existence? Absolutely, I can't think of anything worse than living forever. Enjoy this brief period of time you have being alive, and accept that it is finite. The only thing you need to worry about with death is that
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by philbarr 14y ago
Well done and looks good! One thing I would add - I noticed a few clumsy typos in the slides and in the title of this very post. Please do proof-read your copy before you publish for your app. It probably doesn't matter as much here, but I
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by philbarr 14y ago
@jiggy2011 - oh, the irony...
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by philbarr 14y ago
We could add the most common mirror sites as exceptions, you could add your own, and of course you can always toggle it on and off? I think that may make it useful enough...
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by philbarr 14y ago
Maybe we could write a chrome/firefox plugin that highlights downloads that are from the same domain? Or perhaps hides non-domain ones? Would that clean up most of these issues? You'd probably have to have a button to toggle this on and off
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by philbarr 14y ago
When I was mainly just a Java developer I always found that kind of embarrassing.
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by philbarr 14y ago
"People need to stop being so negative towards others in the community..." Yes, maybe you should lead by example.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Unfortunately, the only thing standard users are going to remember is "Java is bad". I've already had friends asking me about this and saying, "isn't it going to ruin my entire online experience to disable Java?". "No, that's JavaScript, di
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by philbarr 14y ago
Documentum from EMC uses Java as part of it's browser interface (webtop). It's used to download and manage documents on the user's machine.
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by philbarr 14y ago
Whilst the author pushes his point too far by declaring that there are "invisible millionaires" as you say, I think the general point is sound. We are continually pushed to consume, and the consumption is not necessary for us to be happy wi
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yes - this is the only reason my Mum is on Facebook.
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by philbarr 14y ago
The best advice I ever had was: do something physical, something mental, and something spiritual every day. For the physical, that can be as much as walking the dog at night or taking a brisk walk at lunch. For the mental, you probably alre
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by philbarr 14y ago
Thanks for the pointers to OllyDbg and IDA Pro - I'd never heard of them. Embarassingly, it's been quite a few years since I tried actually hacking a program; especially since I'm posting on " Hacker News".
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by philbarr 14y ago
Maybe there's a lesson in this for us: if you can tie your marketing to current events then you'll get greater recognition. I'm no marketing guy, so I bet this is pretty much marketing 101 and I'm probably quoting the already-well-understoo
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by philbarr 14y ago
> Is your life really so humorless that it gives you satisfaction to type angry/defensive notes on an online forum? It really is difficult to pick up tone on an internet forum. > As someone who evidently cares a great deal about w
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by philbarr 14y ago
Yes I get that now. Unfortunately, it's difficult to hear the ironic twang in his voice on an internet forum.
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by philbarr 14y ago
This almost feels like you're trolling your own post! :)
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by philbarr 14y ago
How did they determine the "perceived desirability of the user"? Seems a little presumptious to me - I didn't even know what it was until I clicked the link, and the first thing they say is "we don't want you." Well guess what - now I don't
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by philbarr 14y ago
For me, trivially crackable here refers to having someone who has read a basic text picking the license key out of the registry and going "hmm, that looks like a such-and-such key, I wonder what happens when I run it through this program he
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by philbarr 14y ago
Does anyone know of a decent introductory, authoritative text on cryptography? I haven't needed to know this stuff before beyond "use bcrypt because it's good, MD5 is rubbish", but have recently been given the task of generating license key
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by philbarr 14y ago
Same here! And I'm an outgoing person with more friends than most at my age and happily get along with most people socially. However, if I've got my head deep in the code and some berk interrupts me with inane crap it feels like a physical
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by philbarr 14y ago
I took up photography recently and found the opposite happened - I really enjoy the technical aspect in the same way I enjoy coding, but there's also much more to it than that. I particularly like that there's no definite "right answer", yo
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by philbarr 14y ago
Some "though" from a developer by the looks of it.
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by philbarr 14y ago
I highly recommend reading this blog from the very beginning. He starts out REALLY simple and gently leads up to the more advanced stuff like helicopters. It's given me enough confidence to do some of my own stuff and I'm getting better. Al

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