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by pi18n 13y ago
I think the problem is that the comment appears to use a "no true Scotsman" fallacy.
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by pi18n 13y ago
When you imply that a hacker should read and understand the source, are you referring to the posted code or Linux itself (or both)?
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by pi18n 13y ago
Scientific research with volunteer computers seems to be the one case where it makes sense. Perhaps scientific research with paid computers would also make sense? There I think the price point is wrong to incentivize anyone to contribute re
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by pi18n 13y ago
No. The problem is trying to equate this with physical crimes. Here's a more proper analogy. Suppose some guy likes to dance about in his house nude wearing a silly hat. He leaves his windows open during this. One day a perv takes photos of
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by pi18n 13y ago
You are all making the mistake of conflating data copying with theft. The real reason this is fucking ridiculous is that he was using the internet to lookup an address and got information without any trespass, but was charged anyway. It's n
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by pi18n 13y ago
Nobody wants this more because it is a security nightmare than anything else. What do you need to distributively compute but is mundane enough you are willing to let random people know the data and algorithms?
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by pi18n 13y ago
And why do they redirect DNS misses to their own advertising page? I think "give a shit" refers to the money they are getting, and not much else.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Name.com isn't opposed to doing a little hacking of their own, on the DNS responses. I'm glad a despicable company got hacked, but I do feel empathy for their customers--both because of the hack and because they have a malicious registrar.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Injury to insult: their TOS in no uncertain terms makes you, the website owner, liable for all content they forcibly redirect to. They're at the bottom of the barrel with GoDaddy. Total scumbags.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Isn't that part of the point? This is a totally normal thing to want, but no it is forbidden. Could a third party developer fix it? They could on Android.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I explained it further, if you had bothered to read the rest of the comment; that sort of thing may attract higher-quality developers.
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by pi18n 13y ago
A true mathematician; nadam only cares that a solution exists.
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by pi18n 13y ago
One benefit may be that contractors won't be in a race to the bottom, so they won't feel like they should half-ass it. On one of the other websites, they seem to want to install a spyware on your computer so the employers can see what you a
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by pi18n 13y ago
I once read of a prof that was on a rent-a-coder site, did a student's assignment, and then failed him.
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by pi18n 13y ago
Ah, no, I do mean to target the already employed people that want to create their own jobs but cannot take the risk due to having no other source of healthcare and no other way to pay for their children's education. I think there must be so
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by pi18n 13y ago
That's interesting; Apple's Objective-C runtime has a fast vtable for its most common methods and uses a more expensive lookup for the rest. Doing a static analysis to find other commonly-used methods is like the next step up from there.
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by pi18n 13y ago
> To help someone (including yourself) achieve real success the best way is to make it safe to fail. Oh I was just thinking this same thing a while ago. If we want to reduce unemployment we have to empower people to employ themselves, s
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by pi18n 13y ago
No because the communities will just refuse to admit people that take things by force /sarcasm. I don't like big government either, but replacing it with fairy tales doesn't seem very rational.
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by pi18n 13y ago
It's just internet points, no worries. Everyone who matters can see you were trying to help. Hope you recover soon.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I was shocked that he thinks I'd be competing with him for a raise. He's not even on the same playing field as I am if a raise is what he is after.
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by pi18n 13y ago
They've had quite a few posts on the front page in the last week or so.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I think asymmetric keys have the advantage that, you could sign some token that includes the website name, so a phishing or XSS attack would work against one website at a time. In fact, if the token was something authenticated by the server
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by pi18n 13y ago
Simple and effective. I hope Mozilla is working on something like this, their recent updates have included some great defaults for privacy and security; this might fit in with their browser as authentication idea and be more secure than usi
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by pi18n 13y ago
Further down he writes the rationale is to prevent fragmentation of the community; from what I have seen it prevents developers who otherwise might from joining the community. It's not like e.g. Python or Haskell have a fragmentation proble
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by pi18n 13y ago
It seems like it would mess with macros, because you'd now need to parse the sexpr to make sure it isn't a ->. And what is the point of homoiconicity if you cannot easily rewrite any given expression? I dunno, it strikes me as odd, but
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by pi18n 13y ago
I don't get why -> syntax is used if part of the goal is homoiconicity. Nitpicking aside, I fully approve of the goals and look forward to browsing the source.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I would dismiss Shen just for the weird license. What if I like it and want to use it in an embedded product or somewhere? I'd have to make sure any derivative work adheres to his spec even if it's only intended to run one library.
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by pi18n 13y ago
That's absolutely true, it's far too easy to get in a situation like that even without considering patent law. I just think patents make the scatter-gun approach too accesible, and the damages are far too high. Software doesn't need to prot
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by pi18n 13y ago
The onus placed on them is too great when it appears as a dilemma between a yearly $X0,000 extortion or one-time $X,000,000 lawsuit.
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by pi18n 13y ago
I'm looking forward to the futures trading strategy futures market now.

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