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by quadhome 12y ago
Bloomberg has just paid a lot for their experience of what mistakes to not make in the future. Walking them out the door would be a fantastic waste of money.
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How do you delete users from your website?
1 points by quadhome 12y ago|1 comments
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by quadhome 13y ago
One thing I've done is use those original functions as reference implementations. Then, in the tests, have a set of sanity check calls to both the original functions and the optimized versions. If ever they differ, the tests fail. What
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by quadhome 13y ago
The article about the Android/PRNG security flaw is aptly editorialized... Thank you. I revised the title for that link several times. My final edit lifted the style of the Ars Technica[1] headline, but specifically added the more te
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Google confirms Java and OpenSSL crypto PRNG on Android are broken(android-developers.blogspot.com.au)
237 points by quadhome 13y ago|149 comments
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by quadhome 13y ago
This system exists, is open source, is behind the German Pirate Party, and needs your support! http://liquidfeedback.org/
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by quadhome 13y ago
I think you may be arguing against a strawman. The article, as I read it, said Gray was arguing against the ideal of progress in the human individual. The hope that the individual will use reason and knowledge to improve themselves, the wor
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by quadhome 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister#Inspirations Or, if you dislike comedic form, the Crossman Diaries are insightful in the working of the civil service: http://www.amazon.com/s/?&field
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by quadhome 13y ago
Because there can be no obligation to do that which cannot be done. And because it "cannot be done," we are to close the doors on anyone who cares to try?
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by quadhome 13y ago
You have the computer look at it. Brett Slatkin of Google Consumer Surveys has a great talk on using perceptual diffs for this: https://air.mozilla.org/continuous-delivery-at-google/
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by quadhome 13y ago
Welcome to Hacker News. There are some guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
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by quadhome 14y ago
... paid for the privilege of being able to buy them. Did they buy them or not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine Edit: upon further reflection, first-sale doctrine is around intellectual properties like books and mu
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by quadhome 14y ago
"He?"
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by quadhome 14y ago
The biggest "barrier," if you can call it that, to solving the IT skills gap is the E-3 visa program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa It's a reciprocal visa program between Australia and the United States. Australia offers American
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by quadhome 14y ago
That doesn't mean those patches will be accepted upstream.
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by quadhome 14y ago
"Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell’s grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help." -- Tom Duff, "Rc — A Shell for Plan 9 and UNIX Systems"[1] [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41....
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by quadhome 14y ago
What causes the overhead? Is there a way to get the sugar without the calories?
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by quadhome 14y ago
Read more as criticizing the bank manager for ignoring or "forcing out" his employees who had repeatedly warned about the likelihood and ease of theft in his branch. Anyway... who is insuring the the federal reserve networks?
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by quadhome 14y ago
Not universal...
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by quadhome 14y ago
(my knowledge is circa early 2000s) Debian has (had?) a high barrier to entry to become a developer, and every developer signs their packages. The release binaries are arranged on a secured box and the release key itself is held by a limite
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by quadhome 14y ago
How would signing gems have prevented this situation?
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by quadhome 14y ago
There's syntax highlighting and various other editor support installed with and included in the Go source tree: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse#hg%2Fmisc Rob Pike may have an issue with it, but the Go team most certainly does no
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by quadhome 14y ago
"Available to US customers only."[0] That sucks. "MP3 versions of tracks from CDs purchased from Amazon since 1998 and that are eligible for AutoRip will be delivered to your Cloud Player library." That rocks. [0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/
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by quadhome 14y ago
Post the refined version of your code?
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by quadhome 14y ago
If he's limiting his statements to Africa, the debate rages... http://debatewise.org/debates/687-is-aid-killing-africa/
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by quadhome 14y ago
If Twitter could be used that way, it isn't in this case. @MiyagiJournal hasn't posted anything about the latest two articles... I also add my voice for an RSS feed. If the app was OSS, I'd happy send a pull request.
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by quadhome 14y ago
Is "Internet governance" a synonym for DNS?
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by quadhome 14y ago
He said it in The Innocents Abroad.
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by quadhome 14y ago
Uriel was responsible for curating http://cat-v.org/ - a breathtaking source of dissent against mainstream software design.
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"How Does The Internet Work" according to Web Platform(docs.webplatform.org)
1 points by quadhome 14y ago|0 comments

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