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by req2 17y ago
Apologies. I'm new to using searchyc and didn't expect it to miss the URL. http://searchyc.com/submissions/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.matas...
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This is the exploit equivalent of that guy who played the perfect game (2008)(matasano.com)
71 points by req2 17y ago|33 comments
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by req2 17y ago
The author also thinks the birthday paradox doesn't apply to his hashes and that the assumptions an interviewer grants to an interview question can't be taken for granted. The author takes a dim view of convention. http://news.ycombinator.
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by req2 17y ago
Are you saying the book should be called the eight day workmonth?
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by req2 17y ago
I know that whenever I see a crypto post hit the front page, no matter where it came from, I can expect tptacek to debunk its myths.
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by req2 17y ago
Uninformed musing follows: Sales are shifting to the internet, and taxes are failing to follow... Will the internet motivate states to shift the burden once carried by regressive sales tax structures to progressive income tax structures?
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by req2 17y ago
States try to get extra sales tax. Amazon rescinds affiliate program in e.g., Rhode Island. Rhode Island ex-affiliates of Amazon suffer and lose revenue in addition to that they previously gained from Amazon, decreasing the overall tax the
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Brewer's CAP Theorem(julianbrowne.com)
4 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
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by req2 17y ago
If you want the crotchety, overly pedantic, poorly critical response by PZ, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/futurists_make_me...
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by req2 17y ago
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831....
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by req2 17y ago
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/06/lazy-hurt-less-than-st...
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by req2 17y ago
> Secret URL - how am I going to remember it? Bookmark it.
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Digging Deeper into Sufficiently Smartness(prog21.dadgum.com)
2 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
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by req2 17y ago
But what exactly is a compiler error? What if it were a warning? What if we were all trying to program a forbidden fruit?
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by req2 17y ago
They lose interest because Twitter is more of a tool than an activity, and Facebook serves to fill all activity and tool roles it can fill.
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A more interesting look at the planning fallacy(lesswrong.com)
3 points by req2 17y ago|0 comments
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by req2 17y ago
You can't sell your beer cozy "company" like you can a successful startup.
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by req2 17y ago
What about "I'd google it"?
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by req2 17y ago
What if this service were used to moderate the administration of Adsense bans by Google? "Independently verified enforcement of TOS brought to you by SocialMod"
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by req2 17y ago
http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html is a good read for anyone who is interested in making a real claim of "X in N lines of Y code".
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by req2 17y ago
As soon as I get a friendly Facebook URL for my blog I'm going to paste such a scathing response...
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by req2 17y ago
Is there a particular reason you didn't write out payments?
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by req2 17y ago
I'm over my head here, but this is the naive idea that I imagined - You could add two keywords like /notice/ and /keep/. If a parent class's function definition of foo has /notice bar/, overrides of foo could allow the new class to inherit
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by req2 17y ago
I mostly agree, but a few points... Governments don't have the right to refuse service that corporations do. I'm fine with corporations improving the experience of everyone but those who consider how nearly to approach 'pick a link' text, b
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by req2 17y ago
> In fact, it's well known in Java that hashCode and equals should always be redefined together. Shouldn't there be some sort of in-language capacity to address this? A "Warning: equals and hashCode not codefined" seems like it would he
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by req2 17y ago
TOS 1.0 Play nice, and have fun! TOS 1.1 Play nice (no links to shock sites), and have fun! TOS 1.2 Play nice (no links to shock sites, no embedded images of shock sites), and have fun! TOS 2.0 Play nice on our text only boards. Have fun! T
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by req2 17y ago
Google might not actually be interested in customers who may be trying to game the system. Easily revealing the violation would give people like the author reason to try various manipulations to just barely follow TOS and keep the normal Ad
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by req2 17y ago
The three words are known to people who actually look at the TOS. It is not hypocritical for a credit card company to offer different services to businesses and individuals, or even to different individuals, nor is it hypocritical to offer
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by req2 17y ago
> a number of instances where I was asked to read relevant portions of the terms of service out loud for the judge (designed more than anything to humiliate since it was already readily apparent that I could read), Doesn't understand wh
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by req2 17y ago
Not only that, but he even acknowledges that he did the wrong thing by failing to understand or adhere to the TOS in the first place. It's okay though, because he feels entitled to use private services. > Though AdSense for Domains was

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