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by rictic 14y ago
They're also more directly comparable to processes than threads, as they do not share memory (though there are a couple of proposals to allow them to).
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by rictic 14y ago
The point of getters and setters is to avoid exposing internal state to the outside. In this way you're not getting direct modification of fields, you're sending a signal: "hey Date object, get me your representation as an integer number of
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by rictic 14y ago
It's a pain that operations can fail, but handling state when they do fail is a problem that exists whether your exceptions are checked or unchecked. Forcing all exceptions to be checked doesn't seem to help with the problem, but would rath
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by rictic 14y ago
I agree with your reasoning, but I don't think it's a strong objection to the above. You're assuming that they have the time and legal ability to mitigate the risk. The question, as asked, seems to suggest that the imagined payout would be
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by rictic 14y ago
One person shouldn't, we as a democracy can come together and do so though.
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by rictic 14y ago
mkr-hn's describing (as I read it) redistribution of wealth. The problem with your suggestion is that it would necessarily create runaway inflation, because there's no way to square that payout with government tax income. You can have redis
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by rictic 14y ago
Judging from recent Chrome commits (an experimental editing mode, integrating the Ace editor into the dev tools, etc) I'd say that it will be.
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by rictic 14y ago
Agreed. It would be a rather short script to, e.g., send every js-accessible cookie on every site you visit up to a third party. It doesn't take a lot of code to capture a lot of high value data. The supposition that it does is quite strang
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by rictic 14y ago
This is a very short-sighted analysis. There are other players and forces involved in gaming than just the big three of last generation. In fact, if I had to bet, I would bet against any of them being the largest force in consumer gaming in
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by rictic 14y ago
The main problem I see with that is security. PDF is a huge attack surface, reducing that to the already existing and well tested javascript surface is a huge win. Ideally (in my mind) every browser will come to use Mozilla's pdf implementa
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by rictic 14y ago
I'd give good odds you're already aware, but you should totally come to noisebridge when you're in SF.
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by rictic 14y ago
Perl cannot be parsed in the traditional sense of the word. The parse tree is unknowable until you're actually running. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
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by rictic 14y ago
I wrote a ton of callback-oriented code, thinking similarly to you. Promises have come a long ways since then, and I tried out Q.js and discovered that I was missing out on a significant and powerful abstraction. The two things you're missi
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by rictic 14y ago
This is an objection without much substance. The main thing that you're worried about with a plain text password is that it will be obtained by a third party. These are sites which are sending emails with passwords in the clear. They are al
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by rictic 14y ago
For some of this stuff you can use Freebase, which has an awesome queryable JSON API and a very open and permissive license. Our movie data is quite good for structured information, though not so much for unstructured trivia. [Disclosure, I
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by rictic 14y ago
The Binding of Isaac devs have talked at some length about the issues they've faced with making a decent sized game in Flash. This isn't just outsides tearing down something that they don't understand. There are real technical problems with
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by rictic 14y ago
You can submit the input sequence used along with the high score. You've then transformed the problem for the attacker from simply sending up an artificial score to writing a program to solve the game, which is harder and was an existing vu
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by rictic 14y ago
Perhaps to someone sufficiently well versed in the field and its recent history, including who said what and when, the innuendo could be clearly read. I'd venture to guess that most readers could not; I certainly couldn't.
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by rictic 14y ago
That would only make sense if Microsoft hadn't made the exact same choice with Windows 8, even down to the warning when running untrusted software.
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by rictic 14y ago
Putting weapons in the hands of teachers and other school officials makes intuitive sense, however the case where it will need to be used is very rare, yet to be useful the weapons will need to be readily available at all times. As a result
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by rictic 14y ago
Post it here too please, it'll make for a good conversation.
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by rictic 14y ago
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_(copyright_law)
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by rictic 14y ago
Nitpick: "We are in a perfect and undetectable simulation" is a meaningless statement. If e.g. someone found a privilege escalation in our reality's VM that would be quite meaningful.
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by rictic 14y ago
To be fair, Other M was developed by a different studio. To keep my sanity, I regard it as non-canonical.
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by rictic 14y ago
Nitpick: "example" is misspelled as "exemple" a bunch of places.
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by rictic 14y ago
Holy cow, how did I miss that Kixeye story? It read like a horror story. I guess they weren't exaggerating when they used insanity wolf to advertise for jobs, talk about a toxic environment.
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by rictic 14y ago
What's function prototype validation? Can you expand on this?
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by rictic 14y ago
Good question. This was actually implemented in Firefox a while ago, I even remember actually finding it in use in the wild once. The key issue there is how do users manage their certificates? Their 'passwords' are now a set of certificates
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by rictic 14y ago
I disagree. You know what buttons are, you know what a microwave is, you know you need to put the food inside and then push some buttons to indicate the time, then press a start button. The thing that you don't know in the programming examp
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by rictic 14y ago
I'm not sure whether you're saying that there weren't google ads in the old iOS maps, but I'm fairly sure I saw an ad there when I did a search for Pizza Hut a week ago in SF.

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