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by rpearl 14y ago
Just throwing code over the wall is such a poor imitation of open source. Develop in the open--reviews, patches, bugs, design discussions--everything should be visible. Let's not pretend that this is really what "open source" is about--it's
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by rpearl 14y ago
I also ported zxcvbn to python for those of you looking to integrate it into things that don't have javascript support (a native app or something--that was the original motivation for it). https://github.com/rpearl/python-zxcvbn/ I am a b
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by rpearl 14y ago
If there is a conflict then a conflicted copy file will be generated and then either the user or the app can use that to merge changes.
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by rpearl 14y ago
Which, since it explicitly breaks type safety (you can write coerce :: a -> b with it), is an appropriate name for that function.
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by rpearl 14y ago
As a Dropbox employee, both of these things have been super useful, especially being able to share sets of pictures without shuffling them around into shared folders. Glad they're shipping to everyone now :)
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Coming soon to your Dropbox: Document previews and easier sharing(blog.dropbox.com)
25 points by rpearl 14y ago|9 comments
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by rpearl 14y ago
Why in the world would there be a root password at all? "No, Bob, if you lost the private key associated with your ssh credentials you can send me a gpg-signed email or wait until morning when you can verify your identity physically."
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by rpearl 14y ago
It only dominates (and has dominated for basically the whole existence of internet chess) because games are short, fun, and non-committal. Playing a tournament game means spending hours on one game. That's exhausting and not something peopl
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by rpearl 14y ago
I have to comment on this line: > Some libraries implement an unsafe, but fast, JSON parse using “eval” for older browsers eval is not fast! In fact it is the opposite of fast. Most JIT optimizations go away in the face of eval()! Do no
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by rpearl 14y ago
my wording is my own; i have not checked exactly what the restrictions on this feature are.
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by rpearl 14y ago
Dropbox engineer here. There should be a drop-down item to switch accounts: https://www.dropboxatwork.com/2012/12/easily-switch-between-... The first time you select 'Switch Accounts' you will be able to log in your personal account. Afte
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by rpearl 14y ago
C code can call into rust: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/rust.html#extern-functions
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Dropbox 2.0 brings a crisp new mobile look and refined photo experience on iOS(thenextweb.com)
3 points by rpearl 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpearl 14y ago
There's a bunch of not-quite-correct information here... Let me try to summarize. Jaegermonkey is a JIT. It takes spidermonkey bytecode, and when functions grow hot, it compiles them to native code in a way quite similar to v8's full AST co
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by rpearl 14y ago
http://augustss.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-points-for-lazy-ev... is a very good discussion of why laziness has some nice semantic properties from the theory point of view. And the post it is responding to, https://existentialtype.wordpres
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by rpearl 14y ago
every single NoneType error I have gotten using in the python I'm paid to write would go away with a static type system. Every single function I've changed the signature of and then failed to change one caller would go away with a static ty
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by rpearl 14y ago
you're totally right, industrial data centers are the same as entertainment venues and should be combined.
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by rpearl 14y ago
It would all be fake. What's the point?
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by rpearl 14y ago
There are some photos, such as https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/images/_300... I wonder why they've mirrored the image (the left side is quite clearly the right side flipped--take a look at the machine identifier labels).
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by rpearl 14y ago
Guess what? That happens with Firefox too.
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Reminds me of http://bit.ly/6EzdE
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by rpearl 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8 is a far better way to visualize latency.
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by rpearl 14y ago
Using a plugin for this seems... unnecessary.
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by rpearl 14y ago
1password is all JSON. Here's some python written by a friend of mine to read keychains: https://github.com/drakedevel/pyagilekeychain/blob/master/ag... Not that standard (the encryption is standard AES, but not OpenPGP format) but it is
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by rpearl 14y ago
Haskell and SML both have sufficiently expressive type systems that I do not ever find myself writing correct code that fails to typecheck. If the code fails to typecheck, I have done something wrong. (If the code does typecheck, then I hav
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by rpearl 14y ago
"dynamic and functional" I don't understand what you've said here. The two terms are entirely orthogonal. There are functional langauges which are dynamically "typed", and there are functional languages which are statically typed. Lumping t
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by rpearl 14y ago
Keep in mind that v8's "points" scale is nonlinear, so it's not clear what "radically" actually means in terms of the time taken to run the test.
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Dropbox In Space(blog.dropbox.com)
21 points by rpearl 14y ago|3 comments
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by rpearl 14y ago
If he can generate two files with the same hash he can do much more interesting things than write a sketchy python script that a few people might run without reading.
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by rpearl 14y ago
You mean like the compiler that built the python interpreter that ran the script in question?

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