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by rst 13y ago
Might also be worth looking at xv6, which is a rewrite of Unix v6 in modern C, and comes with an exegesis modelled on the classic Lions book: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html (Although if you want to
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by rst 13y ago
The attack scenario here is a request from an authorized browser which is run by a hostile page on a different website (e.g., due to phishing attack). And since the request comes from an authorized browser, the cookies typically checked
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by rst 13y ago
But their recommended workaround for writing generic containers is to use the empty interface and type-cast in and out --- which has all the drawbacks of the Java implicit boxing. And on top of that, it clutters up the code with type casts
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by rst 13y ago
I've seen this argument several times, and I'm not sure I understand it. The recommended workaround (empty interface and explicit unboxing) is, at runtime, pretty much how Java generics work: the parameter types get "erased
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by rst 13y ago
Likewise in the US --- Obama campaigned, to some extent, on a rollback of this stuff, but he's been gung-ho in favor of it once in office.
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by rst 13y ago
When have Udall, Wyden, or Heinrich said anything like that? Those are the Senators who filed the brief. They're all Democrats; every anti-science proclamation from the Senate I've seen (and I have seen quite a few) has come fro
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by rst 13y ago
This isn't a reaction to Snowden so much as the EFF's ongoing FOIA lawsuit explicitly seeking release of the documents, which are still pretty heavily redacted. (Among the blackouts: the name of an official that briefed FISA cour
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by rst 13y ago
Recent "conventional" gasoline-based cars are also full of embedded software, much of it of dubious quality. Consider, for instance, this audit of the software in recent Toyotas, which found bugs that could cause the car to go ou
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by rst 13y ago
Depends on the library, and perhaps on when you ask. The Cambridge Public Library web site now says they require a "current local address", so the homeless may be out of luck. But they used to require only that you be able to si
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by rst 13y ago
And it was particularly hard to foresee that the replacement wouldn't need writers , which had been a basic requirement of broadcast serial entertainment since before television.
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by rst 13y ago
Also, if that's the plan, live WELL below your means. Note that the OP had in fact saved up $500,000 --- a pretty sizable sum of money by most standards. Downsizing earlier and more aggressively (e.g., selling the house while he stil
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by rst 13y ago
He's got several years as a staff writer on a hit TV show, and his magazine publishing experience before that. The gap is real, and obviously important, but what came before is a lot more than "fluff".
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Brendan Eich posts on DRM support in Firefox(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
2 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
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by rst 13y ago
Somewhat relevant to the debate on permitting anonymous comments.
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Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (2011)(cnn.com)
88 points by rst 13y ago|32 comments
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Health-care site contractor tied to firm that botched other IT projects(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
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by rst 13y ago
Remember that story a few months ago about how some government agency had replaced all its keyboards and mice in response to a malware infestation? A lot of folks (including some here) took this as Yet Another Show of Government Cluelessne
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by rst 13y ago
Right, it's not like wifi adapters have independent processors of their own with closed-source, potentially buggy firmware that does DMA into main processor memory. :-) It's also worth thinking about netboot (which comes in severa
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by rst 13y ago
For one thing, putting the voice signal processing in the baseband means that it's not vulnerable to timing glitches from "noisy neighbor" apps running on the application processor. For another, as a practical matter, a lot
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Jacob Applebaum: RC4 is broken in real time by the NSA(twitter.com)
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by rst 13y ago
The KitKat version of GoogleHome.apk is already beyond bitrot; it's "an empty shell that forwards all requests to the [proprietary Google] search app" (which manages the home screen in KitKat), per ArsTechnica: http:/&#
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by rst 13y ago
Also, in the same sphere, RSA. But the rationale for the patent system is to encourage innovation that wouldn't have happened without it, and it isn't clear that either of the public-key crypto patents qualifies. In each case, th
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by rst 13y ago
Positronic Net, a Scala toolkit for Android programmers, with UI and data-management helpers.
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by rst 13y ago
And it's the one thing I really dislike about Ruby. The problem with this is that the interpreter can't tell the difference between declaring a new variable, and misspelling the name of an existing one --- which means that there&
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by rst 13y ago
If deployment is the key issue, you don't necessarily need to change the language. What you need is glue code that hooks Ruby (or Python, or whatever) into the web server at the same level as PHP hooks in, the way the ancient mod_perl
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by rst 13y ago
I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for Lenovo to update the X1 Carbon to Haswell. (Presuming that doesn't somehow mess up Linux support!)
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by rst 13y ago
On my android browser, it obscures the entire text. I gather they don't believe in mobile first.
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by rst 13y ago
Looking around the web site, it's a little hard to figure out what their Android story is. On the one hand, their developer info is about only their iOS library, and explicit references to Android elsewhere are ... not prominent. On
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by rst 13y ago
One possible explanation: the initial boost is largely a reflection of the pre-launch marketing efforts, which are in turn a measure of the effectiveness of the marketing effort generally. So, you could read this as saying more that marke
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by rst 13y ago
Constant Contact uses Rails on jruby pretty extensively, because of improved performance and JVM integration. There was also a talk at Boston's Wicked Good Ruby conference of a case study of a large Struts 2 app getting extended in Ra

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