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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
I don't like to bash on other peoples' hard work, but it seems like their focus on features and not UX may be a mistake here. The reality is that most developers use other services now and they need to make a better case for why I should ca
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
A requirement for a One Time Pad is that the key stream be generated from true random numbers. Computerized number generators are pseudorandom number generators. Even cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators are not true ra
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
Dolphin isn't great IMO. There are some real good ideas in it from a usability standpoint, and then others that are just face-slappingly aggravating. Chrome is the best browser I've used for Android and it has problems that annoy me to no e
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
Weak sauce because it's untrue, or weak sauce because the author and/or his cohorts are allegedly part of the same group he's criticizing? I think the term "ballers on a budget" is often inapplicable to the types of waste and inefficiency I
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
I don't even think it's always premature refactoring. Sometimes it is just stupid refactoring. A correlating result to stupid refactoring is the existence of over-generalized functions that try to do so much that they need an absolute crap-
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
I feel like people in this thread (not just you) are particularly caught up with an oversimplified example that the author even acknowledged may not have been the best example within the article itself. This article sheds light on something
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by rubbingalcohol 14y ago
I support the notion of enabling HTTPS by default, but calling this "privacy" is a bit optimistic given the way things are these days. Supposing the NSA wanted to spy on your traffic to tbray.org. Would it not be as simple as them asking Ve