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by rw 17y ago
Matasano's "Chargen" blog has a few posts on the Flash vulnerability Mark Dowd found last spring. They make it understandable. Their site is currently down, but Google has a cache: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:5VHY2EwpC-8J:www.matas
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by rw 17y ago
Lots of high-quality articles on low-level hacking. I like the new editors!
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Phrack 66 (June 2009)(phrack.org)
49 points by rw 17y ago|9 comments
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Disco Project: Erlang and Python Mapreduce(discoproject.org)
24 points by rw 17y ago|2 comments
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by rw 17y ago
"As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." -- John Dewey
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by rw 17y ago
Fine, yes; but you don't have to use neural networks to get that behavior.
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by rw 17y ago
How did you get the goodies without signing the NDA?
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Explaining the many paradigms of PLT Scheme to a 16 year old(groups.google.com)
23 points by rw 17y ago|2 comments
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by rw 17y ago
Do I hate that the only implementation of Qi is not fully FOSS? Yes. Do I love this essay? Yes.
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by rw 17y ago
> considering that college degrees are already a stand in for IQ? What?
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by rw 17y ago
If we're not arguing about semantics, then it's just syntax. Did you mean: nuance?
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by rw 17y ago
If you have found a new way to tackle a problem, then, by definition, there are no frameworks for you .
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by rw 17y ago
When it comes to intelligent nonhuman organisms, the question seems to be: dominate or cooperate?
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by rw 17y ago
Sorry to append the # sign, but the same URL was posted for the 2008 contest last year.
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Announcing Google Code Jam 2009(code.google.com)
3 points by rw 17y ago|1 comments
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by rw 17y ago
Yet perhaps many are frustrated by never having agency to make those choices in the first place.
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by rw 17y ago
Unfortunately, discussion about this article seems to have fallen into the meta-wastebin. It is a good submission.
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by rw 17y ago
> As pointed out in the extensive literature by Paul Graham [CITATION NEEDED], the often used COND Lisp form is too verbose by two parentheses per case (Θ(2n)^8). I wish I could wake up to something like this essay every morning. (Summa
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by rw 17y ago
Deciding whether or not to guess depends on the consequences of being wrong.
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by rw 17y ago
> This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world. Try calling it experimentati
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by rw 17y ago
This could just be solved by etiquette. Or, different accounts for different purposes: one for your minutia/personal life, one for your coding life, one for your politics life...
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by rw 17y ago
Gorgeous design. The Extend -> Themes (and others) link doesn't work (404).
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by rw 17y ago
At age 2 or 3, absolutely! What happens when they're older is anyone's guess.
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by rw 17y ago
I have a problem with your poll: there won't be an end.
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by rw 17y ago
There's a nice emergency pizza button at a dorm on the east side of MIT. It's laser-cut and everything.
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by rw 17y ago
It's pretty clear that better is better than worse.
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by rw 17y ago
What do you need to perform at your absolute best? I need to know that the rest of my life is taken care of. Relationships included.
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by rw 17y ago
Only if you want to ignore important aspects of your life.
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by rw 17y ago
There are no actual suggestions here, just purported evidence that worthwhile risks will be taken to get MySpace back in the groove.
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by rw 17y ago
Could you go into more detail? That sounds pretty interesting.

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