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Stanford Online Courses delayed(twitter.com)
2 points by samuel 15y ago|1 comments
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by samuel 15y ago
You say it's _unnecessary_ and "there's high chance of someone accessing the password". Under that premises, obviously, it's foolish not to use one-way hashing. Mine is that may provide value and there are sensible ways of mitigating the
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by samuel 15y ago
With a hardware device as a smart card. Everyone here implies that passwords are stored in just another table of the database. There are other more sensible scenarios. For exmaple: authentication servers which talk to the front end using CH
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by samuel 15y ago
Could you elaborate? I read it this summer, and while I found that the glue between the chapters was a bit weak(I think the central theme isn't strong enough, no wonder he prefaces the 2nd edition trying to explain what the heck the book is
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by samuel 15y ago
set -o vi
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by samuel 15y ago
I disagree with the readability part. I do heavy use of "WITH" to name my intermediate steps and comment the tricky parts (as I would do with any other programming language) and my colleagues find them pretty readable(or that's what I'm tol
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by samuel 15y ago
transactional DDL for granted? Not at all! Oracle doesn't support that AFAIK. May be you were thinking about transactional DML?
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by samuel 15y ago
He's OK. I don't know how to link a tweet but see textfiles account( https://twitter.com/#!/textfiles ) Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring
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by samuel 15y ago
It really is performance-wise? Does a process switch between two equal processes avoids a TLB-flush?(How it could?) I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.
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by samuel 15y ago
(Embarrased) Yes of course it is. And that's coming from someone who presumes to know operator precedence and despises programmers who use extra parens for no good reason.
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by samuel 15y ago
I would answer that Price is a function of uptime given by the following formula: Price(uptime) = K*(1/1 - uptime) so I would ask for infinite dollars...
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by samuel 15y ago
Look for yourself: http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?... The reference course on Stanford is CS229A instead of CS229, which is much lighter on Math. I have watched the videos on Linear and Logistic regression and
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by samuel 15y ago
...or rethrow it as an unchecked exception(RuntimeException).
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Will Amazon Color Tablets Target Apple This Year?(informationweek.com)
2 points by samuel 15y ago|0 comments
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by samuel 15y ago
Asus is going to sell(presumably) the eee x101 running MeeGo for 200$, with decent specs for a "net oriented" computer(1 core Atom, 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD), so aren't manufacturing limitations what drive them away from that price tag. May be Goog
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by samuel 15y ago
I do understand and use that features. My point it's that they aren't obvious. One of Python strengths was that any programmer could look at it and know what was going on, and, for newbies, it was much easier to learn. I'm among the few u
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by samuel 15y ago
I started to use Python not much after this article(2002?), and I wonder how much of those days' simplicity holds true. "Modern Python" is full of list comprehensions, generators and decorators. Not that's intrinsically bad, but it's not "e
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by samuel 15y ago
Because since it's hidden they don't want to disclose that information to other teams. I recall DLR(McLaren's driver) being asked about it after explaining their steering wheel's controls. Anyway, IIRC the interviewer "guessed" that it was
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by samuel 15y ago
Dunno. IIRC Every time I have seen the "bad" Fibonacci recursive algorithm has been followed by the "good" recursive one (bottom-up), which is O(1) in size if your language/implementation does tail-call elimination...
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by samuel 15y ago
I agree with this. Having A-players, recognized and respected as such may get the best of everyone. Lots of very capable people simply have had the bad luck of reaching teams without this kind of references and never were forced out of thei
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by samuel 15y ago
I agree. I think it's a great choice for experienced programmers: concise and to the point and exhaustive.
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by samuel 15y ago
I don't think they overlap too much. Rhino's primary use case is Java scripting, and it's (alleged) low performance probably doesn't matter a lot since it's just the glue that binds together heavier Java libraries. I know a handful of apps
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by samuel 16y ago
"Python 3 is unarguably a better language than Python 2." I would say that's unarguably marginally better. What provides Python 3 that I miss in Python 2? For me nothing at all. Ok, dealing with Unicode it's easier. So what? Optional type a
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Asynchronous programming with twisted(krondo.com)
2 points by samuel 16y ago|0 comments
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Notion Ink Adam compared to the Kindle and Pandigital Novel in Direct Sunlight(goodereader.com)
2 points by samuel 16y ago|0 comments
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by samuel 16y ago
I'm not submitting this as a flamebait. On the contrary, I'm fairly interested about HNers opinions about how these frameworks compare. I have little to nothing front end experience(and want to learn a JS framework). In my inexperienced vie
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JQuery vs MooTools(jqueryvsmootools.com)
1 points by samuel 16y ago|2 comments
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by samuel 16y ago
So he made a bussiness decission: weighed the risks and went for the most profitable one. Still, I think he's been careless. If you really want to give your users a "recover password"(especially after you have reached success), do it in a s
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by samuel 16y ago
In fact what Google users are really clicking in searches are "google.com/url?" URL's which are also disallowed in robots.txt(while the url they redirect to aren't).
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by samuel 16y ago
Huh? Where's the conflict between Wikileaks and Tor? Wikileaks publishes goverment's secrets. Goverments sniff(presumably) citizens' communications, both content and session data. Tor helps citizens to leak those secrets hiding their sessio

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