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1. 3121.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   A lot of people are missing the point, citing the income WhatsApp has to make for Facebook to make back the money. What they forget is that WhatsApp was able to serve almost half a billion users with "minimal" hardware. That&#x2
2. 3122.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   Permutation. You take an old idea, and you pull out all the variables and you start permuting upon them.
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   by segmondy 12y ago

   They don't GO anywhere, they STAY wherever they are. Older folks tend to have more responsibilities, family, kids, retirement to worry about etc. They are less risk prone, they understand that office politics comes with it and the n
4. 3124.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   The point of the article should be that cyber criminals can now target a particular IP or range of IP through ads by install malware at "safe sites" that the target might browse. So any and everyone is at risk if there's som
5. 3125.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   For those of us who are programmers, if you wrote software that lives depended on, how confident will you be that lives won't be lost? My take away from this is to work harder towards excellent, better quality control, more documentat
6. 3126.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   I wonder what you will do when you see tail call optimization functions in prolog or lisp.
7. 3127.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   Don't blame the app, blame the OS, the OS is suppose to insulate the app, it's not MSDOS, unless of course it runs as root then all bets are off.
8. 3128.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   you can check it out on github https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable last commit 19 hours ago.
9. 3129.▲
   by segmondy 12y ago

   I'll acquire them for $10. Oh wait, they do probably say no, because their exit strategy was to get acquired by twitter or someone else for millions upon millions. Any money is better than no more, and the market is willing to pay w
10. 3130.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    You will be right if the disease never left the hospital. The disease did leave the hospital, some people that got it, ran off to other cities and they had to be found and brought back. http://www.reuters.com/article/
11. 3131.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    They were treated, all of them got treatments.
12. 3132.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    Pretty cool, I think the most amazing thing I read was that he's married with kids while building this. A little bit there, a little bit here and it all really does add up. Pretty neat.
13. 3133.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    assembly programmers that coded in C once said that, oh, i don't want to wade through codebase full of machine generated optimizations. i just want the compiler to keep it simple, and then we can optimize. Now, the average compiler w
14. 3134.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    So long as you understand that you won't work hard any less, but will probably work harder, then it's viable. Most times I see people wanting to freelance while travelling they also equate it with "easy work" and being
15. 3135.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    Use it or lose it, it happens to the best of us. There is only so much I can remember at one time, I don't even worry about it, so long as I can find a way to look it up. I wish I had a photographic memory. Knowing that I don'
16. 3136.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    stop being afraid of the future, this is experimental technology, and one day it will be the present, and normal. a vulnerability is not fixed till it's patched, if you tried to access /etc/foo, A3 will recognized you don&#x
17. 3137.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    what if Mussolini the brutal dictator and fascist wrote a clever algorithm or solved a neat math problem, will you feel strongly offended against those who use the algorithm or math equation?
18. 3138.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    github for public stuff, bitbucket for private.
19. 3139.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    Yet, people get very upset these days when one performs a trick in a high level language to perform optimization. It's heart breaking to see how much folks utilized every resource they had back then, today, we just waste it. Computer
20. 3140.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    Drop in to the REPL, this is why languages that have Read, Eval, Print, Loop are super popular. BASIC, Python, LISP, SQL, Ruby, etc. You can get proficient in such languages faster than C, Java
21. 3141.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    As far back as the 90's, I remember the log cleaners would only clean what they touched, so say utmp, read the structure and find all the time the user logged in and remove only this records. This one is wiping everything, you will kn
22. 3142.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    That /^cleanlogs/ just made me cringe. Holy crap.
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    by segmondy 12y ago

    I disagree with you. I read a story of a middle aged man that jumped off a bridge and survived. What I recall was that the moment he jumped, he regretted it as he knew he couldn't undo the jump, and realized that he could fix things
24. 3144.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    What's so surprising? OpenBSD folks don't fall for the next new shiny thing. 10 years from now, something else might take over git, and everyone will jump to it. OpenBSD folks don't care, if what they have works, they stick
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    by segmondy 12y ago

    The problem with AI, if you don't have visual/immediately verifiable results, you fail. You could make great progress and have a partial solution needing polishing, and it won't be good enough if your professor is not a smart
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    by segmondy 12y ago

    Does it? It let's someone dump a script in /tmp that can then be executed to have a shell into your system. With a shell, they can find other vector of attack, and escalate the privilege to root. You have to understand that eve
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    by segmondy 12y ago

    This is precisely the reason why I play. I play when I know the jackpot is very high, over $100 million. Maybe around 10 times in an entire year. That's $20. How much does pizza cost? or movies? $20 is not much, and when I buy
28. 3148.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    I'm very annoyed by the founder of this exploit, if you are going to release something as serious as this. At least work on a solution first. Bash source code is open and out there, isn't this suppose to be the "benefits&q
29. 3149.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    I wonder when this will happen to google and facebook. Happend to Xerox Labs, then Bell Labs/lucent. It's hard to imagine google and facebook being ghosts from the past, but everything must end at some point right?
30. 3150.▲
    by segmondy 12y ago

    Nothing new, but there are still lessons to take away. As a software engineer, I agree with removing constraints/rules to see what new things could happen, bringing in people across different domains to tackle new problem instead of j