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Attacks on Package Managers(cs.arizona.edu)
1 points by sfk 16y ago|0 comments
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by sfk 16y ago
hvs did not say that he didn't have time to read it. Your writing style is simply horrible and incoherent and any sane person would stop halfway through.
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[Kinect] Microsoft exec caught in privacy snafu(engadget.com)
4 points by sfk 16y ago|1 comments
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by sfk 16y ago
Reposting the comment of chbarts, which has been killed despite being entirely appropriate. Moderating has gone completely out of hand lately: chbarts wrote: " I think the potted example on the web page is somewhat poor, as it seems to be a
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Windows CMD script won't do Ackermann properly(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by sfk 16y ago|1 comments
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by sfk 16y ago
Well, here it goes: 1) White text on brown background is very difficult to read for many people. 2) Horizontal scrolling is bad. 3) The main headline is far too big. You should be able to take in a headline in a single glance. 4) The plac
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by sfk 16y ago
Sigh : "The contents of the header <limits.h> are given below, in alphabetical order. The minimum magnitudes shown shall be replaced by implementation-defined magnitudes with the same sign." #define UINT_MAX 65535 Key here
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by sfk 16y ago
How can you judge the speed of "your"[1] programmers if you know nothing about programming? Are you perhaps being misled by the frequent "I did X in a weekend" submissions? Those are mostly hyperbole. [1] A little word of advice: Don't talk
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by sfk 16y ago
SWIG has its own problems. Dependencies have already been mentioned, trusting obfuscated code is another issue: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=95863 "But even if I find the cause of the leak, I may not be able to plug i
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by sfk 16y ago
Instead, she brought more publicity to the event. She actually allowed a news outlet to cover the incident. You know, I'm positively tired of the "Streisand effect" argument. Are we supposed to let anything pass out of fear that a mildly
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by sfk 16y ago
1) "Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity or infringes on the legal rights of others." The site engages in commercial exploitation of photos of non-public persons without their consent. 2) "Content related to racial i
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by sfk 16y ago
You can report a policy violation to Google AdSense by clicking on the link in the bottom right corner of the offending site: http://www.peopleofpublictransit.com/ I hope Google cuts them off.
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by sfk 16y ago
There is no similarity between those two names. Beware however, that court decisions are completely arbitrary in these matters. Look here for the tragicomedy of MobiliX vs. Obelix : http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html
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by sfk 16y ago
I appreciate your confidence, but you are wrong: OpenSolaris/suncc, Jacques' program: $ cat immutable.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { char * s = "abc"; *s = 'c'; printf("%s\n", s); return 0; } $ cc
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by sfk 16y ago
From the standard [6.5.4][String literals]: "If the program attempts to modify such an array, the behavior is undefined." Hence there is no requirement to segfault.
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by sfk 16y ago
Not that it matters, but there was the Wolfskehl Prize: http://www.simonsingh.net/Wolfskehl_Prize.html
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by sfk 16y ago
You were the one who said just lay the bricks . This clearly implies that laying bricks is an inferior task compared to coming up with models. EDIT:jacquesm, do you have a voting ring or why are your posts at 2 points (and mine at 0) the i
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by sfk 16y ago
Please refrain from using the bricklayer image here. It is demeaning, silly and wrong. In order to implement a mathematical model, a programmer has to: a) Understand the model. b) Come up with a fast algorithm for the specification.
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by sfk 16y ago
Not worth reading. The author makes a completely unwarranted leap from C++/Java to C, then proceeds to "prove" the lack of readability in C by giving a expression that screams for a preprocessor macro.
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by sfk 16y ago
When reading these articles, I continue to be amazed at how many euphemisms there are for "I want stuff for free".
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by sfk 16y ago
One of the main points of linked lists is that you can manipulate the structure (sort, reverse, etc.) without copying the payloads. So in C, always in place unless explicitly specified otherwise.
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by sfk 16y ago
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/ http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k-jit/
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by sfk 16y ago
These things come and go (hopefully). A couple of years ago there were at least three Seth Godin articles per week.
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by sfk 16y ago
Is there an authoritative link for this? The article is written in a way that suggests that the feed is an integral part of Pulse. One of the comments says: "Pulse actually ships with the NYT built in." Without having cleared this up, it's
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by sfk 16y ago
"The Pulse News Reader app, makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use. Thus, the use of our content is unlicensed. The app also frames the NYTimes.com and Boston.com websites in vio
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by sfk 16y ago
Would you kindly stop spamming HN? Also, the voting here is quite suspect.
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by sfk 16y ago
Nothing.
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by sfk 16y ago
Do you mean ruby-lang.org? The problem is, what you consider excellent, other people may hate. I have far less problems navigating python.org than ruby-lang.org and I find the design of ruby-lang.org cheap. My all time personal favorite p
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by sfk 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=333168
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by sfk 17y ago
Tk has native "look and feel". I've written a Python Tkinter app and I was pleasantly surprised how good it looks on Windows.

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