shrughes

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by shrughes 13y ago
If you want to defend against hijackings, the problem you're trying to solve is one that programmers know well: the buffer overflow attack. In a buffer overflow attack, someone gives a program much more data than it was expecting. The
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by shrughes 13y ago
So... political speech is permitted for Rupert Murdoch and G.E., or whoever owns NBC now, but not... who?
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by shrughes 13y ago
Yeah, I think there's a better way to alter democracy than outlawing political speech for everybody except approved major parties. > Require candidates to provide clear answers And the enforcement mechanism is...?
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by shrughes 13y ago
You're the one claiming there's a huge body of research disproving his claims. Your link upthread points to stuff that supports his argument and other stuff that counts as weak evidence against. Nowhere is there anything remotel
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by shrughes 13y ago
"Right to work" laws are not what you think they are.
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by shrughes 13y ago
> All sovereign states--be they allies or rogues--have a legitimate claim to and expectation of privacy where their internal dealings are concerned. They're governments . They don't have any rights and as local monopolists of
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by shrughes 13y ago
This is crazy. Hire engineers that can talk to non-technical people, but then have one of these engineers interview non-technical people to make sure that non-technical people can talk to engineers? But the engineer can already talk to no
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by shrughes 13y ago
It would be a good idea to make the phone screen more rigorous. Use some etherpad clone-du-jour and have them write code in the phone screen. This way you'll filter out the bozos more efficiently. You shouldn't expect somebody h
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by shrughes 13y ago
Um, no? Having more experience with programming would make things easier to understand.
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by shrughes 13y ago
If the T440s comes out soon enough, the Thinkpad T440s with FHD IPS screen. Otherwise... personally I'd go for the T431s. Macbook Airs don't have enough key travel.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It doesn't matter whether it's a majority. A third of people is a large proportion.
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by shrughes 13y ago
I would expect a product named Facemail to be something created by Facebook.
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by shrughes 13y ago
Dvorak does it better -- underscore is on the home row.
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by shrughes 13y ago
MBP with retina display, you mean? Otherwise you're dropping in resolution.
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by shrughes 13y ago
Presumably it's parallelizable. Double the clockspeed, 16x the cores... that'll get you 32x improvement right there, but you've also got way more L3 cache, which might help considerably.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It seems you don't understand CPUs very much. You want an "i7", but you're looking at laptops with a wide range of CPU performance. There are two kinds of i7's: dual core and quad core. Or there are four kinds:
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by shrughes 13y ago
He didn't write that blinded with rage. He carefully crafted a work of literature. The person he responded to was one of those sociopath fact-assumptors that make every online conversation difficult.
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by shrughes 13y ago
So, you are saying what exactly? That there are good games in the App Store? That's not a proposition anybody disputes.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It's a Freenode channel, unsurprisingly. Try IRCing elsewhere.
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by shrughes 13y ago
If or once a string.toLower() function is added to RQL, you'll be able to have case-insensitive indexes in RethinkDB, because you can index on arbitrary functions of your rows.
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by shrughes 13y ago
You also have freedom of scream.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It's a vapid comment that lowers signal:noise, of course it should be downvoted.
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by shrughes 13y ago
Why wouldn't you use goto? It's not like it isn't constrained to the function you're in.
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by shrughes 13y ago
So it's less profitable. Do you think you're coming up with a retort here?
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by shrughes 13y ago
And hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria every year. There are more efficient ways to spend charitable energy.
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by shrughes 13y ago
I don't know about that, Wikipedia was down for a whole day last year.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It's not. You couldn't beat programming ability into the vast majority of incompetards.
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by shrughes 13y ago
It was added in C++ before that.
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by shrughes 13y ago
Why don't you RTFM and see for yourself?
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by shrughes 13y ago
"Real" QBASIC has structs, maybe some of the other things.

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