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by skeptical 15y ago
Looks like ubuntu.com. Meh..
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by skeptical 15y ago
Not that I agree with RMS's naming insistence, but you cannot refer to the kernel as 'the operative system'. The C toolchain is the tip of the iceberg, there's X, multiple desktop environments, the core utils, VMs and programming language i
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by skeptical 15y ago
Change them?
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by skeptical 15y ago
They shouldn't. Everyone seems to be ignoring that, so you get my upvote. We should be aware that wikileaks actions are indeed crimes. That said, some cables put it crystal clear, some politicians are really corrupt and are using their priv
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by skeptical 15y ago
Before jumping in quick judgement you guys should be aware that giving away such information will simply generate a lot of attack vectors by those who want to take down wikileaks. I'm not even saying I agree or disagree with wikileaks itsel
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by skeptical 15y ago
Yes, the problem is exposed correctly. But he blames his tools rather than taking the blame himself. Or maybe he is just trying to blame his coworkers using some euphemism, still lame.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I will assume everyone is too proud to comment that those thresholds are ridiculously high. I work in and I interact with people from different european countries. I'm sorry if I sound like a party pooper, but I would say over 75% of the de
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by skeptical 15y ago
That is spot on. But blaming text editors and IDEs is a missed shot. If the author blames the editor I'm temped to think that he himself resources to copy paste because he as his editor to blame.
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by skeptical 15y ago
This article is just wrong. Thanks to eclipse I go days without copy-pasting. May I suggest that if you're copy pasting too much you're doing it wrong? If we take it to the extreme, why would you need to have the same code in two different
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by skeptical 15y ago
Javascript have had a massive popularity explosion yet the graph doesn't show any sign of it. This kind of metrics has limited value. Not only popularity is not an absolute thing, it's also difficult to measure. Us, hacker news readers, hav
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by skeptical 15y ago
I get it, Russia is becoming strong again but it's not a business partner, so let's turn on the old propaganda machine that has been off since the cold war. Is the russian mob or the kgb so different than other organizations in other countr
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by skeptical 15y ago
I don't care about technicalities, the coins look awesome. Is this really meant to have any practical use? Looking good is the main purpose IMHO. I'm ok with that.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I said 'arguably'. I didn't claim to say the absolute truth. So I have no evidence, just my personal perspective. If you want some evidence, google around, you'll notice that sympy is pretty much what everyone is using.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I do not want to troll, I'm just surprised and confused, why is this on HN frontpage? Sympy is arguably the most popular symbolic calculus library in any language. If anyone thinks of symbolic calculus, sympy is the first thing coming to mi
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by skeptical 15y ago
I tend to be of the opinion that strength of hashes s overrated, other security measures should jump in and this whole discussion should be cooled down. That said, but nesting sha1 calls you are reducing the size of the output set at each s
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by skeptical 15y ago
If there is, most of the people don't know about it, but will still jump in to defend their dogmas till the last drop of sweat. I'm a cryptography illiterate, I know zero besides the basics, i.e. common sense. But it does annoy me deeply, t
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by skeptical 15y ago
This is great, I have a couple of projects that would need a push. I get bored when things evolve into something that requires knowledge areas that 1)I do not master and 2) have no proper/comprehensive docs I can resource to. Hope the idea
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by skeptical 15y ago
What's up with HN today, is it 2006 day? I was curious about the contents of a post with this title could be, given it's 2011. to my disappointment, there was nothing there that hasn't been featured on this kind of posts back when they were
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by skeptical 15y ago
The average dude mightnot care yet, but s/he will care in the future. A few years ago it was common practice to participate in mailing lists, forums, etc. using your real name. Then people gradual learned that that had consequences and nowa
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by skeptical 15y ago
That's what I am trying to say. Common security practices will put you out of danger. I'm confused why we should have recipes to 'secure PHP'. Why don't the regular security measures simply apply? My guess is that many don't know what they
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by skeptical 15y ago
I will play the devils advocate here... I've browsed 4chan every now and then during the last year I will totally disagree with you. If anything, the post quality is deceiving, not immediately apparent. I couldn't understand at first, but t
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by skeptical 15y ago
It usually get's to my nerve when people jump in the "PHP is inferior language because I decided so" bandwagon, but this kind of security strategy ind of gives some base for such criticism. Disable external execution functions, eval, disabl
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by skeptical 15y ago
I don't this this is much use because it's pretty much made to be a stand alone library. I think what we all want int 2011 is a ways to lift validation rules from the server to the UI automatically. Otherwise we still obviously need to do a
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by skeptical 15y ago
x and xxx are two different segments of the porn industry. I guess porn hackers (yeah, I coined that expression) will be mad if you mix them up. I'm not sure if I am being ironic, relevant, or trying to be funny.
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by skeptical 15y ago
And redmine, trac, etc. They hosted their code on github, doesn't make much sense to do that IMHO.
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by skeptical 15y ago
I don't think that paragraph is of much value, and I think all the replies you got kind of address a non existent discussion. I don't think it makes sense to discuss if a mathematical concept is 'visible' just because it happens to be somet
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by skeptical 15y ago
We get to see all kinds of impressive stuff here at HN. I was skeptical about what this was for the reasons you pointed out. An SSH client in javascript and HTML5... "HTML5 SSH Client" is a misleading title because is not accurate. The heav
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by skeptical 15y ago
I'm not understanding how (why?) this would be useful. Accessing a server through http and pipe everything to some other server, why would I want to do that instead of directly connect to my server? What advantage does this have over runnin
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by skeptical 15y ago
A paintbrush is indeed far more important than the painting of Michel Angelo or da Vinci from an historical point of view. On top of that, there are thousands of programming language today, many relying deeply on concepts and paradigms that
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by skeptical 15y ago
Wow, this is probably the best linux/unix guide I've seen. It covers topics in good detail but not in so much detail that it becomes boring or difficult to refer to. Clear code sample and no fluff. Thanks for sharing. I predict I'll refer t

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