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by snewman 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is bad : it enables a trivial DOS attack against any web service that accepts floating-point input. (For instance, one of the commenters on the OP noted that Google Spreadsheets backends are vulnerable.) This in
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by snewman 16y ago
To me, the most interesting aspect of this situation is the conflict between Google's view and the blogosphere's view. On the one hand, "...according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search qua
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by snewman 16y ago
[Full disclosure: I make heavy use of both debuggers, and printf debugging, in my work.] A debugger gives you a detailed picture of the state of your program at one moment in time, or (when stepping) over a short period of time. Other tool
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by snewman 16y ago
It's easy to throw out opinions about this sort of thing -- "computers are no replacement for a real teacher", "the class size constraint should be relaxed", "if done well, computerized education could be a huge step forward". But without
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by snewman 16y ago
No worries. :) My only involvement in the iOS port was to give it my blessing, after the fact. The author got in touch with us (the original Spectre authors) at some point when he was pretty far along in development, asking us about a lic
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by snewman 16y ago
Glad to hear it! I have not-quite-so-fond memories of debugging all that AppleTalk code. :) Still, writing Spectre was one of the most fun things I've done. It amazes me, after all these years, how often I still run into people who reme
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by snewman 16y ago
You can reach me at e-mail address "public" on domain "snewman.net". I'd be happy to share more of what I'm doing.
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by snewman 16y ago
If you can arrange things so that some (but not all) of the functionality in your app is unavailable in a pirated copy, then piracy becomes a form of trialware, and can be a huge marketing channel. Way back in the day, I co-wrote an early n
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by snewman 16y ago
I've done some long-running benchmarks of EC2, mostly for kicks and personal edification. For about 8 months now, I've had a job running on an EC2 "small" instance, that performs a suite of microbencharks every 10 seconds and records the r