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by sqeaky 12y ago
This seems like a more detailed version of the slides Bjarne released a week or so ago. Is anyone else noticing any differences?
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by sqeaky 12y ago
Your notion that you can simply maintain privacy by not using facebook is part of the problem. For a long time facebook tracked people using flash cookies (also called Local Shared Objects) to track people with opinions flawed like your own
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by sqeaky 12y ago
As a secondary point even if don't get simplicity isn't incorrectly setup encryption, better than none? For one example: Self signed certificates don't protect you from a man in the middle perpetrated by the government or IS
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by sqeaky 12y ago
This article ignores the complexity of not encrypting everything. What is the recourse for the average Joe when his social network doesn't encrypt logins? Facebook did this for years, the average user just ignored it and logged in, no
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by sqeaky 12y ago
This stance implies that the complexity of having some systems or parts of systems encrypted, but not others is without cost. I would not be able to teach my grandmother the UI of this system, she has a hard time with chrome's SSL lock
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by sqeaky 12y ago
As as you mentioned RCS thrusters I thought, "but reaction wheels are cheaper and don't require fuel, for all but the largest vehicles they are not needed", then I realized this was real life and not Kerbal Space Program.
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by sqeaky 12y ago
:( It saddens me that such an obvious joke gets downvoted. It would be nice if people could reply when they downvote. Was the joke not received as such, what is not funny or does the community hate jokes?
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by sqeaky 12y ago
I must agree with even though I don't want to. Microsoft seems to legitimately changing its behavior. Personally, I still want more. An open source editor would have been nice. Many good text editors are open source Vim, Emacs, Atom, N
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by sqeaky 12y ago
With results that good it is surprising that you didn't document your benchmark procedures and include them in your article. I too feel comfortable working with modern CPUs but after performance sensitive projects I benchmark and/
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by sqeaky 12y ago
How do you know you are right if you didn't measure? I have done things "knowing" what the outcome would be only to be surprised, and I never would have known if I hadn't measured.
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by sqeaky 12y ago
This comment is horrible and wrong. Thanks Obama!