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by stable-point 9y ago
Perhaps SO could include the titles of questions marked as duplicate somewhere in the markup so that Google indexes it?
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by stable-point 9y ago
I think this highlights that while there are easy solutions to the problem the OP faced, they're difficult for a newcomer to discover. (I have been using Rust for a couple of months and I'd also have reached for serde and maybe se
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by stable-point 9y ago
I think the key part is "regardless of where they come from". For instance, Scotland has free tuition for the Scottish and other EU citizens, but not for citizens of England/Wales/NI or international students. (The fees
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by stable-point 9y ago
I do the same, as do others on my team. If we see an XXX in code-review, then we know someone commited something they didn't mean to.
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by stable-point 9y ago
The firmware signature ensures the updates are authentic, but not that they are fresh. An attacker could force devices to stay on an older authentic but vulnerable piece of software. The Google Omaha design docs discuss this a little bit:
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by stable-point 10y ago
Arguably someone adhering to the C++ Core Guidelines, using GSL and using the new static analysis tools (currently only in VS?) can be reasonably confident about choosing C++ for a new project in 2017.
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by stable-point 10y ago
The article asks an interesting question which casts doubt on this theory: why does the UK ban affect UK airlines too?
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by stable-point 10y ago
I don't imagine many start-ups buy them new. My previous employer bought a bunch of Aeron chairs second-hand (from other failed start-ups...)
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by stable-point 10y ago
Fantastic. Maybe hide the word "MSDN" somewhere in the page, just for search engines. Old habits die hard. :) Slightly off-topic, but would it be possible to reinstate the code samples on the IIS Native Module section[0]? It seeme
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by stable-point 10y ago
Fantastic! Thanks a lot in any case. I do find the image of "fighting the borrow checker" is quite harmful to how people view Rust. As those links state, an important aspect of teaching Rust is educating people about why the borro
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by stable-point 10y ago
The new content looks a lot better, but I think it is a shame that this is not using the "MSDN" branding. One of the nicest things about Microsoft documentation is that I can add the term "MSDN" to any random web search
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by stable-point 10y ago
Could you provide an example where the borrowing would cause issues for immutable data? I'm still learning Rust, but I thought the fact that you could have as many immutable borrows as possible would limit what errors the borrow checke
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by stable-point 10y ago
It is not written in Python, it is written in RPython: > So this is written in Python? > It's actually written in RPython, the same language PyPy is written in. make build_with_jit will compile Pixie using the PyPy toolchain. Aft
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by stable-point 10y ago
Opening it in a text editor is not sufficient. With clever use of 'sleep' you can even have the server return a malicious payload only if it thinks its getting immediately piped to sh[0]. If you're opening it in a browser to
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by stable-point 10y ago
No, he doesn't: > For request, a full rewrite made sense because urllib sucked so much and we had no good alternatives.
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by stable-point 10y ago
This is called a Unikernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel > Unikernels are specialised, single address space machine images constructed by using library operating systems. A developer selects, from a modul
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by stable-point 10y ago
I don't think it supports any browsers via plugin. You use a separate app to unlock your keychain, it places the relevant password on your clipboard and then it clears the clipboard 30s later. Very simple and therefore avoids a whole b
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by stable-point 10y ago
> More likely because it's not available on-premise. Check into how many use HipChat instead, because it is. Just one data-point, but: my employer went with HipChat because we needed an on-premise solution. (We were moving away from
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by stable-point 10y ago
I can't get it to look like a crater, no matter where I pretend the light's coming from. It's always a dome for me.
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by stable-point 10y ago
Does the government require this arbitrarily, or because that's the will of the people? Here in the UK, we have Sunday trading laws which limit how long shops can be open on a Sunday. These are reasonably popular (but not unanimously)
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by stable-point 10y ago
Or TenFour refers to the announcement date: 10/4.
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by stable-point 10y ago
It's well worth reading the original 'Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager' chapter from 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things': https://a16z.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/good-product-m
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by stable-point 10y ago
I've attempted to do Coursera's ML course, but I am not very good at learning from videos - I much prefer reading a text book and then attempting the problems in my own time. Are there any recommended text books that one can read
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by stable-point 10y ago
If you have `pbpaste | sh -` on your clipboard and then paste it into a terminal, it'll continually execute itself. (`pbpaste | sh - | pbpaste | sh - | pbpaste | sh - | ... | pbpaste | sh -`)
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by stable-point 10y ago
> if someone has those rights, you're already screwed. I think that this was once true, but Secure Boot was an attempt to improve the situation. My understanding is that Microsoft's Virtualization Based Security (which Device G
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by stable-point 10y ago
The TPM controls the rate-limiting. A compromised OS shouldn't affect it. (Otherwise a live CD could compromise your disk encryption, as the encryption is usually done at the OS level, not in the BIOS/EFI).
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by stable-point 10y ago
As others have said, going release-by-release is the way to go. I migrated a project from 1.4 to 1.8 (LTS to LTS) over the course of a few months. It wasn't trivial, but it wasn't too difficult either. The deprecation notices are
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by stable-point 10y ago
> If they continue to support this use case, it may be hard to do without introducing bugs - one exposure to a 'real' service which spits out an HSTS header (or the preload list), and the machine loses the ability to conduct Go
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by stable-point 10y ago
When generating auth tokens for Django apps, I've previously put the user's password's salt into the token for this purpose. The salt is not secret and changes whenever the password changes.