swolchok

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   by swolchok 16y ago

   Haven't thought too hard about passive attacks, but you're not secure against an active MITM like airpwn ( http://airpwn.sourceforge.net/Airpwn.html ), because the MITM can inject JS into the unencrypted content that steals your JS security
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   Wildcard certs don't match the underlying domain, though. See, for example, dropbox.com instead of www.dropbox.com; they've got a wildcard cert and it's not valid for dropbox.com.
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   Your personal machine isn't going to be connected through "modern enterprise-grade switches like you would find in a data center," so ARP spoofing is a totally legitimate attack.
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   Closure doesn't do it that way, and the Closure Compiler will collapse the namespacing so that it doesn't result in runtime overhead.
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   "refudiate" isn't a word (though it appears to be a Palin-ism -- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate ). Perhaps you meant "repudiate?"
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   s/Scandle/Scandal/
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   DC Internet Voting Trial Attacked 2 Different Ways(politics.slashdot.org)

   1 points by swolchok 16y ago|0 comments
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   You can't pre-compute it with the Floyd-Warshall algorithm in C or something? EDIT: to try to answer my own calculation on the back of the envelope... We're going to need n^2 space and n^3 time, where n is the number of nodes. There are abo
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   by swolchok 16y ago

   > I don't think a paper receipt is necessary if the system is trusted (the system gives feedback if it accepted your input). Front-end: "vote counted!" Back-end: vote redirected to /dev/null! It's not immediately obvious to me how to ma
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    There is a blog post with more information at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-in... .
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    That's why Gentoo's system is called Portage.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    Did you mean: Post-Vacation-Amnesia?
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    Speaking as a Python person who recently had to dig through a Ruby project, I can see why people like Ruby and RoR (lack of explicit return statements make your code look functional, lack of parens makes your code look minimal, it's nice to
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    I only see direct discussion links, not article links.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    This issue is why bison's license contains a special exception for the part(s) of itself it includes in its output. http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/html_node/Condition...
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    This is Python. Subclass it and fix the problem, unless the guts are so opaque that your code would be littered with subclasses and you can't figure out an elegant, general way of fixing it (unlikely).
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    If he's defending against None, he should assert l is not None and len(l) == 1
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    Because articles cannot be downvoted, I am very stingy with upvotes. I don't like most articles on the front page, let alone the new page. If your article is really great, it won't be on the new page but not the front page for long anyway.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    It's labeled as YCombinator, not HN.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    I can't speak for everyone, but based on my experience, regularly drinking (even lightly) during the day would be likely to cause significant productivity loss. Duh?
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular Next question.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    Re: cartoons, I had a good time watching Reboot with some fellow interns a few years back. Lots of CS in-jokes, and the production issues / tropes are merely fodder for a drinking game.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    "X" is a really bad variable to use, seeing as how it's the windowing system.
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    I'll have a much better idea sometime in the next couple of weeks, if/when WakeMate finally ships...
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    FWIW, I found a local privilege escalation vulnerability (arguably just a bug allowing apps to trash the kernel, since it's single-user anyway) in Menuet32, and I'm not optimistic about the network stack. I would have expected ping of death
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    If you use a 1-year reserved instance, it'll cost you about $115/year, which is substantially cheaper than the lowest-priced Linode. I'll be switching http://mbusreloaded.com/ after its Linode subscription runs out, as there's absolutely
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/programming
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    1) Use the apostrophe correctly, when applicable: "student's". Your resume should have no obvious proofreading errors. 2) Include everything relevant without being too verbose. Education, Experience, Skills. Probably relevant coursework in
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    I suspect that the grandparent meant "write shell scripts".
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    by swolchok 16y ago

    No. I stand to gain more than the opportunity cost of staying.