thirsteh

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by thirsteh 14y ago
Bingo. This and the ease-of-use/approachability for non-developers are why Excel is still absolutely huge in the finance world, and why it's not something you just "grow out of" when you start hiring developers.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Yeah, no disagreement.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You also need to monitor or update the software and machinery, so you'll probably want some kind of internal network. But can other things than the control systems connect to that network? Then you're screwed, unless you can absolutely guar
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You could compile the .a files for the different architectures, and let them link against that, instead of recompiling and linking from your source--but the 'go' tool won't currently accept it if there's no source. That could change, and th
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Is Everything We Know About Password-Stealing Wrong? [pdf](research.microsoft.com)
64 points by thirsteh 14y ago|27 comments
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Teaching Distributed Systems in Go(da-data.blogspot.com)
66 points by thirsteh 14y ago|19 comments
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Yes, but when people refer to the U.K. as a region, they usually mean the U.K. (i.e. including Northern Ireland) and the Republic of Ireland. Ireland is seldom its own region. There is no mention of the Republic of Ireland in their earnings
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Probably not that surprising given that Ireland is a tax haven for most large U.S. corps' presence in all of Europe. If I sign up for AdWords or AdSense now, I'm dealing with Google Ltd, even though I am not in the U.K.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Indeed. Some people have even used e.g. Haskell to provide more "real" logic, but with Excel as the user interface: http://qconlondon.com/london-2008/speaker/Lennart+Augustsson http://urchin.earth.li/~ganesh/icfp08.pdf
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Thanks. Made my day.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Excel is an easy-to-use functional programming language.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I strongly disagree. Good developers have a sort of Big-O intuition at the back of their minds that automatically tells them that the nested for loop they're writing to find a string in an array, and using an array in the first place, might
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It's ironic that you keep calling him "kid", yet he's obviously accomplished more than you. Is this veiled jealousy, or what? In any case: Please take the time to actually understand the difference between XMPP and OTR. You have repeatedly
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by thirsteh 14y ago
> Hop on Google chat and click "Off the record" and you've done the same thing cryptocat does. This is literally what you said. > You can attack me all you'd like I don't think I'm attacking you, but after being this insulting to
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The specs are not "different." They are completely different things. You realize it is impossible to talk to somebody over the Internet, or in real life except in person, without relying on a third party, right? You choose who to trust, and
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by thirsteh 14y ago
> As you said. "Virtually". All of this relies on you trusting the third party involved here and that was my point. No, it doesn't. That's not what "virtually" means. It's guaranteed, barring some unexpected advance against one of the c
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The first implementation of Cryptocat was bad in this regard, but the new version uses OTR. OTR virtually guarantees that a middle man can't interpret your communications by performing public key authentication and key negotiation--similar
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You're quite cocky for being so hilariously wrong. "Off the record" in GTalk makes it not log your conversation in your "Chats" folder. It has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with encryption or deniability.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It sounded like you were implying that they were, but the biggest thing they have in common is that their names sound similar.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
A monoid is anything with an associative append and an identity operation. A monad is a form of monoid (in the category of endofunctors; what's the problem?), but monoids are not necessarily monads.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It's not. Please check out Edward Kmett's comments: http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2013/01/monads-for-normal-prog... http://blog.jorgenschaefer.de/2013/01/monads-for-normal-prog...
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by thirsteh 14y ago
WTH is up with these comments from fake users. Stop spamming and trying to game HN.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Yes.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Believe me, I'm no stranger to flaming service providers, but I'm inclined to blame the user for not being sufficiently disciplined here. The service provider shouldn't have to make all these kinds of guesses about what you can access and w
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Does any company in the world do something like this? If not, why make it sound like Heroku is doing something bad by not having it? I don't think expecting people to protect their email and TOTP secrets is unreasonable, but it does go to s
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Ah, yes. I agree.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
You are extracting something I didn't say, or at least didn't mean to imply. RC4 is better than TLS-CBC as it is implemented by virtually all libraries. A constant-time implementation is obviously preferable, but considering the mess this m
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Yeah. The outlook is not that great, and RC4 will definitely be better than CBC for those legacy systems in light of this discovery ( http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/ ). At least the browsers are actively working on supporting the latest TLS
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The statement that RC4 has no weaknesses is not true. It has well-known biases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security It is just better than CBC (as implemented), being a stream cipher, and thus using RC4 is the best solution right no
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by thirsteh 14y ago
It would definitely be an advance in cryptography engineering, yes.

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