thirsteh

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by thirsteh 14y ago
Hence why I said "like X and Y." It was not a comprehensive list.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I'm going to guess that a lot of these were the fake AV and similar rogueware. Most of these were pretty good at changing regularly to avoid naïve signature detection, and most vendors acted really slowly because it wasn't "malware." They'r
603.
by thirsteh 14y ago
What you're describing is whitelisting vs. blacklisting. Whitelisting will always be the better solution, but it presents far more usability and "approval process" problems than blacklisting does.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Current antivirus solutions can detect Flame, Duqu, Stuxnet, et al, they just need to know about them and/or what they do. That's the problem with blacklisting. It's probably more helpful to think of these classes of malware as being "obs
605.
by thirsteh 14y ago
If what you're trying to prevent is something in sandbox A messing with something in sandbox B, sure. If you want to prevent is malicious behavior generally, like connecting to a botnet or exploiting a vulnerability in a system service, not
606.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Anybody who's ever thought about how an antivirus product works has come to this conclusion: Antivirus will detect software that does things that are known to be bad, but not software that does things in a new way. Depending on the level of
607.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Go also isn't described as a systems language anymore, but rather as a general-purpose language, although this article predates that change.
608.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Yes.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
The conclusion is that "Go is good for absolutely nothing."
610.
by thirsteh 14y ago
It's not the plan; they already exist: gc is the default, fast suite of compilers; gccgo is a Go front-end for GCC.
611.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Somebody criticizing a language he freely admits to never having used. Nothing interesting to see here.
612.
by thirsteh 14y ago
People interested in generating more optimized machine code (more slowly) should check out gccgo, which is a GCC frontend for Go, rather than the default (fast) gc compiler suite.
613.
by thirsteh 14y ago
I doubt anyone gets a Ph.D. to become a high school teacher.
614.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Nope :)
615.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Sure it is. MySQL is just a database with fewer features (and less rigid ACID compliance.) Like SQLite vs. MSSQL or PG vs. Vertica. Different tools for different jobs.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
Color me surprised.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
I hope they realize this isn't going to make their password digests any harder to crack. Last I heard, the only measure they actually took was to add some salt to a single round of SHA-256.
618.
by thirsteh 14y ago
"Patents are okay when it's Apple getting them."
619.
by thirsteh 14y ago
The level of Apple fanboyism on Hacker News is really evident in comment threads like these.
620.
by thirsteh 14y ago
If you use CRYPT_BLOWFISH (bcrypt) it's fine.
621.
by thirsteh 14y ago
If you want to work at a hipster company with no HR process. Most reputable companies will have someone who knows the most obscure languages you've listed interview you, and you will get owned. A better rule is to put a language on your res
622.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Please don't use "1st off,"
623.
by thirsteh 14y ago
People who work in offensive security would argue that they aren't "kids" or "scriptkiddies," and that what they are doing is helpful.
624.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Looks like MD5, no salt. Here's to hoping it's old.
625.
by thirsteh 14y ago
You can never get real-time with a higher-level language, but 99,9% of people don't need hard real-time. At most they need soft real-time. There is no reason to have to get there.
626.
by thirsteh 14y ago
What's your point?
627.
by thirsteh 14y ago
No, that's not even remotely close to what I said. I'm saying it wouldn't hurt his case to write a small blurb about him being one of the designers of SML in the sidebar or to use language like "when we designed SML" or "the choices we took
628.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Like everyone who is clicking the link on the front page of Hacker News right now?
629.
by thirsteh 14y ago
Surely you don't believe that SML doesn't have its own set of issues? My point is he doesn't criticize SML in the same manner on any issue, for a very good reason: he helped design the language.
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by thirsteh 14y ago
"Like most of Harper's articles about Haskell, this is both mostly true and an elaborately constructed troll where it's impossible to tell whether he's getting some lulz or merely piqued that nobody uses ML." Indeed.

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