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by thirsteh 15y ago
https://twitter.com/#!/cperciva/status/150864360170983424
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Interesting. I wonder how many "Linux-bashing threads" (that contained valid questions which made perfect sense) were closed as not constructive.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
It is a replacement to sending passwords over the wire. There are no viable replacements to passwords, which are really just secrets, memorized or not--short of issuing secure tokens or installing high-grade optical sensors in all laptops a
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Google Authenticator facilitates two-factor authentication. It's a very good complement, but it is not public-key authentication nor a replacement for passwords. SRP is probably the closest: http://srp.stanford.edu/
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Yes, but I'm a pessimist. Do I win anything? :( Big media has scary pull in D.C.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Did you notice the contents of the text box change while the video is playing?
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by thirsteh 15y ago
That's what it'll be used for, and what it's advertised for, though ("SJCL is cross-browser!", "SJCL is a project to create a secure [...] cross-browser library for cryptography in Javascript") By your own argument such libraries are inhere
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Doubleplussorry!
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by thirsteh 15y ago
This is double-plus not good.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
something something tptacek Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful - http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
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by thirsteh 15y ago
harvard.edu -- but maybe you mean the online classes that Stanford Engineering recently popularized?
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Hundreds of people just checked to see if there was a Unicode character that resembles a penis.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
So, basically, exactly what I said? Are you just arguing for arguing's sake? :)
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by thirsteh 15y ago
It's overcrowded in terms of housing available. It's expensive in general. It has about the highest cost of living outside of Japan. OP was moaning something about not being satisfied with giving up half his paycheck.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Copenhagen is one of the most expensive and over-crowded cities in the world. I'm not surprised that you couldn't find something in a rush. People sign their kids up for housing when they're born in this city. That said, it sounds like your
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by thirsteh 15y ago
In Chrome: As is JS ops/sec: 3,163,860, ±3.70%, fastest JS (from Dart) with --optimize ops/sec: 23,337, ±4.84%, 99% slower
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by thirsteh 15y ago
One of the design goals: "Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution." Server-side execution...
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Like what? Go is an absolutely excellent language for server-side programming. I've yet to find anything it wasn't suited for. There's room, I just don't get why Google would promote two of its own very similar languages for the same purpos
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by thirsteh 15y ago
One of the design goals: "Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution." Server-side execution? I thought Go was their systems programmin
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Finding malicious intent in anything anyone popular or influential does is cool these days.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
"Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed—schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support NASA, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be fran
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by thirsteh 15y ago
The Reddit thread has some nice discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/kkf7o/it_just_works/
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by thirsteh 15y ago
This could be useful to validate large files after downloading them, e.g. ISO files for Linux distributions--however that goes out the window with the 10MB size limit. Why the limit? Does it take too long to compute hashes for larger files?
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mhQyuyELQ Made by James Drake: http://infinity-imagined.tumblr.com/
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Related: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
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by thirsteh 15y ago
It seems like TechCrunch posts have been nothing but crying over how AOL's treating the poor writers for the past two weeks. I haven't gotten a good grip of the actual circumstances since I simply don't care--I just want news about tech sta
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Getting sick of this melodrama. Where can I find tech news ?
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by thirsteh 15y ago
3-4 years* He'd probably have picked 35 years, not 34, if it was intentional.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
She's very good at making sure no one else will hire her.
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