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by timtadh 16y ago
B-crypt and S-crypt are great libraries to use to solve this problem. However, the poor man's approach is as follows with HASH being your favorite hash function h = HASH.new() HASH.update(password) HASH.update(salt) for x
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by timtadh 16y ago
if you want the files interleaved in the same folder hierarchy (ie. not separated into engine and web-files as @shorbaji suggests) to my knowledge there is no way to do this. I doubt any folder based version control system will allow you to
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by timtadh 16y ago
Original blog post here: http://www.dataists.com/2010/12/ranking-the-popularity-of-pr... RWW pretty much just repackaged the original post with a small amount of commentary.
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"Yes, Android is doing well, but neither RIM nor Apple is giving away its operating system, so it was close to inevitable that Android would eventually get the unit lead." If that is true, why doesn't the Linux desktop have the unit lead? I
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Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks: Our politicians hate democracy (commondreams.org)
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by timtadh 16y ago
I attempting to do a bit more than just snagging on his imprecise language. Broadly, I am trying to develop a critical theory for interpreting various social phenomena on the net. I do agree with you, Thomas, that the battle is over a migra
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by timtadh 16y ago
Who decides what is right Christianity or Islam or Buddhism? These questions dog every religious faith, every philosophy. Is it any surprise we have such argument in the theoretical "hacker community." Understand, your clash with Goldstien
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by timtadh 16y ago
"I always find it amusing when Emmanuel feels the need to throw a hissy fit about the "correct" use of the word hacker." Why do people get upset about correct usage and definitions of the word hacker. If one closely examine statements like:
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by timtadh 16y ago
My, perhaps naive, question is: will there now be a bifurcation of the Java community? Specifically, will there be an open community with its own standards and implementations, and the Oracle community with theirs.
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by timtadh 16y ago
This title is link bait, these are not "low-tech iPads" these are dry erase boards. There is no comparison.
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Interpreting the Free Software Movement as Religion(blog.hackthology.com)
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by timtadh 16y ago
Good experimental results! The high dimensionality (or non dimensionality) of the space can definitely hurt performance of spatial trees such as R-Trees, however for distance trees what really kills you is the the metric to compute the dist
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by timtadh 16y ago
His distance based near neighbor search algorithm is good but as I noted in an email to him it performs at worst in O(|T|) distance computations where |T| is the size of his text corpus. While this is fine, you can do better if you use dist
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by timtadh 16y ago
I don't think the GP would disagree with you. I believe he was asking what specific apps benefit today (besides GMail which was mentioned in the blog).
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by timtadh 16y ago
On the plus side it was an extremely lucid explanation of how the Y combinator is derived. Usually articles on the Y combinator get bogged down with jargon and terminology. By using simple terms your explanation was very readable. If someon
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by timtadh 16y ago
Wrote my own web server. Which runs my own web framework. Which runs my new webapp a friend and I wrote yesterday. Writing a simple web stack isn't hard. Writing a full featured, secure, and reliable stack is more difficult. I mean we are m
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by timtadh 16y ago
emailed!
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by timtadh 16y ago
+1 to prodigal_erik Also concatenating "foo" to the end of /every/ password is not salting your hash. You need to have a suitably random string for it be considered salt. Also you want to have a different random string for every password in
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by timtadh 16y ago
I am not sure if a book can teach you how to design large complex programs. I certainly haven't run into one that does it effectively. Perhaps a good "Design Patterns" type book would be useful on the micro-scale, but on the macro scale I c
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by timtadh 16y ago
Another Implementation ~/stuff/Programming/sleepytree/ hendersont@glycineportable sleepytree $ time python test_metricspace.py -v test_distance (__main__.TestCompare) ... ok test_nondegenercy (__main__.TestCompare) ... ok
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by timtadh 16y ago
Currently testing a CPU intensive algorithm I need for my current research project. Hoping it will save me some time. When I am done I will post the results! [Edit:] Pretty good so far! ~/stuff/Programming/faultire/src/ hendersont
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by timtadh 16y ago
I didn't leave the page open but I did notice that it pegged a processor [Firefox 4 beta8pre].
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by timtadh 16y ago
from the conclusion it looks like the latest version of OpenSSL mitigates the attack: ''' One concrete mitigation strategy has been realized in OpenSSL 1.0 [18]. There, only the substitution table S is stored, and then the required multipli
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by timtadh 16y ago
if you are running sshd on port 22 this will show you all connections going into it sudo lsof -i :22 you can then reverse what people are doing based on the pids lsof gives you. [edit: using ps ax | grep sshd also works but you can
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by timtadh 16y ago
I like the idea, however I would really like short sharing urls for all files. My use case for sites like letscrate is for quick file transfer for things like printing from untrusted computers. I also would like a regular file input box lik
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Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer [Interview](wired.com)
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Except there is no difference at the machine instruction level between a recursive and iterative approaches. They are isomorphic to each other. That is why you can implement all recursive algorithms using an explicit stack and a loop and al
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by timtadh 16y ago
"Hacking absolutely and positively started with exploiting security "holes" in telecommunications and shared computing environments. That's exactly what Steve Wozniak was doing when Steve Jobs met him." Hacking absolutely did not start with
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by timtadh 16y ago
I think the OP hit in on the head when he used the word Tithe, a word loaded with Christian connotations. How can we understand the Free Software Movement from a religious perspective? Some Data to Analyze : GNU Manifesto (some selected q
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by timtadh 16y ago
Two things fascinated me about the article: 1) the inability of computers to model his thought process and 2) the experience of thinking deeply. Computers are great writing aids but I am continuously frustrated by them for textual research

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