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by tsally 17y ago
Linux disclaims all liability in the license. Seems like Apple might be bound by a few more laws because they are actually selling a product.
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by tsally 17y ago
Your examples don't change the message of the story: different things respond differently to the same conditions. The semantics don't really matter; it's not about the specific interpretations of the states of the food. Your analysis and
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by tsally 17y ago
<joke>I see you're the egg. ;)</joke> We don't do parables too often here at HN; a clever one making it to the front page one every half-year seems worthwhile to me. Some people find them to be useful mental tools. Others
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by tsally 17y ago
Link to the source of the quote: http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/tq/PrinterFriendl... Moderators feel free to edit this into the submission. :-)
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by tsally 17y ago
At 16 years old? I don't think so. Asking for advice is absolutely the right thing to do.
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by tsally 17y ago
I wouldn't. Take more AP classes now, and then in three years decide whether you want to graduate college early. Either way you save a year, but in college you'll be older and able to make better decisions. You need to give yourself time t
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by tsally 17y ago
Step 1: Try doing concurrent programming in Common Lisp. Step 2: Switch to Clojure.
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by tsally 17y ago
Not at all with Scheme. PLT Scheme is an awesome example of a centralized, well documented language with easy installation and application deployment. Note the prominent download link on the home page: http://www.plt-scheme.org/
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by tsally 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_day_attack
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by tsally 17y ago
Except that Wordpress is written in PHP and designed without security as a goal. True, security is all about probability, but Wordpress' odds are not that good.
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by tsally 17y ago
Sorry for the long comment, I just don't want to come off like I'm sniping at you, or trying to start an OS war. Actually, the long comment is much appreciated. It's a very interesting subject for me. I wasn't trying to say that I doubte
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by tsally 17y ago
You're the resident expert, I was just going off of the bits I know about each one. ;)
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by tsally 17y ago
Windows security is better than Linux and BSD? I thought SELinux, TrustedBSD, and OpenBSD have windows beat.
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by tsally 17y ago
Hrm, interesting. I didn't know that Microsoft was leading the industry in security. If we're talking about the commercial OS market, I suppose that makes sense because you're pretty much only comparing them with Apple.
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by tsally 17y ago
Well, good enough at least. ;-) Honestly the AV was a good move. Give stuff like that away for free for long enough and the public perception of Microsoft and security may change.
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by tsally 17y ago
Microsoft is actually decent at security now. The AV they released for free was actually on par with a few commercial products out there (all AV at the moment is pretty bad though, if you're curious). The really difficulty with Microsoft
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by tsally 17y ago
Keep in mind that we don't really know the full story. There could have been a number of factors preventing her from setting aside 3 months of living expenses. Heck, she might have only been at her job for a few months. The fact that she
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by tsally 17y ago
I think because of your educated background you vastly overestimate the number of people that are taught algebra well in college. Even the people that did take real algebra sometimes don't cover all the content necessary for a strong base.
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by tsally 17y ago
thumbs up for UIUC. :-)
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by tsally 17y ago
Tarsnap has reached profitability with a website that has no style. http://www.tarsnap.com/ Of course, the crowd he is catering to doesn't really care about frills. Heck, frills can actually be dangerous in the security world. And Coli
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by tsally 17y ago
Good old Midwestern thinking is always refreshing.
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by tsally 17y ago
I read the article you linked to. A choice quote: As a matter of fact, it's caused me to realize that most of the men I've personally known who have made a huge hairy point of identifying as feminists have been either date rapists, mom fe
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by tsally 17y ago
I wasn't confrontational, I just asked in what way you felt that Wikipedia was preventing women from contributing. I also pointed out that Wikipedia editors are not people of large influence and not having enough women editors is unlikely
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by tsally 17y ago
In what way do you feel that it is Wikipedia's fault that women do not edit it as often as men? I don't think Wikipedia needs to take steps to counteract anything in this regard because it's not doing anything to hamper women from particip
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by tsally 17y ago
Why shouldn't they be rewarded for their hard work? A researcher doesn't have to disclose a vuln if he doesn't want to. He can sell it to the company, publish it for free, or just keep it for himself.
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by tsally 17y ago
A. Old news. We saw this story and many related ones back in March. B. Sensationalist title. The exploit took much longer than 10 seconds to develop. A + B = Flag.
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by tsally 17y ago
According to Zed (who from my understanding has programmed in R a fair amount), these are some of the worst style guidelines ever: http://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/3690822968 .
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by tsally 17y ago
Really? You took his comment literally? That's almost as unbelievable as the original claim. ;-)
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by tsally 17y ago
Seems like you might as well do it in opt then, since it is far less common to encapsulate things in folders in local.
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by tsally 17y ago
I find that thinking "could I turn this into a library?" whenever I code improves the quality of my code dramatically (whether it gets turned into a library eventually or not). Starting with the goals of quality and reuse is always a good

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