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by varenc 17y ago
Check out SICP. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html not directly a book on how to program scheme, but on how to program using scheme as a useful tool. That said, if you work through the whole book, you'll be well on you
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by varenc 17y ago
Could be a cross site scripting vulnerability in twitter, doesn't necessarily mean that those users passwords have been compromised...but you can never be too safe!
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by varenc 17y ago
This reminds of Picker from the Simile project ( http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Picker ) And just to nitpick, there aren't any asynchronous calls going on! The data is all pre-loaded.
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by varenc 17y ago
It completely doable. Its unlikely there will be a collision in the first 6 characters of the md5 hash of 'AAAx' where x is [a-zA-Z0-9] and AAA is known. That's only 62 hopes for collision out of a space of 2176782336 (36^6 ... right?) Thi
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by varenc 17y ago
Whats most interesting about this article is how they go from 'MIT student with iphone controlled door' ---> 'complete nerd' without any other prompting. "bookworm can't remember" "taps into the dorm room sink (which no nerd needs)"
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by varenc 17y ago
I would love to do this as well. I think the real challenge is finding a source of income you can do 20 hours a week over the internet that can still support you. Some useful links on the subject: http://locationindependent.com/ http:/
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by varenc 17y ago
MIT's intro systems class has a bunch of the same papers, and some other good ones people might like. The list is http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/reference.shtml but you can find links to the papers through the schedule at http://web.mit.e
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by varenc 17y ago
Mathematical queries aren't the most impressive results because those have already been around in things like mathematic/maple/matlab for years. Symbolic integration is cool, but typing in ISS, and getting the current position of the inter
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by varenc 17y ago
"In that case I’d expect Twitter to argue that the feature they want to remove for engineering reasons is filtering out some of the tweets you see based on whether you are a follower of the person the message is directed to not the other wa
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by varenc 17y ago
wifi access points sense the wireless medium around them before transmitting. If they find it busy, they do an exponential wait, and try again. Thats why everyone can be on channel 11 and things won't be too bad. If they could sense the
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by varenc 18y ago
Hasn't Mail in OS X been doing this before facebook? Its really Apple's Tokenizing Input Box.
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by varenc 18y ago
One of the coolest uses I've seen of this vulnerability is to look at the users history to only show them the digg/reddit/HN/technorati/etc share links to websites they use. http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/
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by varenc 18y ago
I would also say this shows a lack of understanding on the Facebook API. Even if status updates were accessible by the User.getInfo, facebook applications would still only be able to access the status updates for the user running the appli
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by varenc 18y ago
Not everyone seems to realize this, but the video chat is based on flash. So I'm not quite sure what everything the downloaded software is doing. For one, it does let flash access your webcam and mic without the normal security promptings
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by varenc 18y ago
MIT's OCW has a whole lot more! No social networking aspect though. http://ocw.mit.edu
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Structured Procrastination(structuredprocrastination.com)
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