vincie

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   by vincie 13y ago

   Somehow, I think foreign organisations have always known or at least suspected and taken appropriate measures to guard against NSA/GHCB/Echelon/ASIO whatever evesdropping. Even terrorist organisations. Its just the you and me
2. 62.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   The latest SHA3 was determined in a competition amongst private sector contestants, won by Keccak. Schneier himself put up a candidate - Skein. Edit: Then there's TrustedBSD (as opposed to SELinux)
3. 63.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   Why not leave it to the private sector?
4. 64.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   When I looked more into the SHAs and SELinux a while ago, I had always wondered why the NSA would create/sponsor these things.
5. 65.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   Try doing a little bit at a time where you get some result. Try your hardest not to stop before finishing the bit and getting a result. If you cannot do so, make the bit smaller and try again. You work out what the "bit" is.
6. 66.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   I'm a bit like you (but older - 44 yrs, divorced). I am trying to "build something". I use the spare time I have to practise and practise and practise. And then practise some more. Edit: After reading a few comments from peop
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   by vincie 13y ago

   I thought of this general idea many years ago, but then decided it might be better to cut up the bottles, flatten the plastic and sew the flat pieces together to make panels to use in roofs and windows. Never got around to actually doing an
8. 68.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   Do you show how to make it (or the terminal?) less ugly, without resorting to stuff like byobu?
9. 69.▲
   by vincie 13y ago

   Should crack down on Facebook instead. Here in Australia at least, I have read of more people being murdered by someone they met via Facebook that through a pornography site.
10. 70.▲
    by vincie 13y ago

    From the BBC article: "For a time one company operating in Nagoya could be hired by parents to burst into their children's rooms, give them a big dressing down, and forcibly drag them away to a dormitory to learn the error of thei
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    by vincie 13y ago

    I don't draw the curtains so the morning light wakes me up. Unfortunately I live in a place that does not have daylight savings (Queensland, Australia), so the times differ. But I can work around that.
12. 72.▲
    by vincie 13y ago

    I actually see these as an opportunity to improve existing code, plus doing something new and different. However, to cover myself, I ask for thorough specifications and test-cases, to which I add risk analysis etc. If it doesn't go exa
13. 73.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    Does vim have a plugin to detect unbalanced parens/brackets/braces etc?
14. 74.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    I'm in the midst of destroying the jobs of 1, maybe 2 workers right now. I am replacing a poor quality document generating system based on MS RTF templates with wrappers that build tex files and then calling pdflatex on them.
15. 75.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    We have open source software. Why not open source content? I do not have the chops to do it, but I would like to see software/start-ups that helps me, you and everyone else create content - muzak, movies, games, etc - free for anyone to dow
16. 76.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    Something else I do not understand: Why does the violent antagonism between Shia and Sunni branches still exist and so widespread? I am aware of the antagonism between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, but that seems to be also
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    by vincie 14y ago

    Frivolous, theoretical question: What would happen to the Middle East situation if, say, the Western World suddenly switched to alternatives to oil, en masse? Electric vehicles, nuclear power generation, bicycles - whatever. Is there more t
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    by vincie 14y ago

    Entirely word of mouth.
19. 79.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    I build custom apps based heavily on what is described here - http://onsmalltalk.com/sandstonedb-simple-activerecord-style... (more towards the bottom).
20. 80.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    Check out Seaside, the Smalltalk web framework. It has a edit-in-the-browser mode, where you can pretty much edit anything to make your web app work. Seaside itself is a component-centric framework, not page-centric as most web frameworks a
21. 81.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    Test your code in a Workspace before editing your classes. Depends on the complexity of the change you are making of course. If it is complex, clone the image and test on the clone.
22. 82.▲
    by vincie 14y ago

    I make a good living replacing Excel for small businesses.