wreegab

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by wreegab 13y ago
> "Glenn Greenwald’s government-bashing blog" I stopped reading at this point -- I felt I would lose my time reading the rest of the article. Keeping accountable is not "bashing".
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by wreegab 13y ago
> but since in this case there was probably money and bribes involved The cognitive process above is really sad: "I speculate this is what happened as a natural outcome of my other speculation"
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by wreegab 13y ago
> If this was the action of a malicious government agency, then it was horribly hamfisted execution If this was the action of a malicious government agency, you're the proof it was an awesome move, given your "Stop this nonsens
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by wreegab 13y ago
> the reason you get to use a website without paying for it yourself is that in exchange you see ads and website owners gets paid by the advertisers I stopped reading after this sentence, because of the implied fallacy in it. Everybody e
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by wreegab 13y ago
Except that I don't think this was the original code considering it appears to be cut and paste of same code in same file. I commented on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7286582
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by wreegab 13y ago
I believe the faulty function -- at line 574 -- is a copy/paste of another function located at line 328 in the same file. I diff'ed both functions to try to understand the changes which may have been made. The "goto fail;&quo
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "I believe that it's just a mistake and I feel very bad for whomever might have slipped" There has been such a rush from many places to cast this as a "mistake". We just don't know whether this was deliber
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by wreegab 13y ago
I think he/she is saying to stop idealizing an entity which primary purpose is to increase shareholders equity. I sure agree with him/her if it's what he/she meant.
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by wreegab 13y ago
The faulty block of code -- line 623 (function SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange) -- looks like a cut and paste (or the reverse) of the block of code at line 372 (function SSLSignServerKeyExchange), except this one doesn't have the extr
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by wreegab 13y ago
> People bitch about indentation in Python Really? I did something in Python for the first time a while ago and the indentation as code block is something I find very elegant. I can't fathom why would people find something wrong wit
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by wreegab 13y ago
Judging code is fine though, isn't?
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by wreegab 13y ago
Clearly sarcasm. With open source, it is not a matter of whether these mistakes (or whatever this one was) happen or not, it is a matter of likelihood of these mistakes being spotted. It's a statistical thing. It's unfortunate thi
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by wreegab 13y ago
It's nice when acronyms, such as "TDD" and "BDD" here, are expanded at least once in the text when they first occur -- I don't think it would put a lot of burden on writers. There is too much of these insider k
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by wreegab 13y ago
People really liked this one: https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple Starred 419 times.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> You can't just simulate 'observable areas'. Everything needs to be simulated. I can't make sense of this. Whatever is outside the causality sphere is by definition irrelevant.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> I don't know what kind of usability impediment you're talking about? Having a single menu for all apps at the top of my 1920x1080 screen was a usability issue to me.
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by wreegab 13y ago
"Firmly" is a bit much, given you can install an extension manually using "Developer mode".
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by wreegab 13y ago
What is "IAP"?
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by wreegab 13y ago
> not as common to see now with memory management and GC in most languages I actually have improved performance of js code significantly using pools to discard/reuse object instances in js.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> Every time I see a method that returns a Collection I want to shout "COLLECTION OF WHAT?!?!" The method was named something like "getCollectionOfSomething()"? If so, you might want to put some of the blame on the me
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by wreegab 13y ago
You beat by a few minutes. I wrote a Chromium extension for it: cs.js: (function(){var b;var a=function(){if(b!==undefined){var e=document.querySelector("input#answer"); e.value=b;e.dispatchEvent(new Event("keyup&qu
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by wreegab 13y ago
> In any case, what's your suggestion for improving the situation? What do you ask me that? It's a question best asked to RSA, they created the bad situation.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> isn't it best to keep a dialog going Don't be silly, RSA is not interested in honest dialog. Have you seen the press release? It's nice to be for virtue but play pretend virtue is not virtue.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I was left with one question after reading the article: the purpose of the condition field in the instruction.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Go compiles so fast, would be nice to have it available as a scripting language in the browser. But that's me superficially thinking, there is probably a lot of various complications and security issues.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "I think that doing something to protect your society from evil must count for something. Do you really see it as black and white as you describe it?" There is something ironic in there.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I just wished she questioned further. The more the better.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "the video provided by a drone is a far cry from clear enough to detect someone carrying a weapon, even on a crystal-clear day with limited clouds and perfect light" I wished she had pushed the questioning even further: Even
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by wreegab 13y ago
Then why did you answer "What a weird question" instead of just saying so?
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by wreegab 13y ago
I wish I hadn't seen that potato chips have that much more calories than pizza.

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