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by wtbob 10y ago
> There are already things that are technically allowed by RFCs for various types of input but should be disallowed because they cause problems. That may be true, but it's something else entirely for someone to drop them because the
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The possibility of having a valid email address where the second-level domain component can't actually be registered as a domain, to the best of my understanding, eg "bar!.com", is interesting. It is! Conceivably, it co
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But you're being a bit pedantic. Technically-correct is the best kind of correct:-) But I do think it's important to note, since there really are differences between regular and 'regular' expressions.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If it doesn't, remind me to patch it to not accept that. You'd be wrong to do so. The whole point of RFCs and Standards is to take things out of the realm of personal preference. Also, I suspect that a validator which allowe
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by wtbob 10y ago
No worries. The RFC is … complex.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> > ...@(valid)example.org(honest) > Are those parens really permitted in the host name? I'm looking at RFC 3696. RFC5322 states that an addr-spec consists of a local-part, followed by @, followed by a domain. It states that
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I don't think you're really correct about "email addresses" being context-free, or at least, citation, please? > When I look at a generic "email address" entry field on a random form on the Internet, sa
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well shoot, that's my email address! /s Seriously, though, this is why regexp-based validation is Not Even Wrong. It's like showing up to a gunfight with a keen eye for detail.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The most important TLDs are transnational, and their trust hierarchies back into corporations (corporations, I will cheerfully and without irony point out, who are subject to the whims of the FVEY IC). Are they? I always thought that
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Also, keeping it in the terminal forces you to use the right tools, e.g. vim/emacs instead of the good old Dreamweaver... I run emacs locally. In X. That way I can browse the web, view PDFs & images, play Tetris in colour &a
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Sure, the complete regex is complex, but it is defined and is hardly unconquerable. If it is a regular expression, then it is not able to match all valid email addresses, because the grammar of email addresses is context-free, and re
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Building, editing, testing, all of that is better done remotely with ssh and gnu screen or similar. Why? I have a full command line suite running on my laptop, because I'm running Linux. Why would I log in elsewhere, when I can r
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I've seen artists who demand the luxurious corner office, with the luxurious view, and then put paper over the windows to stop the light coming in. I've seen companies buy MacBook laptops for every employee, even though they&
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by wtbob 10y ago
In emacs, one could use TRAMP and EasyPG Assistant: C-x C-f /rsync:user@host:/path/to/file One could of course also configure stuff such that one could type quite a bit less.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Since the article doesn't want a userspace CSPRNG (which is probably a good idea, even though the Linux PRNG design is embarrassingly bad), better to just read from /dev/urandom or make the appropriate syscall.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I daresay it's a tautology that having connected parents helps one in life. Thanks for the fuller picture.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> After all reading a book doesn't give us an experience, its all "just" chemistry too.. I'd disagree there. It's less experience than actually doing something, but more than just getting a chemical flow across
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by wtbob 10y ago
Man, I hate sites which only display the first paragraph of the article when JavaScript is disabled. Why do that? It makes it look as though every article is just a passing note. … and when I re-opened the tab to make some comments on the
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by wtbob 10y ago
I wonder what the effects of chemically-induced pseudowisdom are. Real wisdom, after all, is both physiological and mental, a product of experience as well as of neurochemistry. What might be the ill-effects of feeling that one has gained
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by wtbob 10y ago
Interestingly, Yomura Holdings have almost no presence on the Internet at all. Indeed, almost the only reference to them is on forums where people ask who they are. Very odd …
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by wtbob 10y ago
Seconded. Being able to just read the articles from any browser was one of the great things about gmane.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Weird, the text is an inch wide. Given that the three inches of whitespace on either side of the text haven't changed width, I guess we know which part of their site Business Insider think is most important.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The FBI's interests are not aligned with yours, he even admits as much in the article! In the context of hiring, yes. > Giving the FBI "backdoor" access is akin to letting the FBI be the judge, jury, and executioner i
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Even our memories are not absolutely private in the United States. Even our communications with our spouses, with our lawyers, with our clergy, with our medical professionals are not absolutely private. A judge in certain circumstances
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The levels of emacs proficiency(blog.vivekhaldar.com)
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by wtbob 10y ago
> http://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.... . What an absolutely fascinating article. I wonder how useful Forth would be for implementing another language atop a VM (e.g. the JVM, CLR or Lua&#x
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by wtbob 10y ago
I've noticed in myself how awful it is to be in this industry and see the same problems solved over and over again, with only marginal improvements — and quite often, rather large steps back. It must be even worse for Forth programmer
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by wtbob 10y ago
So rather than the lower classes being raised up, the upper classes have been dragged down? That makes a lot of sense, and accords with what I've seen first-hand.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I agree with everything but your final two paragraphs; I suspect that a government-mandated solution would be horrible in all sorts of ways (poor security, a mandated backdoor &c.). My hope is that the propellerheads in those companies
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by wtbob 10y ago
Every country with a police force has an unwritten law imposing the death penalty for law-breaking. In order to arrest someone and send him to a Norwegian country-club prison, the threat or use of force must occur. Force is, ultimately, l

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