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by zxcdw 12y ago
Ideally, of course, everyone could charge what they want for what they are trying to do, and everything would be flawless regarding to that. However, if we try to live by this idealism in this digital world, we also have to accept that the
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Hasn't this been the case like forever (at least for the past two years)?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Depends entirely on what they (and people related to them) have shared with Facebook directly and indirectly, and what Facebook actually can infer from the information. Apart from that I have no answer. However, I find it important to rea
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by zxcdw 12y ago
And rightly so. Frankly, I think the only reason PHP keeps floating on is the inertia it has. All the investment in tools, existing codebase and developer experience are what keep it going, not language merits. And yes, this means, that wha
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by zxcdw 12y ago
I think it might be interesting to note that different people have different motivations for "side projects" (as well as different definitions for side projects!). For someone, a side project might be about solving arbitrary prob
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of side projects do you do?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> And if I decided to show one of them to a someone who gave me money in return, that still doesn't give anybody who didn't pay me or anyone else for that matter, any right to access that file, no matter how little "intrin
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by zxcdw 12y ago
No "lost potential sale", when the sale wasn't even a realistic possibility?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> And how should the people who take the time to create that 'information' be compensated? Why should they be compensated? Putting in effort does not equate "getting compensated" and it should not. If they can'
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Can someone TL;DR the problem with systemd?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
No. The Kolmogorov complexity (the information required to reproduce the information, e.g. the information required for the algorithm (divide a circumference of a circle by its diameter)) of Pi isn't infinite.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Not quite, atoms in the universe is in the range of 10^80, which is a bit less than 2^266. On the other hand, 2^80 is "only" approx. 1.2 * 10^24. Still, good luck colliding with that without big effort.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
> In reality, there is nothing wrong with C++, particularly not modern C++ (since c++11) as the approaches laid out in Stroustrup's book discourage writing C++ in the old-fashioned "let's throw pointers around!" appro
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Hmm. > Mobile security firm Lookout said the bug, called NotCompatible, was the most sophisticated it had seen. > The cyberthieves behind the bug had recently rewritten its core code to make it harder to defeat, it said. > The bug
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by zxcdw 12y ago
I think it is worth mentioning that the author's website[1] lists course websites which all seem to have similar notes about relevant topics. As an example, there's the Computer Systems Organization course[2] which has NASM Tutori
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by zxcdw 12y ago
A "read buffer" overflow is still nothing but a program reading some form of input and then overwriting the buffer. The target program has to read to somewhere -- namely to the buffer -- and thus it has to write over the bound
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Nobody never said they would be. However, their market share is notably smaller (and the operating systems they run on is vastly more diverse), and thus there's little sense in writing bulk malware targeting them. Targeted attacks defi
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Please add the case of Rust package manager Cargo, found at http://crates.io
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by zxcdw 12y ago
From a document called "Combat Survival and Evasion": > Depending upon the supplies, there is a worm remedy: swallow a couple of tablespoons of kerosene or gasoline. Kerosene is more effective but gasoline will do. Either will
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by zxcdw 12y ago
This is good stuff. If anybody wants to dig deeper to articles like this, I have to mention the Hugi Coding Digest[1] (an executable "diskmag") from 2003 which contains all the articles related to programming from Hugi #11 to Hugi
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Occam's razor at work. The simpler the logic, the more likely it is that it does not contain unexpected faults than a system which has more complex logic.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Who even wants that? When I am coding, sure as hell some compiler vendor won't be telling me what to use my bits for! I identify myself as an atypical coder.
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by zxcdw 12y ago
But now you aren't talking about Rust the Language but Rust the Ecosystem . Not that I am disagreeing with your points, I am not. However, when people talk about C++'s problems, I immediately assume they talk about C++'s p
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Remember that most of us are web devs. It's web stuff, it's very simple and minimalist, it's easy to look at it and go "yeah, cool". Compare to someone writing a 3d software renderer, not so many people can relate t
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Which groups exactly and which insults?
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Thanks for your hard work on the Mill CPU. It is truly fascinating to learn about it! I've been waiting for the Pipeline talk for the past week, checking the website few times a day. :) And for those who are interested in this type of
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Let me copy part of my comment to another submission: Different people view programming very differently. For example for me programming is mainly a way to understand things. I program things I want to learn about. My understanding of progr
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by zxcdw 12y ago
Programming for the most part is about understanding program structure and modifying the said structure. Different people view programming very differently. For example for me programming is mainly a way to understand things. I program th
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Introducing Intel Galileo Gen 2 development board(intel.com)
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by zxcdw 12y ago
To add, there might be applications in for example bignum or other arbitrary precision math libraries/implementations.

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