LeafStorm

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by LeafStorm 10y ago
Is this a standard naming convention for exploits?
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by LeafStorm 10y ago
I have seen xkcd #927 used to dismiss discussions of standards on HN so many times that it is the only xkcd comic I can recognize by number.
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by LeafStorm 11y ago
Rust has two types called Rc and Arc that have this behavior. When you clone an Rc pointer, the internal reference count increments, and as each clone disappears, the reference count decrements. (Arc works like Rc, but it uses atomic increm
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by LeafStorm 12y ago
> support unauthorized vulnerability attempts That was probably just a random student who learned some fun stuff in Security class and slept through the Ethics lesson. I can't speak for UMich, but security research at my university
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by LeafStorm 12y ago
If you don't want to support commercial plugins, then those companies have no legitimate usecase that would require avoiding the GPL.
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by LeafStorm 12y ago
I almost went down this route on a project once. As soon as I noticed myself writing an identity map, I slapped myself in the face and just downloaded Symfony.
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by LeafStorm 12y ago
It seems to me that the author's system was in an incredibly unstable state to begin with. He's running a Debian prerelease with an unsupported filesystem, that had gone without updates for months at a time. I have a hard time see
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Oddly enough, back when the cylindrical Mac Pro was first announced, a coworker and I discussed how exactly one would rack them. We came up with something very similar, but slightly asymmetric, and designed to hook into a standard 19"
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Flashing reds are based entirely off of how long it takes an "average" person to cross. As a relatively tall young adult, I walk much faster than the "average," so I can frequently make it across by walking even if it&#x
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
My lightning talk - "Traversing the Montreal Métro with Python" - was accepted, and I'm super-excited! But also I'm super-excited about the rest of the schedule. There are 36 talks that I'm really interested in seei
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
The "moderators on StackExchange" shot was good, but I really take offense to the "PyCon 2013" one. The reason stuff went wrong at that conference was because of the actions of one attendee, who specifically did not go
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Also, this post jumped from #20 on the front page to somewhere below #360 in the time it took me to write my other comment.
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Ah, the wonders of low-level assembly programming. I was a teaching assistant for an assembly course this semester at school, and one of the students was running a program in the debugger. (Specifically, Microsoft CodeView running in DOSBox
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
> On the one hand, it seems ridiculous (absurd, perhaps) to fire someone over a pronoun -- but to characterize it that way would be a gross oversimplification: it's not the use of the gendered pronoun that's at issue (that&#x27
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
He didn't quote Strunk & White to justify rejecting the patch, nor did he bring up the grammatical argument at all when reverting it. He just said "this is not worth spending time on" and closed the ticket. (And if it was
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
I use Symfony at work. I would love to contribute some of the patches and helpers I have written to Symfony, or release them as an independent bundle, but (a) I'm the only programmer on the project so I don't really have time, and
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Language Field Trip: IDL(phpmanualmasterpieces.tumblr.com)
2 points by LeafStorm 13y ago|0 comments
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
This looks like a fairly well-designed format. My main concern is that this seems to have suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gone directly to RFC. (Presumably there was an Internet-Draft, but I have never seen anything about this before.)
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Here's a point that gets forgotten in a lot of discussions of this issue: > We’re also underlining that our events are for over-18s, maybe even over-21s, by holding them in licensed premises. Most of us know students or even those w
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Can you draw brightly colored lines on roads for a bus map? I like to mess around analyzing bus routes, but so far I haven't been able to find a computer-based tool for drawing them effectively.
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
I like the implementation of the "Enum" class, especially the way they allow for enums with variant behavior and "abstract Enums" (something I could have used in Java recently). But, ever since I found out about algebrai
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
At ITECS, our Systems division uses practical names like engr-ras-201 for servers. However, we have a bit more fun with workstations. My machine was named "waytso." I asked my boss what it stood for once, and she said that after t
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Two and a half years into my bachelor's, Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation is the only computer science textbook I've had so far that I'd say I really found useful for anything beyond the homework prob
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Working with basic data structures like maps, sets, and lists that you don't have to manually allocate takes approximately 20 times as much code as it does in nicer languages like Python.
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
For me, it just feels like instead of taking efforts to carefully design the language, they just picked the first thing that worked and froze it. And while I really like some features of the type system (such as interfaces, lambda/func
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
I noticed http://northcarolina.history.museum/ in the listing. I clicked it, and it resolves to an IP that is no longer routable. http://asheville.art.museum/ suffered a similar fate, and http://
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Anecdata: I just wrote a PHP application where the HTML never touched the database at all. And I'm right now working on a Java application where the database is mixed into the HTML just like the worst of the worst PHP, except because i
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
Deployment, for one. sudo apt-get install Apache and PHP, then edit the Apache config to say, "use this directory." I love Django and Flask to pieces, but deploying a Python app is like building a hovercraft compared to PHP.
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by LeafStorm 13y ago
When I took Calculus III, Z was up. When I took Engineering Physics the same semester, Y was up. According to legend, this is why the Math and Physics departments hate each other.
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Why Ruby isn't slow(speakerdeck.com)
12 points by LeafStorm 13y ago|3 comments

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