SimHacker

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by SimHacker 13y ago
Q: Why do programmers confuse Christmas and Halloween? A: Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
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by SimHacker 13y ago
How about some Star Wars examples for some balance, please?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
There are also many reasonable ways for closed source software (or more accurately "non-free proprietary software") to make the sources available for review, but not give away all the rights. Like "Microsoft Shared Source Com
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by SimHacker 13y ago
What supports my assertion are the two recent gigantic but shallow security holes that many eyes (except for the NSA's) didn't see for many years.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
No, actually, there IS a platoon of elves with millions of eyes, carefully scanning all of the open source the code for bugs, meticulously going over it line by line, building rigorous test harnesses, feeding it every input imaginable to pr
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I don't have a link to it so I'll paraphrase what I remember: A bunch of programmers were endlessly arguing back and forth about how to do such-and-such to emacs on the gnu-emacs mailing list. RMS derailed the argument by pointing
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The proof is the fact that we have just gone through two historically tragic, enormous, and terribly stupid security holes, each big enough to land the space shuttle on, either of which could have been easily caught by ESR or anyone else si
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by SimHacker 13y ago
A+++++ Speedy delivery. Well packed. Top notch. As listed. Great value. Good communication. Would do business again.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And here's to the fond yet irritating memory of the late great inspirational asshole, Eric Naggum. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-de/ErikNaggum "But there is still one thing that America has taught the world
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Theo has earned my respect and the right to be as much of an asshole as he wants. The important things he's so good at doing often require that of him, so it's not counter-productive or self defeating. I also have a tremendous amo
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Using min where I mean max and max where I mean min is my favorite classic mistake that I usually just make most of the time and remember to check for and fix afterwards. The same thing with misusing "this" in JavaScript closures:
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I try to read the code I need to use, but of course I never have the time to read as much as I should. It's really the best way to learn programming in general and to learn particular apis, as important as a musician listening to other
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by SimHacker 13y ago
The NSA has lots of eyes, and they don't report the bugs they find. (Unless it's via parallel reconstruction...)
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Don't let your mouth write a check your eyeballs can't keep. And I'd rather be an asshole with eyeballs than a mouth full of bullshit.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Since you've been so generous to offer you opinion of Theo, I think it's only fair and balanced for me to offer my opinion of Eric the Flute, in a way that is consistent with Eric's own name dropping protocol. I believe that
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by SimHacker 13y ago
And you can't just go: struct code_reviewer *qualified_code_reviewer = (struct code_reviewer *)malloc( sizeof(struct code_reviewer)); assert(qualified_code_reviewer != NULL);
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Has somebody translated the jpeg library to JavaScript? Besides encoding and decoding jpeg, it has some useful modules that would be nice to have in the web browser.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
This is yet another nail in the coffin of Eric Raymond's irresponsible and fallacious "many eyes make all bugs shallow" theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus's_Law Linus's Law as describe
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by SimHacker 13y ago
If by "all day" you mean "a couple of hours" that it takes to run down the batteries by capturing and processing live video.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Hello. Greetings. Brrrrrrring!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ
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by SimHacker 13y ago
That's the same thing my sexual partners insist on. But they always insist I wear two, just in case one tears off.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
You might also want to talk with this guy at the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco: http://happyurinal.tumblr.com/post/11493020151/puppet-urinal... That approach might work pretty well on Queen's Day in Ams
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Anybody remember "Buttonfly"? Now THAT was actually USEFUL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826qq6pslJk http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=...
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by SimHacker 13y ago
When I was working at UniPress in New Jersey, we had an SGI Iris. Those things are fucking heavy! It was raining outside and the office started to flood, so we had to keep taking shelves down off the wall and wedging them underneath the Iri
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by SimHacker 13y ago
RSA maximized their profits up $10 million by selling their customers out to the NSA, and that cost them some serious long term goodwill and reputation. Were their shareholders happy about that piece of financial calculus?
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by SimHacker 13y ago
But not abstractions are factually wrong, like you original premise was. Big words and complex sentence structures don't make up for that.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
Yeah, how do I know you're even the same person if I can't see your name? Maybe lots of people can hide their names, for all I know! This is as bad as talking with anonymous cowards on slashdot, dammit.
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by SimHacker 13y ago
YAML failed the intelligence test of getting its name right in the first place: "Yet Another Markup Language". YAML is NOT a markup language, in any way shape or form, yet the people who designed and named it earnestly thought the
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by SimHacker 13y ago
We should also add an extension to XML that lets you omit the opening tag. </sarcasm>
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by SimHacker 13y ago
I think your raging accusations that the nerds protesting against RSA are uninformed of the actual facts is totally off base. Maybe there are some facts that RSA is holding back and refusing to officially inform us of, but I think we alread

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