Theriac25

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by Theriac25 12y ago
I'd like to inform you that you have bad taste and your post doesn't have anything to do with the article.
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by Theriac25 12y ago
He doesn't have to have the private key, only a private key that was signed by any of the hundreds (counting intermediate CAs, thousands?) CAs trusted by his browser.
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by Theriac25 12y ago
>In C you could have made some 'safe buffer' No you couldn't've. C is fundamentally unsafe language and people like you should stop pretending it isn't.
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by Theriac25 12y ago
Your question is essentially "why is there a difference between theory and practice?".
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by Theriac25 13y ago
That would be because GNU decided that man pages weren't good enough for them and decided to use info pages.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Doesn't seem to support backquotes? For example for x in `ls ~/foo`; do echo $x; done doesn't yield anything remotely interesting.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
> this is typically the end game for capitalism and globalisation Say what?
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by Theriac25 13y ago
tl;dr if you don't know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Game programmers are weird.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Java.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Do you have any idea how stupid you sound?
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Good. Please keep them there.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
That's just beyond retarded. I weep when people have been conditioned by Canonical (and Microsoft) to accept this.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
"Nobel" in economic "science".
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by Theriac25 13y ago
I disagree. A 182cm (6ft) person can weigh only 82 kg (~180lbs) to be not considered overweight. If you have any amount of muscle and don't have a single digit bodyfat percentage, you're easily overweight according to BMI. And it
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by Theriac25 13y ago
"One of the first things you will notice is how short people there are. The second thing you'll notice is that food portions in restaurants and cafeterias are much larger. Strangely, everybody feels hungry all the time."
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by Theriac25 13y ago
> as a simple example, recumbent cycles are faster under many conditions. I highly doubt that. Everybody knows that ugly bikes are slow, and recumbents are as ugly as they come. /s
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by Theriac25 13y ago
> This right here is why security will never be mainstream, because consumers value convenience over the ability for their browser not to run arbitrary code. You say that as if it's a bad a thing.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
It took me a while to realize that it didn't mean writing code that ran aboard an airplane, but code that was written while on an airplane. Somehow the latter didn't even cross my mind as something that could be considered impress
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Huh? Of course it is a feature. My point is that if something as innocent looking as property access can be an arbitrary method call, it may make understanding a piece of code more difficult. From the point of view of debugging existing cod
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by Theriac25 13y ago
It's quite sad that you must specifically ask for conformance.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Portability, memory safety, speed of compilation, retaining the sanity of developers.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
> In fact, it's unclear to me where java might be optimal. I'd say server side processing of whatever. That's what we use it at work for, and I don't see how any of the mainstream languages would be much, if any, bett
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Doesn't C# have "magic" getters and setters, where code like "foo.bar = quux;" might mean a function call? To me, that's not clearer at all.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Somehow I'm tempted to click the "report abuse" button.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
> A recent survey found that 76 percent of consumers check online reviews before buying Bullshit.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
This seems more accurate to me than the OP.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
Ok, fair enough. But I still think that the choice of the default desktop strongly suggests what most people should use, at least with a distro like Ubuntu that is supposed to be newbie-friendly.
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by Theriac25 13y ago
By making custom tooth-brush cleaning brush cleaning brushes that are tailored to each tooth-brush cleaning brush they produce?

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