aryastark

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by aryastark 12y ago
You can delete the "aryastark" account and all comments.
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by aryastark 12y ago
Look, I don't have time for your childish pedantry. There were entire articles on the front page of HN blaming C for having poor language design on the issue of "goto fail". Now there is an article promoting macros in C, no
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by aryastark 12y ago
I just don't know how to reconcile the fact that HN tore the C language a new arsehole over "goto fail", and is now back to praising macros. Macros need to be tossed into the dustbin of history, right next to self-modifying c
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by aryastark 12y ago
It's amazing how wrong companies can get marketing. Take Apple's AirDrop, for example. I spent 20 minutes one day wondering why my iPhone wasn't connecting to my Mac Mini. Turns out, "AirDrop" is two different th
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by aryastark 12y ago
Depends on whether people actually saw an automobile before they heard about the concept. And of course, people aren't visionaries. They usually do want what they have now--only better. The difference, at least with Google Glass
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by aryastark 12y ago
Quicktun used to use C's rand() to generate keypairs (see keypair.c). They still include a blurb about /dev/urandom being insecure and apparently requiring the user to manually input random data. The nacl0 protocol is inher
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by aryastark 12y ago
> “[It] will give our adversaries a huge moment of pause to go: ‘Do I even want to go engage a naval ship?’” Rear Admiral Matt Klunder ah, yes. Because a railgun is the determining factor when considering attacking the US Navy. "W
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by aryastark 12y ago
> participated in a democratic process and he has an unpopular opinion It may be unpopular in certain circles, but the majority of California first voted yes on Prop 22 and then again on Prop 8. Hard to get more mainstream than that. Bu
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by aryastark 12y ago
it's more accurate to discuss NaCl since that's what libsodium is. NaCl is the combination of crypto primitives and the "box" abstraction. libsodium is just the repackaging and clean-up of the original NaCl implementat
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by aryastark 12y ago
> The number you're looking for is 599,602 people, not 7 million people. What are you talking about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008... 7,001,084 votes for yes.
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by aryastark 12y ago
I'm sorry, but Prop 8 passed. By 7 million people. Boycotting Mozilla? Really? You need to talk about boycotting California . Making a scapegoat out of one single person for what an entire state did is fucking insane.
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by aryastark 12y ago
> Eich found it easier to treat millions of people he's never met as second class citizens You act as if Prop 8 didn't pass by 52.24% of the voting public, or by 7 million people . But no, Eich was dictator of California, en
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by aryastark 12y ago
UDP has error checking in the form of a checksum. It's one of the few guarantees UDP has: your datagram either arrives complete, or not at all. TCP also has no real security to speak of, either.
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by aryastark 12y ago
I have yet to hear anyone speak positively about their experience working at SpaceX. The common theme seems to be incredibly high turnover with intense burnout. However, looking at Glassdoor right now, it seems things may have improved.
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by aryastark 12y ago
Not sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.
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by aryastark 12y ago
I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke. Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH. You might also be interested in make -j option.
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by aryastark 12y ago
> where they had enormous amounts of custom machining and microcontroller work, you can deride that as "tinkering" if you like. I will deride it all day, because it's not manufacturing . In manufacturing consumer product
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by aryastark 12y ago
Raleigh? Access to students from NC State, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill, all within a few miles. And of course... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park It may completely shock some of you stuck in bubble l
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by aryastark 12y ago
Facebook is not Apple. Even Google is not Apple, as we watch time and time again Google failing at hardware and customer service. Neither of which, Facebook has any experience at. Nor are Carmack and Abrash hardware guys (that is, manufa
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by aryastark 12y ago
yes, but some of us have higher standards of creativity than the 100th version of 2048 or the front page of reddit.
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by aryastark 12y ago
There is no evidence that points to QWERTY being designed to be inefficient. http://www.economist.com/node/196071 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...
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by aryastark 12y ago
Or Blizzard. They have an actual virtual world already. I can easily see WoW fans who already sit at a PC and buy special hardware for their games to flock to VR tech.
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by aryastark 12y ago
No kidding. Their name is Oculus. They are, literally, eyeballs .
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by aryastark 12y ago
call records? Are you shitting me? The White House is acting like Grandpa trying to wrap his mind around the concept of the Internet. "overhaul", "new kind of court order". Yeah, okay. Here's the broom, Obama.
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by aryastark 13y ago
hosting your own email solves exactly nothing. Email still goes over (mostly) unencrypted channels and will, eventually, land in someone's gmail account anyway. Where Google and/or the NSA will read it. Worse still, you'
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by aryastark 13y ago
private corporation. Big difference. They also do not plan on going public until their Mars program is established.
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by aryastark 13y ago
mu. ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html ) This is the type of question news organizations like to use when they run out of things to talk about, or to distract the people from what is really going on.
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by aryastark 13y ago
Except they don't always work. Spammers have ways to get around them, including farming it out to extremely cheap labor. I started reading Engineering Security, by Peter Gutmann. Excellent book, btw. At the start of the book he disc
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by aryastark 13y ago
$19B, to keep competition at bay, rather than use it to innovate? When your main product is advertising? Silicon Valley is circling the drain...
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by aryastark 13y ago
> It was a classic tragedy of the commons seven hells...

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