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by forgotusername 14y ago
> decrypt your messages wholesale. Eek, that sounds fun :) Tell us more?
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by forgotusername 14y ago
If I'm not mistaken (and haven't read up on this stuff in years, so probably), the majority of encryption modes rely on XORing the stream of bits from the cipher with your plain text. In that way, both sender and receiver need only generate
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I think it's quite simple, and we're all guilty of it at some time or other: it's much easier to reinvent and reshape already solved problems in our own image than it is to innovate in any useful manner. This explains the abundance of langu
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Creepily, it claims someone is already signed up for my username.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Literally just poll this single page: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forgotusername once every 30 minutes, extract the thread structure, generate some message IDs, and keep a database of which message IDs have already been e-maile
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by forgotusername 14y ago
It's just an alternative for someone already offering to work for free – I'm certainly not about to write a business plan around it. My use case is simply that I like my own comments/SMS/tweets/etc. archived and searchable, as it's an easy
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN <-> e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bid
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Everyone bumps into this at some time on their journey through Python, however personally it's not something I've contended with in years and there is good reason for that: > Suppose you have a function which takes a person and allows y
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Evil routing has been employed a whole bunch of times going back decades, most visibly a couple of years ago when IIRC Iran (?) started advertising bad routes for a bunch of big sites, including Google
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Torvalds must be on drugs or also trolling hard to be talking about an absence of carrier lock-in and Android in the same sentence - an OS rendered practically unusable should you elect not to associate your device with a Google account, an
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I've no doubt this presentation makes some interesting points, but I'm as inclined to finish reading it after noticing it's destroying my browser history as I would continue evaluating software after noticing it's randomly corrupting my hom
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Missed one (which I still consider valid): making it trivial for others to extend the firmware might endanger other products on sale. ATI learned this a few years ago, when it was discovered a software upgrade was all required to turn a sub
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by forgotusername 14y ago
The cash market spread is usually something like 4-6 basis points for major pairs (i.e. 0.04%), even accounting for the fictitious mid rate, you still have orders of magnitude difference from the retail spreads. Thomas Cook, a major UK trav
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by forgotusername 14y ago
The release version is available through TechNet subscriber downloads
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Couldn't help but do a little digging.. In the first 99 comments of this page, average comment text size is 231 bytes. Counting all comments in articles on the front page right now, there's 1678 of them, making somewhere around 388kb of com
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by forgotusername 14y ago
> but if you can put in any data you want, you could poison the compression enough to put it into a bad state -- one where effectively nothing compresses properly, and you end up with your own data completely in the clear. This sounds i
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Free markets are not immune to panic.. a few hours break in trading that affects everyone is fair, and allows participants time to analyse whatever news release occurred, rather than knee-jerk liquidization of their positions, which they ma
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by forgotusername 14y ago
It most certainly wasn't meant as a jab, more genuine sorrow for the industry's growing maturity. The disconnected, experimental environment where even a modem was a luxury, that gave rise to the kind of exotic personalities common of the 8
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Really sorry to hear this, IRC just became a much less interesting place. My experience of Uriel is sadly limited to the occasional joust where his fabulously distinctive views of the world and technology were always apparent, and deeply ad
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Note the classic 'bus lock' is a worst case nowadays: caches in SMP machines have their own protocols for invalidating and locking individual lines, so the entirety of the machine's memory isn't necessarily serialized, though I'm not sure w
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by forgotusername 14y ago
A few weeks back Google Finance was reporting GOOG's own earnings incorrectly. Most people with interest in such things recommend avoiding it like the plague
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Could do worse than leafing through here (perhaps change date range to cover 2005): https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&#3...
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by forgotusername 14y ago
..and under no circumstance consider theft an actual strategy. AFAIK it only worked for YouTube due to the virginal DMCA still receiving initial court testing, and probably only then due also to the company's prolonged ability to afford leg
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the early history of YouTube
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Moral of the story, yet again, ad infinitum: don't waste your time watering somebody's else's garden. Yes it's the Internet and technically data is practically almost free to reproduce, but this doesn't imply a trouble-free right to steal y
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Good luck.. the highest atmospheric density on Mars is equal to the density found 35 km above the Earth's surface
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by forgotusername 14y ago
What's self-clearing BD?
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm guessing you are very much her target audience, above are a bunch of traditional ideas about development that result in huge, drawn out processes for out of date designs that more often than not have some big omission missed during plan
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Huh :) I went in circles on the MDN site for a few minutes.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I really want to believe in something like this, however you'd getting much better traction by explaining a few key details: * What the hell does the JS assertion object look like? * How do I run an independent service? * In a single page,

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