hedgie

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by hedgie 13y ago
python has this now after 2.5, iirc. it's handy when you want an unbounded calculator =D
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by hedgie 13y ago
a friend dated someone who was a new lawyer and tried representing him/herself in a divorce. after crying on the stand it did not end well.
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by hedgie 14y ago
Google glass is an interesting idea that conflicts with basic tenants of psychology. Facial recognition and attractiveness are critical to how we interact with others. This drive is so powerful that glasses used to correct vision are repl
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by hedgie 14y ago
who wants to drink from the FIRE HOSE?
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by hedgie 14y ago
so the counterargument is that the opportunity cost doesn't exist because the hypothetical MS grad earning more is bad at managing money?
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by hedgie 14y ago
no serious person writes native code that vulnerable to timing attacks. if native crypto code has a measurable difference in execution time for different code paths that usually results in huge security advisories, patches, and it's agains
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by hedgie 14y ago
a timing attack doesn't require constant duration for execution paths in the code. even with the noise in server communications remote timing attacks are often feasible - the noise filters out when you up the number of measurements or use
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by hedgie 14y ago
>That point of yours actually points to a potential vulnerability in server-side (possibly native-code) encryption, not client-side encryption, which we discuss here. ...it also relates to the time it takes to generate a response from t
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by hedgie 14y ago
timing attacks don't necessarily need access to the actual machine to work. his point is valid because a side channel timing attack may arise from the differences in time it takes to receive a response from the server. there are remote ti
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by hedgie 14y ago
a timing or voltage dependence on the key used for the encryption/decryption is often exploited by side channel attacks. this dependence can be used in some sophisticated attacks to reduce the key space dramatically. c and asm/microcode a
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by hedgie 14y ago
i have no idea why you're being downvoted. auto and avionics companies go through hell to test this stuff at a level that involves the hardware and how it integrates with the software. this just doesn't happen in most software companies.
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by hedgie 14y ago
my father worked full time while receiving his phd in the professional field he was employed in. he has had a very successful academic career. his dissertation was no joke and he has advanced much further than others from more prestigious
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by hedgie 14y ago
the most annoying part about being a type I diabetic is hearing people who haven't even looked up the basics of the disease rant about diet or corn.
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by hedgie 14y ago
I'm very lucky to work in a place where they understand the limitations of this policy. Most of the product we work on (not a CRUD app) is finished or at least at a fairly mature state. But the area I work on is not. For a while they harp
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by hedgie 14y ago
i consistently ask myself how the fuck IBM sells anything to anybody.
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by hedgie 14y ago
maximizing salary is exactly what the study looked it. the approximation of finance = top salary is less accurate than the data they used. i'm not sure that's true either. remember the study is comparing people who could have entered an i
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by hedgie 14y ago
not sure that's the case. "Here, however, is what was explosive: Dale and Krueger concluded that students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selective institutions, earned salaries just as high as Ivy League grads. For
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by hedgie 14y ago
i hated math when i entered college despite having passed the AP calc exam in high school. i didn't see the point and couldn't understand why i was learning about functions. i had no idea how to even think about the subject beyond what i
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by hedgie 14y ago
i agree completely.
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by hedgie 14y ago
that's a good point. at my large company i do this every day on the embedded system i work on, which luckily is not a CRUD app. i guess i would hope they would ask me about that XD databases can get tricky. but you're right, if something
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by hedgie 14y ago
that formula narrows it down pretty well once the constants are defined and takes about a minute to determine. with more time than is found in a typical job interview you could actually go much further. the real criticism of the question i
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by hedgie 14y ago
that may be an unfair assumption on my part. i just assumed that when people ask these abstract riddles, they're really looking for some way of testing your intuition and not something this mundane and boring. it really boils down to basic
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by hedgie 14y ago
well, pg is some dude defining identity on a blog, and the people i mention are famous scientists who quantified personality and isolated introversion/extraversion using a statistical theory with predictive value. this theory explained the
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by hedgie 14y ago
I often do ask at least one of these questions on an interview. I don’t do it because I care about a precise answer or whether you know the exact dimensions of a golf ball. I care simply because if you can’t do Fermi calculations, you can’
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by hedgie 14y ago
seeing as personality is defined as a preferred set of reactions to external events, your preferred style of social interaction is part of your identity by definition. this is shorthand for saying "I prefer alone time to recharge" or "I am
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by hedgie 14y ago
you should see the crazy amount big companies spend on IBM tools. people pay big money for clearcase. licenses for clearcase cost enormous amounts. yet clearcase is missing many of the features found in open-source (and free) distribute
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by hedgie 14y ago
consider this statement politically agnostic, but military spending is the closest thing we have to govt subsidized R+D in this country. there several enormously useful and successful military inventions that no commercial company would ha
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by hedgie 14y ago
aleph-null? what the fuck?
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by hedgie 14y ago
"You're completely wrong. College doesn't even get close to teaching the state of the art." encryption is basically pure math. if you don't have a solid understanding of graduate level math you can't even follow the state of the art. know
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by hedgie 14y ago
he had graduate level training in number theory at oxford, which is the basis of public key encryption and the algorithm he invented. it's not an edge case, it supports that you can't skip graduate level training and do this work.

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