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by kba 6y ago
What you're describing is very similar to Rubber duck debugging. The idea here is that forcing you to explain what you're trying to do makes it easier for you to catch your mistakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by kba 6y ago
Nobody is demanding you do. But if you go around claimng people "got phished", then you should be sure. I've also entered fake credentials into a clearly faked login form to see what'd happen. Would it redirect me to the
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by kba 7y ago
I think you jumbled up the two paragraphs. Nowhere did I suggest that poor audio quality was because Android has to support more hardware.
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by kba 7y ago
With fear of starting a fire here, are you using an Android phone? I'm asking, because whenever I hear people complain about phone software that just breaks, it's almost always Android, and with good reason: They have to support a
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by kba 7y ago
That's an interesting project and good writeup! Peer-to-peer OT has indeed been proven wrong many times (I've debunked a few papers myself as well), but client-server-based OT is very solid. For the last 3 years, I've been th
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by kba 7y ago
You may find ShareDB[1] interesting – it's a library that does exactly that. >ShareDB is a realtime database backend based on Operational Transformation (OT) of JSON documents. It is the realtime backend for the DerbyJS web applicat
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by kba 8y ago
Any fake-Facebook website can copy Facebook's favicon, so that wouldn't add any security at all. An identicon is a hash value represented as an icon. "facebook.com", for instance, may hash to a red image with a yellow li
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by kba 9y ago
You're absolutely right, but I'd also never suggest a collaborative system for anything critical. As I've said earlier in this thread: If you're in a Google Docs document with a buddy and you write "A" and he w
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by kba 9y ago
I'm not one to dictate how technologies like these are to be used, but all I can say is that in the almost two years I've been working on Webstrates – a collaborative system using a very similar technology – this has not been an i
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by kba 9y ago
We've been wanting to try a CRDT-based implementation with Webstrates for some time, but haven't found a suitable implementation, so this looks very promising! Any particular reason why you choose CRDT over OT?
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by kba 9y ago
Why is that a restriction? You can make any changes to the JSON you wish, you just have to use their API.
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by kba 9y ago
There is a change history. No changes are lost.
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by kba 9y ago
This isn't for a banking system, this is for building collaborative apps. If you press "A" and your friend press "B" into a Google Docs document at the same time, you also don't know if the document is going to
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by kba 9y ago
My experience is with OT, so I can't speak for CRDT, but I can imagine it's similar. With OT, you send a na[1] (number add) operation, so this would work fine. Indeed, if you treat the number as a string, then you have a problem.
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by kba 9y ago
Then there'd be a negative amount of apples. It's not impossible if you disregard context. There is nothing new about doing things like this, OT and CRDT have existed for ages. Check out ShareDB ( https://github.com&#x2F
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by kba 9y ago
Blockbuster shares
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by kba 10y ago
I think most places, debts can be inherited voluntarily, but you can't cherry pick. If your dead aunt had a Mercedes 190SL, but also owes $200,000, you can either take both or nothing. But yeah – they won't end up in debt themselv
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by kba 10y ago
William Miller predicted Jesus' return in the year 1843. When that didn't happen, he adjusted his calculations to mean March 21, 1844. When that failed, it became October 22, 1844. He kept modifying his prediction whenever it fail
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by kba 10y ago
So you do everything you can to hide the IP address, but reveal that the domain is-savvy.nl resolves to it. Either you're not actually that good at IT security or you're just making a huge brain fart. $ dig +short is-savvy.n
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by kba 11y ago
I was curious, so I wrote a small program to check it: The normal distribution is 1: 24.9940% 3: 25.0128% 7: 25.0100% 9: 24.9832% The distribution following a prime ending in 1: 1: 17.0448% 3: 31.0789% 7:
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by kba 11y ago
It's a joke. The last digit of a binary number is parity (odd or even). Since all primes (except for the number 2 [or 10 in binary]) are odd, the last digit will of always be 1.
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by kba 11y ago
I did not mean to say that HTTPS was a substitute for FTP. You said that FTP was the fastest protocol, and the only reasonable explanation for why FTP could be faster than anything else would be due to the lack of encryption. Therefore, I a
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by kba 11y ago
Everything unencrypted will always be faster than the encrypted counterpart. Do you also deliberately avoid HTTPS? And is that minuscule performance gain really worth the risk with FTP?
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by kba 11y ago
Why would you assume they wanted FTPS? SFTP is both more common and very superior. Also, what MITM attacks are you afraid of with SFTP?
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by kba 11y ago
I absolutely agree. Already after the first sentence, I was questioning whether I was suffering from aphasia or having a stroke. It surprises me that someone would publish an article like that without having proofread it at all.
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by kba 11y ago
I still feel like a MacBook Pro would be a good choice for the author. He starts out by talking about being able to replace parts, but later doesn't make that as a requirement when he asks for: - Decent build quality - Decent performan
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by kba 11y ago
No they can't. That goes against the US antitrust law. Likewise, Coca Cola can't tell a shop that they won't sell them their products if the shop also sells Pepsi.
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by kba 11y ago
Good write-up, but damn it that guy has got to learn the difference between "its" and "it's". It's killing me!
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by kba 13y ago
i7 3770K, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD, few TB of storage Hackintosh. OS X Mavericks. 30" Apple (2560x1600) + 2x24" (1920x1200). Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript. Git. IntelliJ, Sublime Text. Debian server. Also a 15" MacBook Pro.
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by kba 14y ago
Med student rescues body part? More like German pilot.

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