martinced

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by martinced 13y ago
I like your explanation about layered solutions to security, +1. "Do you trust your chipsets?" Certainly not. I do believe that the recent tiny bytes sequences in any TCP (UDP ?) packet that can lock Intel ethernet cards is actually a ba
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by martinced 13y ago
But why oh why immitate the Emacs shortcuts? I love Emacs. I use it all the time. But the default shortcuts are the most stupid thing ever. That Control-x (C-x in Emacs lingua) is insanity at its best: due to the stupid non-symmetric lay
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by martinced 13y ago
"Emacs is big, startup is slow..." Please. I don't even bother compiling my .el to .elc and I've got a shitload of modes and a gigantic .emacs file (which I should split btw). Emacs, from the scratch, takes two seconds to fully load, i
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by martinced 13y ago
"Interfaces can now define static methods. " Twenty years for that one ; ) zomg. Another one debated at length through flamewars on Usenet and ##java. And now it's here. Feeling good : )
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by martinced 13y ago
lemon shows on their frontpage someone taking a picture of its VISA and putting it inside his iPhone. What can possibly go wrong? : )
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by martinced 13y ago
"...add a new parameter, set a default and it does it across the entire codebase." OK but why exactly does a new parameter with a default need to be repeated at different places across the codebase? Because you're using Java and Java is
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by martinced 13y ago
"when your tools are oriented toward making huge balls of mud and your philosophy is oriented toward making huge balls of mud, you will make huge balls of mud" New sig for me on forums ; ) Paraphrasing Rich Hickey: everytime you're using
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by martinced 13y ago
"Have any of you overcome this after > 10 years of bad habits? How did you do it?" I had a secretary handing my arse to me... So after ten years of bad habits I decided to learn the proper way. She showed me the basics (which are rea
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by martinced 13y ago
That would be the world backward: it's like when IntelliJ or Eclipse do offer Emacs shortcuts (Emacs shortcuts being the stupidest things ever invented --and this comes as a long time Emacs user), completely missing the point. BUT there's
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by martinced 13y ago
"As soon as I lose pride in something, I stop caring about it being good." The one quote to deal with that is simple: "A professional is someone who can do his best job even when he doesn't feel like it" That's what I keep in mind when
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by martinced 13y ago
Insecure defaults s^cks. On a semi-related sidenote all the recent Rails exploits prompted a heated discussion on the Clojure devs (the developers developing Clojure itself) group / mailing-list about an insecure Clojure default value. Some
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by martinced 13y ago
"All of our sites (asp classic) on a single server went down at the same time" Honest curiosity here (I'm not judging): you were running several sites on a single server that didn't have ECC RAM but regular RAM? Did you then switch to ECC
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by martinced 13y ago
It's a bit of a pain to find ECC mobos for desktops. I looked for some when I built my last workstation seen that I was putting 16 GB in but ended up using stupid normal RAM : ( Now between SSH, SCP, SSL / TLS, Git, diffs before commits, un
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by martinced 13y ago
"Start moving large compressed files (gigabytes) and you'll find that out the bad way." Not if you do that over SCP / SSL / TLS that said... (and the bottleneck is the network, not the symmetric encryption used once the public/private sym
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by martinced 13y ago
"After all, what's offensive to one person may not be so to another, and they may end up offending you by mistake." Including that sentence doesn't make the fact that it is undisputably a two-ways street go away. If it's an honest mista
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by martinced 13y ago
It sounds great both for users and for devs which, I'm sure, is going to help it take off. However I've got one question: was this conceived from the start with security in mind and is it simple enough as to not be plagued with the countles
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by martinced 13y ago
I didn't downvote it but I think I know why: there's a huge wave of negativity on HN and your question sounds like criticism. There are ways to formulate the same question which would be much nicer and less negative, for example: "It's grea
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by martinced 13y ago
Nobody accused them of "not encrypting" [sic] passwords. People accused them of storing passwords in clear text. These are two entirely different things. Why? Because passwords should NEVER be encrypted. Passwords are meant to be hashed
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by martinced 13y ago
PermGen, as if all the JVMs out there were Sun/Oracle or the OpenJDK ones ; )
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by martinced 13y ago
"I was struck by the idea of a function taking a function as input and transforming it to another function as output." That's a higher-order function (HoF). I'd say it's not the fundamental thing to understand about FP: you can even prog
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by martinced 13y ago
"Know your IDE" I'm getting to the point where I can write elisp functions adding cool functionalities to Emacs (like jumping to a function whose name appears in a comment), does this count as knowing my IDE? ; ) I must have it all wrong
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by martinced 13y ago
The Web and all the technologies that come with it is a special kind of hell: a Rube Goldberg machine whose level of complexity and crazyness is hard to match. The associated mediocrity is kinda jaw-dropping too: it's 2013 and the main "eng
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by martinced 13y ago
It's nice but the dropdown selection suffers from the common issue that Amazon solved using "fuzzier" mouse tracking. Trying to get to the last dropdown box on this "Almost Flat UI" is hard: as soon as you're one or two pixels off everythi
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by martinced 13y ago
IMHO that is one of the main benefit of negative spaces (I didn't know the term but knew the technique): you actually hardly notice that there's "something else" and yet the logos somehow look nice. I'd say they look "soft", without knowin
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by martinced 13y ago
"The Byzantine generals' algorithm is used to handle situations where the computers do not agree. That situation could come about because of a radiation event changing memory or register values, for example." This always got me wondering:
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by martinced 13y ago
Weird. My Debian systems don't have that alias...
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by martinced 13y ago
Exactly. He's a Keynesian freak who lost it a long time ago.
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by martinced 13y ago
Krugman lost it a long time ago. The final nail in the coffin was when he wrote that it actually was a good idea to mint a $1 trillion coin to dodge the legislation preventing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. If you're into economy at all yo
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by martinced 13y ago
"Its value for its users (basically how much value is gained by using Google as opposed to an alternate search engine)..." and: "(other search engines such as Altavista who had results which were poorer, but not hugely so)" I upvoted yo
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by martinced 13y ago
"I'm not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won't be open source software. They needn't bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle

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