netdog

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by netdog 7y ago
Location: TX, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, to MX, CL, or AR. Technologies: Linux, C++, Python, TCP/IP, 3G/4G networks, PostgreSQL Résumé/CV: Not published to the world. I will provide to inquirers.
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by netdog 9y ago
The doomsday title reminded me of the world's last C bug: while (1) { status = GetRadarInfo(); if (status = 1) LaunchMissiles(); }
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by netdog 9y ago
Bibles don't kill people. People kill people.
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by netdog 10y ago
The GCC Atomic Builtins mentioned in the article are not specific to Unix. They are compiler constructs, and depend on specific architecture hardware support. All x86 CPUs have such support for some years now. So these atomic operations can
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by netdog 11y ago
> The world is not run by mustache twirling villains who get sustenance from the tears of "the people." Actually, yes, about half of it is. Cuba, China, North Korea, Viet Nam, almost all the Middle East, two thirds of Africa, R
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by netdog 11y ago
A remembrance of Zawinski's law seems apropos here.
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by netdog 11y ago
> I'm not saying github will be around forever, but I highly doubt they'll make the same mistake sourceforge is making now. Github could be sold, just like Sourceforge was sold, and the new owners could behave very differently
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by netdog 12y ago
Every SoC has a different kernel, heavily patched, with drivers specific to the SoC. The SoC vendor has an army of paid programmers developing this software for every SoC they make. These Soc vendors have to start working on a new kernel lo
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by netdog 12y ago
I think the widespread insecurity of home routers will not improve anytime soon. Background: I work at a company which makes a "home router". It's not one you will find at a big box store, but internally it's not much di
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by netdog 12y ago
> That's not how the internet works. Nobody PUSHES data. People PULL data. There's more to "the Internet" than just "the WWW". While HTTP could be considered a "pull data" protocol, there's pl
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by netdog 12y ago
I find par to be very useful. http://www.nicemice.net/par/ Works great for re-wrapping code comments too. It's been packaged in Debian for ages.
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by netdog 12y ago
> In general you should prefer crypto constructions which are a result of global competitions. For example AES and SHA3. The judges who chose AES and SHA-3 as the "winners" of the global competitions are the NSA. > You shoul
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by netdog 12y ago
My for-real-not-humor implementation: def fizzbuzz(i, n): while i <= n: yield i%15 and (i%5 and (i%3 and i or 'fizz') or 'buzz') or 'fizzbuzz' i += 1 for x in fizzb
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by netdog 13y ago
See David Wheeler's page, The Most Important Software Innovations < http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html> . The page has been online and refined for 12 years. It lists things such as the Stack, P
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by netdog 13y ago
It's not surprising, and it is not peculiar to FNV-1a. Most of these hashes will exhibit this same behavior. Since the hash iterates over the characters in the string, once you find two colliding strings S and T, if you append any othe
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by netdog 13y ago
Samsung's customers are the carriers. The carrier asks Samsung for specific features or changes in the firmware build for the phones they buy from Samsung. Samsung satisfies their customer by giving them what they want. The carrier is
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by netdog 14y ago
> most [email] users have no idea what HTML even is. For most users email is something you do in a web browser. They've never used it any other way.
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by netdog 14y ago
There was a time, in the not-too distant past, when the Internet was mostly about sharing educational information. Sadly, the Internet is now full of companies who want to use it as a vehicle for advertising and who are obsessed with buildi
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by netdog 14y ago
> Django ... it is wrong to expect a CMS to be built using them. Django was originally developed to build a CMS, for the Lawrence Journal-World
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by netdog 14y ago
email is a useful messaging system. However, email is not: 1) a reliable messaging system, 2) a secure messaging system, 3) a private communication conduit.
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by netdog 14y ago
You might be surprised to learn that the Internet Protocol and the DNS are used for many other things besides serving web pages to browsers.
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by netdog 14y ago
wow, this page sets 20 cookies, loads 16 external javascripts, and has a 280kB image file in the banner. Just to deliver 7 paragraphs of text.
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by netdog 14y ago
A few years ago a potential client produced a similar contract, wherein they wanted me to indemnify them against any future litigation regarding possible copyright/patent infringement. I explained my position this way: You want me to produ
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by netdog 14y ago
I think part of the problem is that many, if not most people using email don't have a good understanding of what email is and is not. Email is not a reliable messaging system. It gives enough of an appearance of reliability that most peop
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by netdog 15y ago
Matt Dillon, Linus Torvalds, Theo De Raadt, Jony Ives, Zed Shaw, John Gruber One of these guys is not like the others.
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by netdog 15y ago
So what the researchers did, apparently, was to gather all the RSA public keys they could find (6 million or so) and then calculate the gcds of all pairs of keys. Apparently not. The number of unique pairings among 6 million is 5,999,999
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by netdog 16y ago
> Google has mentioned they're working on the content farm problem. The irony is that is Google's own AdSense program is the incentive for the creation of airburger web sites, which otherwise have no reason to exist.
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by netdog 16y ago
> Hash based challenge-response authentication does require the server to know the plain password. Not true. Read up on HTTP Digest authentication. It's described in RFC2617.
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by netdog 16y ago
Someone here derided the idea of declining to do business with people you don't trust: "...modern financial and legal infra-structure is designed so that we can make business with people we don't trust." Since the beginning of mankind the w
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by netdog 16y ago
I read > ... if you want a subdomain of ww.com... and naturally understood "subdomain" to mean "subdomain". Perhaps what you meant to write was "... if you want a hostname in ww.com..." ww.com is a nice 2nd level domain. A 3rd level do

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