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by resc1440 10y ago
It still has the integer ID in the URL, so if you're willing to drop $20 a week on getting your own pizza, you can still see how many online orders Dominoes gets - it could be valuable information for competitors, or investors, as you
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by resc1440 10y ago
The article says this is repairing a loophole: > The 1959 law on which the regulations are based already required employers to disclose the hiring of such consultants. But the Labor Department argued that previous administrations had all
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by resc1440 11y ago
Normally you're right that no net exposure implies no risk. However, you've completely forgotten the financial crisis? Counterparty risk can completely destroy the idea of "all positions are offset". If I buy a deriva
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by resc1440 11y ago
As an outsider to the field, I really enjoyed reading this paper: http://www.pcg-random.org/paper.html It's advocating for a particular new kind of PRNG, but it also includes a lot of great explanations and citations f
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by resc1440 11y ago
This assumes that random people die each year. However, if you survive for a year, you are probably very tough, and your life expectancy might actually go up.
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by resc1440 11y ago
Mitsuhiko has written extensively about Py3 unicode problems, e.g. http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/ I think a lot of it boils down to, sometimes you really really don't
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by resc1440 11y ago
Link for the lazy: https://www.qubes-os.org/
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by resc1440 11y ago
This is super interesting - especially the tool they used. It looks like it interposes itself at the RPC level, unlike Jepsen which intervenes at the network level. That lets it create reproducible test cases in a distributed system, wh
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by resc1440 11y ago
Thanks for this interesting answer! I read most of the getting started guide last night and I'll probably try Elixir for a toy project sometime soon :)
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by resc1440 11y ago
Are macros useful in a web development context? I don't feel like I've been missing them in Django, but maybe I've just forgotten because it's been a long time since I wrote anything substantial in Scheme. (Are Elixir
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by resc1440 11y ago
"dog eats software" - Examine why dogs will eat poop. - In what way did many dog owners get very upset when their dog eats poop? - Is this a wonderful opportunity for their dog to interact with someone? - Talk about what some dogs
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by resc1440 11y ago
tl;dr - * Content Neutrality: Content blocking software should focus on addressing potential user needs (such as on performance, security, and privacy) instead of blocking specific types of content (such as advertising). * Transparency &a
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Mozilla Blog: Block slow, privacy-invading content, not "advertising"(blog.mozilla.org)
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by resc1440 11y ago
Might want to electrical-tape over the phone's front-facing camera, and maybe even excavate out its microphone. Just In Case.
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by resc1440 11y ago
I can't zoom in far enough to see many of the hops :(
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by resc1440 11y ago
Jesse's "stir DOM" fuzzer, which fits in a tweet & a bookmarklet: pick = a => a[a.length * Math.random() | 0]; elts = document.all; stir = () => pick(elts).appendChild(pick(elts)); setInterval(stir
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by resc1440 11y ago
Also MarkupSafe - https://github.com/mitsuhiko/markupsafe It's a little bit meta, but I had lots of "wow" moments. Also, it's a nice example of using C to speed up certain operations.
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by resc1440 11y ago
I don't know of such a book that's targeted to experts, but you can get a good idea of those things by skimming the first 2 or 3 chapters of Zed's [Learn Python the Hard Way]( http://learnpythonthehardway.org&#x2F
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by resc1440 11y ago
One reason is that in many cases, it's easy to do a large number of trials, so this only makes an attack slightly less practical. They go from being able to tell your secret after 10 packets to needing 100 or 1000.
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by resc1440 11y ago
Cute article about the genre of bugs: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/anthonyv/...
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by resc1440 12y ago
Amazon's security advisory seems to indicate that they have this capability for 90% of EC2 instances (leaving 10% that must be rebooted). https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/maintenance-2015-03/
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by resc1440 12y ago
And lkml discussion of the follow-up patches: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00694.html
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by resc1440 12y ago
Git push gained the ability to change the remote working directory - but only if that copy of the repo has been set up to allow it.