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by rwos 11y ago
GNU rm has exactly that built-in: $ rm -rf / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on ‘/’ rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
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by rwos 13y ago
While static analysis can be quite a powerful tool, it doesn't magically fix everything. Some of the typical web-application vulnerabilities are shell/SQL injections, XSS, and CSRF. Also, passwords saved in a insufficiently hashed form, or
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by rwos 13y ago
The semantic diff is pretty cool. It will probably be pretty hard to apply that to C (cpp) and Lisp (macros, and especially the programmable readers in some Lisps). But maybe we don't actually need a solution for the general case and displa
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by rwos 14y ago
1.) Yes, I think so. 2.) Don't worry, it has been done before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259695 (That particular instance doesn't work anymore, though)
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by rwos 14y ago
Is this censored? There's nothing related to copyright infringement or porn in there. Also, the categories and trending/most-searched selection seems arbitrary. Every country has a different set of data.
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The German Programming Apprenticeship - A Review(r-wos.org)
2 points by rwos 14y ago|0 comments
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by rwos 14y ago
No, as others have said these are only recent ones. Here's the real top ten: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&sortb...
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by rwos 14y ago
This was on /r/programming and now it's here - I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what this is all about. 600 lines doesn't seem ultra-small to me. And Lisp - well sure, not too common a language for games, but it's not as if this was
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by rwos 14y ago
I'm not the parent, but I do web development - here's how I understand it: > hard for end users to customise I think, he means that a css-based ("modern") solution would allow end-users to just swap the css (a feature most web-browsers
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by rwos 14y ago
Ideally, there should be a feature that lets you see the personalized (that is, real) search results of others. Maybe divided into target groups ("programmers", "male users under 20", etc.). Of course, everyone's real search results will be
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JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple(jwz.org)
58 points by rwos 14y ago|69 comments
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by rwos 14y ago
You could have said the same thing about unix-like operating systems in 1991 - yet, somebody wrote one from scratch without a full-time team. I'm not trying to put this little project here down, far from it. I think it's pretty neat. I ca
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by rwos 14y ago
I wouldn't call that a "Haskell based browser". 1500 lines of Haskell against maybe 300 KLOC (guessed) of webkit alone. That's not "Haskell based", that's only using Haskell as a glue. The same goes for uzbl, too, of course. Things like the
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by rwos 14y ago
What a nice way to find out that my rather old Thinkpad (on Debian testing) now has WebGL support - I only updated everything from time to time, and apparently stuff actually started working . Great! Great hack, too. I really, really want
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by rwos 14y ago
It's funny how one of the relatively few design errors in Unix shells now indirectly comes back to haunt us. Recursing is built into pretty much every command that can handle multiple files - which very strongly suggests it should have been
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by rwos 14y ago
The quote doesn't make it an allegation, that's right. The other parts do ("[...] that he has advocated for truly awful practices"). That "fact" is not part of the question and as such can only be refuted by invalidating the whole comment,
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by rwos 14y ago
Asking such a loaded question when RMS can't even defend himself is just incredible cheap. If you had genuine interest in knowing whether these allegations are true, you could have asked differently (and on a different occasion). No, that's
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by rwos 14y ago
I have a pet theory about why so many[1] people find him "threatening". I believe it's because people do think it's important what he talks about - but feel he talks about it in the Wrong Way[TM]. Anecdotal data points to support my view: T
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by rwos 14y ago
Sorry, but I have my Firefox at about 600px width and your logo still obscures the text. User-agent sniffing won't solve this one, you should do media-queries based on the actual window size.
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by rwos 14y ago
Python lends itself quite nicely to code-golfing, that's true. In fact I am constantly amazed of how terse Python code can be, despite the significant whitespace stuff. from os import* r='s=[0]*8**5' p=0 for c in read(0,9**9):r+='
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by rwos 15y ago
Using gets() also makes writing exploits much quicker - win-win! ;-) Sorry, I couldn't resist - you are of course right with the general stdio over std::iostream thing, though. I've also found that memory usage and executable size explode w
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by rwos 15y ago
> It's politically easier to bring on someone new, deal with the productivity hit, and then have them start addressing the systemic technical issues. I can see the reasoning behind that and it would be wonderful if that tactic actually
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by rwos 15y ago
Reading the article and the comments here, I came to the conclusion that I seemingly don't really use vi. As in: I don't live in it. On a typical day, I work with my files using grep, awk, bash, python, sed, make, cat, xargs, etc. And, of c