It might have something to do with what the article's author writes as the moral 'lying is bad'... And understanding why it is bad if code lies about stuff. I can imagine someone looking at that code and the part where…
Well, very interesting indeed! Cool that you actually went through with writing a complete shell :) I guess, I might've been too optimistic about the power of parser generators. Still, I think if someone were to start…
Focus-Follows-Mouse for the win :) Which is even available on the crippled window manager that Windows has...
oh, ok, that is pretty usefull actually!
Yeah, but afaik, switching those profiles in Firefox is (currently) really difficult. So much so that it almost feels the same as if you didn't have the capability to do it...
I think, often it was more that one didn't want others to know about the history of those activities, which is not the same thing as not wanting them recorded. If there had been a safe way to secretly store that…
Well, there goes that neighbourhood.
So, it has come to this: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... (Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust") in real life...
"Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error." (HAL9000)
You don't need EME to play video, HTML5 video can be played just fine without it. AFAIK, You need EME to make sure that only browsers that have the Foo-Corporation EME plugin can play Foo-Corporation videos. And to get…
well, good riddance to flash, but Encrypted Media Extensions are definitly not an advantage, see for example https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox
Nice post! I hope lot's of people read and understand it, the world will be a better place for it :) One thing that would be good to add is: If you implement a way to create/add something, implementing a way to…
If your hwclock is a source of randomness, maybe you should be worried ;)
Well, grasshopper, I guess you can code like a kung fu novice, trying to split a stone; repeatedly and thoughtlessly bashing your hands on it, making a bloody mess. Or like a master; contemplating the best way a while…
The thing that helped me out of this, was seeing writing code like forging a sword, where you repeatedly heat up the metal, hammer it into shape and then cool it down again. (note: IANASwordSmith) This works because…
Hm yeah, it could've been that I disconnected from the server when I went home for the weekend and didn't check for that in the code. It was a long time ago :)
Well, in a small way, someone did that: Star Wreck - In the Prikinning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472566/) available for free here: https://archive.org/details/StarWreckInThePirkining (These are the guys who then…
On the one hand, R (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html) is sadly gone. However, this might be interesting to your question: From http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html: "Somewhere I have a note from…
There's a good status page for the LHC: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com Someone should make a reverse website that looks up humans and determines whether the Internet has wiped out humanity yet :)
The title of this article provides a good argument for "C being for programmers." Seems like for every language FOO there's bound to be between 1 and a-lot of tutorials and introductions 'FOO for C Programmers'. Most…
You shouldn't have quit. There's really good stuff in the Silmarilion and if you really like middle earth and all that, you won't be sorry to have read it entirely in the end.
While having people actually refer to themselve as resources is pretty scary, it's not exactly new. It's just that business people have no regard for human dignity, which is also why the department for hiring people in…
It might have something to do with what the article's author writes as the moral 'lying is bad'... And understanding why it is bad if code lies about stuff. I can imagine someone looking at that code and the part where…
Well, very interesting indeed! Cool that you actually went through with writing a complete shell :) I guess, I might've been too optimistic about the power of parser generators. Still, I think if someone were to start…
Focus-Follows-Mouse for the win :) Which is even available on the crippled window manager that Windows has...
oh, ok, that is pretty usefull actually!
Yeah, but afaik, switching those profiles in Firefox is (currently) really difficult. So much so that it almost feels the same as if you didn't have the capability to do it...
I think, often it was more that one didn't want others to know about the history of those activities, which is not the same thing as not wanting them recorded. If there had been a safe way to secretly store that…
Well, there goes that neighbourhood.
So, it has come to this: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp... (Ken Thompson "Reflections on Trusting Trust") in real life...
"Well, I don’t think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error." (HAL9000)
You don't need EME to play video, HTML5 video can be played just fine without it. AFAIK, You need EME to make sure that only browsers that have the Foo-Corporation EME plugin can play Foo-Corporation videos. And to get…
well, good riddance to flash, but Encrypted Media Extensions are definitly not an advantage, see for example https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox
Nice post! I hope lot's of people read and understand it, the world will be a better place for it :) One thing that would be good to add is: If you implement a way to create/add something, implementing a way to…
If your hwclock is a source of randomness, maybe you should be worried ;)
Well, grasshopper, I guess you can code like a kung fu novice, trying to split a stone; repeatedly and thoughtlessly bashing your hands on it, making a bloody mess. Or like a master; contemplating the best way a while…
The thing that helped me out of this, was seeing writing code like forging a sword, where you repeatedly heat up the metal, hammer it into shape and then cool it down again. (note: IANASwordSmith) This works because…
Hm yeah, it could've been that I disconnected from the server when I went home for the weekend and didn't check for that in the code. It was a long time ago :)
Well, in a small way, someone did that: Star Wreck - In the Prikinning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472566/) available for free here: https://archive.org/details/StarWreckInThePirkining (These are the guys who then…
On the one hand, R (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html) is sadly gone. However, this might be interesting to your question: From http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html: "Somewhere I have a note from…
There's a good status page for the LHC: http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com Someone should make a reverse website that looks up humans and determines whether the Internet has wiped out humanity yet :)
The title of this article provides a good argument for "C being for programmers." Seems like for every language FOO there's bound to be between 1 and a-lot of tutorials and introductions 'FOO for C Programmers'. Most…
You shouldn't have quit. There's really good stuff in the Silmarilion and if you really like middle earth and all that, you won't be sorry to have read it entirely in the end.
While having people actually refer to themselve as resources is pretty scary, it's not exactly new. It's just that business people have no regard for human dignity, which is also why the department for hiring people in…