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True | grauenwolf | null | Explain to me why I need to pay for a free operating system with only "self support". | null | 0 | 1316628256 | False | 0 | c2ljiem | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2ljiem | t1_c2lba4u | null | 1427628981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > Also allows you to do things like verify the order things are called in and such, which is very difficult using stub services.
True, but for the vast majority of cases you don't want to verify the order things are called in, as it would just lead to brittle tests. This is especially true of service calls. | null | 0 | 1316628350 | False | 0 | c2ljiuf | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2ljiuf | t1_c2ljf4g | null | 1427628986 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This doesn't seem to be an actual open source project yet. The only thing available is some of the libraries this uses. Hopefully, the author will release his code. | null | 0 | 1316628418 | False | 0 | c2ljj7i | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljj7i | t1_c2lije1 | null | 1427628992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cafedude | null | There's an Ocaml_to_js converter which should make OCaml pretty easy to do. | null | 0 | 1316628455 | False | 0 | c2ljjef | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2ljjef | t1_c2lh9nk | null | 1427628996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I am not the least bit angry and I apologize if it appears that I was. I think BDD is a foolish idea, but certainly it isn't anything to get upset about.
Make me work with a dependency injection framework and you'll see me get angry. | null | 0 | 1316628458 | False | 0 | c2ljjf6 | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2ljjf6 | t1_c2lixfu | null | 1427628996 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ZorbaTHut | null | *And they got a billion dollars in return.*
If that billion dollars wasn't worth it to them, then they can choose a value that is worth it to them. | null | 0 | 1316628483 | False | 0 | c2ljjjd | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2ljjjd | t1_c2ljfcr | null | 1427628995 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CPOliver | null | I think you may be confusing PascalCase and camelCase. | null | 0 | 1316628495 | False | 0 | c2ljjlr | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2ljjlr | t1_c2lbg21 | null | 1427628997 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You don't have to. You can get centos for nothing but obviously some people want to buy the thing and without support. Who knows maybe it comes with more software than centos or maybe not. If it the business model works then there is demand for it. | null | 0 | 1316628564 | False | 0 | c2ljjzt | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2ljjzt | t1_c2ljiem | null | 1427629002 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abw | null | # without these double negatives it wouldn't be as hard to understand these comments | null | 0 | 1316628580 | False | 0 | c2ljk2p | t3_kmk56 | null | t1_c2ljk2p | t3_kmk56 | null | 1427629003 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cafedude | null | please compare and constrast with codepad? | null | 0 | 1316628603 | False | 0 | c2ljk6t | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2ljk6t | t1_c2ljhk4 | null | 1427629004 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StolenLampy | null | http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43825044/ns/today-entertainment/t/brawny-captain-america-saved-skinny-steve/
No, they deserve way more credit than that! | null | 0 | 1316628622 | False | 0 | c2ljkae | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljkae | t1_c2lj6pa | null | 1427629012 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Craysh | null | Right, but it won't cost several million for the CG budget. | null | 0 | 1316628658 | False | 0 | c2ljkgu | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljkgu | t1_c2lj6pa | null | 1427629009 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Are you sure those (well, excluding the architecture stuff) use radiosity, and not bi-directional path tracing or other much more robust methods? | null | 0 | 1316628827 | False | 0 | c2ljlfc | t3_kmlu2 | null | t1_c2ljlfc | t1_c2lh6ah | null | 1427629021 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | So we are dealing with one of two business models:
* Customers are stupid, watch me sell them air
* We love open source. All of our closed-source, commerical applications are built on top of it.
| null | 0 | 1316628865 | False | 0 | c2ljln9 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2ljln9 | t1_c2ljjzt | null | 1427629024 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316629024 | False | 0 | c2ljmi8 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljmi8 | t1_c2lisee | null | 1427629034 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | How mindfucking would it be if I use this software while talking to someone on hallucinogenics? Results would be awesome.
| null | 0 | 1316629071 | False | 0 | c2ljmra | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljmra | t3_kmref | null | 1427629038 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wickeand000 | null | I thought Robert Downey Jr. was fantastic, but the movie as a whole was just ok. Trippy as shit while high, though...
| null | 0 | 1316629109 | False | 0 | c2ljmyn | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljmyn | t1_c2lig02 | null | 1427629040 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gagege | null | Ugh, web development sucks. | null | 0 | 1316629121 | False | 0 | c2ljn0u | t3_kmpyi | null | t1_c2ljn0u | t3_kmpyi | null | 1427629041 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vintermann | null | If they do that just right, it can be very convincing. But there may have been some acoustic modeling involved as well, after all GSM did that, so it wasn't impossible to do in realtime even then. | null | 0 | 1316629139 | False | 0 | c2ljn40 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljn40 | t1_c2lj1ts | null | 1427629042 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mooglespy | null | The "Make This Face" crowd is gonna be impressed/grossed-out as hell though. | null | 0 | 1316629147 | False | 0 | c2ljn5g | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljn5g | t1_c2lhznb | null | 1427629043 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | ah yes forgot about that | null | 0 | 1316629191 | False | 0 | c2ljneh | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2ljneh | t1_c2li1my | null | 1427629046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FDL1 | null | and The Social Network | null | 0 | 1316629350 | False | 0 | c2ljo8q | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljo8q | t1_c2ljaqf | null | 1427629057 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I was thinking that he should totally do rage faces. | null | 0 | 1316629399 | False | 0 | c2ljogw | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljogw | t1_c2lhzjx | null | 1427629060 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tresser | null | thought this was going to be a link to the [open source boob project.](http://theferrett.livejournal.com/1087686.html) | null | 0 | 1316629441 | False | 0 | c2ljoow | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljoow | t3_kmref | null | 1427629068 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I always wanted to read an AMA from an acoustic modulation programmer. Some of the programs for sound editing are quite amazing pieces of software. They're amazing tools; I always wonder how well algorithms will get without any human "massaging" of the data.- | null | 0 | 1316629534 | False | 0 | c2ljp7g | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljp7g | t1_c2ljn40 | null | 1427629069 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316629610 | False | 0 | c2ljpmk | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljpmk | t3_kmref | null | 1427629075 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j4p4n | null | Wow... and thus, in the future you wont know if you are really talking to your friend or not when on webcam. The many layers of reality. | null | 0 | 1316629828 | False | 0 | c2ljqrg | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljqrg | t3_kmref | null | 1427629092 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peach-Os | null | Came here, Ctrl+F, "Scanner Darkly". | null | 0 | 1316629832 | False | 0 | c2ljqsc | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljqsc | t1_c2lidhu | null | 1427629092 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | angryvigilante | null | We shouldn't allow established companies to discourage or prevent invention from smaller companies. When we allow that, monopolies could easily form.
The problem is that we're seeing this in simple black and white. If a big company produces an idea through R&D and sits on it, then a smaller company creating that idea should be rewarded if they invent it first. The bigger company could get a share of that. If a smaller company produces an idea, but a bigger company makes it first, then the smaller company should get some form of compensation as well.
The current practices stifle competition and create a barrier to entry for many new businesses.
Also, I don't see why you can't legally document your creative process with the law. It's 2011, this shouldn't be an issue. If you could constantly update your progress to the patent office (they wouldn't review it, but it would be useful as evidence if worse comes to worst) if you were working on something, so that even if you don't patent the idea, it could be proven that you were working on it before a patent was filed. If multiple people were working on it, and you invented it first, shouldn't you get recognition for that?
| null | 0 | 1316629860 | False | 0 | c2ljqy5 | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2ljqy5 | t1_c2lbsl5 | null | 1427629094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Blandis | null | Use it for a virtual Guy Fawkes mask, and Anonymous will be all over that. | null | 0 | 1316629904 | False | 0 | c2ljr5q | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljr5q | t3_kmref | null | 1427629099 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n0_05 | null | D has type inference, and D tries to let you write high-level code while letting you go on lower level in portions where it's worth to.
If you didn't looked at this language closer, i recommend you to. If you did, and you think it's not high level enough or you just don't like d-way of doing things. OK. But please don't make assumption that ANY language which lets you go down to assembly HAVE to be low level only. | null | 0 | 1316630035 | False | 0 | c2ljruc | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2ljruc | t1_c2lgzif | null | 1427629104 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noreallyimthepope | null | This reminds me of the '100 years of IBM' video. Inspiring and interesting, until you hit the 90s where it flounders, then free falls to [this little boy](http://youtu.be/39jtNUGgmd4?hd=1&t=11m3s). All that momentum of innovation used to push innovation for the sake of not using it. | null | 0 | 1316630073 | False | 0 | c2ljs2h | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2ljs2h | t1_c2lbsl5 | null | 1427629108 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Citizen_Kong | null | Now you can look like a character from a Bethesda game! | null | 0 | 1316630215 | False | 0 | c2ljstk | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljstk | t3_kmref | null | 1427629116 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdiX | null | > I disagree with your conclusion. : Showing me a rotten apple is not a sufficient argument against eating.
I picked that for comedic effect since it's effectively stating the same information five times, but most of the comments there would have worked too.
I actually agree that "negative commenting" (or more in general comments answering the "why is this here?" question) are the most useful, but this is just silly.
> Typically, you have project-wide standards for certain issues; typically for initialization it's "initialize it, dammit!". These cases of course need not be commented.
Actually I tought the whole point of this technique was that:
> a reader should have the option of asking for an unlimited amount of detail about any item in the code that they are reading, should they have any uncertainty about what that item is there for.
In short, the article is arguing for writing a line of comment for every line of code (except for those containing syntax only). | null | 0 | 1316630394 | False | 0 | c2ljtr5 | t3_kmk56 | null | t1_c2ljtr5 | t1_c2lhns4 | null | 1427629128 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ... do you honestly think a tablet UI will apply well to a desktop environment? Anyone with the least bit of computer skills who's talked about Windows 8 to me has bitched about that. They're going to revert it on desktops at least, only a matter of time. | null | 0 | 1316630508 | False | 0 | c2ljudk | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2ljudk | t1_c2lji6n | null | 1427629137 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdiX | null | Actually that should be:
# set the crazy ass variable
#N without this method users of this class would have no convenient way of setting the crazy ass variable
def setTheCrazyAssVariable(value)
# We set the crazy ass variable here
#N without this line the setCrazyAssVariable method wouldn't set the crazy ass variable at all
@crazy_ass_variable = value
end | null | 0 | 1316630538 | False | 0 | c2ljuj5 | t3_kmk56 | null | t1_c2ljuj5 | t1_c2lh4cf | null | 1427629138 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316630645 | False | 0 | c2ljv0w | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2ljv0w | t1_c2lj0s7 | null | 1427629146 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wolf550e | null | http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.4/arch/Kconfig#L45 | null | 0 | 1316630679 | False | 0 | c2ljv62 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2ljv62 | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629147 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bugrit | null | Source engine comes to mind. | null | 0 | 1316630680 | False | 0 | c2ljv6a | t3_kmlu2 | null | t1_c2ljv6a | t1_c2lh143 | null | 1427629147 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdiX | null | > a) The purpose of this method is to initialize entries to the specific value of nil because...
and you didn't get that fact from the name of the method and its one line body?
> b) There's another method called "getEntries" that depends upon this collection of entries and it needs to know the state of the collection, presumably to decide how to act on it.
Is he going to list every method that the initialization affect there? Or is the getEntries method there just because this is a toy example? Why is it important that I can randomly read some method to find about the existence of other methods? | null | 0 | 1316630800 | False | 0 | c2ljvtq | t3_kmk56 | null | t1_c2ljvtq | t1_c2lgtqk | null | 1427629156 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bugrit | null | Silly. | null | 0 | 1316630830 | False | 0 | c2ljw01 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2ljw01 | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629159 | -29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chris_the_mudkip | null | You can finally be the little girl | null | 0 | 1316630852 | False | 0 | c2ljw48 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljw48 | t1_c2li0ts | null | 1427629160 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | T3hJ3hu | null | I really really really really really really want to see someone do that with a Guy Fawkes mask. | null | 0 | 1316630885 | False | 0 | c2ljwas | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljwas | t3_kmref | null | 1427629161 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chris_the_mudkip | null | if you cycle these it would look like the anonymizer suits from a scanner darkly. | null | 0 | 1316630915 | False | 0 | c2ljwgq | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljwgq | t3_kmref | null | 1427629164 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | Nothing,
Ask LucianU, he was quick to mention Clojure.
| null | 0 | 1316630921 | False | 0 | c2ljwho | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2ljwho | t1_c2ljgd1 | null | 1427629164 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | In C, an array size is also part of its type signature.
These are the exceptions for this in C, off the top of my head:
* When you use an "array type" for a function parameter type, it is silently desugared into a pointer type, and the size is actually ignored.
* When you extern an array declaration, the array type is allowed not to specify a size (e.g: `extern int values[]`).
* C99 allows a last struct member to specify: int array[]; for an "expanding" array at the end of the struct.
In all other contexts, the array size is part of the array type and must match. And this is a good thing. | null | 0 | 1316630940 | False | 0 | c2ljwla | t3_klgme | null | t1_c2ljwla | t1_c2le5vx | null | 1427629166 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Boot sector viruses are particularly nasty because they take effect before the anti-virus software is loaded. Nothing short of a full disk wipe can ensure they are removed.
> A common axiom in computer security is, “Whoever touches the hardware first wins.” By running early in the boot process, rootkits can perform malicious actions and then hide their presence from operating system and security software that runs later. This is why rootkits are so dangerous.
> UEFI firmware today supports Authenticode digital signatures in the pre-OS environment. By using this capability the firmware can verify each module before it executes and ensure that no untrusted code runs before the operating system loads. This enables the operating system to establish a secure foundation for all the other software on the computer. Microsoft supports this capability and encourages hardware partners to take advantage of it.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463149.aspx
I don't have a lot of info, but from what I can tell whomever writes the boot loader for Linux just needs to register their certificate with the hardware vendors. | null | 0 | 1316631078 | False | 0 | c2ljx9g | t3_kmh5r | null | t1_c2ljx9g | t1_c2lg1jl | null | 1427629178 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | qblock | null | As said in another comment, the legal team of R&D is what makes the difference. The inventor doesn't actually write the patent - they just write up some form given to them by the legal team. The legal team reviews the inventions and looks at what's patentable and what is not. If something is patentable, they contact the engineer and assign a couple of lawyers to him. They just ask the inventor what they need to know from then on out. Their sole job is to write and review patents, and many of them have been doing it for a very, very long time. They are quite clever.
Anyway, if a patent can be invalidated, then there are strategies for dealing with that as well. I don't know specifics on that, though. | null | 0 | 1316631119 | False | 0 | c2ljxhd | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2ljxhd | t1_c2lcz8c | null | 1427629179 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316631206 | False | 0 | c2ljxy0 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2ljxy0 | t3_kljc0 | null | 1427629185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Most people who bash RMS haven't actually bothered to understand the full implications of what he is saying or the reasoning behind his views. | null | 0 | 1316631339 | False | 0 | c2ljyoi | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2ljyoi | t1_c2lhvwb | null | 1427629195 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shortyjacobs | null | The second one seemed to adapt though. Like it would smear the side of his face when he first switched to a new face, but once he turned his head left/right a couple times, it figured out where the contours were and fixed up the faxe, (faxe being my new term for faux face). Same happened with one of the big nose dudes...the big nose was smeared across the cheek until he turned, and then the algo figured out where his nose was, and adjusted the faxe. | null | 0 | 1316631391 | False | 0 | c2ljyz4 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljyz4 | t1_c2lindb | null | 1427629199 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PaiTrakt | null | I had to look this up, because I didn't notice it when watching the film, but you are right!
>Because director David Fincher was unable to find any suitable identical twin actors to play real-life identical twins Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, two unrelated actors were hired to play each brother - Armie Hammer as Cameron and Josh Pence as Tyler. Fincher thought that Hammer looked the most like the real brothers, so for some scenes, the visual effects team photographed Hammer speaking Tyler's lines and created a computer-generated model of his face to paste over Pence's. Traditional split-screen work, with Hammer's separate performances as each brother stitched together in the same frame, was also used. | null | 0 | 1316631406 | False | 0 | c2ljz1s | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2ljz1s | t1_c2ljo8q | null | 1427629199 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | or you can use web scale databases like http://www.day.com/day/en/products/crx.is.web.scale.html | null | 0 | 1316631553 | False | 0 | c2ljzur | t3_kmp73 | null | t1_c2ljzur | t3_kmp73 | null | 1427629219 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | But your title says "Give it a try!", which seems like you're demoing the app itself. If you were demoing the code, perhaps a link to the code, or at least something about the code would be better. For example, does this file service do **anything** interesting? Any cool new algorithms? New platforms or frameworks? New ways to get something done? | null | 0 | 1316631599 | False | 0 | c2lk02m | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lk02m | t1_c2lhask | null | 1427629214 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | Exactly, that's how I interpret it too. | null | 0 | 1316631602 | False | 0 | c2lk03a | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lk03a | t1_c2lhlux | null | 1427629215 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316631648 | False | 0 | c2lk0cl | t3_kmlu2 | null | t1_c2lk0cl | t1_c2lhx4p | null | 1427629218 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kn33ch41_ | null | Shoe on head? | null | 0 | 1316631744 | False | 0 | c2lk0we | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk0we | t3_kmref | null | 1427629223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RobbieGee | null | You had to fake the moon landing... on the moon? | null | 0 | 1316632014 | False | 0 | c2lk2aj | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk2aj | t1_c2lj3ss | null | 1427629245 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316632140 | False | 0 | c2lk2y6 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lk2y6 | t1_c2linob | null | 1427629250 | -32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RobbieGee | null | Mug shots will probably be good sources. | null | 0 | 1316632192 | False | 0 | c2lk384 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk384 | t1_c2livnn | null | 1427629253 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 299 | null | Depends on how far away from the code you are and the automation strategy you have in place, but it really is surprising how often people get it wrong. | null | 0 | 1316632369 | False | 0 | c2lk476 | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2lk476 | t1_c2liuo2 | null | 1427629267 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FearlessFreep | null | I think it's well accepted in Python. I think it's a big deal in the Ruby community because they make a big deal of it not being acceptable | null | 0 | 1316632443 | False | 0 | c2lk4m3 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lk4m3 | t1_c2lj40p | null | 1427629279 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | Ahh, misunderstood you originally. When you said
>It is a java app, oh my.
it seemed like it implied that something else should have been used other than Java. | null | 0 | 1316632493 | False | 0 | c2lk4vt | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2lk4vt | t1_c2ljwho | null | 1427629278 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ultimatt42 | null | Well, you have to understand we had an *enormous* budget. With that much money on the table, people will notice if you're not actually spending it on anything. Or that's what we thought at the time, anyway; this has since been proven false.
Anyway, the plan always was to land on the moon, so we went ahead and did it. We just weren't able to use any of the actual footage. Rest assured that the faked version is at least a *good* fake. It's almost identical to the original video save for the scenery, and far more realistic than anything we were able to produce on earth. | null | 0 | 1316632784 | False | 0 | c2lk6gs | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk6gs | t1_c2lk2aj | null | 1427629295 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ninjaroach | null | Yikes. Doesn't this make it easier for malware to attach itself into any damn OS function call it pleases? | null | 0 | 1316632796 | False | 0 | c2lk6jc | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lk6jc | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629296 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316632877 | False | 0 | c2lk6z9 | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lk6z9 | t1_c2lb2am | null | 1427629302 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elima | null | I agree that it breaks anonymity. Currently FileTea does not generate its own server-side logs, so unfortunately FileTea.me has to rely on a 3rd party, client-side mechanism to generate stats. This will be fixed ASAP.
Thanks for bringing up the issue :) | null | 0 | 1316633009 | False | 0 | c2lk7oc | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lk7oc | t1_c2lhvm8 | null | 1427629313 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | It does not amazes me.
Indexing is a work of balance. Some queries will perform better, other will perform worse. I had an Oracle training recently and the instructor pointed a rather important fact: if inserting/updating a row costs 1, then updating each index that uses this row costs 3. If you index the N columns of your table, your select will be faster, but the insert will be 3*N times slower, is it acceptable to you ? It depends which of select/insert you prefer to be faster.
Therefore, for automated indexing, you would need to associate to each query a "preference" or "required time", because those are application specifics. | null | 0 | 1316633017 | False | 0 | c2lk7q2 | t3_kmp73 | null | t1_c2lk7q2 | t1_c2lhpk4 | null | 1427629313 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elima | null | Yes, it currently uses a StartSSL free certificate <http://www.startssl.com/?app=1> and it is not trusted by Firefox. This is a temporary solution. The service will switch to a stronger certificate in the very near future. | null | 0 | 1316633246 | False | 0 | c2lk902 | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lk902 | t1_c2liuou | null | 1427629328 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But nothing hip kids do. Nerds bash Stallman, not hip kids, hip nerds I suppose you could say. | null | 0 | 1316633323 | False | 0 | c2lk9ed | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lk9ed | t1_c2lixty | null | 1427629333 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316633328 | False | 0 | c2lk9fj | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lk9fj | t1_c2lk6jc | null | 1427629334 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smallboy | null | This is awesome! | null | 0 | 1316633371 | False | 0 | c2lk9nh | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2lk9nh | t1_c2lb8xt | null | 1427629336 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chaoslab | null | That is really quite something! Obviously this is a first cut but still very impressive :-) | null | 0 | 1316633379 | False | 0 | c2lk9og | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk9og | t3_kmref | null | 1427629338 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | If you've ever been in similar situations as they were (prolonged drug use) then it really makes sense. I remember loads of paranoid situations where your paranoia would amplify someone else's and it'd keep going until you were in some fucked up situation.
Bad times. | null | 0 | 1316633421 | False | 0 | c2lk9w5 | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lk9w5 | t1_c2ljmyn | null | 1427629340 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's inspired by Scratch and Smalltalk and stuff. | null | 0 | 1316633553 | False | 0 | c2lkapj | t3_kmp75 | null | t1_c2lkapj | t1_c2licsn | null | 1427629351 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | peakzorro | null | You nailed why I can't use it. I would rather use another scripting language that doesn't target .NET than use PowerShell. The syntax IS too wonky, and aliases are not enough. | null | 0 | 1316633709 | False | 0 | c2lkbmb | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2lkbmb | t1_c2lc7jz | null | 1427629363 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metapunditedgy | null | Why leave this in the delivered product? Is this perhaps intended to support spying on somebody's computer? Why else would you need to hot-patch a commercial installation of the OS?
On edit: So why all the downvotes? I asked an honest question, so I'm not deleting the post. I appreciate information from mitsuhiko, but it seems like a perfectly fair question to ask why all these hooks are left in a commercially-delivered OS. If you have a problem with the question, why not comment? | null | 0 | 1316633745 | True | 0 | c2lkbto | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkbto | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629367 | -24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316633782 | False | 0 | c2lkc1h | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lkc1h | t1_c2lj5rz | null | 1427629369 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | I am surprised that this article is not about "developer" time.
When the test suite grows, so does the maintenance associated with any change. And we're speaking dull changes... so dull in fact that you might get bored and validate more that should have validated.
There is a good point in the article: *Test Accretion Over Time*, but I don't think it gets the treatment it deserves...
The truth is, though, that as you refactor your code when you write new code, so should you refactor your tests when you write new tests:
- Duplicated tests also duplicate the maintenance effort
- 1 Whole Shebang Test or 2 are probably worth it, a hundreds ? not so
My experience tell me that people usually add tests (and tweak the existing ones to get the test suite to pass), but rarely *remove* tests, or *gut* them. Resulting in an ever growing test suite...
And of course, the exponential explosion of "customizable" hooks certainly does not help. Customizability hinders testing because it makes the number of possible scenarios explode... | null | 0 | 1316633790 | False | 0 | c2lkc3f | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2lkc3f | t3_klypn | null | 1427629369 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitsuhiko | null | [Why would you ever need to hot patch an OS](http://www.ksplice.com/). | null | 0 | 1316633815 | False | 0 | c2lkc8i | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkc8i | t1_c2lkbto | null | 1427629377 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatmaRex | null | Yes, don't you have anything better to do than reposting this comment all the time? | null | 0 | 1316633859 | False | 0 | c2lkcgh | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkcgh | t1_c2lk2y6 | null | 1427629375 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | No. Malware doesn't need to worry about doing things particularly safely. It'll just overwrite whatever it needs, whereever. | null | 0 | 1316634086 | False | 0 | c2lkdkr | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkdkr | t1_c2lk6jc | null | 1427629388 | 68 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metapunditedgy | null | Were these jumps ever used to update Windows without rebooting? | null | 0 | 1316634122 | False | 0 | c2lkdri | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkdri | t1_c2lkc8i | null | 1427629392 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitsuhiko | null | Why don't do people use Google before asking. [How to use HotPatching to install security updates for Windows Server](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897341). | null | 0 | 1316634271 | False | 0 | c2lkek7 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkek7 | t1_c2lkdri | null | 1427629400 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316634291 | False | 0 | c2lkenj | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkenj | t1_c2lk4m3 | null | 1427629402 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metapunditedgy | null | Thanks for the info, but this is for a server product. What about the vast number of ordinary commercial PCs?
(Sorry, google is not helping me here.) | null | 0 | 1316634416 | False | 0 | c2lkfbc | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkfbc | t1_c2lkek7 | null | 1427629411 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | If malware has the level of access to perform this kind of patching, you're screwed anyways. | null | 0 | 1316634454 | False | 0 | c2lkfhi | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkfhi | t1_c2lk6jc | null | 1427629413 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'd advise people to do some Windows programming in relation to hooking programs, even if you hate Windows! The only reason I knew the answer to this is because I wrote a DirectX screen capture program in my 4th year of university.
Actually taught me some interesting ~~things~~hacks, like this! | null | 0 | 1316634623 | False | 0 | c2lkgd1 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkgd1 | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629425 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spacebear | null | because I LIKE TO MOV EDI, MOV EDI | null | 0 | 1316634729 | False | 0 | c2lkgwy | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkgwy | t3_kmshh | null | 1427629432 | 130 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fwork | null | there is some monkeypatching going on in the python world. For example, [gevent can patch the stdlib (really just threads and sockets) to be greenlet based](http://www.gevent.org/gevent.monkey.html). | null | 0 | 1316634927 | False | 0 | c2lki08 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lki08 | t1_c2lkenj | null | 1427629448 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | qblock | null | It seems like there shouldn't be a problem with legally documenting the legal process, but as with all things seemingly simply, there are underlying complexities that make it ridiculously complicated.
For example; just how deep do you need to go in describing your invention? For example, say I come up with the idea of sliding a software button from left to right to unlock a phone. (an iPhone related patent) How much do I need to describe? The concept of sliding a button left to right and that's it? How far do you have to go in order to be a legitimate invention? Do you have to describe the algorithm for sliding left to right? If that is the case, then shouldn't we go deeper? How about implementing the algorithm?
Some would, and do, argue that all you need is the concept. After all, the concept speaks to human-interface design, and was an engineered choice for the purpose of human interfacing ease.
However, some would say if two sliding buttons are implemented with two different algorithms, then they are technically different inventions altogether. Don't each deserve recognition for their creative solutions to the problem?
Going further, say two sliding buttons are using the same algorithm, but the algorithm implementations are different - one is using floating point arithmetic, but the other is cleverly done with integer arithmetic. Doesn't the the person that wrote the clever integer arithmetic implementation of the algorithm deserve credit for his creative solution?
So if you buy that there are inherent ambiguities here, then we have to ask what counts more; the idea or the implementation? If someone sat around, and thought up something, and ran to the patent office to file it, then does he deserve recognition over the engineer that thought up the same thing five seconds later and worked his butt off to get an implementation up and working? In my opinion, no, but that's beside the point...
The point is that trying to legally document the creative process and stake claims on who-did-what-first and who-deserves-credit-for-what is ridiculously complicated and comes with a plethora of problems.
Ideas are ideas, if one person comes up with one, then so will another... it's very arguable that there is anything special about coming up with something first. So is this documentation for proper credit's sake even worth it?
Edit: grammar
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True | phill0 | null | This might sound very stupid, but wouldn't such method of hot-patching be useless on amd64 because of NX bit? | null | 0 | 1316634963 | False | 0 | c2lki7r | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lki7r | t1_c2lj8jt | null | 1427629450 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fwork | null | I hot-patch software I didn't write and it's software that microsoft wrote!
A lot, actually. I've done no end of MS hotpatching, all in the name of getting unsupported apps from 1995 to work better. By the end I'd virtualized the filesystem out from under it so I could rewrite datafiles on the fly and shove modern headers on all the output files, patched the datafiles to drop the misfeature of a startup sound, and carefully extracted the decompression routines from the EXE so I could redistribute my program without any copyright violations. | null | 0 | 1316635085 | False | 0 | c2lkixt | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lkixt | t1_c2linob | null | 1427629459 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Flanery | null | [Permalink to fact on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/trivia?tr=tr1315748).
This blew my mind. Good god. | null | 0 | 1316635105 | False | 0 | c2lkj1o | t3_kmref | null | t1_c2lkj1o | t1_c2ljz1s | null | 1427629459 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codekaizen | null | I think you are confusing Direct2D with DirectDraw. | null | 0 | 1316635275 | False | 0 | c2lkjue | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2lkjue | t1_c2lhq0q | null | 1427629471 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kissaki0 | null | Oh?
Why is that not written there anyway?
I though file was uploaded; not that it was a streaming when downloader starts downloading. | null | 0 | 1316635303 | False | 0 | c2lkjz6 | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lkjz6 | t1_c2lh6ga | null | 1427629472 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | In ruby, "system("ls")" is causing a hang. | null | 0 | 1316635304 | False | 0 | c2lkjzd | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2lkjzd | t3_klv3o | null | 1427629472 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kissaki0 | null | I have to agree with the others. Does not belong to /programming was my first though on this.
If you would have pointed to the gitorious repo, then maybe.
Its a good service though it seems. | null | 0 | 1316635430 | False | 0 | c2lkklh | t3_kmmgx | null | t1_c2lkklh | t1_c2lhask | null | 1427629483 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nkassis | null | They do actually all IDs games are on steam. I not certain yet (going to try it ) but they should be usable for this. | null | 0 | 1316635492 | False | 0 | c2lkkxy | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lkkxy | t1_c2licok | null | 1427629485 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316635562 | False | 0 | c2lklce | t3_kmh5r | null | t1_c2lklce | t1_c2ljg97 | null | 1427629492 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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