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Congratulations, Dave!
/ravi
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Thomas Ptacek tweeted yesterday that "If you're not learning crypto by coding attacks, you might not actually be learning crypto." Judging by the number of twitter "favourites" and "retweets" of this comment, it seems to have struck a chord; but with all respect to Thomas, I absolutely disagree. Not only is it possible to learn cryptography without writing a line of code, but coding attacks is entirely useless for learning about modern cryptography; the best route to learning modern cryptography is a study of mathematical proofs. Attacking modern security is mostly looking for bugs in code, not the underlying cryptography.
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We are shocked, shocked…[^]
Is it just me or does the entire news media — as well as all the agitators and self-righteous bloviators on both sides of the aisle — not understand even the rudiments of electronic intercepts and the manner in which law enforcement actually uses such intercepts? It would seem so.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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and he lost me immediately at "inevitable and understandable"
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Bit long and rambling but he makes a good point.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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TL;DR; The police have been "data gathering" for years! What's your beef!??!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: What's your beef!??!
I don't have one unless an extra large bacon burger counts?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Just summarizing, ICYDK.
And I'll have a double order of bacon, please!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I think we all need to buy those applications we can find at the Apple AppStore which enable us to summarize our daily activities and post it on Facebook.
Rather, we might as well mail it straight to NSA so that they are spared the effort of going through Facebook.
I have always felt that rather than carrying cellphones which report our whereabouts to the provider which data has to be summoned by the NSA we might as well have a chip implanted in our bodies powered by our own muscle movements that directly transmits our locations to the NSA.
One chip to rule them all!
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I'm interested in people's current predictions on what will happen to the various languages over the next few years. Java has had a bad press in recent years but has a major new release. Is this a new lease of life, particularly with Android taking off so rapidly? What languages and frameworks are on your radar today... and tomorrow?
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Did that get lost in the mail for a few years?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What languages and frameworks are on your radar today... and tomorrow?
Still learning Python - a nice but boring language. I like Perl better, crazy as it sounds.
Also C++ 11.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What languages and frameworks are on your radar today... and tomorrow?
Java and Android.
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Norm .droid wrote: Java and Android.
At least do yourself a favor and ditch Eclipse. They introduced something based on IntelliJ: Android Studio[^]
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I tried it when first announced. I like IntelliJ for normal java development; but calling that release of Android Studio pre-alpha would have been generous. After wasting about 90 minutes of my life I ragequit and swore it off until at least 2 major releases in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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At the moment its .net but then I write in house software where I work and Windows 8 is a very very long way off (years more than likely).
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Many years ago, back in Uni, I saw 2 guys in a computer lab writing a whole programming assignment without running it even once. The program was of relatively decent size written in C and consequently there were hundreds of compilation errors. That’s so silly, I thought.... After graduation I used to be a C++ programmer. The syntax sometimes was quite tricky and you would often compile after every new line of code. Sometimes, you would dare to write a whole function, just to find 10 compilation errors. Since then the way I code has changed with help of modern IDE... Do IDEs help you code better, or just keep up with ever more complicated systems?
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Interesting the C# questions are not as common. Java seemed to be on the ropes at one time, but has had a resurgence. The weakness of C# may be an indication of the bad strategic moves the Microsoft has recently made in basically eliminating support of Silverlight, and making an OS (Windows 8) that does not provide precieved enhancement for desktop users. Is Android the future. Maybe. Meanwhile I am a C# programmer working with WPF.
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I avoid IDEs whenever I can.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: Do IDEs help you code better
I like a good IDE - just haven't seen one since VS 2003.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: whole programming assignment without running it even once.
A girl I worked with would start editing in the morning and only compile her code late in the afternoon. Astonishingly, her compile failure rate was really very low which is a testament I suppose to her ability to master the methods and syntax, all without Intellisense. Quite incredible how she could do that.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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At the age of 13 I wrote ~500 lines of Sinclair BASIC over 5 to 6 hours one Saturday without running it to check it. When I did run it there were 2 syntax errors, just typos which I fixed then and there.
The code then ran without error and did exactly what I expected.
I knew that was a very special day and nothing like that would probably ever happen again.
It was 20 years before with the help of an IDE I could hope to write 500 lines of boilerplate C++ in a day with as few mistakes. I'm not sure if I've ever done it but I've probably got close on a few occasions.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Ever wondered how the pro’s physically manage to make a module? Well ok, you can get a fancy pick and place machine or send off for someone to assemble your module, but you can do it by hand. It is not as hard as expected. As part of a .NET Gadgeteer hands on event at the Modern Jago in Shoreditch we were delighted to have Justin Wilson from Ingenuity Micro attend and show us how things are done (www.ingenuitymicro.com). He has designed and built an nice collection of .NET Gadgeteer modules and mainboards and expects to have them available shortly. Old-school .NET hacking... with solder.
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Code review is a tricky business. Code is full of hidden mines that lay dormant while you test just to explode in a debris of stack trace at the most inopportune time – when its in the hands of your users. The many times I’ve run into such mines just reinforce how important it is to write code that is intention revealing and to make sure assumptions are documented via asserts. Such devious code is often the most innocuous looking code. We are miners, code bug miners. To the code base we must go...
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