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Great news! Totally passed me by. The impasse is probably now over, since there’s a good chance this’ll end up in IE (MS bought it up along with Skype, so there are internal pressures on them hopefully).
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trueis] not always a builtin (e.g., Bash 1.x), and the portable shell community tends to prefer using:. This has a funny side effect: when asked whetherfalseis more portable thantrueAlexandre Oliva answered:In a sense, yes, because if it doesn’t exist, the shell will produce an exit status of failure, which is correct for
false, but not fortrue.
Hooray! Also in the news: LinkedIn’s password database leaked, probably including user names as well. All passwords they store are unsalted SHA-1 (crumby). #Should'vegonetopbkdf2.com
Waaah! Language theory! So much notation! Waaaaaah!
Big stuff! We’ve known all this for years speculatively, but as far as I can tell, this is the first public evidence of it. This reporter supposedly has interviewed people prepared to leak the classified details, and claims the allegations can now be regarded as confirmed.
Very interesting paper linked-to from some others I’m studying on visual hashes. I’m currently running pairwise comparisons of 10000 images to calculate the entropy in a Vash image, which could take a very long time…
Obviously, reblogged because of point 2: you know my sense of humour! (via Challies)
A scrolling adventure teaching you elite wasd hjkl skills!
Very good article. Read it this afternoon, on the grounds that it’s relatively work-related.
La Mer really is the Radio 3 equivalent of Tchaik Piano on Classic FM: played every week, same idea, just a bit more tasteful.
“I wonder how you write tail -f. What API could you possibly use?” Oh! It’s usleep(250000) (possibly with inotify or kqueue or whatever compiled in on various platforms). Sad, but true.
Bike joy: mysterious disappearance of clicking noise after fun 100K last weekend with Matt and David; counterbalanced by mysterious disappearance of a screw on my front brake. Also bought a 40mm spanner yesterday: pure joy (it’s a foot-and-a-half long).
The UPnP spec repeatedly refers to “an UPnP device”. Squiffy moment of the day.