SeldomSoup | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to be honest on a resume/job interview with a poor job history?
I don't think it does you any good to be honest here. The conclusion most employers would come to is that you're not cut out for CS work.
SeldomSoup's comments
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Tor hidden service operators: your default Apache install is probably vulnerable
Riseup also has a comprehensive guide on setting up a secure hidden service: https://help.riseup.net/en/security/network-security/tor/oni...
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Mint 17.3 may be the best Linux desktop distro yet
As someone whose desktop needs are pretty simple, I agree with this assessment. If you want a *nix that's point-and-click configurable, looks nice, makes it easy to install software, and generally doesn't get in your way, Mint is definitely the way to go. I've tried all the popular distros, from (X/K)ubuntu, to Debian, to Fedora, to Arch and others, and I inevitably keep coming back to Mint. Just my 2 cents.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
Chrome does many things right. I use Firefox and am ecstatic about the new extension architecture, for example.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Lavoisier died at age 50, on the guillotine
The French Revolution saw so much bloodshed for so little change (for the ordinary people at least).
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox
Absolutely. Two days ago (before the open source announcement), I begrudgingly started learning Swift for a school project in iOS development. Now I'm itching to dive into the language.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Signal Desktop
> court-approved
Remember, this a secret court, whose judges are likely highly biased in favor the government, with secret proceedings where only the NSA gets to make a case. Not exactly a legitimate safeguard.
I also have reservations about the grandparent comment, but PRISM is still pretty awful.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008)
> If you want to erase a drive fast then use the following command (where sdXXX is the device to erase):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdXXX bs=1048576
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: FBI director's speech at U. Chicago Law School
We account for ~4% of the world's population and ~25% of the world's prisoners.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
> I wonder what world you all live in in which this is a bad thing.
The world where we all depend on secure communications for autonomy of our own lives?
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: CPU simulator in 60 lines of code
No, you'd just need one increment after all of them. An increment in every else-if block is redundant because only one condition can be executed per loop.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: CPU simulator in 60 lines of code
With the current code, you would need a counter increment for every if statement.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Windows 7 Update appears to be compromised?
It's a cryptographic mechanism. MS has a private key they apply to each Windows update to mathematically prove A) they're the ones who issued it and B) the content was not modified in transit.
(I am not experienced in cryptography. This explanation might be a little simplistic.)
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Extract it – Because nobody can remember tar commands
Seems like a redundant flag. Many utilities are perfectly fine reading from stdin if no [file] is specified, without any kind of -f flag.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: RAML – RESTful API modeling language
Oops. That's one detail I missed in all those API tutorials. Thanks.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: RAML – RESTful API modeling language
How does this miss the point of REST?
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: New human-like species discovered
Each one of an infertile individual's parents belongs to its own species.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: Start school day at 11am to let students sleep in, says expert
Same deal for Howard County, MD. We had to get up at 6 to be on the bus by 6:30, and it was pitch black outside in the winter months. Luckily I had an forty-minute bus ride, which provided the opportunity for some extra rest.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: The Debate Around “Do We Even Need CSS Anymore?”
> The idea is you apply styles to elements through JavaScript.
Great. Now simply reading a page without JS will become impossible, let alone interacting with it.
SeldomSoup | 10 years ago | on: C Programming Guidelines
Interestingly, the author goes on to recommend
if(rc < 0) goto fail;
page 1