blackman | 13 years ago | on: Unpacking my knapsack: the privileges of a Hispanic male in tech
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blackman | 13 years ago | on: Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers
they probably found the place where windows stores the passwords. All 8 character passwords under the unsalted scheme (NTLM) used by Microsoft can be cracked within minutes via use of rainbow tables. Even easier if LANMAN passwords are enabled.
blackman | 13 years ago | on: The Worst
sounds like they are both optimising for value
blackman | 14 years ago | on: IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
I know that the criminals probably haven't caught up and this technology may not be widespread (so your argument holds)
but...
chip and pin is definitely broken (defcon presentation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY
blackman | 14 years ago | on: Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality
actually the third country after chile and norway
blackman | 14 years ago | on: I Make Dreams Come True
I think this is explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
blackman | 14 years ago | on: Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
i'm sure it was helpful. the first skill in learning how to code is little details, like making sure all the text is the same as the listing, and that you pressed enter after every line ... ;-)
blackman | 14 years ago | on: How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
i think really what he wants to say is to drill the fundamentals. getting the basics right is important.
don't do stupid shit means nothing. why would anyone want to do stupid shit? This kind of the same meaningless wording that everyone thinks applies to them in horoscopes how many times have you read "doesn't suffer fools gladly"?
blackman | 14 years ago | on: Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
I really like the idea behind these books, it reminds me of how I learnt originally, typing BASIC programs into my zx spectrum from the back of computer magazines.
blackman | 14 years ago | on: Winamp creator releases REAPER v4 digital audio workstation software
official site - http://reaper.fm/
I've been using reaper for a couple of weeks now and cannot believe that anyone would want to go back to insert $500+ big name daw after using it.
blackman | 14 years ago | on: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
As far as I can remember I had problems when I compiled it to a universal binary so if anyone else does try compiling it directly to your architecture.
blackman | 15 years ago | on: William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens
yes! i'd love to see a sin city meets bladerunner kind of thing but I'm gonna be pessimistic and expect demolition man...
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t
I think you have not seen the latest Asp.net MVC 3, it is pretty much something like rails.
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t
It hasn't changed much. some syntactic sugar and influence from functional languages has helped C# but the IDE is not as good as eclipse IMO. You can however add a lot of the refactorings and features from eclipse by using jetbrains ReSharper. (I believe they also make a Java IDE too).
blackman | 15 years ago | on: TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
Looks really good (haven't tried it yet though). The concept is great. I'd like to see some TextMate/CommandT style functionality for file and path completion (I've been thinking cd'ing around in shells has been cumbersome ever since trying commandT).
Some other inspiration could be taken from zsh autocomplete.
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
now I'm wondering how hard it would be to write a commodore 64 or nes emulator in javascript to embed games in webpages?
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles
interesting, as an alternative to this how about how janus does it with a .local file?
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance
I agree somewhat (although I do feel that debuggers are useful) in that IDEs can influence the design of your program by encouraging a debug first development style similar to "programming by coincidence"
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance
There is no reason you can't use both. I tend to structure my projects using an IDE but do most of my text editing in vim.
Nothing beats vim for grunting through a pile of code that needs cleaning up. Just set up your IDE and vim to autoload when it detects changes.
My workflow generally goes Edit in vim -> check IDE for syntax errors -> Run/Debug -> repeat.
blackman | 15 years ago | on: Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop
I would totally use this. I buy clothing online all the time and have had great success but I do tend to stick to big name brands (birkenstock, levis, converse, ben sherman) that have easy to use size charts online or I have bought in shops before anyway.
If they had a way of matching your favourite clothes to others and making recommendations based on style and fit I think it could be great.
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