Ad I've still never seen a homegrown solution that ties together libraries which was better off after a few years. Your experiences may differ.
Mine do differ. Anecdotal evidence, after all.
Readit Newsnupark2 commented on Why Django Sucks speakerdeck.com/u/kenneth... · Posted by u/kenneth_reitz
nupark2 commented on 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked translate.google.com/tran... · Posted by u/ssclafani
on another note,
my fairly complex alphanumeric+symbol password IS in the dump, though not prepended truncated with 0's and the other one I found, which my coworker admitted was too short and alpha only, was in the dump with prepended 0's.
This could validate the fact that the truncated hashes are actually already cracked.
Mine was 5 characters, alpha and numeric, but no special characters. It was in there, prepended with 0's.
Whoops.
At the very least, it should have been longer.
nupark2 commented on Turkey charges pianist Fazil Say over Twitter posts nytimes.com/2012/06/02/wo... · Posted by u/ozgune
> ... and there you go doing it again.
No, there YOU go doing it again. That comment was in a long thread of context, and you willfully ignored that. The comment was also non-actionable and was clearly political hyperbole.
> There's not much room to joke about assassination and lynchings in a country that has a very recent history of assassinations and lynchings.
Sure there is.
It's little thing called "the first amendment". Perhaps you've heard of it? Read it closely. It makes no reference to "...unless there were lynchings in the last century".
> No, there YOU go doing it again. That comment was in a long thread of context, and you willfully ignored that. The comment was also non-actionable and was clearly political hyperbole.
Not really, no. SOPA actually exists, and you joked about hanging its supporters. The only context that would have made it remotely appropriate is neutral one, in which it was clear to any observers that encouraging the hanging of SOPA supporters (even 'jokingly') was not your position.
> It's little thing called "the first amendment". Perhaps you've heard of it? Read it closely. It makes no reference to "...unless there were lynchings in the last century".
Then let me rephrase: There's no room to joke about lynching elected representatives (or anyone) in civilized mature discourse.
There is also a long history of case law that restricts "fighting words", despite the first amendment.
My only take-away from your repeated reference to assassination/lynching is that you're someone who is likely to incite if not participate in violence, and beyond that, you personally decrease the overall quality of rational discourse in US politics.
You may not be enough of a nutcase to try to assassinate a politician -- I'm honestly not sure, given your remarks here, and your ownership of the tools to do so -- but your seeming need to joke about assassination contributes to a culture of political violence that may very well incite someone to do what you won't.
nupark2 commented on Turkey charges pianist Fazil Say over Twitter posts nytimes.com/2012/06/02/wo... · Posted by u/ozgune
> If you threaten a US senator
Absolutely agreed.
If some nut case puts up a website with the home address of someone, rants about a bounty on their head, etc., by all means, have an investigation and perhaps charges.
...but there's a difference between saying "This SOPA bill is insane. Rope. Lampposts." and driving to a person's house with a noose in the back seat.
... and there you go doing it again.
There's not much room to joke about assassination and lynchings in a country that has a very recent history of assassinations and lynchings.
It's in bad taste, it can incite violence, and given your statements here, as well as those you've made elsewhere, I'm unsurprised that the law came down on you.
I would agree in full, those oddball machines don't come up very often. But when they do, its really nice to have something that makes as few assumptions about the underlying hardware as possible. If I recall correctly C89 doesn't make any requirements about size (except that sizeof(char) is always 1).
It is rare that libraries get rewritten from the ground up, so this would be the perfect time to get the code right.
Can you name a single widely used modern processor architecture that uses odd word sizes?
Microcontrollers are fair game.
I can't think of one.
nupark2 commented on The politics of Wi-Fi names opensignalmaps.com/report... · Posted by u/JamesCRR
Why exactly are you so offended by the name someone else picks for their network?
They are broadcasting it to all of their neighbors. In our apartment building, I see about 30 WiFi networks.
nupark2 commented on Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites blog.parse.com/2012/05/30... · Posted by u/jamesjyu
A few points I would like to make:
1) There is very little chance of them closing their doors in the near future as they raised a large series A and have great growth.
2) Having personally talked with Tikhon on the subject and it's clear that they plan to make this a stable platform for the longhaul. I would not hesitate to build a project on top of Parse they are a great group and would not leave their users hanging.
3) If you're still hesitant keep in mind you can still keep mission critical stuff on your own Servers/APIs and use Parse for Push Notifications/Location etc.. There is nothing locking you into what parts of the Parse SDK you use.
4) You can always export your data.
> 1) There is very little chance of them closing their doors in the near future as they raised a large series A and have great growth.
Until/unless they get purchased. As you said, it was a large series A.
> 2) Having personally talked with Tikhon on the subject and it's clear that they plan to make this a stable platform for the longhaul. I would not hesitate to build a project on top of Parse they are a great group and would not leave their users hanging.
If they're bought, it won't be their decision.
> 3) If you're still hesitant keep in mind you can still keep mission critical stuff on your own Servers/APIs and use Parse for Push Notifications/Location etc.. There is nothing locking you into what parts of the Parse SDK you use.
Push, etc, is the easy stuff.
> 4) You can always export your data.
It's the continued functioning of the code that I'm worried about, not the data.
nupark2 commented on Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites blog.parse.com/2012/05/30... · Posted by u/jamesjyu
It might be exaggerated a bit but the point is valid. You've got enough things to worry about. Do you really want to be sysadmin too?
Of course Heroku and similar services get you most of the way there, but there are plenty of client-side devs who would rather not deal with backend code at all.
I see Heroku, Beanstalk, et al as the future here. This code-less approach will hit a brick wall very quickly, at which point they'll be writing something not unlike Google AppEngine, which itself suffers from being proprietary.
nupark2 commented on Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites blog.parse.com/2012/05/30... · Posted by u/jamesjyu
Many are very critical, and many are not proprietary. Databases and web frameworks are two that come to mind immediately, yet people seem to choose those based on the number of blog posts about them. And almost all APIs are vulnerable to reimplementation. With Parse's API, it would theoretically be possible for another project to implement an identical interface to their backend, and allow you to simply change one LoC in your application to change the provider of your BaaS.
There's a substantial difference between a service and an installed product.
PostgreSQL 9.3 is installed on your database server, the source is available, and it isn't going anywhere.
If Oracle discontinued their database platform tomorrow (unlikely!), your licensed copy will remain valid for a long time up until you swap it out for another closely compatible database.
If Parse closes their doors or exits tomorrow, that's it.
Compare to AWS: If Amazon discontinues EC2, other virtual hosting services exist. If they discontinue Beanstalk, then at least you were coding to a commmon servlet API. If they discontinue S3, there are some compatible competitors, but hopefully you wrote your data layer to be S3-agnostic.
I think non-standardized AWS services are more risky. More standardized fare -- EC2, Beanstalk, etc -- less risky. Basing your entire code base on pervasive use of Parse -- very risky.
nupark2 commented on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL news.cnet.com/8301-32973_... · Posted by u/streeter
Sigh. I'm sorry, I thought I was on a forum for hackers, not commercial property managers.
I see this fellow as no worse than, say, a telemarketer. In fact, that's probably a good analogy to draw... except that I typically get more annoyed at telemarketers who hijack my time and attention, than AOL management seems to be at the person who overstayed his welcome in their building.
It's possible that I'm only as sympathetic to him as I am because he committed his offense in the course of trying to create something. Telemarketers don't offend me because they're annoying and presumptuous, but because they're lazy and unnecessary. If every telemarketer dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow, life would go on for the rest of us. If every kid with a bit of hustle and debatable judgment dropped off the face of the earth, things would go downhill in a hurry.
Being a hacker has nothing to do with poor ethics. In fact, I'd say many of the best hackers I've had the privilege to work with have a strong sense of morals and ethics.