@RoryAlsop Damn you people with kids and excuses to be childish whenever you like!!! How on Earth would I ever excuse me if I ordered one, or avoid being a laughingstock if I wore it? :#
My neighbor just went off to college, and she decided to do Computer Science as her major. Good for her... but the "introduction to programming" course taught programming basics using C++ as the language.
So over holiday break I went over to their house to help her with some of the basics. And the whole time all I kept thinking was they couldn't have picked a worse language to teach kids programming on.
@tylerl My school does the same. Of course the "intro to programming" class is all about loops and variable types etc so the language didn't really matter.
Learning Programming in C++ is like learning to drive with a tractor-trailer semi. 90% of what you have to learn has nothing to do with driving. But you HAVE to learn how to properly connect up the brake lines to your trailer or your driving lessons will go terribly.
And in C++, you have to understand how character arrays are stored in memory or all of your programs will segfault.
FWIW, my first year we learned Pascal. Bloody waste of time. Year after, they switched to Java. Not necessarily better, but at least not totally irrelevant.
Still, that same first year I was writing MIPS assembly to run on a CPU that I had to design myself using logic gates. So I guess I didn't exactly have it easy either.
@tylerl well thats kind of the point. To be a great developer, you really need to understand what is happening between the high-level code you write, and the CPU. You need to understand the connection between the brake lines and the trailer, even if you shouldnt be dealing with it 98% of the time.
And the inverse is part of the problem with the scripters-cum-coders - just because you can kinda throw together a few lines of PHP to serve up a functional website, does not make you a professional programmer.
so yeah - C++ sucks as a first language, but some might say it is good as a teaching language.
My opinion is they should be using straight C for teaching the basics, memory, etc - then for teach OO dont use C++, but something usable. Or Java.
@TerryChia now THAT is stupid. And I had that too.
@TerryChia if its just the semantic differences, I would agree with you. But if they also examine the actual effects, e.g. down to assembly and hardware level, e.g. memory. e.g. big-O() notation etc - then it could make sense.
@AviD Oh definitely not. It's "this is how you do a while loop", "this is how you do a for loop", "you know those things called if-else statements?, "here's how you print some text to stdout".
it is on my list (of favorite non-smokey single malts)
'course, the bottle is too tall to fit on my whisky shelves. So I need to move the shelf above up a bit... without breaking any glasses. Still, I am quite chuffed about it.
Did someone participated in Symantec Cyber Readiness Challenge?
What kind of things you do there? Can you give me examples to specific tasks (and what was needed in order to complete them) from past challenges?
@TerryChia it's really per-hour.... so if you have an estimate of how many hours you use it on average per month, you can figure it out. It might be much cheaper.
@ThomasPornin Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the first one. We just tend not to go out to movies very often.
I do also get annoyed with Story Purists who have an aneurysm a character said "we" in scene 5 paragraph 6 sentence 2 instead of "all of us" as was in the book.
@TerryChia It's a good solid b-grade television. Fun to watch.
I must begin saying that I lost my job, because I made a question for a problem I couldn't solve and nobody came to answer. 30 minutes passed from then, still nothing..what I did? Along the answer I made to the other questions I posted the link to mine..still nothing..must say thanks for that, as...
I'm confused. Was be fired because he wasn't able to get the answer within 30 minutes or because he asked it in the first place?
blinks This story is beginning to sound like a Lifetime drama.
How would you talk if you lost your job? I think worse. And I was also a drug dealer and have been in prison. Before I was really bad, not now. I was in prison for having killed a person in a dispute. Now I wanted my life to change. — Joshua Zweistein1 hour ago
I'm on Zweistein's side. I'm glad people like @AviD and I can walk down the street and say to people, "You sir, are clearly a Nazi." without it being any big thing.
Reminds me of the latest Charlie Brooker's comments on Nick Griffin's cookery show: "Disappointingly, he doesn't cook Chicken Supremacist, or Egg Fried Reich, or Swastika Masala..." :)))
@ScottPack Oh I guess it'll be mostly Brits that'll recognize what I was referring to. I'll try to find you some video, if it's already available on YouTube (the last Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe was aired only a few days ago)
Too many trolls lately on SE, it's kinda unnerving. What is supposed to be the suggested way of handling questions from users that draw their own ridiculous conclusions based on self-admitted ignorance on the subject they inquire about? For example, here's one on Astro.SE: astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/1531/stars-moon-positions The guy concludes that it must be the stars that orbit the Earth, since he can't see them moving. I mean, it's not even off-topic, it's just retarded.
@AviD Perhaps, but I really detested even writing it, because of that final conclusion on the OP's part. I mean, how do you address that without at least appearing as condescending?
@TildalWave 2-3 years back it was bad. Couldn't get the car out of the drive for 3 weeks and I had to make tunnels in the snow for the cats so they could go outside....
@RоryMcCune Oww so much like here too that year. I didn't realize you can get so much now in Scotland too. OK, I guess if there's a strong front you'll be pounded by it just as well, but I thought that you get higher average temperatures during winter because of the Atlantic jetstream.
I know some areas nearby received nearly 8 inches yesterday, and could have received another 50% again, or more, today. I wouldn't be surprised if we have 8 inches out there now.
I just read this post and it proposes a method of storing SSL fingerprints online so that you can double check that your certificates have not been tampered with.
But is it really relevant or useful? To me it does not seem to add any security: it lets you know that you are being snooped on, but...
I just came across https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
With Secure QR Login, your phone snaps
the QR code displayed on a website's login
page . . . . and YOU are securely logged in.
This seems like it would be pretty awesome - one of the problems that I can think of is if the QR reader i...
besides, the whole concept is flawed - "SSL is broken, so use SSL, to check THIS site for the fingerprints. And if the NSA hacks this site too - we'll change the page to let you know!"
Security laymen (as in, most layman than me) are in two camps, one is in the "secure all the things, screw usability", the other is "I hate those red pages FF shows when you visit a broken cert site, plz can has fix, i don't care about security, nobody will haxx me". Security vs usability.
So some people are like "Why don't you make the user check the fingerprint by snail mail (no, pigeon post, because the NSA can read snail mail (no, use encrypted pigeons, the NSA intercepts the usual ones))" and the quote comes handy. Others are like "make all this go away", and the quote comes handy to support them but I also get the opportunity to haxx their passw0rdz the next day to scare 'em :p
(ok, only done the "don't like SSL dialogs? Here, lemme disable them. [1 day later], heres your password, with fries!" thing once, but I can do it again!)
@AviD yeah, seems like a tough one. /me sucks at UX, though I like to make broad statements about the UX of a design
@ManishEarth You might wanna use your chat trolling / rep whoring charms after he posts an answer tho, it's surprising you've only got a single upvote for the question so far (mine, so I'll expect that beer one day...) even though you mention Gibson, and in the title no less.
I doubt it will happen here though, on WP I didn't have any responsibility though I did have some powers and was part of a dev team for a tool (still am, still commit). Here I have responsibility. I think it will clear up once I balance out my acads
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Because first you have to be able to find the bug (there is a "god first bug" system with mentors who help you with all sorts of things. There are also some pages on the Web that help find stuff). Then you have to be able to get the code. Then you may want to be able to build the code. Then you have to make patches. Then you have to upload and ask for review. You can get help for this on IRC, but a single blog post would be better
But note that I am a newbie to bug squashing firefox so it might be best if I don't post it under SE. I don't know a bunch of caveats and all
Just discovered one yesterday, ./mach build ......./something.js[m] doesn't work, you have to build the entire folder (which is what my usual lazy self usually did so I never noticed). Spent hours wondering why my new code didn't work till I realized that it wasn't compiling -_-
What I could do is post about making FF log its own passwords, silently, on secse :p
I already have this post which lets you do all sorts of tweaking of FF.
But the secse blog is more theoretical and less "let's hack this thing". But I don't mind doing it for the secse blog if they want it
I actually have a (probably) working .sh file that does this to Linux ... for FF 23. The password manager got moved around so I will have to start from scratch for 26
yeah, well unpacking is in the binaries, but I didn't bother to understand their structure but did play with it before when they were just .js files, it was too easy not to LOL
@ManishEarth Well it's already doing everything you'd need, like file I/O, SOCKS, the lot ... so adding some file search, pack and send to it should really increase its binary, for example
@deed02392 already did a bunch of shit with my locally built FF. But munging network (and sometimes security) related code usually requires a full build :(
Did someone participated in Symantec Cyber Readiness Challenge?
What kind of things you do there? Can you give me examples to specific tasks (and what was needed in order to complete them) from past challenges?
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I just read this post and it proposes a method of storing SSL fingerprints online so that you can double check that your certificates have not been tampered with.
But is it really relevant or useful? To me it does not seem to add any security: it lets you know that you are being snooped on, but...
I just came across https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
With Secure QR Login, your phone snaps
the QR code displayed on a website's login
page . . . . and YOU are securely logged in.
This seems like it would be pretty awesome - one of the problems that I can think of is if the QR reader i...
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