ChargingWookie
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Yeah this is incredible for fpga users. There is now a market for freelance fpga developers
Am I misreading this or does this really allow arbitrary packages to masquerade as legitimate packages?!
I've worked a lot with LispWorks and tuning the gc had the same method of programmatically calling a full GC after every N operations. We also found setting the gc threshold to high amount helped a bunch.
Supposedly they have a concurrent GC in the works but I haven't played with it.
Awesome, I've been waiting for something like this
That being said, I've got a couple questions
Will all the CTFs be security focused?
One of the most common problems coursera ran into was people copying the assignments of other people. How do you intend to prevent copying for the CTFs? I see that you mentioned you're not going to DMCA tutorials or Let's Plays and instead track their every iteration on the code. I guess you can get rid of outright copying that way but I'd love to hear your other strategies.
Other than that this seems like a really interesting way to do recruiting. I can't wait to see the actual CTFs.
Also you've got a tiny typo in the WHY IS STARFIGHTER THE RIGHT TEAM FOR THIS? section:
"I have a folder in Gmail saving messages from geeks who used by career advice or salary negotiation tips to their advantage."
I think the by should be my
You can create a list comprehension using a macro. In common lisp, lisp comprehension is implemented by the loop macro.
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/loop-for-black-belts.htmlIt is a little more involved, but basically you define a syntax for list comprehension and then parse it using the macro to generate the final result.
I saw someone talking about this today in tor-dev. It seems that since laptops/smartphones are not normally helpful as a Tor relay, they've made the instructions difficult on purpose. The consensus seems to be that they only want people with enough knowledge to be able to follow instructions at [0] to host relays.
[0] https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian
They wanted to prevent all of the servers trying to contact the PXE server at the same time to avoid overloading it. Its basically to prevent an accidently self DDOS.
This seems like a great service but it needs more info! The site explains what you do in too general terms but not how you do it.