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Re:Against Method
on Sunday September 27, 2015 @06:44PM (#10288189)
And while your're at it, I suggest taking the Bayesian approach for the criterion of a scientific method, where falsification is a particular (and simplified) case of Bayesian reasoning.
A great introduction may be found at [0], if one is already well versed in Bayes theorom, then an excerpt [1] should be enough.
[0]: http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
[1]: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/researchers/francoi...
Re:Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications
on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:55PM (#10279611)
I might be nitpicking, but I disagree with Raymond Chen here.
Regarding his example, IMO, the process of saving a file has a platonic security abstraction, it is a very limited computation engine. When one is able to escape this abstraction, it is a security concern.
The distinction between a security bug and non security bug is very subtle.
An example how this violation may happen in real life. Assume a filesystem that may contain long filenames, an attacker may control it and cause remote execution. Another scenario may be a site that tells you to see an easter egg in notepad by fire up notepad and save a file named <payload>, which will do some trick and will also run arbitrary code on your machine.
Single chain Chrome RCE on unsandboxed process
Re:“Why does Chrome not have a good tab management system built in?”
on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:27AM (#9685758)
Talking about tabs, I am really curious why links which get opened in new tabs don't feature a working back button. It really bothers me when reading an article that contains a lot of references, I open them, each one on a new tab, read through each one of them and then can't get back to the old one (I usually resort for Ctrl+Shift+T too many times).
Do we really want to fuse our minds together?
A New Way to Look at Networking (2006) [video]
Re:From Object Algebras to Finally Tagless Interpreters
on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:05PM (#8906194)
I believe that a similar approach can also be used in C++ with the help of ADL [1] and some template magic. Though it may only work on expressions whose concrete type may be known at compile-time (which makes it pretty useless).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument-dependent_name_lookup
One Hacker Way
Re:Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online
on Saturday August 23, 2014 @04:52PM (#8216837)
https://github.com/fmap/flp.mobi
This repository previously included a toolchain to build a collection of eBooks, in ePub and MOBI formats, from Caltech's online edition of the Feynman Lectures. Those scripts have since been removed, in response to the suggestion that their continued availability might lead to a permanent discontinuation of HTML access.
Re:The optional “else” in Python loops
on Friday July 18, 2014 @04:16AM (#8052123)
Not only it is not very intuitive, I also find it to hurt the linearity of code. The code which will be executed after the loop ends depends on how the loop ended. break statement is usually a glorified but mostly harmless go to, but I think Python's go to statement isn't so harmless as it adds complexity but doesn't have big benefits.
But, I do think that the else clause on try\except blocks is less harmful. It is less harmful because the control flow complexity of exceptions handling is already there on the catch clause, so while exceptions does add big control flow changes, the addition of the else clause causes a relative minor change on the linearity of code (as it is already broken by catch: clause.)
Re:MIT and Harvard announce edX
on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:12PM (#3920393)
That's why I play Coursera's videos at higher rates. It makes the learning much more intensive and interesting.