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ChoHag··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
If your subconscious is triggering on things you don't want it trigging on, it's a liability not an asset. Your OWN BRAIN is a LIABILITY. People are OK with that?

If your brain is not working right it should be retrained so that it is. This site is supposed to be full of programmers and engineers. How the fuck can anyone in here not know how to reprogramme their own brain?

ChoHag··on Ask HN: Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?
How about not making it a race and just learning the shit out of any one algorithm at a time?
ChoHag··on Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (2009)
The chance of an invisible magic snaphotting system not invisibly breaking the 'back-to-basics' assumptions is precisely zero, invalidating any tests performed within or by it.

Developing against a known state and always and only testing against that state is easy and has been since approximately always. Not doing it is lazy. Stop guessing, developers, programme!

ChoHag··on EC2's most dangerous feature
The number of people in this thread not merely nodding their heads and mmhmm-ing (or the internet equivalent) is a concern.
ChoHag··on EC2's most dangerous feature
A library which uses the same (built-in) underlying IO mechanisms as the (built-in) filesystem.
ChoHag··on IRC v3
Encryption is not a panacea. It's not a magic button that makes everything it touches "Secure!".
ChoHag··on IRC v3
You see that computer in front of you with its internet connection?

All the things you don't think about, and most of the ones you do, work together the way they do because of the IETF.

You see those other things that don't work together? Those are the ones the IETF didn't do.

ChoHag··on Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (2009)
We already did the containerisation of everything (except we didn't lie to ourselves and just called them the processes they are) and discovered flaws along the way, fixing most of them.

Docker wants to find the flaws on its own, so is repeating the last ~30 years of software distribution development.

Every problem containerisation discovers has been discovered. Every flaw it fixes has been fixed. All that is achieved by the modern insistence that containerisation is in any way something new is a larger attack surface. The ability to return to "some fixed point" has always been present and simple. Judging by many years of building other people's software, for fun or profit, developers simply don't bother to do so. None of my work is ever release without returning the system to a known state in order to run the necessary barrage of tests (which, developers take note, includes TESTING THE GOD-DAMN INSTALLATION DOCUMENT) and I've achieved this without the need for chroot, whatever its name du juor.

/rant

ChoHag··on Ask HN: Any recommendations on resources for learning one algorithm a day?
I suggest a dose of reality:

You can't. You may be able to consume the knowledge underpinning an algorithm and parrot it back but any attempt to learn it in one day is doomed to failure. Parrot knowledge has zero retention.

ChoHag··on Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive blocked in Turkey following leaks
The stronger the government, the more they succeed?
ChoHag··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
Your subconscious should work for you, not the other way around. If it's requesting attention that's not needed, it's faulty and should be fixed.
ChoHag··on Unikernels: Rise of the Library Hypervisor
It can basically be summed up as "Docker! Now with hypervisors!"
ChoHag··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
Didn't we agree that 2016 was the year of the Linux Desktop?
ChoHag··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
Why do these things need your attention now, even before it has been explicitly requested?
ChoHag··on Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky
That was indeed the only thing I decided I didn't want to allow myself to put up with.
ChoHag··on Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges
It's certainly easier to start with groups who only participate in activities which are uncomfortable to publicly defend.
ChoHag··on Airports make the indignities inherent to air travel cohere with its fantasies
And taste of nothing more then exactly as much salt as it is topped with, without even the benefit of a crunch of the slice of toast which is unable to hold its own under the onslaught of up-bulking water released during the cooking^Wboiling process (and wouldn't be able to even without the water because modern bread is so laughably unbreadlike).

I'm happy to pay for food. I like paying for food. I like it to be food.

ChoHag··on Airports make the indignities inherent to air travel cohere with its fantasies
Some airports are relenting, but you must stand.
ChoHag··on Airports make the indignities inherent to air travel cohere with its fantasies
If the only thing I need to do is show up at a door at a time, why do I need to sit in front of wall-to-wall advertising for hours first?

Why, in short, do I need to wait at all?

ChoHag··on Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
Until you've got enough leaves and other detritus, there won't be any ground.
ChoHag··on Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
Is it a crime to require that a person commits a crime before being admitted into a private club?
ChoHag··on Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name
> in some past periods, people did not have "identification papers"

You mean last century? People are still alive from then.

ChoHag··on Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater
Leave it long enough to grow it into more tomatoes.
ChoHag··on N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets
I can't remember now. Spies and spying I think it was.
ChoHag··on “Your monitor is too old to view this content.”
It's useful for gaining a foothold over the potential customers who would be scared off at the need to upgrade all their equipment in order to watch the films they can already watch. Give it time.
ChoHag··on Why I believe GraphQL will come to replace REST
Well it has a Q in it. What's not cool about that?? Of course it's next!

(DNR)

ChoHag··on Public Keys in Perl 6
In case anyone was wondering, don't use this to do your encryption. It's an (interesting) intellectual exercise, nothing more.
ChoHag··on Blockchain Healthcare 2016 Report – Promise and Pitfalls
> You could, but a relational database isn't distributed upon 5,000+ worldwide nodes in an immutable data ledger.

The DNS would like a word.

ChoHag··on Blockchain Healthcare 2016 Report – Promise and Pitfalls
It totally is, and the computers they use should not have working USB ports on them.
ChoHag··on An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes
Seems she made a literal black box.
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