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I find the use Aircrafts as the plural of Aircraft kind of sweet https://developer.schiphol.nl/apis/flight-api/aircrafts

Man, I'd just solved one of the problems. Hope I get a chance to find out how I did.

Those aren't the only sorts of motivation folks might have to work.

Plenty of people working in sewage, collecting rubbish and so on do it because they think it makes an important contribution to society, same as people in the army. I find it hard to disagree that their contribution is more important than software development in some ways -- I'd rather have streets clear of rotting rubbish and rats than a new version of office.

Sure, I think that this means that the try the normal case and the flipped case.

> ie. compare both hash(enteredPassword) and hash(invertCase(enteredPassword)) to the hash in the database and see if either match

Here's an example in bash:

  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z'
  pASsWOrD

In the database store one variant

  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z' | sha256sum > db

Then you can test both on input

  $ echo PasSwoRd | sha256sum > sum1
  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z' | sha256sum > sum2
  $ diff -q db sum1
  Files db and sum1 differ # i.e. LOGIN FAILS
  $ diff -q db sum2
  $ # i.e. LOGIN SUCCEEDS

The problem with the caps lock behaviour on Macs is harder. You definitely don't want to force to uppercase!

The actual memo begins on page 67

Hope that LinkedIn lose that suit. I had tonnes of people with me in their address book bombarding me with LinkedIn invitations - it'd make me feel better about that.

Does stupid browser detection. i.e. tells me that iceweasel 24 is not supported. Which I doubt. I hate having to spoof my useragent to make sites work. Feels like a step back into the nineties...

Sounds awesome :-)

Yep, that's a fair point.

The server would know your IP address, and most likely your user agent and referrer by looking at their weberver log though, right?

cf. eg. : https://panopticlick.eff.org/index.php?action=log&js=yes

From the article

  > no one ever has to know what feeds you subscribe to.

Whoever runs the server knows you're reading that feed from their server logs.

In the syscall docs under "C A V E A T P R O G R A M M E R"

  > Certain structures,  constants  and  system  calls  below 
  > are   private   to   the   DOS    and    are    extremely 
  > version-dependent.  They  may  change  at any time at the 
  > implementors' whim.

That pretty much summarises my experience of trying to work with Microsoft products. Arbitrary, undocumented API changes every time the version number changes "at the implementors' whim".

Probably should be Google in the title?

This seems like a bad idea.

* Why won't someone will figure out how to trigger the phone kill switch and start wandering round SF killing people's phones at will?

* Why won't the state/NSA/whoever kill the phones of its enemies (diplomats, foreign business people, "subversives")?

* and so on.

Finally. Though it is the very least that the establishment could do given how Turing was treated.

If you're learning Haskell, be prepared to feel like a beginner for a while.

I had great learning it. I usually pick up languages fairly quickly, but Haskell eluded me for more months than I'd care to admit. There is a great community of very smart and friendly people who helped me on IRC, and a couple of pretty good books -- http://learnyouahaskell.com/ and http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html.

I enjoyed the experience, and I certainly feel like a better programmer for it. But damn I felt daft for a few months!

I really need to take a proper looks at Perl 6 -- it has some nice characteristics. Maybe that's my new years resolution.

Heh:

> Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"

Kinda like the entropy key from simtec? http://www.entropykey.co.uk/

C breeze

Long Island ICT

Hex on the beach.

Sorry.

But what you save in speaker cable you lose on hearing aids, surely?

The interesting thing about Apple is that they seem to be more revenue from providing music and apps these days than they used to. Maybe they are looking to change their position from a hardware company that also sells other shit to an other shit company that also sells hardware?

You know, in the same way that IBM shifted from being an hardware company that did bits of consulting to a consulting company that also sells hardware.

Or perhaps the author is reading way too much into a commoditization of a product line that is getting a bit long in the tooth?

Its going to be against the rules to look up offensive terms like, say, "child abuse imagery".

Which presumably means that the legislation will have to use the term "child abuse imagery". Which means that it will be impossible to look up the legislation using a search engine. One has to wonder how we are expected to know whether or not we are complying with it given that we shan't be legally allowed to search for it.

And for the sake of completeness, I've also found spammimic http://spammimic.com/. There is a paper at: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/old/mimic/mimic.text

No wasn't aware of it. I've just downloaded and having a play. Very interesting approach, using tags as the carrying medium.

OK, but how much does the economy gain by people discussing work at the pub the evening before?

Didn't think listening to music was hard ;-P