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Which aspect of elliptic curves would you like to understand better? The original paper for Curve25519 contains a dedicated subsection for attack models, for example, and leaves on…

The 6 page summary in the 7th edition manual turned out to be comprehensive while still being approachable. I knew next to nothing about awk, not counting some snippets found on th…

I guess what jesse_m had in mind were the mini languages from the article. I'd say 'calc' looks like a good starting point, but I agree that picking an order is hard.

Is it just me, or does the BB style render the most interesting characters as rectangles? (Chrome on OS X) 𝔸 𝔹 𝔺 𝔻 𝔼 𝔽 𝔾 𝔿 𝕀 𝕁 𝕂 𝕃 𝕄 𝕅 𝕆 𝕇 𝕈 𝕉 𝕊 𝕋 𝕌 𝕍 𝕎 𝕏 �…

... and the first 10k digits of pi might be 'true', but are neither educational nor entertaining.

I would love to read the post-mortem on this one!

They are probably right advising careful use of Ibuprofen, not because of kidney problems but because of heart conditions. There have been a couple of threads in HN recently, e.g. …

I've been running my mail server for 6 years now. Mail to Microsoft's servers (live.com, etc.) keeps ending up in the spam folder, even though spf, dkim and dmarc are set up and my…

With software that respects the users' freedoms? With users empowered to make the tradeoffs they prefer regarding privacy?

A post about airport depression without a single reference to Douglas Adams? Welcome to 2018, I guess.

> some boring dude working at [some company] that just [happens to offer coupons for the first 300 likes] I'd say that sentence generalizes pretty well.

Maybe more appropriate: "Wow, my phone can _optionally_ run an onion service!" https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...

In choose your own adventure style: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html

Sounds a bit like the Scala story: could be a really nice language, but the bagagge ... :)

I apologize for the tone of my comment, but still think that ML is not supposed to be written like that.

> if isGenTypeOf typedefof then Wow! This code looks horrible. Why don't you just accept the fact that the language is strongly typed and abolish reflection altogether?

Maybe that ZeroVM is a NaCl sandbox, while LightVM is a Xen VM?

Reading this makes me wonder in which situations locking will actually help. If you have two distributed updates like "UPDATE table SET value = 6 WHERE key = 'world'" and "UPDATE t…

I maybe missed it in the posts, but would you mind to explain why you focus on MongoDB in particular and NoSQL in general?

Since you seem to like snow sports, you should perhaps try downhill longboarding.

I think the blog post is not so much about advanced code smell mitigation strategies, but rather about highlighting the features of IntelliJ.

> I'm not aware of any unsynchronized concurrent queue implementation. Would the queues from https://www.liblfds.org/ qualify?

Thanks, that seems to be the problem indeed.

Sorry for being off-topic, but does anyone know why those medium-based sites like signalvnoise, hackernoon, etc. all look super broken on Chrome?