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Binoculars.

> I'm describing the CBC padding oracle attack. Ah! Wouldn't that be "attackers can replace an original ciphertext with two chosen blocks"? > I'm surprised this is the thing you wa…

> You could "weaken" a protocol so that attackers can replace an original plaintext with 16 uniform random bits. If the protocol is using CBC mode, you've allowed attackers to reco…

More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10898947

For a program without recursive calls the students can get away with believing that local variables are statically allocated, but for a program with recursive calls the students mu…

Yes: def f(n = 16) n end p f # => 16 p f(nil) # => nil

The caller may pass nil explicitly.

require "securerandom" module SecureRandom F = File.open("/dev/urandom") def self.random_bytes(n = nil) F.read(n || 16) end end

InfraRuby is a statically-typed Ruby (compiles to the JVM). InfraRuby code runs on Ruby interpreters without modification: http://infraruby.com/blog/why-infraruby

> Plus a number of other things according to the article. Yes, combining methods works even better! It's far from saying that the best way is "to just talk to them".

> I can see this being misinterperted badly in the field of software engineering (it doesn't seem specific to software) Would you prefer Google's take on it? http://www.wired.com/2…

> I still think the best way to interview a programmer is to just talk to them. You're wrong: http://www.ioatwork.com/selection-methods-almost-a-century-o...

> I want the candidate to plan Then ask for that, and assess the plan, otherwise you're expecting Carnac the Magnificent: http://raganwald.com/2015/05/08/carnac-the-magnificent.htm…

> The research article you linked confirmed that job experience (years in a similar job) has positive predictive validity for job performance. Job performance does improve with exp…

That's a whole lot of speculation! Fortunately, there is a better way: http://www.ioatwork.com/selection-methods-almost-a-century-o... EDIT: but to answer your question: > How abou…

> Why don't you think that employment history predicts job performance? Because empiricism: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/833-years-of-irrelevance > Which group will have better a…

> They don't have to but an employer is probably going to want to know. ... and so they do have to. It's regrettable, because employment history (gaps or no gaps) does not predict …

> Explaining a gap in your resume is a reasonable thing for people to do when applying for a job. But why should people have to do that?

BTW, the fourth amendment contains the mother of all exceptions: " unreasonable searches and seizures"

> Sure, but that doesn't make it so, unless you're one of those folks who holds that Constitutionality is based on the courts' opinion by definition. That's been how it works in pr…

"U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge, ruled that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay exclusively with Congress. Saying tha…