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mwyvern

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About mwyvern

My interests are programming, cryptography, math, science, robots, text editors, the universe, gaming, teleportation, music, the future, books, sci-fi and zombies. Technical co-founder of talkerpoint.com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #4173746

    I am disappointed that extensions are not supported.

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    Comment #4097333

    Thank you!

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    Comment #4096378

    It always shocks me tha Finder doesn't have cmd-X cut... cutting is by far the most frequent operation I do in other non-dual-pane file managers. But what do you like better about …

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    Comment #4094238

    Homebrew includes that patch, and the recipe has been updated for emacs 24. brew update # Lion only (or if you don't have xcode?) brew tap homebrew/dupes brew install apple-gcc42 #…

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    Comment #4088293

    Thanks for the link. It's a shame that functionality isn't built into VS (especially when it costs half as much as VS pro).

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    Comment #4088273

    I did know what you meant by noscript, just using the plugin as an example of non-javascript users :-). No cookies? You are a masochist. Another reason I like ghostery -- it blocks…

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    Comment #4087950

    That's true. It seems like javascript disabling is just not on the minds of web developers. You have to be a special kind of masochist to use noscript these days... I used it for y…

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    Comment #4087739

    H(Salt . H(Password)) is a lot like an hmac (minus the secret part and the padding). I'm not sure about the pre-image vulnerability mentioned on wikipedia's md5 page, but as for co…

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    Comment #4087664

    Can you refactor c++ code in visual studio?

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    Comment #4087657

    The images are not loaded until you scroll them into view, so bandwidth is saved if you don't read the whole article.

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    Comment #4060971

    I've been saying that wrong in my head for a long time now. Thank you :-).

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    Comment #4060833

    I've always wondered -- is it suckless as in suck less than something else, or as in without suck?

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    Comment #4060818

    Comment to the author: use cmd-` while you are command tabbing if you go too far! Similarly useful, hold cmd-tab and it will stop at the end. Also, cmd-esc if you decide not to swi…