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HTTP-as-an-ABI

That's why high assurance systems (like L4/seL4) minimize privileged code to a tiny fraction of what you find in a regular system, which absolutely makes sense and provably improve…

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BTrees

Panics can of course result in exploitable system behaviour.

I don't think cryptocurrencies are protecting anyone from any problem.

So, the feeling is mutual then? Isn't that great, you've got so much in common!

Honestly I don't quite know how or why engineers keep working in a "all of this is fundamentally broken always has been and never will be fixed" domain, on a motivational basis.

> Byte-by-byte parsing is a valid way to do parsing but not the only way. Byte-by-byte parsers tend to be slow and -- arguably, more importantly -- overly complex and rigid. It is,…

> but that's only because no one actually cares about these architectures. This. Optimizing performance on BE is a waste of everyone's time and resources.

I'll just throw in here that faking contracts and certificates has been a huge business in the last ~1200 years or so in Europe. Many cities who claimed to have been founded a thou…

option=value, option:value, option/value and even option\value (without dashes). Not joking.

> It would not be easy to do this in a technical manner -> Homomorphic encryption is an active field of research. Legal is most likely the better solution. Probably.

We'll just outlaw that. Compare: Jaywalking, avenues.

I didn't expect anything interesting to come up as replies, but here we are - thanks for those insights.

A piece of well-built criticism can be a great tool in corporate politics. It can completely destroy the chances of some proposal/project/person to succeed. Ideally without appeari…

Don't confuse arcane and complex. Although PGP is a 90s crypto standard, so it's more than likely a nightmare to implement.

C++ has a long and successful history of application development, regardless of project size (from 0 to >100 MLOC; from 1 guy sitting in his attic to thousands of engineers). Much …

> The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view. Thunderbird has had a ML/usenet-like conversations view forever.

> NUL is not a character Somehow NUL is still an assigned character in the ASCII code table. Strange, hmmm?

And various undefined behaviours (signed overflow etc.) colluding against the programmer to the effect that compilers sometimes delete range-checking code. Integer promotion rules …

I would claim that there is still a difference between P-strings and, say, ASN.1 DER (which, at heart, is still TLV).

> Both provided links are dead HTTP works, HTTPS does not.

That's pretty much the "reader mode" available in some browsers, no?