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Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by sriram_malhar »

I had once a modest hack with an immediate payoff. We were using a troublesome 3rd party C++ library (back in the cfront days), whose source wasn't available.

I took care of one critical bug this way:

#define private public #include

Now all the innards of the foo class were available to be fixed!

Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by jtms »

TchoBeer wrote: post #97
wheybags wrote: post #89

I did a nasty hack a little like this when I was in college. College wired internet had all sorts of filters on it, I can't remember the details exactly. The important thing was it didn't allow the upd ports for counter strike from the wired connection we had in a society room. The computer science department had their own web proxy, which was only accessible from inside their network. Cs students could SSH into spec…

Was running counterstrike through two computers really faster than just using the wireless connection or did that one have weird filters too?

Wifi from those days wasn’t nearly as good as a hard wire. Also, it might have just not been available. It wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous 20 years ago as it is now.

Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by mikefallen »

TchoBeer wrote: post #97
wheybags wrote: post #89

I did a nasty hack a little like this when I was in college. College wired internet had all sorts of filters on it, I can't remember the details exactly. The important thing was it didn't allow the upd ports for counter strike from the wired connection we had in a society room. The computer science department had their own web proxy, which was only accessible from inside their network. Cs students could SSH into spec…

Was running counterstrike through two computers really faster than just using the wireless connection or did that one have weird filters too?

Play counter strike on wireless? Hahaha no way man. CS is a highly latency sensitive game (as is any competitive fps). Wifi is much too prone to disturbances and packet loss, so you will experience lag/jitter/loss.

Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by KETpXDDzR »

And nothing changed. Probably even worse. In most modern software companies you are blocked by a lack of permission at some point. Hard- and software became more and more hardened and complex. Thus, tinkering with it to work-around rather requires luck or a very very deep knowledge.

I wonder what the alternatives are. I think systems that provide fully-enabled sandboxes are they way to go. Also, self-service instead of tickets (are the humans approving your tickets and better in detecting unauthorized requests?). I think that's why containerization is so popular.

Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by chris_wot »

a3n wrote: post #91
yumraj wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And now you’re a semi truck driver.. how did that happen from soft developer to semi truck driver?

Anger and poor impulse control led me to rage quit a job. And I wasn't the best developer. I don't think any job was ever sorry to see me go.

How do you deal with idiot drivers though?

Re: Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class

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Post by draw_down »

This sort of thing is really impressive. But at least for me, it stops being impressive and starts becoming tedious pretty quick. Again at least for me, it's important to know that I am capable of doing hard/tedious/impressive things, but it's not important to keep doing them over and over. Because the tedium just kills it.
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