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Look, I don't have time for your childish pedantry. There were entire articles on the front page of HN blaming C for having poor language design on the issue of "goto fail". Now there is an article promoting macros in C, no less.

HN may not be one person, but does have a front page as a result of aggregate behavior.

I just don't know how to reconcile the fact that HN tore the C language a new arsehole over "goto fail", and is now back to praising macros.

Macros need to be tossed into the dustbin of history, right next to self-modifying code and other cute but dangerous hacks.

It's amazing how wrong companies can get marketing. Take Apple's AirDrop, for example. I spent 20 minutes one day wondering why my iPhone wasn't connecting to my Mac Mini. Turns out, "AirDrop" is two different things by the same company that are similar but completely incompatible.

Depends on whether people actually saw an automobile before they heard about the concept. And of course, people aren't visionaries. They usually do want what they have now--only better. The difference, at least with Google Glass, is that people have seen it and still don't want it. The burden is on Google to show people why they should want Glass. So far they haven't done it.

Quicktun used to use C's rand() to generate keypairs (see keypair.c). They still include a blurb about /dev/urandom being insecure and apparently requiring the user to manually input random data. The nacl0 protocol is inherently insecure (null nonce, vulnerable to replay), not sure why they even include that. IIRC, you also pass the private key via environment variable. Lots of horrible flaws for such a small code base.

> “[It] will give our adversaries a huge moment of pause to go: ‘Do I even want to go engage a naval ship?’” Rear Admiral Matt Klunder

ah, yes. Because a railgun is the determining factor when considering attacking the US Navy. "Well darn, they now have railguns. Let's call off the nuclear Armageddon guys!" As cool as this may be, our military industrial complex is hopelessly delusional.

> participated in a democratic process and he has an unpopular opinion

It may be unpopular in certain circles, but the majority of California first voted yes on Prop 22 and then again on Prop 8. Hard to get more mainstream than that.

But then again, Bush won a 2nd term as well. I guess we can only conclude that democracy doesn't work because the masses are stupid.

it's more accurate to discuss NaCl since that's what libsodium is. NaCl is the combination of crypto primitives and the "box" abstraction. libsodium is just the repackaging and clean-up of the original NaCl implementation. If you're discussing crypto, you're going to be looking at the papers on NaCl.

> The number you're looking for is 599,602 people, not 7 million people.

What are you talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008...

7,001,084 votes for yes.

I'm sorry, but Prop 8 passed. By 7 million people.

Boycotting Mozilla? Really? You need to talk about boycotting California. Making a scapegoat out of one single person for what an entire state did is fucking insane.

> Eich found it easier to treat millions of people he's never met as second class citizens

You act as if Prop 8 didn't pass by 52.24% of the voting public, or by 7 million people. But no, Eich was dictator of California, enslaving millions of gays. Or whatever.

UDP has error checking in the form of a checksum. It's one of the few guarantees UDP has: your datagram either arrives complete, or not at all. TCP also has no real security to speak of, either.

I have yet to hear anyone speak positively about their experience working at SpaceX. The common theme seems to be incredibly high turnover with intense burnout. However, looking at Glassdoor right now, it seems things may have improved. Or there has been a lot of recent astroturfing going on. The reviews were pretty negative last I looked, a year or two ago.

Not sure what you mean. I've developed Android apps on Windows 7 using Cygwin and make just fine. It's nearly identical to using it on Linux.

I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke.

Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH.

You might also be interested in make -j option.

> where they had enormous amounts of custom machining and microcontroller work, you can deride that as "tinkering" if you like.

I will deride it all day, because it's not manufacturing. In manufacturing consumer products you must worry about things like margins, supply chains, and regional regulations. Oculus Rift is going to be a consumer device. So why the hell are you trying to compare apples and doorknobs here? I wasn't knocking Carmack or Abrash. I was telling you factual information. They are not the same people that will turn Oculus Rift into a consumer product. At all. Facebook will have to hire more people and bring in more outsider knowledge. That is what I'm saying.

> demonstrates how much hardware knowledge Google has. So you are wrong there too.

Nexus is just rebranded Asus/LG/Samsung devices. In fact, my Asus tablet has more features and is cheaper than its Nexus sibling. Chromebook came out and was priced higher than a MacBook. Which is proof enough that Google doesn't understand the hardware market. Who wants to buy a locked-down dumb terminal laptop, when you can get the real deal for cheaper? Google Glass? Did anyone really take that seriously? Self-driving cars? Didn't know I could go to my local auto dealer and get one.

My point is, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Wrong market predictions, wrong retail pricing, bad supply chain, terrible marketing. And you really expect that Carmack+Abrash = VR products for sale soon? Realistically, we're not going to see anything for at least 5 years. Conservatively, 10. And Carmack and Abrash are a few pieces in a giant puzzle.

> they sold me an iPhone

That's nice.

Raleigh? Access to students from NC State, Duke, and UNC Chapel Hill, all within a few miles. And of course...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park

It may completely shock some of you stuck in bubble land, but many people don't want to live in SV. Even for a day.

Facebook is not Apple. Even Google is not Apple, as we watch time and time again Google failing at hardware and customer service. Neither of which, Facebook has any experience at. Nor are Carmack and Abrash hardware guys (that is, manufacturing rather than tinkering). Let's be just a bit realistic here. They have an uphill battle. Facebook also has no game development team (which I would include 3d modelers, world designers, etc.) There are a ton of missing variables from this equation still.

Money buys people, but it doesn't create miracles. I was excited when Abrash joined Valve, but nothing came of that.

yes, but some of us have higher standards of creativity than the 100th version of 2048 or the front page of reddit.

There is no evidence that points to QWERTY being designed to be inefficient.

http://www.economist.com/node/196071

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...

Or Blizzard. They have an actual virtual world already. I can easily see WoW fans who already sit at a PC and buy special hardware for their games to flock to VR tech.

No kidding. Their name is Oculus. They are, literally, eyeballs.

call records? Are you shitting me? The White House is acting like Grandpa trying to wrap his mind around the concept of the Internet. "overhaul", "new kind of court order". Yeah, okay.

Here's the broom, Obama. Need a little help sweeping it all under the rug?

hosting your own email solves exactly nothing. Email still goes over (mostly) unencrypted channels and will, eventually, land in someone's gmail account anyway. Where Google and/or the NSA will read it. Worse still, you're now no longer hiding in the crowd. You have a giant blinking neon sign saying "I'm putting my mail where you can't get it."

Privacy and email do not mix, and maybe never will. Attacking the victims of the NSA spying does nothing to stop the NSA from doing the spying.

private corporation. Big difference. They also do not plan on going public until their Mars program is established.

mu. (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mu.html)

This is the type of question news organizations like to use when they run out of things to talk about, or to distract the people from what is really going on. Whatever Snowden is considered is immaterial with respect to what the NSA has been, and is currently doing to the American people. A more relevant question would be asking why James Clapper is still Director of National Intelligence after lying to Congress under oath, and why Obama is protecting him.

Except they don't always work. Spammers have ways to get around them, including farming it out to extremely cheap labor.

I started reading Engineering Security, by Peter Gutmann. Excellent book, btw. At the start of the book he discusses security theory vs. reality. One thing he describes is the "most ineffective CAPTCHA of all time" (according to mainstream security theory). This "ineffective" CAPTCHA on a blog required exactly one thing: the user had to enter the word "orange."

Surprisingly, the blog received zero spam. The reason it's so effective is because it's different. Whereas CAPTCHA is a monoculture. Standard CAPTCHA fits into the economic model for spammers. But for spammers to adjust their behavior for just this one blog? It's not worth it for them.

$19B, to keep competition at bay, rather than use it to innovate? When your main product is advertising? Silicon Valley is circling the drain...

> It was a classic tragedy of the commons

seven hells...