kylemaxwell

Not the NYT.

Because it's the same issue.

I strongly believe that that's not true for most folks. And even if it were - the paycheck is why they're there so they can make ends meet for their family.

Human beings are not fungible components.

No, but as with everything else in life, experience counts.

The key point, and one the author believes applies just as well to computer science, is:

He was insufficiently confident of the power of the intellectual tools he already possessed and did not drive his thought to the very end because he felt instinctively that new ideas and new methods were necessary to go further than he and his students had already gone. Some may call it a lack of faith, but in my opinion it was more a turning away from the hard, crude methods of theoretical physics into a mystical realm of broad intuition.

In my own field of network security, I think that's largely true: we have a lot of analytical tools that we haven't applied sufficiently well, largely because people are not interested or educated in the sorts of theoretical tools we could apply (ML or graph theory, for example).

How well this applies to theoretical research is outside my expertise, though...

If you're jonesing for other problems, I keep a list of all sorts of programming (and security) challenges at http://hackertainment.net. (Shameless plug but I have no ads or even analytics, it's just a thing I do.)

Assuming "foreign function interface". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface

Different groups - the TrueCrypt audit initiative[0] is (was?) cooperating with the developers but remain independent of them.

  [0]: http://istruecryptauditedyet.com

http://www.roughdraft.io is another tool - honestly, I like seeing more of these so that we have options that do things slightly differently.

Web scraping isn't a crime - the simple act of downloading the data should not be a problem here. (The reuse of the data might be, depending, but we don't have that information right now.)

This doesn't even rise to the level of what Weev did.

I stopped messing with the contributions after it became clear how arbitrary and frustrating the feature can be. Not only does it still struggle with time zones and branches, when you leave an organization or otherwise lose access to a private repository, all of those contributions disappear from your graph. I have found the concept to work better for me by tracking my streaks using other tools like Habit RPG.

Did you even read the article, where that comparison is made explicit?

"No offense but" is code for "I am about to say something offensive." And are you really suggesting that statistics - facts - are irrelevant?

So BitBucket and Gitorious and others will need to excel and beat GitHub at their game. Competition will eventually solve this the same way we aren't beholden to the same methods and sites we used 10 years ago. The next winner may not even exist yet and I expect that the barriers to entry here are not nearly as high as those in other markets that have been disrupted over the last few years.

Somewhat surprised there's no discussion of security going on here - even at a design level, there are some useful considerations.

See choult's comment - no reason to attribute the site to the poster.

Trying to figure out how this compares to Naked (http://naked-py.com) in terms of goals.

You mean nitrous.io?

The threat model for the UK PM is not the same as that for the POTUS (regardless of the individuals involved).

This has happened to me countless times. The encouraged culture of asking smart questions[0] is probably Stack Overflow's best feature.

  [0]: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

For Rails, sure - but most FLOSS projects are not like that.

Check out www.codetriage.com (albeit not CLI). In any case it sounds like you have a great angle for a fresh approach to the issue, maybe using the GitHub API.

You are essentially advocating that reporters write a test script with each bug filed. During the process, of course, this makes sense, but it may not work right away because coming up with a solid repro can be a challenge. And not all users of all projects will be coders able to write test scripts. OTOH that is a fine job for a somebody taking on the role of triage / "gardener".

Why would you run a GUI on a server in the first place?

Probably by working on and modifying existing code as part of a larger community working with existing experts, in sort of a crypto-apprenticeship.

I thought the policy here was to use the actual title of the article, not to edit it. Why did the moderators change it?

The response to a subtle weakness in cryptographic software should not be to reimplement the cryptographic implementation from scratch. This inevitably introduces far more problems than it solves.

Excellent, I've pondered doing something like this with a BeagleBone Black. Can't wait to try it out and see what I can do.

If somebody's view of how to communicate and work with others is restricted to Google+ and FB and Twitter, then that's their own lack of creativity showing, I think.