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mabynogy

2,406 karma · joined February 28, 2017

My resume in french - https://marc-abiven.github.io/cv
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mabynogy··on Denis Villeneuve is remaking Dune, and that’s a good thing
I find Lynch's Dune good even if he disowned his movie. I like watching it from time to time like Alien.
mabynogy··on Ask HN: Would you do a beautiful whiteboard text and diagramming skills course?
No but if you teach that like calligraphy it could work.
mabynogy··on Ask HN: Is software engineering really a dead-end job after 35-40?
Ken Thomson and Rob Pike still program. They are inspiring people I wanna follow not those useless and inefficient bureaucrats in charge of "human resources".

As programmers, we should take the control of the recruitment with coopting. The market is in our favor. We are more needed than we need. We can do that smoothly and the good business men will understand they can save a lot of money with a such system.

I already know few good programmers who are available and I can recommend.

mabynogy··on Show HN: Personalised tool/advice to help you find a great cofounder
Yeah. Come and post it here: http://dailyprog.org/chat/
mabynogy··on Slack channels are a waste of time
You're aggressive and vehement.

It's not me. The post uses those terms. It seems you didn't read the post.

I'm not part of your "world". Some people complain about Slack. I say IRC is better.

mabynogy··on Slack channels are a waste of time
Switch to IRC, you won't regret it. Two points concerning the post. IRC is "senior-friendly" and you won't have that GIF problem as it's text-only.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
People have the right to criticize whatever they think is a problem. They don't need to be competent. It's just their applied freedom to think. I just mentioned my lack of interest in crypto to prevent what happened but I'm not surprised that it was useless.

IMHO most people defending HTTPs do that by loyalty because they invested so much time on that and not because they understand all the details of the crypto behind.

My message is just: "It's overcomplicated. I quickly found an alternative. I don't buy the meme".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_the_messenger

mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
No. It's just an offset inside the key. Once a message is sent, the offset is increased of the size of the message.

Both parties can deduced that offset from the messages they perform.

Before reaching the end of that key, they can agree on another source for a new key to continue the communication.

mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
Those problems exist with current systems. There is a phase where the two parties must recognize themselves and agree they are legit.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
You show your values and you prove nothing with that sentence.

Experts are often wrong. They exist because because we don't know. When we know something we don't need experts anymore. We just know and apply our knowledge.

mabynogy··on Ask HN: How do you OCR your receipts and bills in 2018?
Why not Tesseract? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(software)
mabynogy··on Ask HN: The unlimited resources interview question
> Rule the world.

If you're in front of someone asking you this kind of questions, your chances to be hired are very low.

Some of them used graphology or astrology not very long ago. One day they may ask a DNA sample to check if it's "compatible".

Let them with their silly questions and focus yourself on serious peoples.

mabynogy··on Ask HN: How do you earn a living from scraping in 2018?
It's technically interesting but I wouldn't spend time of that because of the legal issues (especially in realestate). It's too risky.

As you know that well, you could do the opposite. An antiscraping product.

mabynogy··on More and More of What We Do Depends on Government Permission
The problem is the law not the government. We should remove laws instead of creating new ones.
mabynogy··on YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome
I confirm that here too with debian and firefox 52.9. YT is damn slow and HookTube is faster even with the embedded YT player.
mabynogy··on Show HN: Personalised tool/advice to help you find a great cofounder
You can post if on the chat I'm on when it's ready if you want.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
I'm not into crypto. Reply yourself to your own questions. You're patronizing.

If I need encryption for one of my projects, I'll try that.

mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
No. The secret can be longer than the sum of all messages.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
No. You can have a single secret covering many messages.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
Yes there are. The two parties need to agree on a common source. It can be a file somewhere on the web (an image) or a something that doesn't exist yet.

That's what happens with passwords.

mabynogy··on Show HN: Personalised tool/advice to help you find a great cofounder
https://u.sicp.me/kM3f7.png

Meeting someone is a social activity.

mabynogy··on What am I suppoest to do after prototype development?
You could ask people into image processing what they think about that. I imagine imagemagick IRC channel for example . Even negative feedbacks can be useful.

I think it will take you a lot of time to find customers for that so you should start something else (but related) in parallel. Why not a player for webcams with your algorithm builtin?

mabynogy··on Ask HN: Net worth of software engineer at retirement?
Even if the question is legitimate, I find it a bit sad because it implies you find your current life boring and you expect to be happy with enough money at retirement.
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
Only the length of the message.
mabynogy··on Show HN: Checklist of over 100 directories to submit your startup
You're sure to have troubles if put your website into that.

But congratulations to the author for the work and the Show HN.

mabynogy··on Show HN: Personalised tool/advice to help you find a great cofounder
I never give my email. It's possible (and IMO better) to make a social website without that (4chan is an example).
mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
I'm not into crypto but I found that method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
mabynogy··on Python Operators
Simple and clear. Even if I don't do Python I learned some good ideas (like the // floor operator).
mabynogy··on Housing Costs Reduce the Return to Education
The problem isn't housing. The problem is the realestate market. There is no competition because the merchandises don't move. Prices goes up to infinite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Allais

mabynogy··on Why No HTTPS?
I'm opposed to HTTPS everywhere because it comes with a lot of code (like openssl) and a complicated paradigm (pki). We can do better and simpler at the same time.
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