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zapu··on Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor
I wonder the same. It's probably by mistake. I remember some Wii games kept symbols, some other had .svn (or was it other vcs?) directories on disk.
zapu··on Apple Confirms That Its Dev Center Has Been Breached By Hackers
Wow. I'm speechless. This guy is really stupid or doesn't care. He can (or rather "will") get into serious legal troubles.
zapu··on Ask HN: is finding an idea a major bottleneck for you?
Yes. I'm looking for a subtle idea, that doesn't necessarily make me millions, but keeps occupied and pays the rent. I have many ideas but they are too hard or need too much money to bootstrap.
zapu··on Let's build an entire programming environment around Brainfuck
This looks like brainfuck compiler (frontend, as in, it takes brainfuck and makes executable), not brainfuck to llvm (backend) compiler.
zapu··on This is why there is no point in making Windows software
That's a fair point. For some reason, (especially in poorer countries), Microsoft hasn't developed a "culture" of buying software. It's probably because Windows software has always been more expensive in comparasion to applications for Mac.

Lack of central app store might be another reason - I remember when it was a bit of a challenge, here in Poland, to get a credit/debit card that could have been used online. So it was a hit or miss whether you could pay for your stuff or not.

Stores like Steam, with sometimes heavily discounted games, make it affordable to buy software and from my observation, develop some sort of "respect" for developers/publishers in people.

zapu··on Addition of 1 and 1 in PHP
Also on that subject: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2013/03/03/the-controller-pattern-...
zapu··on iMessage Should Have a Dead Battery Auto-Responder
I wasn't aware how buggy Messages application can be until I started using it more. Weird UI glitches, messages coming out of order (?) are the two I notice often.
zapu··on Duke Nukem 3D Code Review
In this case he sort of replaces some function calls with bodies of these functions, so the actual program flow would be clearer to read.
zapu··on What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
This is scary. I share a lot of bad code in various places, that I created in process of learning or just because I needed something done quickly. I always inform that this code shouldn't be used in any system "as is", but may serve for learning purposes.

I know that a lot of people do that. And I find it incredibily useful, sometimes finding a snippet of code saves me time from jumping extra hoops, just because (for example) driver misbehaves or documentation is incorrect/incomplete.

I hope this incident doesn't stop anyone from sharing their code and findings, no matter how good or "professional" they are.

zapu··on Security Vulnerabilities in Heroku
Thank you for being open about that issue. All the reading about vulnerabilities definitely made me more aware when writing critical parts of my applications.
zapu··on Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more)
To anyone getting it: there is some way to play it "properly", I think you should play the base game before you _install_ DLC, or something like that.

I cannot find any source to this, so please someone who played, correct me.

zapu··on Introducing Humble Indie Bundle 7 (with Legends of Grimrock and more)
I agree. I already own most of the game of bundles that come out. I used to buy them anyways, to give money to charity, but now that bundles are out so often, I think more about it.

It's good that the games aren't coupled in one big Steam key, so I can give the keys to friends or family (not sure if that's OK by Bundle rules though...)

zapu··on Whose bug is this anyway?
In Guild Wars case, it might also have been that you should not leave too much debug info in your release build, to make it harder to reverse engineer and write cheats/bots.
zapu··on PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
Do you have experience in using Opus for something else than speech? I'm currently in a project that deals with audio streaming and I've been exploring my options. Would love to hear about your thoughts!
zapu··on Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software
Isn't it the case with any other nix or bsd system? Boot into single user, mount filesystem, change password. I have been mostly working on Windows lately, but that's how I remember that.
zapu··on Reset a Windows 8 Password without using any third party software
Check this DEFCON presentation for Windows tricks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi0qUZCz6F0

Interesting demos start at about 20 minutes in.

zapu··on LLJS: Low-Level JavaScript
Same here. Also Chrome and Windows XP. But it manages to load after few refreshes.

But I can't run any of the "demos".

zapu··on Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles
Microsoft now encourages to use AppData/ which is much better.
zapu··on JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
"Wrong" how? Morally wrong? Against their rules?

They have clause about not misleading users and they are enforcing it.

zapu··on JWZ ported XScreenSaver to iOS - keeps getting rejected by Apple
It is named ScreenSaver, when it clearly does not function as "screen saver" on iOS device. Apple is right.
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