Count the number of times Perl is mentioned in the comments here, it will give You a hint on what it has become: irrelevant. I am probably as sad as You are about this fact of life, let's mourn our beloved programming language together, fellow Perlist.
Once I heard a fun way to define French-German relationship:
Germans just want French to hold them dear, alas French only respect Germans. French just want Germans to respect them, alas Germans only hold French dear.
- A hardware boot selector knob wired to joystick port (the four buttons input pins) with a diode mesh to encode the 12 knob positions into binary combinations of grounded pins. Along with view bytes of assembly in MBR to boot the right partition and a.com file for DOS to chose wither to start the GUI (Win95/ W3.11) and a shell script under linux reading/dev/port to choose wither start X11 or not. That was a nice hack that allowed me to position the knob to the configuration I wanted at startup and reboot the box without the need to wait for the boot manager menu to popup so I could do something else.
- Rewiring a pin on an ISA modem card to use the IRQ6 (floppy) instead of IRQ3 or 4, this allowed me to serve one more line with my fax server
- The most epic one: I was handing around with older folks who were trying to debug a DOS program protected by a sentinel dongle connected to a parallel port the problem was that the software was using interrupt vector bytes to store the variable so as soon as it started, it was overwriting the adders of the IRQ handler used by the debugger. What I suggested was to to take a pin from the parallel port and connect it to an IRQ pin of the ISA bus. Thus when the software tried to communicate with the dongle (well, actually a couple of hundreds of cycles later), they could trigger a memory dump and analyze the code that was encrypted in memory the rest of the time.
Sorry for the infamous car metaphor but I think, for once it is appropriate.
By Your logic, in the beginning of automotive era (let's say around 1900) one could have said "most people aren't fit to drive a car". And in fact this sentence was most certainly true then given what the experience of driving one was.
But now in some countries lack of driving license is a sentence to a miserable live (compared to other representatives of the same society).
Could it be that today programming tools just aren't mature enough?
OTOH one could argue that if we need to improve coding experience as much as the driving experience has improved in a century then it would not be coding anymore.
Well, maybe, but then, in order to make it happen a critical mass of users is required and that will be achieved by rising more coders.
I second that and would also emphase that many gadgets are made unfixable on purpose: glued in such a way that they would break if You try to open them, outside screws with non conventional head types. These are not cost reduction measures but rather anti-tamper protections.
The other awfully clear thing: If You are any nation around the word and you happen to be involved in US interests, regardless of ethnic groups on your territory, you have an even bigger problem.
My point is: Russian speaking people of east Ukraine have graves of their grand-parents on this land. Abolishing their language and telling them to leave if they are not happy about that seem a tad excessive so there is no surprise that they decided to fight for their independence from Kiev.
Agreed, in order for the analogy to be complete, Ukrainian Russians should further oppress local populations with the military support from their country of origin to the point where locals are can no longer be of any treat to them.
Got 3912 but I'm really confused by the "Alphabetical" level , I could craft a regex to discriminate both set that scores at 262, however I suppose it is considered cheating since I do not implement any underlying "principle" here because I cant recognize it. Any clues of what was the intent of this level?
I tried a 1$ transfer using a virtual payment card (I can obtain a one time card number on my bank site limited to a specific amount, this is usefull for online purchases). I could not link this card: "Card not supported". Too bad, i really wanted to test their service with a spoofed mail after doing first transaction normally. There is no way I'll be providing them my real card number.
Hint: they do not brag about being PCI DSS certified (not even compliant) that certainly means they are not. They only say: "You’re safe with us. The privacy and security of your financial information is our top priority." which is not very reassuring to say the least.
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Count the number of times Perl is mentioned in the comments here, it will give You a hint on what it has become: irrelevant.
I am probably as sad as You are about this fact of life, let's mourn our beloved programming language together, fellow Perlist.
This is exactly what I would call a chair-keyboard interface issue.
Once I heard a fun way to define French-German relationship:
Germans just want French to hold them dear, alas French only respect Germans.
French just want Germans to respect them, alas Germans only hold French dear.
- A hardware boot selector knob wired to joystick port (the four buttons input pins) with a diode mesh to encode the 12 knob positions into binary combinations of grounded pins. Along with view bytes of assembly in MBR to boot the right partition and a .com file for DOS to chose wither to start the GUI (Win95/ W3.11) and a shell script under linux reading /dev/port to choose wither start X11 or not. That was a nice hack that allowed me to position the knob to the configuration I wanted at startup and reboot the box without the need to wait for the boot manager menu to popup so I could do something else.
- Rewiring a pin on an ISA modem card to use the IRQ6 (floppy) instead of IRQ3 or 4, this allowed me to serve one more line with my fax server
- The most epic one: I was handing around with older folks who were trying to debug a DOS program protected by a sentinel dongle connected to a parallel port the problem was that the software was using interrupt vector bytes to store the variable so as soon as it started, it was overwriting the adders of the IRQ handler used by the debugger. What I suggested was to to take a pin from the parallel port and connect it to an IRQ pin of the ISA bus. Thus when the software tried to communicate with the dongle (well, actually a couple of hundreds of cycles later), they could trigger a memory dump and analyze the code that was encrypted in memory the rest of the time.
Sorry to hear that.
I hope our civilization will overcome this sad situation before going extinct.
As I read it, basically they have started to manufacture a case to start a 'hot' nuclear war.
Now at least we have a tool to tell them apart.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Sorry for the infamous car metaphor but I think, for once it is appropriate.
By Your logic, in the beginning of automotive era (let's say around 1900) one could have said "most people aren't fit to drive a car". And in fact this sentence was most certainly true then given what the experience of driving one was.
But now in some countries lack of driving license is a sentence to a miserable live (compared to other representatives of the same society).
Could it be that today programming tools just aren't mature enough?
OTOH one could argue that if we need to improve coding experience as much as the driving experience has improved in a century then it would not be coding anymore.
Well, maybe, but then, in order to make it happen a critical mass of users is required and that will be achieved by rising more coders.
I second that and would also emphase that many gadgets are made unfixable on purpose: glued in such a way that they would break if You try to open them, outside screws with non conventional head types. These are not cost reduction measures but rather anti-tamper protections.
And now he is bombing his own cities killing his own civilians
The other awfully clear thing: If You are any nation around the word and you happen to be involved in US interests, regardless of ethnic groups on your territory, you have an even bigger problem.
Wow, pentagon has people on Slashdot. Cool!
More to come I'm afraid...
Unforgivable!
Then You might be interested in investigating the history of this region : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
My point is: Russian speaking people of east Ukraine have graves of their grand-parents on this land.
Abolishing their language and telling them to leave if they are not happy about that seem a tad excessive so there is no surprise that they decided to fight for their independence from Kiev.
By all means feel free to ignore my posts, I'm certainly not interested to have a flame war or any other sort of interaction with the likes of You.
Agreed, in order for the analogy to be complete, Ukrainian Russians should further oppress local populations with the military support from their country of origin to the point where locals are can no longer be of any treat to them.
Hm, that's an interesting suggestion.
Then what about people in US move back wherever they came from and leave the continent to the ethnic groups that were cleared out ?
No problem, they do move to the country where they want to stay. They are just taking the land with them :P
Forging evidence of and publicly lie about mass-destruction weapons in order to make a case to invade a country...
Yep, lots of fun, thank You.
Got 3912 but I'm really confused by the "Alphabetical" level , I could craft a regex to discriminate both set that scores at 262, however I suppose it is considered cheating since I do not implement any underlying "principle" here because I cant recognize it. Any clues of what was the intent of this level?
I beg to differ: If you don't need to subsidize it, then "it ain't culture"; it's industry
I tried a 1$ transfer using a virtual payment card (I can obtain a one time card number on my bank site limited to a specific amount, this is usefull for online purchases). I could not link this card: "Card not supported".
Too bad, i really wanted to test their service with a spoofed mail after doing first transaction normally.
There is no way I'll be providing them my real card number.
Hint: they do not brag about being PCI DSS certified (not even compliant) that certainly means they are not.
They only say: "You’re safe with us. The privacy and security of your financial information is our top priority." which is not very reassuring to say the least.
Just install a 10 years old OS and games. You'll be blown away by the performance :P
Worked for me :D