Hacker News: flym4n

New comment by flym4n in "Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography"

flym4n — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:24:45 +0000

Stalls after clicking "suite" of creating the public key

New comment by flym4n in "Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?"

flym4n — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:24:42 +0000

Depends on the backer. I would give more credit to a study by the FDA than by coca-cola

New comment by flym4n in "Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail"

flym4n — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:07:54 +0000

> [1] Not counting the products themselves as viruses.

Pretty bold assumption IMO

New comment by flym4n in "Swift impressions"

flym4n — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:22:57 +0000

> At its core, the language is designed to eliminate bugs, but not in the academic way that, say, Haskell eliminates bugs by preventing normal people from writing code in it

Shots fired

The spikes.

flym4n — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 22:06:21 +0000

Article URL: http://imsorrythatimlikethis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/the-spikes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863256

Points: 3

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New comment by flym4n in "ProtonMail: End-to-end encrypted email"

flym4n — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:55:04 +0000

It appears they silently closed a critical vulnerability recently [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/StackSmashing/status/474214532114812928

New comment by flym4n in "6 weeks after release, Samsung S5 VZN/ATT still not rooted. Bounty at $17k"

flym4n — Mon, 26 May 2014 12:24:11 +0000

It's getting harder because they keep adding/enabling countermeasures like ASLR, NX, RELRO, FORTIFY_SOURCE

New comment by flym4n in "Dead Man's Switch"

flym4n — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:54:01 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20140101055243/http://deadmanssw...

New comment by flym4n in "The Heartbleed Bug"

flym4n — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:44:50 +0000

You'll need to replace them ASAP, once github updated their version of ssh . But if they run on 0.9.8 branch, you don't have to worry.

New comment by flym4n in "The Heartbleed Bug"

flym4n — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:42:03 +0000

Unless you installed the macports version, which is 1.0.1f

New comment by flym4n in "Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C"

flym4n — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:22:24 +0000

It says 'PDA' in the first paragraph. That makes it looks old

New comment by flym4n in "Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor"

flym4n — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 13:00:19 +0000

Scrolling is unusable on mountain lion.

New comment by flym4n in "My Hardest Bug"

flym4n — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:09:42 +0000

   I spent three days in coffee shops with a pen and paper taking first and then second derivatives of the Winkel Tripel formula

I felt bad for you reading that. There are loads of tools to do it automatically (matlab, wolfram, etc).

New comment by flym4n in "Koa – Next-generation web framework for Node.js"

flym4n — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:16:29 +0000

That's using a callback, like express or connect does. What's new in koa is the use of js generators

New comment by flym4n in "I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam"

flym4n — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:13:12 +0000

Yes that was the point

New comment by flym4n in "I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam"

flym4n — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 22:42:48 +0000

Darwin's theory proven right once again