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True | jimrooney | null | Nine nine nine nine nine nine nine | null | 0 | 1314871729 | False | 0 | c2gq1a0 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq1a0 | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545402 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | Yes, this works, but my point is that without feedback to the physical device, it's not just slightly biased, it's broken or near-broken. What good is a digital RNG that only produces one random bit per second? This is the situation they want to remedy, not a situation where you have 1/3 1's and 2/3 0's, because this i... | null | 0 | 1314871734 | True | 0 | c2gq1ae | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq1ae | t1_c2gq0p4 | null | 1427545402 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | It might be too slow, if you want a million random numbers per second.
And too expensive to get a sensor that is both fast and precise and random. (I don't know much about physics but precise and random does not sound right to me, unless you're measuring quantum shit somehow) | null | 0 | 1314871803 | False | 0 | c2gq1e2 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq1e2 | t1_c2gq125 | null | 1427545404 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > They measure the decay time of an excited electron (a truly random process)
You seem to be skipping *your* definition of truly.
1) How do you know it's truly random?
2) What is truly random, and why is a "pseudo"-random number generator not truly random? | null | 0 | 1314871957 | False | 0 | c2gq1lg | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq1lg | t1_c2goyck | null | 1427545407 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That hasn't been my experience. I find reading state machines to be quite pleasant... though I admit I almost never write them. | null | 0 | 1314872070 | False | 0 | c2gq1re | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gq1re | t1_c2gpssz | null | 1427545409 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That sounds right. I learned state machines in school and I love the concept, but that extra flag is too damn easy. | null | 0 | 1314872127 | False | 0 | c2gq1ub | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gq1ub | t1_c2gpvdq | null | 1427545411 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lfnoise | null | It would take about 1-2 months to get from Soledad, Columbia to New Orleans. If you had a steady stream of these on a circuit..
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=48+knots+in+mph&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+soledad+columbia+to+new+orleans+louisi... | null | 0 | 1314872461 | False | 0 | c2gq2ad | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gq2ad | t1_c2go5ew | null | 1427545416 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314872475 | False | 0 | c2gq2bf | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq2bf | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545420 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314872522 | False | 0 | c2gq2dj | t3_k10uw | null | t1_c2gq2dj | t3_k10uw | null | 1427545420 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmc | null | I've seen it used today, by female friends of mine on Facebook. However the majority of people in Ireland use their english names. | null | 0 | 1314872564 | False | 0 | c2gq2fk | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gq2fk | t1_c2gjlk8 | null | 1427545420 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | king_of_the_universe | null | Data encrypted in the way you described would only be decipherable by whoever holds the one-time pad data. Not pretty much uncrackable, but entirely uncrackable. | null | 0 | 1314872672 | False | 0 | c2gq2l7 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq2l7 | t1_c2gpvi1 | null | 1427545421 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | king_of_the_universe | null | They should be random enough for one-time pads[.](http://theresapuninhere) | null | 0 | 1314872778 | False | 0 | c2gq2q7 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq2q7 | t1_c2gptnf | null | 1427545423 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | albertzeyer | null | **Edit**: Current SIMBL doesn't even use the InputManager injection method anymore but an AppleScript hack. Also, most current non-Cocoa use at least a Cocoa window where they embed everything. Carbon is deprecated. And I think it is internally still a Cocoa window. Are you sure this is not the case? I think SIMBL can ... | null | 0 | 1314872829 | True | 0 | c2gq2so | t3_k0q6s | null | t1_c2gq2so | t1_c2govsf | null | 1427545423 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vintermann | null | No Such Agency. | null | 0 | 1314872845 | False | 0 | c2gq2th | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq2th | t1_c2gp45z | null | 1427545423 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EnderMB | null | One of the main reasons I use git-flow is because I don't know enough about source control to make an informed judgement on what I *should* be doing. If I'm put in front of, say, subversion, I could work it out with a couple of guides and some trial-and-error with commands, but I'm still new to development and I've not... | null | 0 | 1314872883 | False | 0 | c2gq2vi | t3_k0dpk | null | t1_c2gq2vi | t3_k0dpk | null | 1427545424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hakkzpets | null | I could only solve the basic algebra ones. Not that I did try with the hard-looking ones. Been away from math far to long :( | null | 0 | 1314873175 | False | 0 | c2gq39t | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq39t | t1_c2gp3b7 | null | 1427545429 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | I use the [Dice-O-Matic](http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic) for my RNG needs. | null | 0 | 1314873341 | False | 0 | c2gq3hl | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq3hl | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545432 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | domlebo70 | null | Scala and Play framework gets my vote. Or lift | null | 0 | 1314873450 | False | 0 | c2gq3nt | t3_jzvwv | null | t1_c2gq3nt | t1_c2glxj6 | null | 1427545434 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | themysteriousx | null | > PHP 5.3.6
Someone hasn't been doing their patching.
| null | 0 | 1314873468 | False | 0 | c2gq3ou | t3_k11vj | null | t1_c2gq3ou | t3_k11vj | null | 1427545434 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jib | null | It's mostly about hardware, but it does name the relevant assembly instruction and give a brief description of what it does. I think it's sufficiently programming-related for /r/programming. | null | 0 | 1314873727 | False | 0 | c2gq40z | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq40z | t1_c2gp0c5 | null | 1427545439 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | you can use StrategyPattern | null | 0 | 1314873869 | False | 0 | c2gq48y | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gq48y | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545443 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kopkaas2000 | null | You forgot hating on Apple. | null | 0 | 1314874072 | False | 0 | c2gq4jg | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq4jg | t1_c2gp1zz | null | 1427545449 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Thanks to Minecraft I think I actually understand how that works. | null | 0 | 1314874105 | False | 0 | c2gq4lf | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq4lf | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545449 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | 100 hits/second for essentially static content. Hooray? | null | 0 | 1314874159 | False | 0 | c2gq4o3 | t3_k11vj | null | t1_c2gq4o3 | t3_k11vj | null | 1427545447 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jib | null | As another comment has mentioned, the main reason is that it'd be much slower than this system. | null | 0 | 1314874223 | False | 0 | c2gq4ri | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq4ri | t1_c2gq125 | null | 1427545457 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314874541 | False | 0 | c2gq57q | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gq57q | t1_c2gpkkn | null | 1427545454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not easy being green. | null | 0 | 1314874735 | False | 0 | c2gq5hx | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gq5hx | t1_c2gnj6f | null | 1427545458 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SciK | null | Indeed. And the performance benefits come from static vs. dynamic, not from explicit vs. implicit or strong vs. weak. | null | 0 | 1314874924 | False | 0 | c2gq5r7 | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gq5r7 | t1_c2gpyad | null | 1427545461 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | capisce | null | Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but a lot of individual app developers for iOS and Android have been sued by patent trolls recently, and they're the most vulnerable target since they can't afford to defend themselves.
But yes, it's a broken system, and software patents should be abolished altogether, though i... | null | 0 | 1314874953 | False | 0 | c2gq5ss | t3_k11cr | null | t1_c2gq5ss | t1_c2gpwrl | null | 1427545462 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sotonohito | null | I've heard that Japan has the most unique surnames per capita. Don't know about overall.
In the case of Japan it's because pretty much no one had surnames until the Meiji Restoration (1868) and then by government order they had to choose one. So everyone wound up picking something different. There's around 100,000 ... | null | 0 | 1314875018 | False | 0 | c2gq5w2 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gq5w2 | t1_c2ghnpo | null | 1427545463 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | > if you're female or _something_
something like _what_? | null | 0 | 1314875260 | False | 0 | c2gq67k | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gq67k | t1_c2gh7j9 | null | 1427545467 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brasso | null | Mirror anyone? All I'm getting is an "error 500" page.
Edit: OK, it's back. | null | 0 | 1314875591 | True | 0 | c2gq6r3 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq6r3 | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545474 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | refto | null | Pretty much any codebase I work on, contains FSM. Then again, I work in C for embedded hardware, and usually roll my own.
For some reason they usually seem like a nice abstraction which is easy to follow.
I would imagine most universities would cover FSM somewhere in Automata Theory course, wouldn't they? | null | 0 | 1314875678 | False | 0 | c2gq6vd | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gq6vd | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545476 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | albertzeyer | null | No. Should I? Is that common practice on reddit? Should I just resubmit it there or it there a special crosspost function?
Ok, did it: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/k1ae8/pyjector_inject_a_python_terminal_into_any/ | null | 0 | 1314875827 | True | 0 | c2gq72t | t3_k0q6s | null | t1_c2gq72t | t1_c2gprg4 | null | 1427545477 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smek2 | null | >500 ERROR - THE PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed. | null | 0 | 1314876070 | False | 0 | c2gq7g4 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq7g4 | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545483 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314876134 | False | 0 | c2gq7jv | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gq7jv | t1_c2gotch | null | 1427545485 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eras | null | State machines have their advantages.
On the other hand the code is much easier to look at and see that it covers all the cases, on the other hand the state machine becomes quite complicated in even moderately complex systems: in principle, a new flag in a non-FSM system can mean that there's an additional if here and... | null | 0 | 1314876137 | False | 0 | c2gq7k1 | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gq7k1 | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545485 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314876319 | False | 0 | c2gq7us | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq7us | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545488 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314876419 | False | 0 | c2gq811 | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gq811 | t3_k11yc | null | 1427545491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | Java used to be a language that didn't have that much "stuff" in it. Then it got a standard library.
Something like C may have more interactions between parts than Java 1.0 had, but the standard library is small and simple. Even POSIX, or C++ STL (ffs really), are quite small compared to Java's basic runtime libraries... | null | 0 | 1314876422 | False | 0 | c2gq81c | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gq81c | t1_c2gpjnx | null | 1427545491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smek2 | null | Robots! Of course. | null | 0 | 1314876543 | False | 0 | c2gq88u | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gq88u | t3_k0gbq | null | 1427545495 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SarcasticGuy | null | I appreciate the offer, but I've found that Rand's [work](http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/177-1967550-7911702 "Read the reviews.") more than [satisfies](http://www.amazon.com/review/R5OMS2M5RA4SF/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0833030477&nodeID=2... | null | 0 | 1314877060 | False | 0 | c2gq936 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq936 | t1_c2gq2bf | null | 1427545505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | insin | null | Advance warning: large parts of this set of slides are formed from purest 100% flamebait.
I found this while looking around at what's out there already in terms of frameworks, specifically JavaScript frameworks in my case, which have the specific goal of reusing the same codebase in browsers and servers, like [Kanso](... | null | 0 | 1314877064 | False | 0 | c2gq93e | t3_k1798 | null | t1_c2gq93e | t3_k1798 | null | 1427545505 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notadutchboy | null | Interpreters don't read through the code line by line executing each individual instruction themselves!
Bytecode and machine code are different things.
This might help clear up some of your confusion:
[Bytecode](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode) vs. [Machine Code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code)
[I... | null | 0 | 1314877066 | False | 0 | c2gq93n | t3_jxy0j | null | t1_c2gq93n | t1_c2giogt | null | 1427545505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fuzzysarge | null | Link is dead. Looks like they made a random address generator as well. | null | 0 | 1314877105 | False | 0 | c2gq961 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq961 | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314877256 | False | 0 | c2gq9fr | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq9fr | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545510 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fuzzysarge | null | That will not produce a random number. The heat generated by the processer is steady when looking at temp over a few micro-seconds. When the temp does change it goes up just a little bit. Their is no variance in the heat, it is all focused around a mean value. You want random numbers to be spread out over a huge ra... | null | 0 | 1314877418 | False | 0 | c2gq9q8 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gq9q8 | t1_c2gq125 | null | 1427545514 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tinou | null | Strong vs weak can have some effects, because often in weakly typed programming languages, implicit conversions are all over the place. | null | 0 | 1314877418 | False | 0 | c2gq9q9 | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gq9q9 | t1_c2gq5r7 | null | 1427545514 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | logimech | null | Good background knowledge, but not very practical. Up to part 4, you're simply applying transformations that would almost surely be included in whatever game library you are using.
Linear algebra in game development is mostly useful when you are actually writing your own game library. Otherwise you don't really need... | null | 0 | 1314877694 | False | 0 | c2gqa7k | t3_jyzs7 | null | t1_c2gqa7k | t3_jyzs7 | null | 1427545520 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kiafaldorius | null | I know what he means, but I'm pretty sure it's more accurate if it was efficiency. Increasing production does not change the point of diminishing returns or achieve economy of scale. They're related to each other. Consider a production vs returns graph, x is production and y is returns (generally used to mean profits).... | null | 0 | 1314878237 | False | 0 | c2gqb7x | t3_jz0c3 | null | t1_c2gqb7x | t1_c2gcju9 | null | 1427545533 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's why my answer to security questions always looks like "eb801152101094ccf29db7308b94cda3b80dbc5a".
A client was using a Web service, and gave us the username/password but when I tried to log in it asked me a security question. I guessed the client's favourite animal the first time. | null | 0 | 1314878372 | False | 0 | c2gqbi3 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gqbi3 | t1_c2gm7u6 | null | 1427545537 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | warhead71 | null | Last digit in a timestamp seems random enough for me.
EDIT:
I work with mainframe: Timestamp format: yyyyxxddhhmmsszzzzzz - cant be used for everything (eg if number is also unique key then creating 1000's of these per second - could create duplicates)
DB2 also have a buildin random function.
| null | 0 | 1314878460 | True | 0 | c2gqbnu | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqbnu | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545539 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pauric | null | I think the page has been hit by the ~~slashdot~~ reddit effect. | null | 0 | 1314878580 | False | 0 | c2gqbw8 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqbw8 | t1_c2gq6r3 | null | 1427545542 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deboerpa | null | That's why I suggest making the temperature 'accurate' to .000001 degree(or whatever), wouldn't it just be junk data at those 1/100000th of a degree? Just pick the last digit and use that.
edit: I'm pretty sure this would work, but might be very inefficient or not generate numbers quick enough? | null | 0 | 1314878767 | True | 0 | c2gqc8y | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqc8y | t1_c2gq9q8 | null | 1427545546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lovebyte | null | Wikipedia: French_name says between 800,000 and 1,200,000 family names in France.
Wikipedia: Japanese_name says 100,000 family names in Japan.
Sorry, too lazy to provide links!
French family names are older than Japanese and the same name can have a large variety of spellings which can explain why there are so many. | null | 0 | 1314878769 | False | 0 | c2gqc96 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gqc96 | t1_c2gq5w2 | null | 1427545546 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moozaad | null | not necessarily, it might use back ported patches like most linux distribs do. | null | 0 | 1314879106 | False | 0 | c2gqcxe | t3_k11vj | null | t1_c2gqcxe | t1_c2gq3ou | null | 1427545556 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'll summarise it for you:
29446836634765198276530900239001924 | null | 0 | 1314879181 | False | 0 | c2gqd32 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqd32 | t1_c2gq6r3 | null | 1427545558 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ehird | null | Yet they [claim copyright](http://hcoop.net/~ntk/random/). | null | 0 | 1314879198 | False | 0 | c2gqd4l | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqd4l | t1_c2gq936 | null | 1427545558 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | State machines are to coroutines as goto is to subroutines. | null | 0 | 1314879213 | False | 0 | c2gqd5j | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqd5j | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545558 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Theon | null | TIL about lavarnd, neat. | null | 0 | 1314879309 | False | 0 | c2gqdda | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqdda | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545562 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grav | null | What is planned for FF 7 and 8? The article doesn't mention. | null | 0 | 1314879544 | False | 0 | c2gqdvd | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gqdvd | t3_k11yc | null | 1427545567 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314879651 | True | 0 | c2gqe4g | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gqe4g | t3_k11yc | null | 1427545572 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pearlglobe | null | Don't listen to this guy, I clearly saw it say
8373619296251416474949362514285 | null | 0 | 1314879670 | False | 0 | c2gqe5y | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqe5y | t1_c2gqd32 | null | 1427545572 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonzinip | null | > without feedback to the physical device, it's not just slightly biased, it's broken or near-broken
Ok, that's what I was missing. The algorithm works with only one RNG, and unbiases it. I added the final sentence because I was hoping that with a few hundred devices on a chip, at least a few would have limited b... | null | 0 | 1314880080 | False | 0 | c2gqf31 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqf31 | t1_c2gq1ae | null | 1427545583 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | That only removes a static bias. The kind of bias you'd find in a hardware random number generator could very well be far more complex.
Consider, for instance, that noise from the system clock might bias it upwards sometimes and downwards at other times. von Neumann's algorithm will not fix this kind of bias, and migh... | null | 0 | 1314880578 | False | 0 | c2gqg8l | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqg8l | t1_c2gpobf | null | 1427545598 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phus | null | What have I become when I see an article about random-number generators and think "oh this sounds like a good read" | null | 0 | 1314880792 | False | 0 | c2gqgqv | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqgqv | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545606 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Quantum randomness isn't that hard to get. Thermal noise of a resistor will work, which is what Intel's older system did. Measuring the decay of the radioactive element from a fire detector works, too. | null | 0 | 1314881005 | False | 0 | c2gqhac | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqhac | t1_c2goyck | null | 1427545613 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | I can't quantify broken (since I don't have any inside information), but apparently they'd be broken to uselessness or at least unreliability if they're not dynamically readjusted. Even if 90% of the chips would have good enough generators to provide a good RNG, 10% of the chips would have to be discarded. That's very ... | null | 0 | 1314881041 | False | 0 | c2gqhdr | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqhdr | t1_c2gqf31 | null | 1427545614 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nessaj | null | [http://random.org](http://www.random.org) uses atmospheric noise for number generation | null | 0 | 1314881090 | False | 0 | c2gqhi9 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqhi9 | t1_c2goyck | null | 1427545625 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | horizon | null | I refreshed multiple times and it stayed the same. :( | null | 0 | 1314881176 | False | 0 | c2gqhrc | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gqhrc | t1_c2go7fz | null | 1427545628 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pluxdotse | null | I'm a developer and I do use them very often for many things....
I find them more convient for many things, than alternatives. | null | 0 | 1314881229 | False | 0 | c2gqhwm | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqhwm | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545620 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phyzome | null | What is this obsession with sorting by last name? | null | 0 | 1314881297 | False | 0 | c2gqi38 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gqi38 | t1_c2gh0ta | null | 1427545623 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | It's truly random here because it's based on a quantum process. Provided Einstein's ideas about Hidden Variables turn out to be wrong (and they almost certainly are), quantum processes are completely unpredictable. There are implementation details that can get screwed up, but the idea is sound.
But as other posters ha... | null | 0 | 1314881301 | False | 0 | c2gqi3t | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqi3t | t1_c2gq1lg | null | 1427545623 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You can be pretty sure that tchrist knows that better than anyone here. | null | 0 | 1314881587 | False | 0 | c2gqivw | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gqivw | t1_c2gpn37 | null | 1427545636 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | OTP encryption is perfectly secure. Systems based on OTP are almost certainly *not* secure, because there are too many details to get wrong with OTP.
A secure 256-bit block cipher is not breakable without extraordinary amounts of energy (on the order of a supernova), so there's no excuse for dealing with unwieldy OTP ... | null | 0 | 1314881598 | False | 0 | c2gqix0 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqix0 | t1_c2gpvi1 | null | 1427545636 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | what obsession?
People expect to see English names in a particular order. Formal contacts are typically remembered by last name. Last names are more unique than first names.
I guess I could sort them by UUID instead, but that wouldn't help a whole lot would it? | null | 0 | 1314881621 | True | 0 | c2gqizb | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gqizb | t1_c2gqi38 | null | 1427545636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1314881647 | False | 0 | c2gqj15 | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gqj15 | t3_k0jua | null | 1427545636 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | I know, I thought I was reading Wired for a minute. | null | 0 | 1314881683 | False | 0 | c2gqj4q | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqj4q | t1_c2gpvza | null | 1427545638 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joseph177 | null | Still on 3.x because it doesn't leak memory like a donkey on steroids. | null | 0 | 1314881773 | False | 0 | c2gqjdl | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gqjdl | t3_k11yc | null | 1427545640 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joelhealy | null | Maybe Hudson automatically migrated his/her data..... Next time, use Jenkins. | null | 0 | 1314881858 | False | 0 | c2gqjlg | t3_k11wk | null | t1_c2gqjlg | t3_k11wk | null | 1427545642 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DavidM01 | null | Ragel is good. Although I have only tinkered with it, Zed Shaw used it to create an Http parser:
http://www.complang.org/ragel/ | null | 0 | 1314881895 | False | 0 | c2gqjpl | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqjpl | t1_c2gq7k1 | null | 1427545643 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | As I recall, temperature sensors are resistors that change their resistance based on temperature. If you measure precisely enough, it should be equivalent to measuring thermal noise of a resistor, which is indeed quantum. | null | 0 | 1314881930 | False | 0 | c2gqjt7 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqjt7 | t1_c2gq1e2 | null | 1427545644 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaze0 | null | How will he afford to pay child support to Kate? | null | 0 | 1314882005 | False | 0 | c2gqk0o | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gqk0o | t3_k0gbq | null | 1427545647 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SBoots | null | My Android game is served via Google App Engine... At the new price model, I'll have to shut it down. That's way too expensive. It costs me $1.50/day new. New projected costs are more like $9/day | null | 0 | 1314882008 | False | 0 | c2gqk0s | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gqk0s | t3_k0mwl | null | 1427545647 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitsuhiko | null | Tell that to a computer game developer. | null | 0 | 1314882076 | False | 0 | c2gqk7m | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqk7m | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545651 | 59 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Is that supposed to be seven-nines uptime, or an impression of Hitler chewing out a minion? | null | 0 | 1314882077 | False | 0 | c2gqk7q | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqk7q | t1_c2gq1a0 | null | 1427545651 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jczeus | null | Having done lots of POE stuff in Perl, I found [POE::NFA](http://search.cpan.org/~rcaputo/POE/lib/POE/NFA.pm) to be very useful. | null | 0 | 1314882114 | False | 0 | c2gqkbp | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqkbp | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alecco | null | And how does this patent pledge help with patent trolls like Lodsys/Intellectual Ventures? Why would those sign this pledge at all? They clearly don't care of their public image. | null | 0 | 1314882172 | False | 0 | c2gqkh9 | t3_k11cr | null | t1_c2gqkh9 | t1_c2gq5ss | null | 1427545653 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | foot33333 | null | Maybe I'm missing something here, but I would think that each bit of this RNG would bias more in one direction because the noise margins of the inverters will not be perfectly half and half because of process variation.
Edit: ah I guess I hadn't read about the feedback mechanism yet. | null | 0 | 1314882309 | True | 0 | c2gqkvc | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqkvc | t3_k0y50 | null | 1427545659 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Perl is pretty much the only language seriously trying to get things right. Other languages are much worse, and I'm not a fan of Perl. | null | 0 | 1314882310 | False | 0 | c2gqkvl | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gqkvl | t1_c2gn5ss | null | 1427545659 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | WTF? Ruby? Ruby's String/Text/Unicode support is pretty much non-existent. Ruby can probably compete with PHP and JavaScript in terms of brokenness. | null | 0 | 1314882361 | False | 0 | c2gqkzv | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gqkzv | t1_c2glh9b | null | 1427545660 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ernelli | null | Consider the following scenario, the raw binary stream from the monostable switch has a 45%/55% 0/1 ratio, e.g more ones than zeros.
One way to adjust that ratio would be to to the following: Each bit that is generated by the conditioner is either taken directly from the raw bitstream or generated by using two bits fr... | null | 0 | 1314882403 | False | 0 | c2gql4n | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gql4n | t1_c2gpvz9 | null | 1427545662 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | So uuhh, which external library would you use? | null | 0 | 1314882434 | False | 0 | c2gql7p | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gql7p | t1_c2gqj15 | null | 1427545664 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smallfried | null | I just implemented [this function](http://xkcd.com/221/). It's the quickest in execution. | null | 0 | 1314882452 | False | 0 | c2gql9b | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gql9b | t1_c2gpfta | null | 1427545664 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Developers never use state machines because few grasp what they are, never mind how to write one, or what extensions to the model such as a truing machine are. | null | 0 | 1314882586 | False | 0 | c2gqlog | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqlog | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545672 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vombert | null | And still, I didn't get why we need random numbers at 3Gb/s. Maybe you can clarify? | null | 0 | 1314882679 | False | 0 | c2gqlyj | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2gqlyj | t1_c2gpvza | null | 1427545674 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | behrangsa | null | Then I am waiting for Firefox 2012. | null | 0 | 1314882697 | False | 0 | c2gqm0p | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gqm0p | t1_c2gq198 | null | 1427545675 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phyzome | null | The "you're doing it wrong"? Sorry. | null | 0 | 1314882774 | False | 0 | c2gqm90 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gqm90 | t1_c2gmml1 | null | 1427545678 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _maggus | null | The version number of Firefox 9 will be improved by 50% in comparison to Firefox 6. | null | 0 | 1314882806 | False | 0 | c2gqmcq | t3_k11yc | null | t1_c2gqmcq | t3_k11yc | null | 1427545678 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | I use state machines all the time--that's what regular expressions are.
Outside that, it all depends on the problem. Even those CS grads who have had exposure to a theory of computation course may never find a good use for them in a professional environment besides regexes and building blocks to learning context-free ... | null | 0 | 1314882823 | False | 0 | c2gqmeh | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2gqmeh | t3_k12ka | null | 1427545679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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