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Could you please make the book into a PDF?


Just click print in the top right.


Who wrote the algorithm?


More important that if it is a good programmer or not, is to be able to spot if the guy can get the job DONE.


For better or worse, in the business world (where you'd be conducting interviews), software is only done when you run out of money. A developer getting the job done may not be the most attractive quality.


I don't see any way to do so.

A skilled BSer can do well in interviews and survive for years.


The story is that Ken and Rob were at a diner when Ken gave structure to it and wrote the initial encode/decode functions on napkins. UTF-8 is so simple yet it required a complex mind to do it.


Right, but Intel is in no position to do that. So, they could play and put 32GB VRAM and also, why not produce one with 64GB just for kicks?


If intel was serious about staging a comeback, they would release a 64GB card.

But intel is still lost in it's hubris, and still thinks it's a serious player and "one of the boys", so it doesn't seem like they want to break the line.


Dream phone: Underclocked Samsung25 internals, iPhone SE design/dimensions, at least 90hz OLED panel, 1 back decent camera, 1 front too. 3A battery. Preferably an extenal SD card slot.


Awesome.


I think you could easily give the UI a refresh, modernize it a bit :)


Oh I’d love to, but good UI is apparently my biggest weakness. I’ve rewritten it so many times. And I’m probably gonna rewrite it soon again.


Apple’s encryption, is designed with end-to-end encryption for many types of data.

Some facts:

    Only the user's devices hold the keys to decrypt the data.

    Apple cannot decrypt it, even if served a subpoena.

Apple chose privacy over convenience. Sue all you want, you're going to lose.


Then delete that data and let the user start over. How come Apple gets to hold iTunes purchases (apps, movies etc.) and somebody's email address hostage just because they also happen to store some end-to-end encrypted data on the same cloud account?

Just imagine Google letting people "brick" their accounts because they have a password protected PDF in their Google Drive they don't remember the password for...

And that's to say nothing about the not end-to-end encrypted data, which is still the default for most things in iCloud accounts (without ADP enabled).


Read the article, that's not true by default, the only way you get that level of cryptographic protection is if you enable "Advanced Data Protection". None of the people in the article did that, all of them can trivially prove they are who they say they are via government documents, Apple could decrypt their data and return it, but Apple is refusing to do so.


It's simply not Apple's responsibility. Person's data, their responsibility. Any other way and people lose trust in Apple which BTW they protect it by any means. Trust.

Instead of wanting something impossible, accept the reality.


Uhoh! -- The virus just spread a litl more!


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