...ucting critic. I just wanted (and was encouraged) to share somebody else's ideas since the solutions in this thread are either with some exotic language (Fortran, Mathematica) or tagged as faulty by somebody. The only useful one (by Grumdrig) for me is written with C++ and nobody tagged it faulty. B...

...ew papers on Skype security explained and I've been contemplating the same ideas Skype has already tried as a method to not prevent but rather protect my protocol. Something that has proven worthy enough given the obvious circumstances for Skype. – graphitemaster ...

... Late addition, but the comment by @PatrickBoos is a great idea. One problem with this, though, is that even though you've encrypted the password, an attacker that stole that cipher would still be able to log in to your servers, because your servers do the decryption. One addition to...

...idiom arising, and how much traction (steam?) it's picking up? I like the idea of a naming convention making it obvious that you're getting a stream vs a collection — though I also often expect IDE completion on "get" to tell me what I can get. – Joshua Goldberg ...

... much. In general, no, it's not the end of the world, but it's still a bad idea. – Gareth Latty Feb 17 '15 at 20:42 ...

... Performing I/O is parallel with computations is a very good idea, but on Windows you shouldn't use threads to accomplish it. Instead, use "Overlapped I/O", which doesn't block one of your threads during the I/O call. It means you barely have to worry about thread synchronization (ju...

...ic: Even beyond using hash code for hash-table addressing, the fundamental idea behind a hash code is that knowledge that two objects have different hash codes implies that they're unequal and need not compare them. As a corollary, knowledge that many objects' hash codes don't match a given object'...

...espace that identifies the document as a type of book. URNs can identify ideas and concepts. They are not restricted to identifying documents. When a URN does represent a document, it can be translated into a URL by a "resolver". The document can then be downloaded from the URL. URC -- Unifor...

... generators are a good idea, true. i was wanting a general way to do it besides the setting in-place. i guess the difference is minor, thoguh. – Claudiu Nov 23 '08 at 0:57 ...

...l give you back a function on collections. As you can imagine, this is an idea that can be widely reused, which is why it is blessed as part of Haskell's standard library. As usual, people continue to invent new, useful abstractions, and you may want to look into applicative functors, for which t...