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2,393karma·363submissions·December 17, 2013
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Contact me at: [my username] [at] adolfo [dot] ochagavia [dot] nl (or check out ochagavia.nl)
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I faced a related dilemma when I finished my CS degree: to work as a full-stack dev or to work on more foundational technology (and actually use what I learned in my degree). My experience is that the…
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I've thought about this (albeit not for that long) and it seems like you'd need a non-trivial revamp of how we communicate with the operating system. For instance, allowing a library to &quo…
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There are some voices trying to address this security risk (e.g. the proponents of this new RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3810 ). However, for some reason …
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Some people _do_ care about this (e.g. the proponents of this new RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3810 ). However, for some reason (culture, I guess?) there …
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Actually, a proposal for exactly this was published yesterday: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3810 It's unfortunate that the response so far hasn't be…
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Good luck in your adventure! By the way, I think many people here on HN (myself included) would love to help you out if you get stuck / are struggling to get started / want a code review &#x…
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Thanks for the example! It has helped me understand better the use case of AEAD for at-rest-encrypted-data. I finally updated the example to a new one, though it's still message-based (it fits th…
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Thanks for the kind words! I'm trying to balance pragmatism with depth. Glad it was useful to you ;)
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It looks like I actually got the example wrong, sorry about that! Somehow I assumed that the server was able to authenticate the receiver id, but as you correctly point out, that would require knowing…
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I've been pretty disappointed with eStargz performance, though... Do you have any numbers you can share? All over the internet people refer to numbers from 10 years ago, from workloads that don&#…
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FWIW, Fred Brooks has a quote that is similar in spirit to the one you mentioned. It's in Chapter 1, The Tar Pit (under the title The Joys of the Craft ): > Finally, there is the delight of…
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Oops, good catch! Thanks!
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> It takes guts to defend non-extremist positions, because the extremists will always have more powerful one-liners. Thanks for that quote :)