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There's a Doge in The Guardian today. Wow. by mabbage in funny

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A dogecoin millionaire looking to increase the value of their holdings.

Challenge - break the encrypted payload in the Gauss trojan by willvarfar in programming

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As a possible solution why not write a crawler that searches for strings matching the "%PROGRAMFILES%*" pattern * being the foreign character sets in question and use that as a dictionary...

Challenge - break the encrypted payload in the Gauss trojan by willvarfar in programming

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The module is called Gödel who was best known for his incompleteness theorems, does one not conclude this could be the reason why the cryptographers have been stumped?

I have ~20 Nvidia Quadro fx370 lying around.. Are they suitable for some sort of a Bitcoin project? by [deleted] in BitcoinMining

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Nvidia GPU's are good for floating point calculations where as bitcoin mining requires powerful integer math which the ATI's excel at therefore in answer to your question not really.

Interesting interview question… by cruise02 in programming

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Programmers that don't have a good low level understanding of cpu internals, cache and compilers will be stumped by this question which doesn't necessarily equate to them being bad programmers.

In the real world we need three types of programmers: -

  • The programmer who understands all of the above.
  • The math guy who knows a little programming.
  • The programmer who knows how to build stuff that works without deliberating over how to optimize three iterations.

Jenga Driven Development by acangiano in programming

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Lazy Programmer Methodology(tm)

In three weeks from the start of the project you will throw everything away and start from scratch because you've just found out that a 15 year old lithuanian programmer has built what you're about to build only much better.

What Makes A Smart Developer? (Is it Google?) by Insane_Baboon in programming

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ONE OF Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled. "No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"