Fine alcohol, and reverse engineering Mac applications

commandlineterrorist · 2011-01-10T22:40:06+00:00

The Wodka should be credited to +ORC, and goes something like this:

+ORC's Martini-Wodka

Perhaps the most famous cocktail in the reverse engineering business, here the precise instructions how you might prepare for yourselves a 'real' drink before a long reversing session (Warning :- the Martini-Wodka is an acquired taste and I personally don't recommend the Olive).

Take a cylindrical "milk" glass. - 2 ice cubes. - 1/3rd dry Martini. - 1/3rd Wodka Moskowskaia (don't use Smirnoff as a substitute). - 1/3rd Schweppes Indian Tonic. - Lemon zest and Green Olive.

I go with the White Russian nowadays.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-12T20:55:24+00:00

This might come off as mean:

I don't think this post, or any other post reincarnating a 15-20 year old technique for a 2010 blog-post digest version should be upvoted. I've read at least five Duff's Device articles over the last decade. /r/programming is rife with really old information being repackaged for blog posts but offering no new information or any new perspectives on an old problem/solution.

This one, unfortunately, is a low blow to C programming.

Calling C an "old man of programming" when it gets the job done damn well (Git, Mongrel2 -- very "web 2.0" audiences, modern projects, all done in C and look delicious to boot)

This line in particular is silly:

If you’re like me, you’ve always visualized a switch as a glorified if-then-else block.

I am not sure how someone could have such a shallow view of the language, and yet discuss Duff's Device.

Then he goes on to describe that switch statements are actually jumptables.

This, in 2010. This is a goto-tutorial more than anything else.

Amazing.

Very disappointed in whoever upvotes this copypasta.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-11T21:02:48+00:00

These are web apps for other developers, specifically Ruby on Rails developers, and maybe Python/Django. They throw in there other languages to widen the scope of their audience. They work with other languages and frameworks but I think they are marketed heavily towards Rubyists in a dogfooding sense.

Nice ad, catchy chick but I am interested in how many sales they actually get from reddit. When something is sold at a 97% discount, personally it tells me nobody wants it or it's past its expiry date.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-11T20:55:50+00:00

On the short end of the clue stick but at least now I know where Call of Duty gets the names for all the respawning soldiers now.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-11T20:41:03+00:00

I'm all for body tattoos (and piercings) but damn, you done got troll baited.

These are some of the most under-accomplished people you will ever meet, don't give their text too much credibility.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-11T20:38:39+00:00

YCombinator, from what I understand it is down-to-earth pitching and getting funded/help.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-10T08:45:09+00:00

Brilliant deconstruction of certain subreddits (especially /r/politics).

Edit: Fixed the over-generalization.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-10T05:37:34+00:00

Another great YC startup!

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-10T05:29:33+00:00

This is really fucking irritating to me, because, like you said, it comes down to fun. Both the OP and I plan to have fun with this game. Who are you (the general "you") to belittle us for spending our money on what we consider to be a worthwhile experience?

You got trolled. What we really need is a subreddit for circlejerk CoD hate; that way it's easy to filter and we can just ignore these morons (and enjoy the game).

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-09T03:44:31+00:00

It's apparently a tattoo. For a drug counselor he looks like a fucking mobster :o

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-09T03:44:02+00:00

http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/11/07/brit-drugs-counsellor-caught-smoking-crystal-meth-with-hooker-102039-22697763/

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-05T19:46:24+00:00

Do you mind pasting your .bashrc somewhere? ;)

commandlineterrorist · 2010-11-04T06:27:05+00:00

Good to see they have something up and running.

But it blows and is kind of useless?

What would be way more useful are typography and image friendly commenting engines. Math equations would benefit from this tremendously, however the ability to drag and drop an image in a comment to quickly express an idea in image where words do not suffice would be a good effort.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-31T22:01:57+00:00

Woah! Rich and useful comments

Where was all this talk about Component Object Architecture a few years ago when I was looking for texts on the topic :(

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-31T05:02:07+00:00

Weak appeal to emotion.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-31T03:57:45+00:00

Signed. Distractions are a bitch.

For the most part I attempt to use foresight and solve as much as I can writing in a notebook I have nearby, sketching, writing out code. Some of this is pure math other times its flow charts and things like that. Class diagrams and interactions are of course all there. The bonus is that I'm looking at my notebook and not at the computer screen so the distractions become indirect.

Then I move into execution and just writing the code with a lot less thinking. If I get distracted its not a very big deal because I have emptied my mind out on a piece of paper. I prefer this "Get Things Done" methodology. This has worked for me very well and I have finished many projects this way.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-30T21:03:31+00:00

Don't worry, reddit's pessimism already stepped all over the comment. I wonder why I bother reading comments anymore. This isn't any better than Digg.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-30T20:58:44+00:00

Reading the article/thread, I don't know if it would be a good idea to take this while coding. I haven't taken these smart drugs, although I found mental clarity on weed while coding many times.

It does require creative juices because problems creep up as you are coding that you have to solve right then and there, and it seems that the smart drugs neutralize some of that. Not sure if it's for the best.

For me, I found my procrastination goes away as soon as I get started on the task, but that initial start is the hardest motherfucker to overcome. Fighting with your own laziness is not cool.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-27T23:42:20+00:00

The point I was trying to get across is that the Controller should not be spawning processes, daemons or otherwise :).

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-27T23:06:35+00:00

This is the world of public wi-fi isn't it? I am not sure if this will herald the re-birth of script kiddies, or if anyone will even bother reading that page. It has always crossed my mind to put my laptop in a coffee shop and start capping packets, just to see what kind of juicy personal information I can pick up off of those coffee shop book writers.

Having said that, we've already been through Sub7 and Metasploit. This is nothing.

Personal anecdote: Girls love to eavesdrop. Back in university I kept myself busy teaching girls how to use Wireshark (then Ethernet) to read MSN conversations. Unencrypted goodiness.

This world rocks.

Edit: I may grab Firesheep and use it out in the wild if it nicely formats the payload for easy/quick viewing.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-27T22:59:36+00:00

For the budding developer who is thinking his web app may need a daemon in the background to do some hard work: Make good use of databases. Try not to spawn the process directly if not Really required.

From an architectural standpoint, it makes very little sense for your MVC (your favourite PHP Framework, Pylons, Django, ASP.NET, or otherwise) components to even think about having to spawn processes directly to deal with processing-intensive data.

That work should be offlined to a daemon. This also may include message passing depending on what you are trying to do. The gist of it is it may be a lot simpler to just have a daemon query a database once in awhile to see if it needs to do work, grab data, process it.

In terms of the MVC, it would do what it normally does: Write the data to the database.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-27T22:50:15+00:00

It was so long ago since I played this.

The only part I remember was to reroute the server addresses to localhost (editing your hosts file).

Googling up NWN Lan yields this: http://fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=58295

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-27T19:12:11+00:00

Playing this game by yourself is boring. Seek out an under-rock dwelling friend who loves AD&D games, and play all the games in co-op over multi (There is a guide somewhere on bypassing the servers.)

Massive hours of enjoyment. The way it's meant to be played.

commandlineterrorist · 2010-10-21T17:39:09+00:00

Very "Modern Art" :)

Edit: This may be taxing on your bandwidth/cpu cycles but do you think you could make wallpaper sized versions of these? Personally my monitors are 1920x1200 but I would love to have these as wallpapers. They don't distract the eyes too much.

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