Wandering Thoughts archives

2007-12-14:	Check then use is a dangerous security pattern
2007-12-12:	A more abstract view of the generalized `open()` issue Implicit generalized `open()`'s are dangerous
2007-12-09:	I don't like smooth scrolling
2007-11-29:	Hashes are not complete protectors of privacy
2007-11-22:	The different types of hash collisions
2007-11-12:	Matching words against a list in the Bourne Shell
2007-11-04:	Thinking through salts for passwords
2007-10-29:	My problem with learning new programming languages
2007-10-10:	How to properly look up hostnames from IP addresses
2007-09-14:	A thought on untyped languages
2007-09-07:	My view of what 'strongly typed' means
2007-08-17:	A thesis about language niches
2007-08-15:	The problem that built C++ (a thesis)
2007-07-29:	My standard for clear idioms in personal code
2007-07-17:	Random passwords are not necessarily good passwords
2007-07-09:	How many bits of information are in a password?
2007-07-08:	A suggestion for HMAC signature construction
2007-06-28:	Why I don't like inverted `if` conditionals
2007-06-19:	Thinking about types of bugs (and static analysis)
2007-05-31:	Please test your error paths
2007-05-29:	On storing source code in some non-text format
2007-04-29:	What matters about object oriented operating systems
2007-04-24:	RPC is surprisingly expensive
2007-03-31:	A simple debugger feature that I would really like
2007-03-08:	A bad popup dialog
2007-03-01:	An irritating limitation of listening sockets
2007-02-05:	Another small user interface suggestion
2007-02-02:	Why don't SQL servers do a lot of caching?
2007-02-01:	Transparent versus non-transparent caching
2007-01-07:	Another issue with C's `volatile`
2007-01-05:	Henry Spencer on C's `volatile`
2007-01-03:	The problem with C's `volatile` qualifier

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