Do you use it? How do you like it? (I visited the archbang.org site. After about 5 minutes of browsing the wiki their server started throwing 500 errors. I assume due to high traffic.)

[edit] It seems to be working again.

I do, I run it on my MBP (two SSDs, one running OSX one with ARchbang).

I've run it now for quite a while and like it. I used to run vanilla Arch, and as is bound to happen with any Arch based distro there are the occasional breaking change. The archbang maintainers have dealt with them pretty well and they give advanced warning where possible.

Archbang and Crunchbang are fairly similar in feel -- they use essentially the same visual setup.

So, it will take a 'snapshot' of the page that you can markup. This snapshot will disable dynamic features of the webpage but still allow links to work. I wonder if they are talking about halting DOM manipulation, or JavaScript execution. Seems this will definitely create new classes of QA test paths.

I suspect that Facebook still wants to know that some letters have a different case than other letters. If They just converted all letters to uppercase then that information would be lost.

Sure, I think that this means that the try the normal case and the flipped case.

> ie. compare both hash(enteredPassword) and hash(invertCase(enteredPassword)) to the hash in the database and see if either match

Here's an example in bash:

  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z'
  pASsWOrD

In the database store one variant

  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z' | sha256sum > db

Then you can test both on input

  $ echo PasSwoRd | sha256sum > sum1
  $ echo PasSwoRd | tr 'A-Za-z' 'a-zA-Z' | sha256sum > sum2
  $ diff -q db sum1
  Files db and sum1 differ # i.e. LOGIN FAILS
  $ diff -q db sum2
  $ # i.e. LOGIN SUCCEEDS

The problem with the caps lock behaviour on Macs is harder. You definitely don't want to force to uppercase!

Do you know how they handle caps lock on Macs then? When caps lock is on, it types in caps even with shift.

Who says they can't check 3 times? Original, caps inverted and uppercase? This would make sense. You could even make it try neighboring keys on common key layouts. If the hash has enough bits of security then good passwords will still not break.

Was expecting a link to D ;-)

Thanks for writing this. I find your writing style to be very easy to follow. I've wanted to play with a toy language for some time, so I'm very excited to dive into your book with both feet. I'm working on Windows and am up to chapter 6. Very enjoyable. The only suggestions I would offer is perhaps to mention that AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree. It seems this book is targeted to less experienced programmers, so it may be helpful to mention what AST means in this context. Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share your knowledge.

Well, just made it to the next chapter where you talk about AST. :-)

I can't tell if this is good or bad. But, does it strike anyone else as odd that the IRS ignores that bitcoin _is_ actually currency? Can they even declare it to be property when the reality is that it is currency?

> But, does it strike anyone else as odd that the IRS ignores that bitcoin _is_ actually currency? Can they even declare it to be property when the reality is that it is currency?

"Property" is a statement about a legal relationship between a person and some (tangible or intangible) thing.

"Currency" is a statement about an attribute of a thing idnependent of its legal relationship to any person.

Whether a thing is "currency" and whether it is someone's "property" are orthogonal concerns. It can be either, both, or neither. The fact that it is one does not prevent it from being the other.

As I understand it, the main difference is that, if it were currency, you’d need to go though a lot of regulation to process it, keep it and change it with dollars.

I doubt the IRS can influence SEC and the Financial commission into the finer points of Legal tender. What they say is: no matter that, these things are like stock, and we feel the right to tax your profits on trading them.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Put otherwise: it sounds like when a lawyer (or The Dude) says that you are “an asshole”. Most lawyers don’t really have the moral standing to accuse anyone of that, but what they are saying is: my qualifications are telling you what is legal and what isn’t, and this unsavory action isn’t illegal. IRS is saying: BitCoins are not just to pay for your groceries, they are a way to store and accrue value; they have no standing on how convenient they are or should be to buy groceries.

Collectible antique coins are also currency -- a buffalo nickel is still legal tender, but you'd be a fool to use it in a bubble gum vending machine. Nonetheless, the IRS treats them as property, for purposes of taxation.

> Can they even declare it to be property when the reality is that it is currency?

It seems you're overlooking the possibility that it may be both.

What would you say the difference between property and currency is?

define 'reality'

This reads like an article from the Onion.

The Borowitz Report is a satirical blog by the New Yorker, if that wasn't clear :p

They need to quit dinking around with garbage newsprint like this.

If this is for development, is there a reason to not run it on your dev machine?

I'm looking into that. Running a VM is easy, I just want to figure out how to deploy docker containers.

I'm not sure how much this solves your problem of "deploying docker containers" but our service Quay.io can be used to push/pull/serve your private binary images. Couple that with something like Digital Ocean's Docker image, and you can deploy docker containers pretty simply.

I'm there with you. I have to have music while coding. Thanks for the list of new (to me) music.

You're welcome :)

Thanks!