Comments for Sambal http://sambal.org trying to avoid labels Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on The Real World by Peter Boothe http://sambal.org/2010/10/the-real-world/#comment-142 Peter Boothe Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:46:24 +0000 http://sambal.org/?p=839#comment-142 And you are, of course, correct. Just to flesh things out, let me give you the backstory behind my comment. I was returning from the NYC DMV, where I had been told that it would *not* be possible for me to exchange my OR driver's license for a NY one, because while I did have my Social Security card (perhaps the most fake-able government ID ever made) I did not have my birth certificate (the other contender for most fake-able government document). I did, of course, have an unexpired license from another state and multiple other cards with my picture and signature on them, but without the top two least secure documents in my hands, I would not be allowed to switch states. This led me to thinking about why they were requiring these documents (I still kind of don't know - the SSN makes sense because they are using the SSA as a proxy to generate a unique ID for each person, but why the birth certificate?) and what these rules were designed to accomplish. And then I thought about how I could totally get a fake driver's license with just an inkjet printer. A level of insecurity which would be laughed out of the room in the digital world. Anyhow, so that's the backstory: Peter got smacked down by a bureaucracy for missing a very falsifiable piece of paper. Which led to grumpy tweeting on the bus to work. And you are, of course, correct.

Just to flesh things out, let me give you the backstory behind my comment. I was returning from the NYC DMV, where I had been told that it would *not* be possible for me to exchange my OR driver’s license for a NY one, because while I did have my Social Security card (perhaps the most fake-able government ID ever made) I did not have my birth certificate (the other contender for most fake-able government document). I did, of course, have an unexpired license from another state and multiple other cards with my picture and signature on them, but without the top two least secure documents in my hands, I would not be allowed to switch states.

This led me to thinking about why they were requiring these documents (I still kind of don’t know – the SSN makes sense because they are using the SSA as a proxy to generate a unique ID for each person, but why the birth certificate?) and what these rules were designed to accomplish. And then I thought about how I could totally get a fake driver’s license with just an inkjet printer. A level of insecurity which would be laughed out of the room in the digital world. Anyhow, so that’s the backstory: Peter got smacked down by a bureaucracy for missing a very falsifiable piece of paper. Which led to grumpy tweeting on the bus to work.

]]> Comment on STL lower_bound on lists four times slower than naive algorithm by Sambal : Analyzing STL lower_bound: why does it iterate the whole list twice? http://sambal.org/2008/06/695/#comment-85 Sambal : Analyzing STL lower_bound: why does it iterate the whole list twice? Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:26:23 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=695#comment-85 [...] problem, in a word: caching. Next time: data! Posted by Sam_old on Friday, June 27, 2008, at 12:32 pm. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged [...] [...] problem, in a word: caching. Next time: data! Posted by Sam_old on Friday, June 27, 2008, at 12:32 pm. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged [...]

]]> Comment on C++ Runtime Types: Find All Classes Derived From a Base Class (1) by Sambal : C++ Runtime Types: Find All Classes Derived From a Base Class (3) http://sambal.org/2009/10/c-runtime-types-find-all-classes-derived-from-a-base-class-1/#comment-83 Sambal : C++ Runtime Types: Find All Classes Derived From a Base Class (3) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:24:53 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=805#comment-83 [...] on a way to find all the derived classes of a base class: part 1 is here, discussing the motivation and frame of the problem.  Part 2 is here, discussing one approach that [...] [...] on a way to find all the derived classes of a base class: part 1 is here, discussing the motivation and frame of the problem.  Part 2 is here, discussing one approach that [...]

]]> Comment on There’s Something Rotten by Sam http://sambal.org/2010/08/theres-something-rotten/#comment-5 Sam Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:44:22 +0000 http://sambal.org/?p=12#comment-5 VI. 109. 5, apparently. Here's the good quote: <blockquote> ἢν δὲ συμβάλωμεν πρίν τι καὶ <strong>σαθρὸν</strong> Ἀθηναίων μετεξετέροισι ἐγγενέσθαι,</blockquote> Godley has that as: <blockquote>before anything unsound corrupts the Athenians</blockquote> VI. 109. 5, apparently. Here’s the good quote:

ἢν δὲ συμβάλωμεν πρίν τι καὶ σαθρὸν Ἀθηναίων μετεξετέροισι ἐγγενέσθαι,

Godley has that as:

before anything unsound corrupts the Athenians

]]> Comment on There’s Something Rotten by Andromeda http://sambal.org/2010/08/theres-something-rotten/#comment-4 Andromeda Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:04:48 +0000 http://sambal.org/?p=12#comment-4 (Do you have a more specific site than "volume 6"? There is a standard format for citing classics stuff so if you saw something like 6.1.13 or whatever, throw that back at me, because it'll be applicable everywhere. It's kinda hard to search the corpus when all you have is a translation. ;) (Do you have a more specific site than “volume 6″? There is a standard format for citing classics stuff so if you saw something like 6.1.13 or whatever, throw that back at me, because it’ll be applicable everywhere. It’s kinda hard to search the corpus when all you have is a translation. ;)

]]> Comment on There’s Something Rotten by Andromeda http://sambal.org/2010/08/theres-something-rotten/#comment-3 Andromeda Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:03:45 +0000 http://sambal.org/?p=12#comment-3 The place you generally want to look first for online, original-language (and public-domain-translation) of Greek and Roman materials is The Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman . They have Herodotus. (My Greek now sucks.) Also, hey, new site design! I like it. The place you generally want to look first for online, original-language (and public-domain-translation) of Greek and Roman materials is The Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman . They have Herodotus. (My Greek now sucks.)

Also, hey, new site design! I like it.

]]> Comment on Deleting From A Collection in STL by Nadav http://sambal.org/2010/07/deleting-from-a-collection-in-stl/#comment-79 Nadav Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:21:57 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=831#comment-79 Erasing from STL containers is hard, and not portable between container types, but this is also true for other operations. Erasing from STL containers is hard, and not portable between container types, but this is also true for other operations.

]]> Comment on Deleting From A Collection in STL by charlie http://sambal.org/2010/07/deleting-from-a-collection-in-stl/#comment-78 charlie Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:44:58 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=831#comment-78 Nice work, and clean code, it's a shame that these discrepancies exist. Problem is these extra functions merely add more complexity. If it were my project I would use the supported api for the collection and move on. Nice work, and clean code, it’s a shame that these discrepancies exist. Problem is these extra functions merely add more complexity. If it were my project I would use the supported api for the collection and move on.

]]> Comment on Deleting From A Collection in STL by John Peterson http://sambal.org/2010/07/deleting-from-a-collection-in-stl/#comment-75 John Peterson Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:37:58 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=831#comment-75 I think Item #2 in Scott Meyers' Effective STL, "Beware the illusion of container-independent code", is relevant here. But that does not diminish the usefulness of the nice generic programming exercise you've posted here... I think Item #2 in Scott Meyers’ Effective STL, “Beware the illusion of container-independent code”, is relevant here. But that does not diminish the usefulness of the nice generic programming exercise you’ve posted here…

]]> Comment on C++ Runtime Types: Find All Classes Derived From a Base Class (3) by J http://sambal.org/2009/10/c-runtime-types-find-all-classes-derived-from-a-base-class-3/#comment-71 J Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:22:44 +0000 http://www.sambal.org/?p=811#comment-71 Thanks for posting these solutions! I was tackling the same problem in a program and this was just what I was looking for. Thanks for posting these solutions! I was tackling the same problem in a program and this was just what I was looking for.

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