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Unspecified Behaviour
Personal blog · unspecified.wordpress.comprogramming
Unspecified Behaviour is a personal blog at unspecified.wordpress.com about programming. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “WikiLeaks password leak FAQ”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's 2011 post on the WikiLeaks insurance file password and a 2009 post on Microsoft banning memcpy. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
It's about programming!
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/09/03/wikileaks-password-leak-faq/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-22
- WikiLeaks password leak FAQ2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-04
What Hacker News says?
You're right about auto-formatting being possible with significant whitespaces... but: When you copy-paste a block of code in another block of code, with significant whitespace you have to correctly reindenting everything very carefully, while with explicit blocks you can let an automatic formatter do the work. When you copy-paste a block of code in chat/email/comment, it is sometimes difficult to preserve significa…
Comment linking /2011/10/18/why-pythons-whitespace-rule-is-right/
on “Reason: A new interface to OCaml”Submitted Why Git Ain’t Better Than X as a story · 28 points
HN discussionWikileaks released the 'insurance file' encrypted. The release of the password seems to be some kind of bizarre mix-up, the Guardian journalists released it in a book... See: https://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-passw...
Comment linking /2011/09/03/wikileaks-password-leak-faq/
on “Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak”Submitted URI Encoding Done Right as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> wouldn't you just move the files and change the password? Quoting from http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-passwo... - "speculation says that since it was on the WikiLeaks server temporarily, and WikiLeaks was aggressively mirroring their site to avoid being taken down, it was copied within the few hours that it was available online, and spread from there." Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Comment linking /2011/09/03/wikileaks-password-leak-faq/
on “Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems”Submitted WikiLeaks password leak FAQ as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-passwo... A journalist leaked the password given to him by Wikileaks by publishing it in his book. At that moment the encrypted file was already all over the internet.
Comment linking /2011/09/03/wikileaks-password-leak-faq/
on “WikiLeaks Leaks 'Fifth Estate' Screenplay”Submitted The importance of language-level abstract Unicode strings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe code that checked for DRM support set the "distinctiveIdentifier" config option to "not-allowed" specifically to avoid being useful for tracking. Most of the stuff that people think is "fingerprinting" is just trying to confirm the browser is what it claims to be. It is (or was) tricky to make DRM work in chromium compiled from source. `!("a" == "a"[0])` just detects IE6/7, as they return undefined for "a"[0]: h…
Comment linking /2008/06/15/portable-javascript-string-indexing/
on “Finding a random seed that solves a LeetCode problem (2023)”I never liked those microsoft functions, and disable all the warnings in each new project. What are you supposed to use instead of memcpy? It's a bit of a rant but I find myself in agreement with this: http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/microsoft-bans-m...
Comment linking /2009/05/16/microsoft-bans-memcpy/
on “GCC Poison”
