From StackOverflow: Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi.You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank…
Archives for August 2011
Reality is Organization
Our entire universe consists of matter and energy interacting with itself according to the laws of physics. That is reality. This is a world of subatomic particles smashing into each other trillions of times per second according to a list of rules. The result of some of these collisions is a particular type of organization. Examples include atoms,…
Why Lock Technology Stagnated for Decades
At BSides-LasVegas this year I saw an exemplary talk on the history of lock technology and lock picking. Not only was it informative, but it was highly entertaining as well. At the end of the talk, the speaker had a question for the audience. After charting astounding progress in lock technology up through the 1860’s, locks basically stagnated…
Don’t Be Agnostic About Ridiculous Propositions
Many are confused about the meaning of agnosticism as it relates to things we as humans are not certain about. The common mistake is combining things we don’t know yet (A) with those that are probably unknowable (B) with those things that are ridiculous (C). Agnosticism is reserved for types A and B, not C. To add flesh…
SQL Injection is 90% SQL, WebSec is 90% WebDev
I believe too many people take the wrong approach to security, or “hacking”. Most who seek this ability clamor for answers to questions like, “How can I hack SQL?” “How can I hack Linux?” “How can I hack web applications?” There’s a really simple answer. Learn SQL. Learn Linux. Learn to build web applications. What people call “hacking”…