Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

This is really good.

It allows the client to prepare a single request that gets all the data it wants to fill up a given webpage, rather than doing several separate requests.

So it only gets exactly what it needs, and in a single request.

Very sweet. This is the future of the web.

Good points:

This is the classic result of formal language theory, but there is too much slack between context free and context sensitive, which is PSPACE (larger than NP!).

By Noam Chomsky.

A good summary table that opens up each category much more can be seen e.g. at the bottom of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory under the summary thingy at the bottom entitled "Automata theory: formal languages and formal grammars".

Ciro Santilli found out that he likes computer security researchers and vice versa.

It's a bit the same reason why he likes physicists: you can't bullshit with security.

You can't just talk nice and hope for people to belive you.

You can't not try to break things and just keep everyone happy in their false illusion of safety.

You can't do a half job.

If you do any of that, you will get your ass handed to you in a little gift bag.

All of this is closely linked to Ciro Santilli's self perceived creative personality and being naughty and creative are correlated.

Ciro Santilli's favorite. A mixture of painting and book.

TODO what does this Chinese forum track? New registrations? Their focus seems to be domain name speculation

Some of the threads contain domain dumps. We haven't yet seen a scrapable URL pattern, but their data goes way back and did have various hits. The forum seems to have started in 2006: club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=41&page=10127

club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=241704 "【国际域名拟删除列表】2007年06月16日" is the earliest list we could find. It is an expired domain list.

Some hits:

It is fun to see that C and G have been confused since antiquity:

In Chinese lit. just "Four Great Masterpieces".