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Bit bombs and other dangers

http://dayvancowboy.org/2008/07/bit-bombs-and-other-dangers/

by syntaxfree • 18 years ago

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Herring• 18 years ago

From the comments:

"I read about half-way through this, but I had to stop because I couldn’t really handle the prose. Is there some sort of Non-profit organization that helps needy programmers learn how to write?"

I think I just got an idea for a startup.

pchristensen• 18 years ago

A frustrating, unprofitable one...

ars• 18 years ago

Don't bother reading this.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Why would proving deflate correct have the slightest effect on the sizes of files it can make?

It's very easy to compress a huge file full of zeros into a tiny one that uncompresses surprisingly large. The fact that it works is not a bug.

I'm trying to understand what he's talking about and I can't. It's probably best to ignore nonsense.

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