B-Con

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by B-Con 14y ago
It's not granular enough for small scale/personal use. If someone were considering using S3 for a small project, or even just personal backup, this wouldn't really help them. The sliders should offer some way to get more granularity. Maybe
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by B-Con 14y ago
How dare you put the last two decades in perspective like that... :-S
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by B-Con 14y ago
Dilbert reference: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
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by B-Con 14y ago
This is very popular amongst people just working on desktop setups. They usually don't need /tmp to house anything too large. Arch Linux actually switched recently to mounting /tmp as tmpfs recently.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Every release for Apple is the biggest thing they've done so far. Apple does not do uninteresting releases. At least, they don't tell you that.
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by B-Con 14y ago
10 seconds here, 10 seconds there, before you know it you're talking about... I dunno... a minute or so. Can you seriously afford to waste that kind of time?
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by B-Con 14y ago
5/5 Google. Two technical queries, three more average ones. But I could tell which side had which search results in 2 or 3 of the tests, so I can't claim complete blindness in the test. I tried to be impartial, though.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Inane length stats for their answers: Romney: * Words: 5,031 * Paragraphs: 70 Obama: * Words: 3,242 * Paragraphs: 35
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by B-Con 14y ago
> A purely OO programmer mostly in .Net land sees one cute JS trick example and declares Namespaces obsolete? Yep. The majority of "X is obsolete" or "Y is the way of the future" blog posts are like this. HN loves to be bleeding edge, s
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Am I the only one who, rather than being outraged, is thrilled at the potential hacking opportunities and other shenanigans this introduces? The fun that could be had... This is (in part) why so many are outraged.
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by B-Con 14y ago
This would be awesome, but I feel skeptical of how practical it would be. First, the biggest problem today isn't password quality, it's protecting them. 1) Hack the password verification/storage database. If you can do that and recover the
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by B-Con 14y ago
> On one hand, yes, this technology would easily protect you from brute-force and dictionary-based attacks. I highly doubt that. There will be a finite number of possible patterns. So brute force will be possible. There will likely be s
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by B-Con 14y ago
It was a perfectly valid prediction, one that I also made, and it came true. The answers were only a handful and they were very fluffy. If he was right, it just shows that he understands how these things work. If he was wrong, he would be p
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by B-Con 14y ago
Except that a lawyer or financial analyst won't be interviewed based on the pro-bono work they've done for a friend. Interviewer: "So, do you do pro-bono work?" Interviewee: "Yeah, I've done some for some friends." Interviewer: "Excellent,
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How many rounds should be used with PBKDF?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by B-Con 14y ago
Yeah, they/he has that attitude. But to be fair, they kind of are. They power the most advanced computing software for the public, and they're a strong dependency for Siri.
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by B-Con 14y ago
FTA: > Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Following the link, you get to this page of stats ( http://www.goog
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by B-Con 14y ago
I think that this mentality is because people don't see their device as consisting of various different components acquired separately, they view it as one device with functionality that is sometimes insufficient and needs to be supplemente
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by B-Con 14y ago
The entire "account recovery" concept just reeks of ad-hoc solutions piled on top of ad-hoc solutions. They're designed primarily so that legit customers who can't get into their accounts suffer as little inconvenience as possible, and they
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by B-Con 14y ago
I thought it was odd as well. I think that he meant that the guy who knows a subject very well is more likely to be advanced in responsibility/seniority quickly.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I fail to see why this is "too much". Pragmatically, for a competent typist, all of these duplicate commands add up to a grand total of what, like 2 minutes a month? You will easily spend a few months of savings performing the analysis and
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by B-Con 14y ago
Thankfully, my handle is pretty unique. I use it pretty much everywhere and not only is it available, but I've only seen two other instances of it used by someone else (both on sites I didn't care about). Unfortunately, hyphens aren't alway
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by B-Con 14y ago
Sounds suspiciously like they want to avoid having people slam their APIs unnecessarily. They probably don't care how you use their APIs, they just don't want you constantly polling them and/or sending of query bursts just to get some lat
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Piracy is a symptom of failure to find an effective business model. I hate this assumption, it's grounded in nothing but unwarranted optimism about humanity. Maybe people pirate because they're cheap, selfish, and don't like spending
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by B-Con 14y ago
> I really flipping "hate" C. It's used for everything in Linux it seems like. Things that really ought to be high level turn out to be a libfoo.so, requiring a C compiler. I'm confused by what you mean. What is this "higher level" that
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by B-Con 14y ago
That's what I assumed. If I just moved my mouse a couple pixels I usually got the same pointing image back. I think they just divided it up into regions and then load the appropriate image for each region. However, if that's all they're doi
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by B-Con 14y ago
I did some spot checking. In general, the odds seem lowish. Some are surprisingly reasonable, some seem absurd. I would've liked to see sources. Below I assume a U.S. population of 300 - 310 million (rounding as convenient). > Goes to l
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by B-Con 14y ago
I think that most new languages feel obliged to have some sort of fun syntax quirk, usually, it seems, in the form of odd token choices.
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by B-Con 14y ago
He speaks very reasonably, it's just his writing style. I think he's one of those people who's choice of written word does not always convey the tone they would have conveyed in person. And, to be fair, he does intentionally say things in a
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by B-Con 14y ago
I hate the UI design idea that some types of common pop-up window should become the sole top-level element across the entire program that creaetd it. It should instead be contained within whatever window/tab it originated. (There might be a

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