EgoIncarnate

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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
If the backdoor was a hack for easier debugging that got left in, not having it during development could make for a longer more expensive development cycle. In which case it should have been removed before production. It could also be in
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Wow. Don't think I've had a comment with negative points on HN before. Curious as to why the downvotes. I was attempting to point out that I did not consider what I said in the original comment to be a hard and fast rule. Is the
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Economics. Enough people prefer faster and cheaper. Security and reliability cost time and money. By the time your product ships it's already obsolete and still costs more than customers are willing to pay. Probably won't change u
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
I would call that bad development practices rather than malicious intent. Just levels and levels of stupid.
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Stupidity alone is adequate to explain this backdoor. The malice explanation requires (in this case) malice and stupidity. In this case Hanlon's razor (and probably any where it really applies), is just Occam's razor applied to a
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
The original statement was "Never attribute to stupidity alone that which is adequately explained by both stupidity and malice." It seems to me that both are adequate explanations. One explanation requires one factor (stupidity),
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
It's just a rule of thumb, not an absolute. I tend to believe most developers are just doing a job (good or bad), and not out to get someone. So to me it's a numbers game where one explanation seems much more likely. It's not
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Which is why I started with "Generally" :-)
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Does that logic apply to Occam's razor too? Never choose the simple explanation when a complex one is available? :-)
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
The same effect of a backdoor could be accomplished with a buffer overflow, and at least that would have the plausible deniability of a bug. It's either the result an incompetent "secret backdoor" developer, or just plain inc
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Generally when it's something this obvious I think it's a backdoor for debugging that got left in due to bad development practices. [1] If someone actually wanted to implant a "secret" backdoor it would be disguised as a
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
I might be misreading this, but it seems like most of SVM is not under Classpath exception (most of the files are missing the magic words), which implies SubstrateVM binaries must be GPL 2. Is this intentional?
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
This has nothing to do with the recent CPU issue.
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
If you paid state income tax, you should have been able to deduct that at the very least (probably around 6k, or about the same as the standard deduction).
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Musk: "[Author of story] never actually ran this story by me or my assistant. It is total nonsense." - http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-responds-assistant-...
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
You also aren't allowed to have anything coded/encrypted, so it's useless for anything that requires privacy.
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Looks like they are also removing the windows service / daemon parts (synergyd executable source code has also been removed, but is still used in closed source version), so the open source version might now require you to be logged in
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Synergy 2.0 GUI goes closed source
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
and a 3rd party git repository: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/git-to-s3-usi...
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
Should be labeled (2007)
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by EgoIncarnate 9y ago
The updated dialog still feels kinda slimy ( https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/pull/50 ). It makes no mention that search and usages are paid add ons ( https://kite.com/pro ).
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by EgoIncarnate 10y ago
His service account was also banned: rdmart7 Robert Martin This user is suspended until Dec 27, 2019 7:37 pm. Reason: attitude after writing: iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch Device Setup Just installed and
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by EgoIncarnate 10y ago
I think you mean 30 billion. The entire GDP of the US is only 16.77 trillion and the entire revenue of the US government is only a fraction of that. Both the Apollo project and Manhattan project were around .4% of the GDP. A lot for a singl
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by EgoIncarnate 10y ago
This type of thing is what first pushed me away from Gigster. It's like the overly broad employee invention assignments that a lot of companies want you to sign. No thank you.
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by EgoIncarnate 10y ago
The title is wrong. This is not a C++ to x86 JIT (which would be really cool), this is a JIT library for C++ (of which there are a number). It has it's own domain specific language for expressions. It doesn't take arbitrary C++. N
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by EgoIncarnate 11y ago
"C++ like" is not the same as C++ compatible.
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by EgoIncarnate 11y ago
They work in Firefox
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by EgoIncarnate 11y ago
TLDR: "CSS appears to be Turing complete. Sorry for wasting your time :)"
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by EgoIncarnate 11y ago
Doesn't seem to show anything the can't already be done with deep learning. Is it just deep learning packaged to be easier to use for end users or something actually new?