Firehed

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Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life(nasa.gov)
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by Firehed 14y ago
Having written code to interface with the IBM mainframes that power the credit networks... yes, I'm pessimistic about this. I absolutely welcome any improvement in the payment card space (especially around authentication and security in gen
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm not anti-Google, I just don't see how their product adds value to the equation in any payment scenario. I use and like a lot of their offerings. But I'm in the payments industry, know what can and does go wrong, and would never touch an
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by Firehed 14y ago
So: 1) A software update can now render you unable to make payments. 2) You're only able to pay people if you've bought one of a few specific pieces of hardware. Traditional payment cards suffer neither of these problems which is probably w
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by Firehed 14y ago
Huh. So I'll have one credit card to carry around that will just pass through the charge to another card I'm carrying around, because none of this stuff is yet reliable enough to abandon my wallet entirely. Sorry for the abrasive skepticism
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm glad they finally added the status program, but like you say it's not fantastic by any means. Fortunately for me, the only routes I fly regularly are covered by Virgin :) However I think it's quite wise to get a loyal fanbase before try
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by Firehed 14y ago
I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking, but the High-DPI settings I played with seemed to provide half-assed results: fonts and some components of the window were scaled appropriately, but other bits (spacing between icons comes to mind
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yet it would seem that Disney has a lot more to lose if IP laws are not kept in their favor, as evidenced by the Life+70 copyright extension they were able to successfully lobby into existence. Google and Disney clearly have two very differ
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by Firehed 14y ago
The point was that iBooks looks and behaves like a book, so it works even if you consider it distasteful; Address Book looks like one but behaves completely differently, leaving the user confused why this "object" doesn't work.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Off topic, but I really want one of my "hobbies" to be a half-a-billion dollar business.
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by Firehed 14y ago
A mechanical button absolutely does not need to protrude from the surface to be pressed - not only can it start at surface level and be pressed into the device, it can return to starting position and remain flush. Look at most microwaves -
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by Firehed 14y ago
Wow. I haven't listened to any podcasts recently but felt compelled to try it after your post. That thing is just awful. Not only "yo dawg, I heard you like skeuomorphism..." territory, but they didn't even do it right - scrubbing through
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by Firehed 14y ago
I can count the number of software projects I've finished on zero hands, unless you define "project" as a meaninglessly-small component of something larger (e.g. tweaking some copy). Even for software that you write to solve your own proble
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm nearly to the point with LinkedIn where I want to take them to court. What they're doing is a clear violation of CAN-SPAM. I generally feel that kind of thing is a waste of the courts time, but I simultaneously feel that marking the mes
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by Firehed 14y ago
Then the VP is not doing his/her job correctly. Someone needs to be aware of the budget for salaries and be responsible for ensuring it isn't exceeded (and held accountable if it is). It's also very backwards (government-level!) thinking to
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by Firehed 14y ago
> What I suspect is more likely true is that AWS suffers thousands of small failures every month and most are contained as designed, with no(or minuscule) customer impact. Isn't that the whole point of moving to The Cloud? There's suppo
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by Firehed 14y ago
Good for them - I use Instacart at least weekly and it's a fantastic service. I really hope it's sustainable, as same-day delivery services have had trouble in the past. Launching in the valley where people will pay to have more time was a
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by Firehed 14y ago
Physical keys can be lost, copied, forgotten about, etc. The chance of that becoming a problem increases massively with the number of people that need access. It's quite easy to avoid all those problems by digitizing access. Cost of keys is
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by Firehed 14y ago
No, you just don't give them out in the first place.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Check out the WePay API - https://www.wepay.com/developer/platform/authorization What you described is a bit vague so I'm not sure quite what you need, but it allows you to basically spin up merchant accounts for your customers on the fly
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by Firehed 14y ago
There's no standard as to which certificate issuers have their trusted root CA cert installed. If your clients don't have it on their machines (desktops, phones, servers, whatever) it doesn't matter what you paid. My point was that the more
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by Firehed 14y ago
I haven't done extensive research so I can't help a whole lot. I use StartSSL for some personal stuff which is free and have heard good things about NameCheap, but I don't know how widely-installed either of their root CA certs are. Any iss
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by Firehed 14y ago
Probably as soon as certificate validation is more reliable. I can see turning off validation for stuff where you're sending non-important data to a third party which may or may not be encrypted (asyncronous API pings where you say "somethi
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by Firehed 14y ago
Well, comparing Apples and Teslas ;)
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by Firehed 14y ago
This is a good system at face value, but can present other problems. Any code that has a stat cache (I know PHP does, and I'd be surprised if other common languages don't) suddenly doesn't realize that your paths are going to a different pl
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by Firehed 14y ago
Speaking from experience, most companies don't think to implement DDOS protection until they're under attack. It's just not on most people's checklists. Hence the need to implement something in an hour. The fact that its a problem proves my
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by Firehed 14y ago
Prolexic's servers don't take the load if the attackers know where the computers behind the scrubbers are. Configuring iptables to ignore all traffic not coming from prolexic's IPs doesn't come close to fending off a DDOS. I know this becau
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by Firehed 14y ago
> Don't want to be like this? Don't get angry when someone challenges you. That's the best way to start. I've never understood why so many people get upset if you try to point out a flaw in their reasoning. This is one of the first thi
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by Firehed 14y ago
Easier said than done. We've had DDOS issues in the past as well, and getting it resolved - even by throwing money at the problem - is nontrivial. What amounts to throwing a massive amount of hardware at the problem (i.e., boxes that can ha
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm saying that having a stale cache won't be a problem for an application that is designed around the fact that you will occasionally have stale data.

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