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by Hoff 17y ago
Why do I think "stealth pepsi ad"?
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by Hoff 17y ago
And (an entirely serious question) how can one tap into this huge pool of idle CS students?
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by Hoff 17y ago
Far more nostalgic: NCSA Mosaic on OpenVMS running on a VAX, and that's feasible by running on the simh VAX emulator on your (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows) box. http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/vmswww/vms_mosaic.html http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ ht
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by Hoff 17y ago
Using a Flash Blocker and resetting the cookie values inside of Flash alter that behavior.
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Flash Player Polling: Timing it right(kaourantin.net)
25 points by Hoff 17y ago|3 comments
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by Hoff 17y ago
Microsoft Engineering might be moving forward admirably, but Microsoft marketing continues with the same silly and massive and inexplicable early announcement model. Availability the end of the year? Ten months? Sheesh. Next time? Surpri
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by Hoff 17y ago
What was more disturbing was the realization that there were folks around that did, and that were willing to seek and create and use those parallels.
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by Hoff 17y ago
tl;dr: it gets cold in Minnesota in the winter, and you need different gear oil in your equipment.
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by Hoff 17y ago
"The current number of daily earthquakes is well above typical daily earthquake activity at Yellowstone. Nevertheless swarms are common at Yellowstone, with magnitudes occasionally above 4.0." "At this time, there is no reason to believe th
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by Hoff 17y ago
There was an HN discussion recently on what you understand and know and assume, and extending that expertise out into areas where You Have No Clue, and how that goes badly wrong for smart people. iPad isn't aiming for us members of the nerd
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by Hoff 17y ago
Shiploads of cash are intended to skew the view of the folks involved (whether as a bribe or as a form of handcuff, same as employment), or folks would not spend the cash. But then following this decision to a logical extreme is equally jar
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by Hoff 17y ago
The usual CAPTCHA is an id from a vendor support contract.
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by Hoff 17y ago
With a tap into any of various of the major network pipes, the central difficulty would involve sifting through the vast mounds of data that result. I can often tell when somebody has had their servers hacked, and I just watch my own serv
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by Hoff 17y ago
The Cappuccino Framework: http://cappuccino.org/ Might be more to your tastes.
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by Hoff 17y ago
"Halliburton Tries To Patent Form Of Patent Trolling" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081107/0118162765.shtml
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by Hoff 17y ago
Am I wrong ? This is the same series of overlapping monologues that arises each time the subject of GPL licensing is broached. Each time time this horse gets dragged out of its casket. Same stuff. Same blather. License your package the w
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by Hoff 17y ago
Standard GPL license discussions in three, two, one... Nothing to see. Move along.
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by Hoff 17y ago
There is precedent. Becoming your own government entity (Reedy Creek) seems to have worked out for Disney. I for one welcome our new Google overlords.
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by Hoff 17y ago
The easy stuff usually gets sliced off and dealt with. The folks working on these boxes are Not Dumb. When you're dealing with financial transactions or stock trading or with medical records, you're either able to deal with the fire hose of
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by Hoff 17y ago
Even private failures (outages, data loss) involving enterprise systems can cost an enterprise business gigantic sums of money directly or in fines or in customer perception or (for some applications) can put patients' health and lives at r
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by Hoff 17y ago
You've missed one variation: I've spotted cases where Google "forgot" something. Where Google had the information in part of its index and could retrieve it, but didn't have that same information in its more general searchable index. Cases
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by Hoff 17y ago
Algorithmic trading is already the norm with most any of the large investment organizations. And from the other side, if you're not already using program trading for your investing or otherwise investing ginormous sums, you're probably not
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by Hoff 17y ago
What I actually heard: TechCrunch Erlang TechCrunch Erlang Erlang Erlang Erlang, TechCrunch Erlang Erlang Erlang Erlang Erlang Erlang
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by Hoff 17y ago
Yeah, and followed by a GoogleWave of Erlang threads on HN. Please.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Some of the gatekeepers of the peer review systems have had a long and celebrated history here, and sometimes to the detriment of the purpose of the review process. The experiences of John Harrison and the Board of Longitude and the Royal S
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by Hoff 17y ago
With the vendor-based technologists and vendor-based evangelists, at least you are certain who is paying them to espouse their opinions; you know how they're going to slant. Various Industry Analyst firms and Industry Pundits can undergo th
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by Hoff 17y ago
And that spam email stuff is going to stop arriving, too.
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by Hoff 17y ago
Troll Apple users, get web hits, sell ads. Duh.
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The Strange Tale of DoS Attacks Against GRC.COM (2001)(crime-research.org)
10 points by Hoff 17y ago|5 comments
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by Hoff 17y ago
There can be no automatic presumption of a rational response to entirely measured and legitimate and carefully orchestrated police activities. Even otherwise peaceful and rational and law-abiding folks that happen to become involved in an a

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