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541.
by Hoff 18y ago
A reasonably-designed top-load or slot-load bag works just as well. There's no reason to presume TSA won't change its individual or collective minds on even permitting any bags with this feature to "speed" through the security theater, too.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Vaporware? Yawn. Speculation? Boring. The Bill and Jerry cartoons? Eh? Call me back when it ships, and I'll look at whatever it might be then, and whether it's competitive with whatever else is available then. Until then, I really don'
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by Hoff 18y ago
IE8 needing (more) cores and (more) memory certainly looks like respectable fodder for a future system upgrade marketeering. For purposes of comparison, the no-execute flag (also variously known as execute disable) was another recent triump
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by Hoff 18y ago
Ignoring the impending TLD explosion, all of the good domain names are long gone. And regardless of what you pick, Google is and will remain the front door to your web site; the domain name is now effective largely only for bookmarking, fo
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by Hoff 18y ago
The My Favorite Text Editor debate might change its spots, but it just never gets old.
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by Hoff 18y ago
This UI seems to be solving problems I don't have, and in a way I don't want. When I'm coding, I don't want mail. Mail -- unless I'm waiting for a specific mail message -- is a distraction. I don't want to see the source code control syste
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by Hoff 18y ago
Passwords and social engineering go back millennia, and both will continue forward into the foreseeable future. What might lead anyone to believe there is a technical solution to this? Even if the most fearful involved here manage to mass-d
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by Hoff 18y ago
I know what he's referring to. You're a coder. I'm a coder. James is certainly a coder's coder. But stop thinking like a coder for just a moment, though. Having (functional) product out the door (faster) beats having (better) code in the
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by Hoff 18y ago
The "ship it" rubric very often trumps the refactor debate; coders and managers tend to see the refractoring entirely differently.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Twitter reaches Beta?
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by Hoff 18y ago
So apply asymmetric management here; use basic Aikido. Tell Joe to go code it. In JavaScript. Put up or shut up. Yes, Joe might be a bad apple. Or Joe might really have a better solution; either client- or server-side JavaScript. Either o
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by Hoff 18y ago
If you want to know the health of an ecosystem, look at the health of the pilot fish, and not at the whales. The indications of latent rot or the incursions of new competitors and of asymmetric solutions can be masked by the sheer scale of
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by Hoff 18y ago
If the concept of a letter sent to Santa Claus via your parents doesn't provide sufficient obviousness for the whole concept (and if you can't get Amazon into the discussion), then work with your lawyers to seek out (older) Santa Claus web
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by Hoff 18y ago
Or find an AI problem that interests you and that can interest a customer base, solve it, and bootstrap a business. Make your own path.
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by Hoff 18y ago
Yes, Compaq Federal LLC, HP Hood LLC, Capri Capital Partners LLC, MacroMarkets LLC, Bain Capital Partners LLC, etc. are all small outfits. Some of these have been in multi-million deals, others in billion-dollar deals. Talk to a lawyer. S
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by Hoff 18y ago
Twitter is a multicast-capable software-based crossbar switch, with a necessary form of message journaling and replay. Where the destination of or target of the message is what selects and pulls the messages. And with sparse addressing. Twi
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by Hoff 18y ago
If you're considering the encryption of passwords and not the hashing and salting of passwords, you're already in some trouble. You don't want to decrypt passwords. You want to hash, and compare. And only then with a cryptographically secu
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by Hoff 18y ago
Shi Ma? Somebody's been watching Firefly re-runs?
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by Hoff 18y ago
The bad guys know how to bypass this check. It took seconds to figure out a way that could cloak malware against this AVG check. Malware is a problem. This is not a solution. This is another botnet.
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by Hoff 18y ago
If you find yourself wondering if your code is sufficiently clear or appropriately maintainable, then you already know the answer. When there is doubt, there is no doubt.
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by Hoff 18y ago
This article, via HN, sans irony?
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by Hoff 18y ago
I thought a central Mozilla goal for Firefox 3 was less hugeness. Oh, wait, nevermind.
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by Hoff 18y ago
I'm skeptical of any pontifications and any claims in this area until after the iPhone application infrastructure is announced and deployed and in production. The whole area is almost certainly subject to change. These reports and claims re
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by Hoff 18y ago
There is life beyond SV. There is success beyond SV. There is funding beyond SV. Ship it. Figure out if you need to "open a US subsidiary" later. And besides, "opening a US subsidiary" sounds a whole lot better to the visa-issuing folks and
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by Hoff 18y ago
For transactional file systems and transactional databases, the lower-level software deals with this for you. This whether a transactional SQL, or Mac OS X Core Data and its undo, or otherwise. ACID is goodness. For non-transactional data
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by Hoff 18y ago
Dear Microsoft, Please shut up about Windows 7. That's so far into the future that any discussion of its features and capabilities is entirely meaningless. As for Windows 7, please go implement things that are interesting and elegant and u
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by Hoff 18y ago
Where and when you can, don't roll your own format. Use the existing libraries and routines, and/or use language-specific storage. Save for specific and rare cases, neither time nor money seem (to me) appropriate in floating point. Whethe
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by Hoff 18y ago
Mac OS X has this baked into Xcode, as well as general grid computing capabilities. This implemented with distcc and Bonjour (zeroconf), and Xgrid, respectively. Linux, too, can implement this. Operating systems as far back was Windows' ar
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by Hoff 18y ago
The reception here is somewhat surprising. This release should be welcomed. Encouraged. Supported. Open specifications do change the landscape. For all sides involved. For Adobe, for Adobe's commercial competition and current and futur
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by Hoff 18y ago
Do not look where the market is now nor even at where your competitors are now. Now is interesting, but it's also largely irrelevant. Look instead at where the market will be when you can get your product out. Do not accept what your cust

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