NeutronBoy

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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Ahh, now you're really getting into the world of B2E services! They might just leave - but if it's a core service they need, it's a huge amount of effort to migrate users, data, implement a new system, rewrite all their proce
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
The same way that Salesforce does it - allow you to flick a switch and transition to a new interface, or turn on a new feature, or whatever. In terms of remaining on older versions, vendor typically restrict this through SLas - For example,
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I love this site. Change Management is a super important one that often gets missed. Enterprise customers will have strict workflows around migrating changes from Dev, to Test, and then into Prod. They'll need warning about upcoming ch
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> Custom fields makes sense... do you think those are part of making integrating with other apps easier It's more about being consistent with other processes and applications that an enterprise already has. If your product is about
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Regarding your point 2 - some of those are volcanic fields that contain multiple volcanoes.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> Imagine if your office live-broadcasted nearly everything. The next step in the fight against ongoing, overbearing surveillance is... ongoing, overbearing surveillance?
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Ad blockers are part of the problem(troyhunt.com)
68 points by NeutronBoy 10y ago|116 comments
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
For reference the bug is here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318359
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
The same way terrestrial data links work - you work out your usage patterns and make compromises. You can't guarantee 100% bandwidth available 100% of the time. This is some of the rationale behind data caps. While you can still exceed
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
If you rely on email, it's worth paying for. I'm a paying Fastmail customer, and it's worth every cent.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
For small startups, probably not. Large organisations have far more stringent processes around certificates. Auditing, validation, testing, regulatory requirements, EV, support contracts and SLAs, etc.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> Actually no, secure boot is evil, and comparing it to GPG is fallacious. The objection isn't to code signatures in general, but the inevitability of baked-in privileged keys inherent in its design. I mean, both my desktop and lapt
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
You need to distinguish between good and bad filter bubbles. Politics is a good example of a 'bad' filter bubble, but if I search for Python or Ruby, is it unfair to assume that I am talking about programming languages, and not ro
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I mean, I'm pretty sure you can lock the bootloader again after you've unlocked it.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
A common method in Melbourne for measuring apartment occupancy is measuring water usage.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Nexus devices are the closest you'll get - can be unlocked by a vendor supported, fully reversible ADB command.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
FWIW, I just moved towards my laptop screen until the top of the keyboard was out of my peripheral vision. My nose was almost touching the screen.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
In a startup failing and iterating is a goal . Why should this be different in a government organisation? (Assuming you learn from your failures)
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> It even dervies the name from PolarSSL (Polar Bear I thought it was a play on 'bare' - e.g. only the basic features needed.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> and some being just quick hackathon projects that needed authentication, a bug ... The solution here is not to 'fix' LDAP, it's to have proper processes for testing, change management, and deployment. It's to have n
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I mean, I'm looking through the permissions now and don't see anything that's not arguably needed to make it work: - Calendar (it can set up reminders in group chats and calendar) - Camera/Microphone (to take pictures an
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I run a static blog on S3 using Lambda. I upload a markdown post to an S3 bucket, Lambda runs Hugo (could be Jekyll, or whatever) to regenerate the appropriate files, then uploads it to an output buckets, invalidates the files it needs to i
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
It's partially because you can sign in with custom domains. By putting your email address in first, Google can figure out what signin mechanism to use prior to you inputting your password (or not, if you don't need one). For examp
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> I'm so lost at this assertion. How is this a social / political problem? How is it a technical problem? Current web technologies allow decentralised web (except for maybe root name servers). Everyone can host their own conten
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> Since it "hurts" their own karma, people downvote less. Yes, so they just vote to close the question instead.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
I use Keepass with auto-type. I know it's not perfect, but I feel better about auto-type than browser extensions.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
Because big players can take remedial action prior to the bug being disclosed to protect users - for example, banning a specific framework from browser extensions.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
'Regular cars' look like they do because of design limitations imposed by things like fuel tanks, engines, and gearboxes.
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
> The only reason I can think of is the excessive amount of money they can charge for EBS instances (especially PIOPS) The main driver is that they don't need to have instance storage - that is, they can uncouple the storage from th
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by NeutronBoy 10y ago
There were reports from Melbourne (Aus) Airport this morning about queues 4x or 5x times normal length (for a Monday morning). Security were checking every mobile phone going through and not letting anyone carry Galaxy Note 7s on.

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