SpikeGronim

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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
"There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS" Yup, that's the joke I was making... grandparent comment would have us remove all our software...
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
First, Apple isn't removing Java from OS X. They will stop shipping their customized version of Java in several years. Second, every popular piece of software has vulnerabilities. So if this warrants the removal of Java, you should remove S
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
My question to you is, could you do better and how much would it cost? If you didn't use Heroku or another cloud provider you would pay a lot more up front to get your applications running. When things go wrong you would have to fix it, whi
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Without more context, I find your statement that "Some of them probably even deserve it" offensive. If I had enough karma I would down vote you for that. Which human beings are you saying deserve to die? What facts and which code of ethics
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Update: email jobs@wavii.com please.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I think systems like this use a lot of RAM. You can afford it when you're a stock exchange. You can get high availability from a RAM store if you replicate it over multiple machines and react quickly to machine failures. Then you keep a com
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
It is important to normalize those numbers by accounting for steal time. http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-n...
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Lots of people have run benchmarks that show exactly that - non-paging, in memory working set Varnish clobbers Squid. The difference is even more noticeable when the working set is larger than memory. Most of those benchmarks are micro-benc
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I wish that content aggregators could use something like Kerberos tickets to delegate authentication. That way Mint could have a read-only ticket to access my bank that didn't require my password. I still use Mint though. I asked them about
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Wavii is hiring in Seattle, WA. Remote is an option. Wavii automatically creates social content in real-time from news across the web. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/time-to-meet-wavii-the-supe... Email me at <my-first-name>@wav
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
If they were really dangerous, Al Qaeda would be using them to bring down planes.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I appreciate the concern re:Rapportive, but I love it! Particularly when it tells me about the authors when I am reading a technical list. Let's hope they don't get hacked and disclose all of our emails...
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
You can register for free and use a fake email address. Your browser gets a cookie and you never have to deal with it again. I agree that the signup wall on nyt is hella annoying. I'd love to see the results of an A/B test on disabling it.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Even if you implemented these controls it wouldn't matter. The tracking software would use other information channels available intrinsically in HTTP to assign your browser a GUID.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
There are so many ways to coerce a GUID out of a browser: single pixel images, cache headers[1], etc. It's not feasible to implement disclosure control[2] retroactively in web standards. 1. http://sourcefrog.net/projects/meantime/ 2. htt
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
I agree with the overall sentiment that this is a relatively minor vulnerability. It could be put to malicious use by phishers. If I know your full name I can make more realistic phishing emails.
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Cool site but I was expecting to see a screenshot of my page in each browser. Besides validation errors I also care about layout. http://www.webpagetest.org/ provides that feature (for IE 7/8), I have been using it frequently. EDIT: Found
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by SpikeGronim 16y ago
Agreed that shared secrets are not really that secret. "it would have been very easy to address by just using Diffie Hellman when determining the session key" Since WPA is implemented in hardware you must add gates to support Diffie Helman.