Swannie

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by Swannie 16y ago
There is a lot of room for internal growth. For example: "Places is currently available in a few select countries with many more on the way." I'm sure this isn't the only significant new development that is not rolled out around the world.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Well if you protect against CSRF you should be checking a nonce for all form submissions anyway. This doesn't appear to be all that different to me. I'm intrigued now, I hope someone can give details!
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by Swannie 16y ago
Yeah, well, I for one hope they do have to publicise results, but they do NOT go for an IPO any time soon.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I didn't know that. It certainly sounds reasonable, but is that what happened at Microsoft, after their IPO?
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by Swannie 16y ago
Look into chillispot.info or worldspot.net. Built this sort of thing yourself with a spare PC or an up-datable router.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question. If you mean: I have an authentication service, Auth.com, and I would like the users to be able to enter their user name and password on AnotherSite.com, how do I stop javascript on AnotherSite.com hi
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by Swannie 16y ago
No, I wouldn't use it. Have you seen the rubbish on relationships on Yahoo Answers?! Sheesh, there's some special kind of crazy people on there.
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by Swannie 16y ago
One reason why I'm not buying Facebook: I don't have $2mil lying around. Another one; Why is Mark so reticent to IPO? Because he loses control? Or because that means making the numbers public, and people will see just where the money is goi
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by Swannie 16y ago
I was suggesting a one time list. You need to keep a list of past random numbers anyway so you can verify no repeats. But sadly, I have to agree, this is epic fail.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I agree. It is unlikely that the release manager would have been expected to generate a random number. I'd have expected, possibly, a pre-generated list of random numbers, maybe 1000 or so, so a duplicate is not unlikely, and cannot happen
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by Swannie 16y ago
That's really quite astounding. Thanks.
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by Swannie 16y ago
You appear to be confusing "Turing complete" and the "Turing test". These two concepts are only related by the man which proposed them. They are quite separate classes of concept.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Wow. Not a great article, but not a bad overview of the subject!
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by Swannie 16y ago
I'm not sure if that was hyperbole or not. As I understand it, all that was required was for them to use the same random number /twice/. Let's say you're Sony and you sign a patch, release it, realise there is a minor fix, and release withi
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by Swannie 16y ago
This is correct, thanks to the Wii hackers.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Amen to that.
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by Swannie 16y ago
HN is my only "news" source. I wouldn't call most of it news though.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I didn't realise it was meant to be a joke. I thought it was a thinly veiled attack on "extroverts", with a jibe at those who consider Google research. Actually quite offensive to both groups really. Are you saying it is rare to get guys su
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by Swannie 16y ago
I stand corrected as to the date. I should have fact checked against the dossier :-( Well if you've been successfully exploiting a broken certificate, and it gets busted, and you have another spare one, are you going to use it or leave it?
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by Swannie 16y ago
I'd suggest anyone who has a real interest in this checks out the Symantec dossier: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/w32stuxnet-dossier The virus was first identified in late 2008, and was in the wild, in various forms until June 201
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by Swannie 16y ago
The virus had been in place a relatively long time before it's public disclosure in June. Also the way the virus was designed it wasn't going to damage all of the rotors anyway.
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by Swannie 16y ago
1) It was the speed controllers for the motors which were targeted. 2) They did use home grown speed controllers (apparently). Stuxnet targeted two types of speed controller, one made in Finland (IIRC) and one in Tehran. 3) Undoubtedly, how
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by Swannie 16y ago
Just started thinking about all of the "rapid prototyping" environments and languages that I've heard about over 10 years of programming. There is obviously something to RAD, 4GL, etc. in terms of investigating the problem domain. Sometimes
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by Swannie 16y ago
Most software companies end up having at least one person who prototypes or produces proof of concepts. Some have entire teams that prototype (at the behest of the technical pre-sales guys). The ability to rapidly prototype ideas is extreme
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by Swannie 16y ago
To become a good coder you need to learn how to code for other people. Unless you plan on being the only programmer on a website/for a product forever... Your code will need to be understandable to someone else. Sometimes that someone else
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by Swannie 16y ago
Add in the parents food! If we accept that raising a child is a "full time job" (in reality it is more hours... not sure on the effort though), for their first five years, then all of the food of that full time parent eats, etc. adds in to
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by Swannie 16y ago
You're right, I want about 5m. Not to retire on, but to remove the need to work to provide a roof and food. So I can risk working on all the things that interest me and them tanking big time.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Israel. I should point out almost all of my dealings with Israeli's have been positive. However there were consistent appointments of Israeli managers and resources, where there were far more experienced and capable resources outside of Isr
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by Swannie 16y ago
Re training, yep. Our training budget was seriously mismanaged. We got a budget every year, but our development manager was too weak to organise it himself along with his other demands. So it got passed off to a senior team leader to organi
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by Swannie 16y ago
When you work in a large company you have to deal with many more people than a small one. For example in a small company, if you have issues with pay, you go speak to the boss/owner, or if you're big enough, the book-keeper/accountant type.

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