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by adgar 14y ago
Someone doesn't use dotfiles, I'm guessing.
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by adgar 14y ago
Virtual machines can be insecure if they contain bugs. When it comes to providing a secure execution environment, I trust Virtualbox more than I trust any JVM, most of which I trust more than I trust any console emulator.
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by adgar 14y ago
Use a virtual machine.
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by adgar 14y ago
> Chacha got it wrong Chacha? Really? God damn I swear HN is full of internet hipsters. A query for [stubhub] on any major search engine has the following under the Wikipedia search result: > StubHub (often styled StubHub!) is an o
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by adgar 14y ago
> true fans are not necessarily the earliest at the gate. If we're going no true scotsman, I'd say the true fans ARE the earliest at the gate. They're the ones who camp out for weeks. So really, you're sticking up for the fair-weather f
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by adgar 14y ago
He's not myopic, he's being a snob.
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by adgar 14y ago
GWT too. Not having escaping by default by now, in 2012, is just plain backward.
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by adgar 14y ago
Compare the amount of effort it would take to create such a port against the number of users who would build, sign, and install it themselves.
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by adgar 14y ago
He seems to be arguing that if you don't know how to use cloud technology, you won't use it well. I have to say I agree, though I don't know how much that observation contributes.
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by adgar 14y ago
I'm referring to the "shrinking at will." If you can back, well, anything you're saying up about how Glass isn't impressive beyond "lol open up a phone," I'd love to hear it! > I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this
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by adgar 14y ago
> Isn’t that the description of any smartphone available for a few years now? Remove the screen and you can shrink it almost at will. Then why hasn't that happened yet for a few years now, you think? Maybe your assumption "you can shrin
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by adgar 14y ago
People are dicks on the Internet.
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by adgar 14y ago
Nor is your claim that malware hasn't affected your life using Windows in the last 10 years. Even if it's actually true, it's at least a 4-sigma event.
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by adgar 14y ago
So nobody has ever successfully done anything wrong on any Windows computer you've used in 10 years. Gotcha.
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by adgar 14y ago
Wow! 10 years of only using computers operated and actively maintained by users who can stay up-to-date on security best practices. You made it from before XP until now without ever dealing with Windows malware! You're pretty damn lucky -
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by adgar 14y ago
Do you think all those ASP.Net sites are more likely to be delivered on the web to a diverse selection of evolving, modern user agents, or on an internal network to only IE7 users until 2019? One opportunity has a choice in development tool
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by adgar 14y ago
Do you expect Google search to have downtime?
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by adgar 14y ago
If you are accepting advertising as emotional manipulation, then say your real point: advertising is immoral coercion. Or are you seriously going to argue that McDonalds has ads that are considerably more emotionally manipulative than other
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by adgar 14y ago
> Mexican drug cartels hardened with guns, violence, secrecy, corruption, torture and death. You can theoretically calculate how many humans died in Mexican drug wars, per-joint you smoked, in 2011. That cost was built into the price yo
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by adgar 14y ago
> Does it matter if some crappy blog is at unicorns.blog instead of unicorns.blogspot.com? Yes - it matters greatly! Domains are used to define a number of critical Internet policies. Cookie policies are one example where subdomain inte
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by adgar 14y ago
Are you suggesting that Apple should diversify its investment in web properties? Or that Google shouldn't? (Or are you not making a point?)
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by adgar 14y ago
Yep, I know, just chiming in with some relevant experience.
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by adgar 14y ago
My father started a small roofing business in 1980, selling it just recently to an employee; that tax break was absolutely crucial to getting work going again. Luckily, my father's now-sold business had the bankroll to take full advantage o
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by adgar 14y ago
It's par for the course, but it's still a spectacle to see a malware so big/important/advanced self-destruct in front of our eyes, in the news.
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by adgar 14y ago
Yes, but xip.io doesn't host any production services with which test cookies might interact.
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by adgar 14y ago
This was an announcement; "someone" in this case is a co-worker of the author. The author of xip.io (sstephenson) came on thread to discuss this and a related announcement about Pow.
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by adgar 14y ago
Heroku going down isn't unavoidable downtime. It's clownshoes downtime.
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by adgar 14y ago
> My comment was very specifically focused on you, acting as a solo developer/founder, not a person you'd hire. Then "you," having acquired years of experience in designing and implementing distributed services, are making at least a
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by adgar 14y ago
You do realize that it's a 6-figure investment to hire an engineer comfortable with all of those things plus more to deploy a multihomed setup?
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by adgar 14y ago
> I have no idea what it was like for SPDY, but given that the "innovative" header compression feature somehow survived, I'm guessing not good. Considering the overwhelming majority of HTTP requests are nearly all headers, and request h

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