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by alexggordon 12y ago
It's really excellent to see Microsoft understanding the need for cross platform support. I'm much more likely to trust them as a user, knowing that I'll have support for whatever device I'm on in the future.
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Exactly. I don't know why you need to check the hash, not to mention it doesn't seem to be working at all. If you're just checking to see if it's a common password, wouldn't it be easier to just store a dictionary?
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by alexggordon 12y ago
> ...and verify the password to make sure it is not one of the 10,000 most common known passwords by checking its hash Am I missing something here? 1. I navigate to discourse 2. Select "try discourse" 3. "Sign Up"[0
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I think, particularly in private education in the US, there is going to be a bubble that is going to pop soon. With continued monetization of education obviously comes people whose job it is to continue monetizing it (more administration).
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by alexggordon 12y ago
FYI, after one year the price jumps to $500 dollars a year, for 5TB[0]. Comparatively, you can get a single user, 1TB storage Google Apps account, for $10[1] a month, and mount it with Expandrive for a one time license cost of $50[2]. This
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by alexggordon 12y ago
My mistake. I said encrypt when I should have said decrypt. You are correct though, symmetric key encryption would be better for this, and utilizing the answer giving by kolinko below, I wouldn't be surprised if they did use a differen
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Has anyone ever done a serious technological evaluation of one of these programs? I'd be very interesting in learning more specifically about its encryption mechanism. For example, To be able to decrypt (edit: used to say encrypt) the
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I think this is one of the main benefits I find on HN. Not only does this give me an intelligent, well educated community to talk to, but most often the community shares my hobbies and interests. I think being able to write is extremely imp
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Looks good. My only comment is that I really wish it showed more posts. I have some big monitors, with pretty high resolution, and I love being able to see lots of content on them. As far as dealing with my taste in UI I use Hacker News Enh
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by alexggordon 12y ago
How? By wanting to work on things that you want to work on, more than you want to watch TV, or play a video game, or do anything else. The thing it came down to for me is understanding how incredibly rewarding it is to create cool things th
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by alexggordon 12y ago
This. Another possibility I've considered is that they obviously wouldn't be able to get a job at any SV company, but perhaps when applying for the Chinese NSA, maybe hacking Sony is something you can put on your resume? I guess I
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Kudos to joesfresco for originating this idea[0], but after observing Tesla for the last couple of months, they're really developing car hardware, as though it was software, and it's continually winning me over as a better automob
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I'm always a little bit fascinated by these sorts of attacks. On one hand, I guess I understand (yet don't condone) the motivation for the 'vigilante' justice they're trying to do. On the other, I really don't
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by alexggordon 12y ago
It's sad really. I continually have incredibly high expectations for OS X and it's new releases. However, they keep proving me wrong time and time again. I used to be incredibly "gung ho" about upgrading to Apple beta&#x
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Exactly. SpaceX has completely designed this rocket around easy readiness tests. That's why the rocket was switched from a parachute landing, to a VTOL device[0]. They basically want this to be a smart rocket. Something that can just l
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by alexggordon 12y ago
This is an absolutely huge test. Musk's entire vision for SpaceX[0] involves cheap, reusable spaceflight, simply because there’s no other way to colonize a different planet without it. According to Musk, abandoning “disposable” rocket
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I might be alone in this, but I read this article with a sense of giddiness. Not because I want to see Detroit suffer or fail, but because this is a chance for a city to completely start over, even technologically. It's almost never th
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I've been beta testing duet for about a month now. As a person that travels a lot, it's awesome. The developers have done an incredible job, and have been very responsive in fixing the bugs I've reported to them. However, a c
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Why is it that there either has to be a shortage or abundance or tech workers? I think as of now the stream of Tech workers is adequately filling seats. Tech is one of those fields that ends up a lot like dating. You know there's peopl
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by alexggordon 12y ago
I really think Microsoft could do a much better job at fostering a productive App development ecosystem, which is the heart of a good mobile operating system. My ability to use a mobile device hinges on an expectation of UI and Hardware, bu
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Firstly, bravo. I really applaud Microsoft for realizing what it wanted to have in a Q&A site, and realizing Stack Exchange was that realizing. Then realizing that people are probably going to go to SE, instead of a Microsoft forum or p
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Sad news. I'm not sure what their next business step will be, or if this is it, but I really do hope they open source anything they decide won't be a part of their future products.
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by alexggordon 12y ago
At a certain point, everyone will realize this has to stop. I've started to wonder though, if the way to beat the government at this is not to try and stop them, but to encrypt things in such a way that they can no longer use technolog
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by alexggordon 12y ago
> Amazon gave me their ﬁnal offer: 4 weeks of severance for 18 months of adhering to the broad non-compete that would not allow me to earn a living in my ﬁeld, and further explained that if I didn't accept their ﬁnal offer, Amazon w
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by alexggordon 12y ago
Seems to be a hiring thing. There was a previous thread about here [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588080
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by alexggordon 12y ago
This reminds me of an excellent talk on elevator hacking [0] given by Deviant Ollam and Howard Payne at [HOPE X] a little while ago. It changed my entire view of elevators and if you haven't seen it, I would highly recommend you watch.
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by alexggordon 12y ago
What does that loop even do?
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