amirmc

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by amirmc 13y ago
That's akin to saying you're part of a 'social network' by virtue of having your own homepage. Sure, everyone can come to your site to see your updates/pics/etc but it's not a fair comparison to the things
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by amirmc 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I don't understand your second comment though, how is it 'unfriendly to people who take their security seriously'? You can email me instead, if you prefer.
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by amirmc 13y ago
I'm working with others on a FOSS toolstack that makes it easier to build decentralised systems. Take a look and let me know what you think. http://nymote.org/
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by amirmc 13y ago
You might want to look into parallel construction. "Parallel construction is a police process of building a parallel - or separate - evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation which otherwise would rely upon evidence or tips receiv
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by amirmc 13y ago
Jane Street gets mentioned a lot but Facebook is also a user. See the recent video from CUFP. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKWNjFagR9k
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Redesign of OCaml.org website(preview.ocaml.org)
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by amirmc 13y ago
> If marketing was harder than programming, I think we'd have dozens of programmers trying to find marketers on Craigslist and forums... instead of reality which is marketers scraping for programmers to join projects on an equity b
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "...since you deliberately put yourself in that situation." This is the crux of the problem. If we assume Apple is being truthful in its statement, they should be completely free to make such statements. No-one should be puni
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by amirmc 13y ago
> " Your choice is much less link-baity than the other submission. But it's still more link-baity than the real FT title. " I find that the latter part of your statement unfair. Was the title different when you made this c
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by amirmc 13y ago
As a counterpoint, who could possibly argue against passing something called the 'Patriot Act'? To do so would almost be un-patriotic, right? DarkMail, however, is a bit different. Is that what the bad-guys are using these days
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by amirmc 13y ago
You might like this video [1]. I used to scoff at the idea of 'tweeting toasters' etc but watching this gave me a different perspective on why things like this are going to be big. [1] http://vimeo.com/61862454
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by amirmc 13y ago
This reminded me a of a TED talk I saw recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pqhMO3ZSY It's only 15mins long but you can skip to 2:35 for one of the face experiments and to 8:00 for an experiment they're run
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by amirmc 13y ago
Bezos worked in finance (hedge fund) before starting Amazon. He was not a VC.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Fair enough but as I tried (and obviously failed) to caveat, these are not shutdowns I really knew about. I clearly wasn't a user of those products so I didn't feel any pain when they went away. Perhaps my claim is weak and my kn
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by amirmc 13y ago
That's not the point I was responding to. It was the claim that this service will inevitably close that I was disagreeing with.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Why would the service close? It's supported by LinkedIn and AFAIK they're not in the habit of shutting things down. This almost feels like a no-brainer for them, especially given the move to mobile devices and locked-down apps.
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by amirmc 13y ago
Thanks for the additional context. On the surface it doesn't seem that there are any benefits to having the parent company offshore. I agree with the sentiment of trying to change the system, which won't happen if people (and co
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by amirmc 13y ago
Apologies, I wasn't clear enough. What I'm trying to refer to is the legal jurisdiction of the Global HQ and what effect that has (if any) on receiving court orders like the one described in this discussion. Having wholly-owned
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by amirmc 13y ago
To the founders of CryptoSeal. When you first set up, did you consider not being a US headquartered company? If so, what were the overriding factors that made you stay US-based? I ask because in a recent blog post from Silent Circle (a
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CUFP 2013: Julien Verlaguet, Facebook: Analyzing PHP statically (video)(youtube.com)
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by amirmc 13y ago
> But that also means that those who need to get a quick lunch have a window towards the end of the cost penalty period in which they can breeze through the line and more easily get a table Doesn't seem that way. From the article
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by amirmc 13y ago
> I find it difficult to believe that there are people who know about RSA, but not about Adi Shamir. I've heard of RSA (and DSA) and come across it every time I've needed a key pair (e.g for GitHub) but never thought what the
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by amirmc 13y ago
Some context for those who don't know the reference. > "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." [1] [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/culture&#x2
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by amirmc 13y ago
Good points. However: Issues - I'm sure these can get recreated, even the discussions. In many cases, people will have those threads in their email. Wiki - In Github's case, this is also a git repo. Community - GitHub is rarely t
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by amirmc 13y ago
Now that's what I call a pivot :) More seriously, I was just trying to point out a source of confusion. In any case, I'd love to hear more about the enterprise space as it's something I'm interested in but have little
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by amirmc 13y ago
I didn't read that as snarky. I also don't understand the fruit fly analogy and I can understand why a fruit fly geneticist (who knows a few orders of magnitude more than me) isn't sure which aspect of fruit flies is the rele
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by amirmc 13y ago
Product is also a defined word [1]. I do understand what you're getting at but I disagree about the overlap you allude to. The ToS does delineate the difference between Services and hardware (Product). Failure in the firmware or soft
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by amirmc 13y ago
The word 'Service' is capitalised, implying that there's a definition elsewhere in the ToS. I found it at the end of the very first paragraph. "The term 'Services' means the Site, Web App, Mobile Apps, and My
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by amirmc 13y ago
> "It helps explain why the free software community has not yet delivered things like Google Docs, Github and AWS." I'd bet that each of those has benefitted hugely due to FOSS. I might even go so far as to say they wo
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by amirmc 13y ago
At time of writing, the submission title is: "Raspberry Pi is no longer non-profit organization" This is not true. As stated in the post, Raspberry Pi Foundation has a for-profit subsidiary. The Foundation now has a new CEO. Edi

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