andreyf

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by andreyf 14y ago
Your deployment really shouldn't rely on your VCS... Just added a 3 GB file to my github repo. It took <2m, most of which I imagine was spent gzip-ing it.
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by andreyf 14y ago
> This is one reason us corporate software pushers can't use github and the likes. We need stuff to be hosted on a network we control. cringe This is very corporate reasoning in the most pejorative sense of the word. > Each hour w
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by andreyf 14y ago
He just did?
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by andreyf 14y ago
Off-topic: (foo)[url] syntax only works on reddit, on HN I usually put something like this [1] 1. url
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by andreyf 14y ago
They have no actual control over what the miners do, but they have a lot of respect in the community, and most miners are likely to listen to their advice.
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by andreyf 14y ago
Populating this by hand seems like an enormous task that will never end. How hard could it be to automatically populate the data from publicly available data sources (e.g. SEC filings)?
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by andreyf 14y ago
This is crazy: MtGox is 37 USD/BTC today, up from 20 USD/BTC a month ago.
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by andreyf 14y ago
To clarify, the original use here was "absurdism may now be part of our youth culture", which is certainly something one could argue, but I'd strongly disagree with. If he wanted to use the definition you're constructing, I think he should
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by andreyf 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
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by andreyf 14y ago
You may like how it sounds, but if you think it means "being popular and making no sense", you don't understand what it is.
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by andreyf 14y ago
Just because something doesn't make sense doesn't mean you can call it "absurdism".
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by andreyf 14y ago
It's 2013, and clicking on an evil link can still compromise your machine? I'd say the failure is much larger than just the anti-virus industry.
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The Court of Public Opinion(schneier.com)
1 points by andreyf 14y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 14y ago
Noooo! So many wasted pixels at the top! Why!? It was so much better before! Aside from that: neat! :)
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by andreyf 14y ago
Many people speculated throughout the whole ordeal that this was a political prosecution [...] but Aaron actually didn't believe it was Aaron was an idealist that had some idealistic misconceptions about reality. Being an intelligent and
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by andreyf 14y ago
I wonder how his crime would have been reported/perceived in the US if he were a citizen prosecuted by his government in China or Russia... I image it would've involve a little swap of s/ro/er/
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by andreyf 14y ago
If you don't want someone to mess with your Facebook account, then perhaps you shouldn't give them your Facebook login and password...
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by andreyf 14y ago
NRE have a stranglehold on the only comprehensive source of real-time passenger train data in the UK. They developed it to power their own website but have recognised in it a way to exert power over anyone who wants to use real time train
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All Those Companies that Can't Afford Dedicated Security(schneier.com)
1 points by andreyf 14y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 14y ago
What's the idea?
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by andreyf 14y ago
Except he's distributing his client via the Google Chrome Web Store, so if law enforcement had a way of requesting that a particular user's software be backdoor-ed [1], they'd go to Google, which would also be significantly less likely to e
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by andreyf 14y ago
> Anything wrong with that? If you want to protect against the kind of attach he hypothesizes to have experienced, yes. Trying to catch root backdoor on your machine by running a firewall on that same machine won't be much help. He call
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by andreyf 14y ago
Off topic: refresh the page twice, and you get a paywall until you clear your cookies. Curious tactic... and somewhat ironic given the subject of the article. On topic: Marty Weinberg, who took the case over from Good, said he nearly negot
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by andreyf 14y ago
He was accused of committing a felony. There's quite a difference.
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by andreyf 14y ago
Well done! Support for Google Checkout and Amazon Payments will help a lot, I think.
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by andreyf 14y ago
How is this going to charge, I wonder?
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by andreyf 14y ago
Kind of annoying presentation style quirk: but some slides are on a vertical stack which you can access by hitting the down arrow instead of going right. You can tell in the bottom right which directions are available from the slide you're
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by andreyf 14y ago
Bitcoins other fatal flaw is that roughly half of all bitcoins mined thus far are held in the hands of the inventor of bitcoins and his closet buddies. They haven't been spending their bitcoins--but they're encouraging others to spend bitc
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by andreyf 14y ago
If Keccak isn't vulnerable to a length extension attack, is using it to hash a secret key concatenated with a message a good MAC algorithm? If not, why not?
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by andreyf 14y ago
I think "why did they ship the new maps app before it was ready?" is the most interesting question about this whole debacle. I don't think they actually gather user-generated map content via iOS maps, so (1) doesn't make much sense to me. (

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