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by ankp 17y ago
The type of Hungarian notation Spolsky uses at Fog Creek is different than the Hungarian once pushed by Microsoft. Hungarian notiation (of any variety) started (and ended) at Microsoft. Also, if you're working at Fog Creek, the guy who h
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by ankp 17y ago
Ignore the Hungarian haters. Which would be basically everyone who didn't learn to write software on Windows. If you have a reasonable type system and language, leverage it to enforce semantics that Spolsky suggests you use Hungarian nota
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by ankp 17y ago
Not necessarily. What about exploiting VPN clients? IPSec is a disaster, one aspect of which is having a client daemon listening on an open port for isakmp/ike key exchange. There's also the configuration to consider. Using PSK or aggres
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by ankp 17y ago
Is a VPN significantly less likely to be exploitable than SSH? Yes, for a few reasons. First, a VPN provides defense in-depth -- compromising a server now requires finding two unpatched vulnerabilities: * You must find a vulnerability i
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by ankp 17y ago
What do you mean by "humbling lesson"? If anyone finds an unpatched flaw and uses it to exploit some servers, then it doesn't matter who takes care of the servers. It doesn't matter if it's ptacek or a random admin. It's a new, unknown pro
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by ankp 17y ago
Whether an optimization is worth pursuing depends on the business requirements, how much the it costs to implement, and whether there are any additional gains beyond avoiding power, space, and personnel costs. Simply picking an efficient (b
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by ankp 17y ago
It's not cheap, and you don't have to be Google for it to matter. Most of the time, the costs are just non-obvious to engineering. Here are some rough numbers. Power for a single 48U rack usually runs $200-$300/month for two 20amp circuits