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by ballard 13y ago
Landscape full screen works after one or two revisits. But, ultimately the CSS needs to work regardless of window size.
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by ballard 13y ago
The standard pattern is never use external dependencies directly, but to keep copies and host them on your CDN. That way, you can run them through the ol' asset pipeline too... minifiers and possibly serve them straight from gzips. G
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by ballard 13y ago
Oversimplified refresher for anyone wanting to know what we're talking about: Least restrictive * MIT/2,3,4-clause BSD/Apache (pretty much anything, the terms are clear (except Apache)) * LGPL (usually for libraries tha
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by ballard 13y ago
Will be quite interesting when the emperor discovers he cannot go outside with his new clothes. The concern with AGPL is philosophical dissonance of allowing positive rights of freedom while simultaneously enforcing negative rights, e.g., r
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by ballard 13y ago
Charge whatever you can get away with. Set a number and show willingness to walk away. I used to do cloud consulting from an LLC after doing client-facing enterprise AWS consulting. Consulting experience TLDR braindump: * Enterprise sh
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by ballard 13y ago
Enterprise people have already moved in on this with opaque application volumes. NDA's so don't bother asking for detail.
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by ballard 13y ago
Captology wikivs laser beams. Both * zomgcopter creepy Captology * Coined at Stanford * Persuasion technology that's "not malevolent" * Doesn't require neurosurgery Laser beams * May cause fire *
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by ballard 13y ago
And replying to myself... Fahrenheit 451, of course!
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by ballard 13y ago
And the favorite lists and references to Godwin's law ensue: * Steal This Book * Anarchist Cookbook * Uncle Tom's Cabin * Mein Kampf * Das Kapital * The Satanic Verses * Captain Underpants (for the kids, obviously)
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by ballard 13y ago
Yep. Sometimes crashing isn't an option. There are places in network & systems code that have seemingly complicated but darn important many permutations of state that already exist. Sometimes the differentiation between error co
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by ballard 13y ago
Hobgoblins breed in shadows by absence of evidence. I think the hardware stack vendors have an opportunity for leadership by open sourcing portions of updates and drivers to assuage that your mom's laptop doesn't have Chinese or
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by ballard 13y ago
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documents/sts-2.1... via http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documentation_sof... via http://stackov
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by ballard 13y ago
Doublethanks.
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by ballard 13y ago
If BackTrack were outlawed as a munition, it would spread more, briefly. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ Download it now, whether or not you need it, because it adds noise.
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New NIST/NSA Revelations (1993)(epic.org)
22 points by ballard 13y ago|6 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Snowden is playing chess. The end-game is that he will always be looking over his shoulder, whether it's a new host government that wants to score points with Washington or a contractor collecting a bounty placed on his head. Or, anxi
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by ballard 13y ago
Docker is great. For those that don't know, it's basically a sandboxing infrastructure for linux running many apps on one physical or virtual server. The future is only having one app per server container. This means mounting a
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by ballard 13y ago
Article seems to be inventing a need in the banking set for yet another crowdfunding meets YC knock-off. For them I also have a bridge for sale, low mileage and runs great.
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MITRE makes protecting iOS apps and data 1.e3 times easier(project-imas.github.io)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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[Coursera] Malicious Software and its Underground Economy(coursera.org)
3 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Docker is awesome. It lets you use a Linode or AWS instance as a bunch of NATed containers. This makes it way easier to install just one thing in one container and not mess up the other ones. This is where configuration management is goin
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by ballard 13y ago
Speaking of passwords, or: how I detest them so... Passwords ... other people can watch you enter them, even at distance, and are easily forged, once known. Pen & ink signatures ... the results can be replicated and are hard to verify a
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by ballard 13y ago
The article is fear-mongering with a drip of reality, too much like commercial news. If someone didn't think all of their personal electronic interactions: SMS, gmail (if you still have one), banking info weren't being cursorily evaluated b
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by ballard 13y ago
Sounds like troll bait, recall the recent article about PG's modding algorithms. Life's too short. There's lots of video CDN "solutions", and it's almost always cheapest (even after labor support) to DIY with bare metal at very large scale
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by ballard 13y ago
Have you (or anyone else) had a chance to A/B test caches? That is, setup network API requests to be duplicated/filtered from production and sent to test environment(s).. credit to netflix. Setup enough identical boxes with each of Squid,
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by ballard 13y ago
Look up money laundering in a dictionary. After that, watch Office Space. :)
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by ballard 13y ago
Cynicism is just a mask of rationalization to be a critical bystander from the sidelines rather than seize the moment.
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YC Valuations Heatmap(content.screencast.com)
2 points by ballard 14y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 14y ago
Linode security notice sent to customers. https://gist.github.com/5376298
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by ballard 14y ago
"On the next 'Hacker Entourage', Philipe doesn't like the shade of blue on the BMW the agent offered as a signing bonus."

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