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by ballard 13y ago
Now there's some guy in every coffee shop claiming to have an accelerator without any idea how to succeed (specialize/differentiate). They're 95% wooly propositions with the occasional one that can sell nontrivial epsilon of
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Password Hashing Competition - new PBKDFs(password-hashing.net)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
It's clever branding and nice. If it could use Heroku as backends for repos, now that would probably break HK's freemium model. The other point is that bitbucket has unlimited private repos for free and github has unlimited public
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by ballard 13y ago
This is why top-down, single-source of truth is mostly the best way for core infrastructure. No pun intended. It's important for some parts to not be infinitely reconfigurable or dynamic because it would create chaos and service depe
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by ballard 13y ago
Trying to cast an argument as a strawman with a strawman is pretty weak. You've also admitted that it's an incomplete solution. But What's worse is that people are going to buy this and quickly they'll have to scrap it
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by ballard 13y ago
Configuration management transactions. Puppet has the notion of stages. Yes because it's marketing an unproven technology as a solution when better things already exist. Someone I know from (OpsCode||Puppet) even further the recommend
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by ballard 13y ago
There are plenty of good things few people know about. It's bad to promote a solution that don't address the problems of real deployments: coordinating change and responding to it. Updating host files or ssh moduli is about all i
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by ballard 13y ago
I'm bashing it because it oversimplifies the problem and claims to be a solution that doesn't address the irreducibility of the problem. It's great for a host file but scp can do that. It doesn't coordinate the transitio
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by ballard 13y ago
It's trying to solve with marketing what Chef does. There is more to configuration management that templating files, but in inspection and having other services arriving at other states.
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by ballard 13y ago
Zookeeper is a very specialized distributed filesystem for saving and delivering important details for very large systems. Getting concurrent distributed systems like this right is the equivalent of summited Mount Everest starting by walki
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by ballard 13y ago
Except that it's not. Zookeeper was a major pain to get where it is.
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by ballard 13y ago
This is a pure marketing story pushing a bad solution. Hiera, a simple hierarchal property distribution system using a backend of Zookeeper plus puppet or chef is far superior. Etcd is the PHP of configuration management.
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by ballard 13y ago
Activation of the OS requiring network check-in similar to Apple's iOS would potentially be able to disable devices by blacklisting serial number / imei / meid. It's worth noting that most carriers DO NOT blacklist all t
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by ballard 13y ago
Prey project is semi open-source, freemium and works on ios, android and most desktop OSes too. https://preyproject.com/
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by ballard 13y ago
Are there any existing patents on this?
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by ballard 13y ago
Watchers in Appalachias, Eastern Europe, Malaysia, Africa might scale.
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by ballard 13y ago
Finders fee per incident perhaps.
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by ballard 13y ago
ML scoring of footage of customers near product, increasing and multiple watchers during peak times. The other service would be actively testing watchers with varying levels of red team exercise difficulty.
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by ballard 13y ago
There are these large stores in the US where it seems like everyone but me is three finger discounting soda and donuts.
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by ballard 13y ago
I found PowerShell incredibly crunchy. I will admit I was paid to drive hyperv from ruby remotely. What happened is that WinRM wasn't usable and that PowerShell was the lowest barrier mechanism to drive the functionality. It was nasty
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by ballard 13y ago
Oh god, a million times yes. I really like the old windows way and prefer the osx pref panes. It seemed like MSFT confusing churn to say we changed something (and therefore "fixed" something) without knowing what made sense or w
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by ballard 13y ago
Reduced to not fearing is dead. Computer Associates eeks out a living on obsolete enterprise apps that some people. And the city of San Francisco contains a direct current power utility. Edge cases are the opposite of dominance. APPL may
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by ballard 13y ago
So I've done consulting with a 20MM+ USD startup that has engaged MSFT over a long period for acquisition potential. It was the case that Balmer had to personally approve every M&A activity over 10MM USD. Hopefully Satya will put
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by ballard 13y ago
The meta goal is getting rid of these judges that don't take privacy seriously.
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by ballard 13y ago
This story comes off as the emperors' new clothes. As long as minified compressed HTML, CSS and JS are served up with the least amortized dev and support time, it's all good.
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by ballard 13y ago
By making in-app purchases valuable and small, people are more likely to spend more on engaging games. This can increase TLV for good, replayable games.
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by ballard 13y ago
Bitbucket: unlimited free private repos GH: popularity
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OpenSSH 6.5p1 unofficially ported to osx(gist.github.com)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
As an update, I've started with clean patches from sources so it's all in a git repo instead of spread out in brew files and gists. http://github.com/steakknife/openssh
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by ballard 13y ago
http://www.foundersfund.com/

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