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by biot 11y ago
> If you try my car/house door and it's unlocked it doesn't > mean you can enter it. If you have a publicly available web server and I make a "GET /" request on it, am I hacking? If you have a p
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by biot 11y ago
I respect your time as well. Please, take as much of it as you need. I'm generous that way.
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by biot 11y ago
Why is it more interesting? The purpose of the blog post is to explain the rationale for the guide itself and directly links to it. I find it just as interesting to read about why they're doing it.
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by biot 11y ago
Are you suggesting that GitHub is a monopoly and subject to the Sherman Act?
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I suspect it's the same reason we use thin propellers for moving boats through the water rather than strapping a bunch of prosthetic limbs to a motor.
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by biot 11y ago
> And those 4 load-balanced instances we were running Octo > on initially? We’re now doing it with 2.
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by biot 11y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted (other than perhaps playing internet doctor). One of the first things a competent medical professional will do is to evaluate where you're at, which includes checking thyroid levels. That said,
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by biot 11y ago
How did hashrocket get named? I would think instead of => a hashrocket would look like: #> edit: Makes total sense. Thanks for the replies.
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by biot 11y ago
It's a nice thought, but I suspect it to work as well as "safe electrical circuits" day would. The internet security equivalent is that companies are selling completely unsafe circuitry with live wires exposed, and we should
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by biot 11y ago
Odd feature matrix. The free version has all the benefits; the paid version has all the limitations. edit: Oops, that's the second time I've glossed over a site and mistaken a company's competitive analysis for a multi-tier p
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by biot 11y ago
The part of that article that really sucks is that King went out of their way to purchase the rights to a game that was made in 2004 and had a "Candy" trademark in order to prevent the 2010 registrant from contesting. That's
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by biot 11y ago
Prior use is a defense against a trademark claim. Yes, it may involve lawyers to enforce that right, but the reality of the business world is that if you have a name you want protected, then you register for a trademark of that name (and if
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by biot 11y ago
Why is that questionable? They made a very popular game and, as happens with profitable apps, a ton of developers fire up their clone factories and start creating Candy Crash, Candy Mush, Candy Squeeze, Candy Crush HD, and any other name th
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by biot 11y ago
There's an amusing short story from the 1960s called "Computers Don't Argue" which this reminds me of: http://atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
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by biot 11y ago
The relevant part of the article is: > After every 10 failed attempts, the chips need to be > removed the phone, reflashed, and reinserted back into > the phone. Then the phone needs to be rebooted. > For a 4-digit pas
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by biot 11y ago
That is how some trademarks work. Google is by now a famous mark and, as such, gets additional protection beyond what mere mortal companies do: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Famous_marks I guarantee you won't last
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by biot 11y ago
Is that valid? The original license had: > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. As those have now been stripped away, it seems like a
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by biot 11y ago
CoreForce had this for Windows 2000/XP: http://www.coresecurity.com/corelabs-research/projects/core-... It was based on a port of OpenBSD's PF firewall and let you set fine-grained permissions on file, n
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by biot 11y ago
> Your original post said that Neonode is not prior art for > the claim asserted. That is not true. The phrase "the claim asserted" was not part of my original post; I only used that wording after you replied to my
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by biot 11y ago
From the case: > Apple asserted claim 8 of the ’721 patent This is the one claim Apple asserted. This patent claim states: > 8. The device of claim 7, further comprising instructions > to display visual cues to communi
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by biot 11y ago
Yes, the Neonode has "slide to unlock", but Apple's patent is for a very specific set of claims; items which the Neonode didn't implement. With Apple's patent, they claim novelty over having a single graphical eleme
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by biot 11y ago
And not just for his lifetime, but also that of his estate once he passes. Hulk Hogan is, at this point, a brand with merchandise, video rights, and so on.
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I've experienced the same, but it doesn't mean the general rule is untrue. More specifically, if you are making market salary then the greatest raise will come from switching companies. If that's not true and your current emp
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by biot 11y ago
Or another idea along these lines might be to have a checkbox on the application that says "Submit to audience choice if rejected" and, if they don't get in, those applications are opened to voting by HN users above a certain
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If you flip the genders, is it misandry?
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by biot 11y ago
I'm going to have to agree with ska's other comment[0] and say that it's knowing the difference between good design and optimization. Being able to design a performant system means choosing designs which are inherently fast.
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by biot 11y ago
> Knuth is right: premature optimization is a bad idea, full stop. A bit of a "no true Scotsman" though, isn't it? Any optimization that is a good idea to do now is "not truly premature", whereas everythi
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by biot 11y ago
What's the physics behind the accretion disk and its look? I would have expected black holes to look more like the last few images where it's just a black hole distorting light around it. Is it just pure eye candy, or do black hol
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All we need now is a piracy-style commercial to go along with the message: "You wouldn't encrypt a child you just abducted. You wouldn't encrypt potassium nitrate you plan to use to make a bomb and blow up a bulding
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by biot 11y ago
Why would you take an untested schematic to a manufacturer and ask them to build a product based off of it? If you are asking the manufacturer to both devise the schematic and build the resulting product, then it behooves you to ask for a p

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