bmir-alum-007

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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Perhaps in your use-case it was cheaper / less risk to rent than to own, but for sizable concerns, it's a no brainer that owning is far, far cheaper. (For smaller stuff/side projects: In the UK, ByteMark.co.uk is awesome, fle
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Is that rented gear in someone else's racks or your own gear in racks you rent? Beyond a few boxes, the TCO of buying your own gear is far, far cheaper (look at the prices of Supermicro boxes, not luxury, overpriced enterprise boxes t
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Not really. Amazon as a whole is dial-a-yield depending on the rate of profit reinvested to grow existing/new capabilities. If Bezos wanted, he could halt expansion and return more profit in the short-term, but that would delay long-
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
If this happens to include nuclear warheads, esp. in the U.S., all warheads are currently sent to Pantex in Amarillo, Texas for decomm or refurb. Most of the staff are ex-US MIL, especially USN and USAF, capable of maintaining Q(S) clearan
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20150724000231/http://www.wsj.com...
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
I've worked on open+closed source in enterprise startups with people that come from both MSFT- and Linux-centric worlds respectively. The MSFT centric-people tend (not all) poo-poo open source as a complete waste of time and/or l
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
I worked at Stanford in the dept which supported housing and dining. Concessions agreements and relationships have to be engaged and signed before setting up shop in an area, regardless of whether someone believes it to be "public.&
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Yeap, "Weird Al" Yankovic and all gathered dust after CDs became readily available. I had a $400 Sony Walkman CD player (circa 1986) and a 1981 (!) German impression of The Doors - The Doors album (dull orange silkscreen printing
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Virustotal doesn't run locally, there's zero client impact!
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
IIRC from reimplenting 1/2 of the OpenGL pipeline in C for a CS course, the early Phong and Gouraud shadings inevitably looked either plastic, matte or dull. Hair and skin were hard but have been mostly solved fairly okay at great co
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Ah cool. Also, what data is collected permanently, for how long? What happens if the venture where acquired? Whom would own that?
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It was written clean-room in some client's office (no NDA, but still, engineering ethics), but I may have a copy somewhere on a backup in offline IRL storage, but it was written for JDK 1.2-1.4 IIRC so it won't run and it's c
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Exactly, hence the preference for a partnership directly to get some more API access priority / infrastructure $ for dedicated scanner worker bots (virustotal is probably a bunch of internal VMs with COM instrumentation agents to WinRM
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Please have a look at what I wrote... Not tamper, inform (least surprises).
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It's a tradeoff. There's also nothing stopping folks from rewriting init and rc scripts as Ruby code or (re)writing systemd in Go, Ruby, etc.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Ruby scripts ultimately are processes, and there's much borrowed from Perl including `ARGF`. Just don't use the clever Ruby syntax stuff unless one wishes to be bashed <groan 2.0> over the head. It becomes more of a "w
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
The script I use to disable/enable dnscrypt-proxy (multiple instances behind dnsmasq for HA) https://gist.github.com/steakknife/bf6967e2298b95da29b7 Sample output (tethering): 0 ~ git:master ❯❯❯ internet_ac
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Edit: One box had really crazy, clever malware (backdoor IRC bot which was firmly detectable by NIDS (snort) and by remote nmap) which defeated local nmap, portmon and rootkitrevealer... and it was a 24x7 production oracle box (no HA or arc
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
It seems like a scraper which could manage submitting to and checking virustotal would be a good idea. Also, perhaps wikileaks / virustotal could come to sort of agreement to scan things and flag them while still making assets availabl
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Yeap. It's preferred to vendor a JRE (non-system JRE) inside your app (which is basically just extracting it to some dir you always control), which doesn't conflict with whatever else is on the box (no registry settings, /et
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Most JVM methods can require permissions because it provides built-in POLA ACLs (security policies). The default would likely be to deny network access and file io. It's more likely that an app itself contains vulnerabilities &|
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
In general, it depends: there are many different use cases where SPA is fine and others where they are not. It's especially good for long-running consoles that don't need much navigation (given using the appropriate JS framework
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
JVM & CLR runtimes probably account for 75% of all enterprise backend apps running on server gear in production right now. Both have been beaten on for so long that they're both fairly reliable, which is not to say either bug free
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
De facto nonprofit.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
That's not the issue. Is the uncertainty of unwittingly signing yourself or the recipient up for junkmail or yourself for more spam.
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
In case anyone were wondering, gravitational lensing would only account for 1.6030569323305754e-13 m or 0.16 picometers of laser deflection when the laser would be tangent to earth and the ruler is extended from that same point. Deflection
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by bmir-alum-007 11y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work at a Stanford bioinformatics shop. There's a clear need of AWS-like features for bio/biomedical informatics specifically enabling sharing, security, reuse and anonymization of data (PHI), libraries (like