bumblebird

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by bumblebird 17y ago
OK It seems the issue is that the US is far behind in this. Pretty much every restaurant in the UK has portable POS devices waiters carry around to take payment. Pretty much every shop has the same standard looking POS chip+pin devices. eg
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Nope. Perhaps this is a country thing. In the UK pretty much everything happens in a specific looking chip+pin reader POS device. They all look pretty much the same and are pretty secure afaik. (Also most places in the UK will not swipe you
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by bumblebird 17y ago
AFAIK reading the chip is non trivial, and involves heavy encryption and proprietary hardware/software. Maybe though :/
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I don't really understand the niche it's aiming to fill. Most stores/restaurants have portable card readers these days, so is it a poor-mans one of those? I guess I'm wondering what use-case it's aiming at. Also I absolutely would not trust
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Close to what paypal started as. Then they realized people didn't want to send payments using their PDAs, they wanted to send them via email.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
How is this better than keying in the cc number + expiry date? Also I don't think this would work with chip+pin cards would it?
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I bought these earlier this year :/ Maybe I'll give them another go in a few years.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Um chill out. It could have been some weird IP spoofing attack where the host gets confused and thinks a remote connection is actually localhost and grants it some privilege or other. For example maybe you have a ton of services setup to on
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Thanks. When I saw the title I assumed it was a network exploit related to the localhost 127.0.0.1 etc.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
God don't read anything about patterns or refactoring. That'll sap all of your creativity and cover you in a tight fitting straight jacket. Read a language spec. That gives you the building blocks. Then go away and play with them.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
We have a kitchen which contains about 7 small spotlights. I thought I'd try out some LED replacements, which each contain like 10 small white LEDs. They were more expensive, but I thought it'd be worth a try. A bit like these http://nextd
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I certainly am. It's a complete mystery to me. Is it like visual basic? The only PITA with HTTP is chunked encoding. Whoever thought that gem up should be shot. The rest is fairly trivial. Certainly parsing headers is. This implementation l
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by bumblebird 17y ago
It was just a bit surprising to me. Parsing HTTP isn't exactly complex.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
"full" keyboard is negated by the fact you need a pin to press the keys. Or have miniature fingers. (IMHO)
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I think in the future they should probably only award prizes to things that actually exist, on sale.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
The title is "I've implemented a new HTTP/1.1 request and response parser by hand" My question was, how do you implement a new HTTP/1.1 request and response parser if it's not by hand. Isn't most code written using hands? I've written one t
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by bumblebird 17y ago
By hand ??? As opposed to what exactly? Isn't most code written by hand?
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by bumblebird 17y ago
What else is there to a tablet? Of course they could go the other way - just make a really massive ipod touch. I'd bet they don't release a tablet. It makes no sense to me.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Genuine question, as I haven't used Windows seriously for years. Does it ship with ssh out of the box yet?
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Makes the award "10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009: Techcrunch Crunchpad Tablet" just that little bit more ridiculous. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/4332415.h...
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by bumblebird 17y ago
The likelihood of Apple releasing a tablet, I'd say is low. But they could. Fair enough. I don't think they will, but that wasn't my point. However, if they do release a tablet, there is absolutely no way on gods earth, they would ever ma
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Given the lack of consensus about what is or isn't happening, I'm really extremely skeptical that we could reach consensus on a way to prevent it. Sure, it's nice to spend some money researching potential threats, but this one seems to have
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Can you cite other examples of Apple competing on price? Or being anything but 'high end' pricing. Look at the Macbook Air - $1499. A tablet would be pretty much an Air but without the keyboard. I don't think it's likely therefore that the
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Cool, thanks :)
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by bumblebird 17y ago
I just can't imagine a world where you can't ssh into linuxy servers and do things. Trying to run anything on top of windows doesn't fill me with confidence. Do all windows servers still insist on having a GUI etc? I honestly don't know, bu
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by bumblebird 17y ago
How are we going to prevent it?
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Good to know, I may be moving to the area soon, so I'll certainly check them out some more.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
They're all microsofty though :/ puts me off a bit.
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by bumblebird 17y ago
It's a complete killer if you have a large number of smallish objects floating around. (Which was my case).
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by bumblebird 17y ago
Seems like an extremely early exit :/ 46 days from a "Rate my startup" to a "My first exit" must be a record :)

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