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by codexon 16y ago
Stop pretending Dons. It is quite amusing that you are voted up 5 times for such a content-less comment yet you and your associates are powerless to downvote the article.
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by codexon 16y ago
<Insert Dons and the usual angry Haskell fanboy diatribes here> </satire>
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by codexon 16y ago
But in Firefox that's easy to fix. Just type about:config, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true.
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by codexon 16y ago
Chrome's proxy plug-ins still suck. Last time I checked, Chrome still leaks DNS requests. Adblock is also gimped because of the browser API, making it impossible to block ads before they load, slowing your internet connection and sometimes
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by codexon 16y ago
Isn't anyone else here skeptical of Tim Ferriss? Sure he's rich now, but he graduated from Princeton and self-admittedly worked 7 days a week in order to get his dietary supplement company BrainQuicken up and running. All this flies in the
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by codexon 16y ago
Quora has a much smaller community mostly composed of people interested in start-ups in the Silicon Valley. They get coverage on sites like TechCrunch and HN because of that and the founders left Facebook (most likely because Zuckerberg rep
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by codexon 16y ago
The next Haskell will be strict -Simon Peyton Jones http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/%7Egmh/appsem-slides/peytonjones.pp... The latest research fads in CS aren't always beneficial.
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by codexon 16y ago
LuaJIT has a memory limit of 4gb. When it is compiled for x64, it has a limit of 1gb. You cannot use Lua lanes to bypass this, the Lua states must be in different processes. http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-11/msg00241.html The lack
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by codexon 16y ago
I'm amazed this blog post devoid of content or insight is #1. His 4 paragraph message boils down to: "It wasn't made for techies." The same message that has been said about the Ipad, Macbook Air, Kindle and countless others.
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by codexon 16y ago
Clarification (since I can't edit my comment anymore): Businesses should foot the cost of job training to prevent supply/demand mismatches where thousands of people spend 4+ years preparing for a job they never get hired for. Why? A busines
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by codexon 16y ago
I think one of the fundamental flaws with American companies is that someone with "the right skills" means the person is a shoe-in at the time of hire. They are expected the walk onto the job with all the training, know-how, experience etc
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by codexon 16y ago
Yes, the US tax system is too complex... but I find it really hard to believe that he didn't make a large profit with 50,000 page views per day with a relatively static PHP site (hosting cost probably $10/month).
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by codexon 16y ago
Age and average comment karma.
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by codexon 16y ago
I find your tone very disturbing. The point which keeps going over your head is that GA approaches a exhaustive search in which you randomly select cases to test until you've either tried them all (and wasted many cpu cycles along the way w
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by codexon 16y ago
GAs are not pure hill climbers. Variation operators introduce new solutions into the population at random. In searching for non-obvious solutions a GA is no better, probably even worse than an exhaustive search. You are essentially gambli
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by codexon 16y ago
This is the type of non-obvious optimization that genetic algorithms excel at. This is not true. GA search is a hill climbing algorithm which is prone to finding local maxima. The less obvious a strategy is, the more likely it is that GA
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by codexon 16y ago
When it comes to things like politics/religion/etc no amount of good writing can convince the other person.
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by codexon 16y ago
but it took 12 hours to make a site that makes 250 a day I'd really like to see the stats on that. Every time someone tells me that they spent (small amount of hours) on a website that (makes more than $1 a day) they are exaggerating to t
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by codexon 16y ago
I don't believe so. I checked with wireshark. And there's no point in using another DNS provider if your network is compromised since they can see your requests in plaintext.
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by codexon 16y ago
This tutorial is missing a crucial piece of information. Firefox: Go to about:config, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true. Otherwise you'll be leaking out information on which domains you are visiting.
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by codexon 16y ago
Ok you guys can stop with the "but what about this" now. We all realize there are 1000 different attacks with various levels of difficulty and all of which have appropriate countermeasures and are nowhere near the success rate nor ubiquity
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by codexon 16y ago
In order to do FirePiggyInTheMiddle, you need to control the router. You can't just sit in the subnet and start sending commands to random clients to hijack their connection, especially when it is symmetrically encrypted.
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by codexon 16y ago
I don't see another compromise that wouldn't require the signature infrastructure. MITM attacks are much less common than sniffing attacks as we can see here.
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by codexon 16y ago
I don't like it that Firesheep is driving everyone to use HTTPS. You cannot have multiple SSL certs on a single IP and you have to pay a significant amount to get a cert that won't pop up an annoying page which turns away most non-technical
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by codexon 16y ago
Apparently the client is too lazy to remove their names as the creator of the website (which is supposedly crashing often). So their reputation is being irrevocably damaged. http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/dui6d/new_minecra...
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by codexon 16y ago
You make it sound like no government program has ever been cut or removed. You also make it sound like private companies can do no wrong, and that customers always act in their best interest like rational agents. This is a fallacy learned i
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by codexon 16y ago
I think it's curious that you would try and argue this. Before Google sold gmail to colleges, my college and many others used squirrelmail and pine which was more than adequate. Any sizable college that had an IT department that could suppo
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by codexon 16y ago
It has everything to do with the argument. He thinks that Google invented or revolutionized webmail, maps, etc... when it is clear to anyone who's been on the internet for more than 8 years that they were only incremental updates.
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by codexon 16y ago
Your enthusiasm for gmail has blinded you to the reality. Sure it might be the best thing to you since sliced bread, but in every market estimate, gmail still trails behind hotmail and yahoo mail which means that for most people, gmail is n
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by codexon 16y ago
> Maybe it is the lawyer in me, but why wouldn't any international business do whatever it could legally do to minimize its taxes? It all comes down to ruining competition which is crucial for capitalism to improve the quality and decre

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