darrikmazey

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by darrikmazey 11y ago
Sounds like a situation that could be polluted with something like what Moxie Marlinspike did with googlesharing, in an effort to bury the signal in the noise.
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by darrikmazey 12y ago
The myth is always that either one illegally downloads or pays for it through channels. However, most people I know will pay for some content and not others. It's a question of value. Just because the illegal download costs $250 doe
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by darrikmazey 13y ago
i can't offer an internship or any really sound advice, but my email is in my profile, and i can offer mentorship and answers to questions from a software developer of over 20 years. feel free to contact me if that will help.
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
My age probably shows in this statement, but it seems odd to me to suggest that someone else change their behaviour so the poster does not have to rtfm. We're coders. When we don't understand something, we read the manual, then the source
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
I wonder how this correlating data can be used in cases of copyright infringement where the alleged infringer is only identified by IP address. Could a correlation between IP address and real-world identification be made by subpoena of FB
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
What concerns me is that I doubt the average user will understand the potential ramifications of entrusting a copy of their ID to a third party. If these documents are not well-protected or the user does not bother to or is not capable of
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Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too(idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com)
167 points by darrikmazey 14y ago|134 comments
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
Up-front disclaimer: I don't use facebook, but the precedent of this upsets me. It seems to me that a website can define the API by which you access their site (some subset of HTTP), but can they really make a definitive claim to how data i
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
It strikes me that an ISP preparing a "test" page for a court order suggests they already anticipate the direction the court will take, an action they are content with so long as responsibility doesn't fall on them.
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
Isn't spyware you don't have to use and can uninstall just software with a feature you do not desire? I'm completely against the feature, but I don't see why something must be done about it? Feel free to add whatever features to your soft
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
I run a simple djbdns setup locally with a caching resolver that passes specific domains to my dns server proper and the rest up the chain. Took about seven minutes to configure properly. This seems overly complex.
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
I for one love it when someone types whole paragraphs about the desire to avoid keystrokes. Every language has it's irritating quirks, none of which do I care enough to write about.
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by darrikmazey 14y ago
This labelling (501 or !501) is pointless and arbitrary. I'm a self-employed developer with four children. Some days I work until 11p or even as late as 1a. Some days I quit at 2p and take in a child's soccer game. This isn't a label as
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I don't have a degree at all, but I have been programming since the age of 9, completely self-taught. At first I found it difficult to find employment, but with enough work experience, degree or lack thereof no longer even comes up. The d
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I'm sure I'm not the target audience, but I'm surprised that in this day and age there isn't always a shared resource lying around (a linode, a slice, an ec2 instance). Or just allow ssh between developers with accounts limited to git acce
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
While as a programmer I understand that perhaps this load time could be improved, and maybe splash screens are a lazy solution, but I wonder if it warrants this level of anger. Even assuming a generous 5 minute load time on photoshop (I do
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I agree that the so-called "news" is entertainment, but being completely uninformed about current events will make you non-discerning in addition to more productive. Perhaps it would be better to consume better information as opposed to le
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I'll make one if you want to fund it. :)
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
... and convincing my wife that I'll able to fly once I step off the cliff. I was fortunate enough that my wife (although highly skeptical) was trusting enough to go along. Sometimes you just have to make the leap. Wish I had earlier, i
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I find it amusing that he starts off with a rant about long resumes. Then half of what follows goes on to talk about all the extensive information you have to communicate on your CV just to get an interview. I severely disagree with the at
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
In so much of this discussion, people seem to get distracted arguing whether pirating media is morally reprehensible or not. This is irrelevant to whether SOPA is a good solution to the alleged problem. I perceive two separate debates: wh
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
Am I the only one that thinks someone bored by debate and process behind the passage of a bill (and childishly bragging about it) should be allowed (nay, encouraged) to spend their time elsewhere. Preferrably as far from Congress as possib
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I have spent years upon years programming in perl, and I love it dearly, but I laughed pretty hard at this. No offense to Larry Wall, but if you've spent any time writing perl code, surely you've had at least one moment where you wondered
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
As is typical with this line of thinking, it only scales so far and only applies as long as you are "on the map" of what is standard. Stray too far and your devops personnel will spend more and more time "administrating" and less time codi
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
> You don't need to worry about this (not what the law is for). The law's purpose when written does not preclude all the clever uses they find for it afterward.
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I don't know anything about the poster or his relationship to Zuckerberg, but there is probably a built-in alert for mentions of Zuckerberg. Else unless they're friends, how would he see this within 6 minutes? If I had a Facebook account,
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
A GET request for an embedded resource exposes the user's cookies for that domain and associates a user of one site as a user of another. This is fine when it is at the user's explicitly intended request, but when paired with certain sites
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
Ensure the "tweet this" or "like this" button does not generate a request to the 3rd party site simply by loading the Mozilla webpage the button is on (e.g. no requests to third party site without user's intent via clicking on the button).
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
Another trick I especially like is to use the command="" syntax inside of an authorized_keys file to allow a user to execute certain commands via ssh, especially handy for git-shell.
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by darrikmazey 15y ago
I always disable remote root login and password authentication. Then I create purpose-specific remote users with sudo access only to the commands they need (and never access to sudo su). This is not only more security-conscious in my mind

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