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by davideous 9y ago
Stand-alone ScreenHero sharing is smooth as butter -- truly amazing. Controlling a remote computer feels local. Right now I'm using the slack-integrated "ScreenHero", and it's really laggy. This is super disappointing, a
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by davideous 10y ago
In my company's contract, we limit our liability to the amount paid by the client. Without a liability limitation clause in the contract, you're taking on a potentially unlimited amount of liability in each project. It's not
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by davideous 10y ago
GreenArrow | Chicago, IL | REMOTE | Full-time GreenArrow makes enterprise email server software used by companies such as Fry's Electronics, Merriam-Webster, and Six Flags and email service providers. We are a close-knit 12 person comp
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by davideous 10y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/
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by davideous 10y ago
Yes, it would technically meet the Open Source Initiative's definition ( https://opensource.org/osd ), but if there was no way to re-flash the device, no way to verify the binary on the device, or possibly even no way bu
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by davideous 10y ago
> They could prevent bad firmware updates by wiping keys on upgrade This does not close the attack vector of someone intercepting the device before you get it and surreptitiously installing firmware with a backdoor.
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by davideous 10y ago
Yes, pritambaral described what I'm trying to point-out. In think the "vs" in the title is saying this: they had to choose between open source (that is functional meaning you can really use the code and re-flash the device) a
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by davideous 10y ago
I think if they released the source, but you weren't able to reflash the device (which is a design trade-off they chose to close some attack vendors), people would be up-in-arms and saying "it's not true open source because I
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by davideous 10y ago
In discussions like this the phrase "security by obscurity" gets used as an accusation. We all agree "security by obscurity" does not work. But that's not what is happening here. Wikipedia's definition: "t
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by davideous 10y ago
We should pump the waste heat into greenhouses and grow tulips. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania )
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by davideous 10y ago
This reminds me of the elevation of Mt Everest as determined in 1856: > Peak XV (measured in feet) was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft (8,839.2 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft (8,839.8 m) in order to avoid the impre
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by davideous 11y ago
We have an reverse osmosis unit that has a "remineralizer," which adds back in minerals. It's basically a filter canister with minerals in it, which mineral-free RO water dissolves.
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by davideous 11y ago
There are bombs where a fission stage ignites a fusion stage which sends neutrons to start another fission reaction. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon#Summary "(3) The fusion fuel of the sec
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by davideous 11y ago
This appears to be working so far. One sample doesn't really establish a "market rate" yet, so I don't worry about the seller not being motivated by financial profit motive. Sometimes the value provided to the seller goe
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by davideous 11y ago
The big difference is that Apple has a monopoly on distributing iOS apps. In music, Apple has to complete with other music streaming services and other channels, so they have to be competitive to get artists to sign up for Apple Music.
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by davideous 11y ago
Not true. We have plenty of clients using their own decentralized email servers and getting great inbox delivery of legitimate bulk email. To get good results on your own server, you need: (a) To be sending email that people want to receive
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by davideous 11y ago
My company, www.drh.net, provides an SAAS or on-premises Mail Transfer Agent, GreenArrow Engine. You can run it in your network and tightly lock down the system. We can take care of all of the email deliverability setup and operations tasks
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by davideous 11y ago
We sell enterprise email server software. It's high-touch and sometimes a long sales cycle. Lots of demos of the software via screen-share. Right now we have two people in sales. They are collaborating multiple times a day on Skype and
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by davideous 11y ago
Here's a good article on why Fog Creek does not pay sales commissions: http://blog.fogcreek.com/why-do-we-pay-sales-commissions/ We don't pay sales commissions at my company, and it works well for us. It does
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by davideous 12y ago
> As an e-mail services provider, I cannot or should inspect what my customers are sending. I can suspend them due to complaints of abuse but the damage is already done. As an ESP, since you are letting customers send through your IP spa
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by davideous 12y ago
Yes, good senders will still get messages flagged as spam. But the ISPs know this and they look at the complaint ratio. A complaint ratio of 0.5% or 1.0% is considered good. A complaint ratio of 3.0% is a problem. We have one customer that&
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by davideous 12y ago
The freedom of choice is actually in the hands of the end-users. The end-users choose which email providers (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail) they want to use. The email providers are motivated to provide a good user experience, which includes blocki
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by davideous 13y ago
This is illegal in the United States under the CAN-SPAM law From: http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus61-can-spam-act-com... "You can’t charge a fee, require the recipient to give you any personally identifyi
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by davideous 13y ago
This reminds me of something my Latin teacher used to say: We don't know how Latin was actually pronounced because all of the audio tapes were destroyed when Rome burned down. :-)
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by davideous 13y ago
Summary: The author of this article came out of partial retirement to construct a novel bankruptcy plan for GM, which is what GM used. The normal route would be for GM to file bankruptcy and have the court approve a restructuring. This rest
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by davideous 13y ago
We're not a contracting agency, but we pay in that range for 40 hours/week, are a 100% remote company, allow flex time, and with good benefits. Email me at dharris@drh.net if you're interested.