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by dcposch 12y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but Go is not a scripting language. The defining characteristic of scripts is that they are interpreted. Go compiles ahead of time to a statically linked binary.
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by dcposch 12y ago
> Gradle is good enough to be getting on with, but i'm looking forward to the next step. Check out Buck. It's fast, the codebase and general complexity is a tiny fraction compared to Maven or Gradle, and it's more sound in
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by dcposch 12y ago
This is awesome. End-to-end encryption is the natural solution to the problem of universal surveillance as well as more mundane issues, like companies losing data and servers getting hacked. I think it's very elegant that one can build
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by dcposch 12y ago
Yeah, ArrayList is fine. I was saying the code is cleaner than its C++ equivalent. There are many parts of the Java library to avoid. Some are obsolete and terrible, like CORBA or java serialization. Others are gotchas w weird semantics, li
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by dcposch 12y ago
The zero-copy IO in Go is so elegant. I think you can really judge a language accurately by checking out its standard library. This is one of my favorite things about Go. By comparison, * The C++ STL. Fast and useful, but the implementation
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by dcposch 12y ago
> “Back in the day, officers used to harass us day and night: throw van keys on the roof, throw them in the garbage, bring us into the station just for driving a van.” An N.Y.P.D. spokeswoman didn’t respond to a request for comment The s
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by dcposch 12y ago
> A Good Solution: Constraint Based Generics and Parametric Polymorphism > A Good Solution: Operators are Functions > A Good Solution: Algebraic Types and Type-safe Failure > A Good Solution: Pattern Matching and Compound Expres
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Why the Official Explanation of MH370’s Demise Doesn’t Hold Up(theatlantic.com)
10 points by dcposch 12y ago|1 comments
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by dcposch 12y ago
Missing option: I trust Google, but I still want to reduce my exposure Google is awesome in lots of ways. At least for their core services like Search and Gmail, they are the epitome of reliability and trust. I check whether the internet w
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by dcposch 13y ago
I like Apiary a lot so far
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by dcposch 13y ago
After the NSA leaks, the security community is scrambling to verify that widely-used, open-source software is free from backdoors. With dual_ec_drbg, we know at least one case where a cryptographic primitive itself was compromised. Furthe
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by dcposch 13y ago
TACK is a nice improvement to TLS that keeps compatibility with the existing CA system. However, TACK only protects you after you've visited a site for the first time. If a person is targeted by any organization that can sign a fraud
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by dcposch 13y ago
> I expected more from HN than senseless French-bashing and 'Murica flag-waving. Criticizing France in this case has nothing to do with nationalism. It's about basic rights. I'm disheartened by how many countries disrespec
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by dcposch 13y ago
> it's just how that technology works I think we can fix that! You're right that some things aren't amenable to a literal "Ctrl Z"---but I think Sacha's underlying point is spot on. Many "irrevocable&qu
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by dcposch 13y ago
No, with 0.01 BTC and nothing else, I can buy coffee at my local coffee shop. The Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto accepts Bitcoin. On a more serious note: Bitcoin has steadily gained acceptance as a form of payment. In 2010, a guy bought a pizza fo
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by dcposch 13y ago
In 2001/02, my family spent two years travelling around North America. All four of us lived in a bus-style Monaco RV. Instead of middle school, I was home-schooled by my mom. We drove as far north as Alaska and as far south as Belize a
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by dcposch 13y ago
This one's the Fed Pirate Roberts :p The way this site launched so soon after the original was shut down--with the same name, same styling, even the same "Dread Pirate Roberts" moniker--makes me very suspicious.
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by dcposch 13y ago
> As a user, why would I want to delegate my key management to you? The beauty of it is that Scramble encrypts and signs whenever the recipient is also a Scramble address--automatically. The goal is to protect even users who don't k
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by dcposch 13y ago
Thanks! We're working on improving the UI. A few upcoming fixes: * Clear visual distinction between encrypted and unencrypted mail * Keep track of read vs unread mail * Allow users to enter a public key for an external (non-Scramble ad
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by dcposch 13y ago
All email from one Scramble address to another is encrypted+signed. We'll add compatibility with existing PGP soon!
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by dcposch 13y ago
> it's fatal to security I'll respectfully disagree. > But that made your life too hard! So you abandoned that idea We haven't abandoned the Chrome extension idea at all. We just think there's a better approach tha
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by dcposch 13y ago
PS: Most users are not power users, and won't download the extension and manually check signatures. As mentioned in the writeup, there's a beautiful way you can protect even non-power-users. Because the extension downloads and ver
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by dcposch 13y ago
Yeah, I read your Matasano post, "Javascript crypto considered harmful", and I agree-- Javascript crypto is hard! But it's not impossible. The reason I chose that route is because I want to make it as easy as possible for use
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Scramble.io: secure email for everyone(dcposch.github.io)
81 points by dcposch 13y ago|139 comments
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by dcposch 14y ago
The majority of Instagram users are nontechnical and have never heard of the TOS change, nor do they care. Letting advertisers put someone's Instagrams on a billboard is a pretty low bar for "villainous". I think it's amusing that Instagram
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by dcposch 14y ago
So much glorious Schadenfreude at the thought of all the panic meetings at Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon today. And probably a lot of other places as well. My experinces with all three of those companies have been horrendous. ============
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by dcposch 15y ago
Addepar in Mountain View ------------------------ We're a young software startup; our goal is to revolutionize finance. Our current focus is on private wealth management, where we already have significant traction. Our CEO, Joe Lonsdale, wa
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by dcposch 15y ago
Counterpoint: sometimes regular employees do great. An older (~now 35-ish) acquaintance of mine made near-FU money from Amazon.com. He was an English major fresh out of college, started at Amazon when it was still a startup; his jobs were _
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by dcposch 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. For inspiration, see SpaceX's pricing page (tldr; $54M for a rocket to low earth orbit) http://www.spacex.com/falcon9.php#pricing_and_performance Lesser companies are shy about pricing for two reasons: * They simply c
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by dcposch 15y ago
"The company is a fractal design. Simplicity, elegance, beauty, cleverness, humility. Directness. Truth." lolwut? I have deep respect for some of Apple's design leadership, but calling the company humble is pure fanboyism. The "truth" part

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