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by ddlatham 15y ago
Interesting that the SaaS class is being done by two Berkeley profs (and is the only one missing the Stanford logo).
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by ddlatham 15y ago
The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. His focus is not criticizing having fun, but wasting time without realizing it.
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I have a very low voice and enjoy singing or humming along with the bass line in music some times. While I was singing along with a song, all of a sudden my monitor started to go a bit nuts and wave. When I stopped singing (or changed not
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Scientists Find Antarctica Meteorites Contain Essential Building Block of DNA(dailygalaxy.com)
3 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 15y ago
For Java, running jstack a few times can be much faster and easier than tying up to a profiler and often will show your bottleneck or problem right away.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Right, it looks like the first report was then, but the next 46 pages of the thread show people complaining about it including Sept. 12, 2011. More info at: https://www.macworld.com/article/161794/2011/09/the_towson_h...
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ITunes store account hacked(discussions.apple.com)
7 points by ddlatham 15y ago|2 comments
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The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes credit(macworld.com)
4 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 15y ago
What benefits does an empty try block give you? You can always use braces to separate a block without try at all.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
While it's true there's likely an immigrant in the bunch, it's also very unlikely that all 4096 or 1048576 ancestors are distinct. The tree is bound to overlap.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
If the advertise revenue stream did not exist, do you think we would still have newspapers, tv, movies, etc?
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by ddlatham 15y ago
If all the dollars spent on these sorts of advertisements end up causing me to spend more dollars on those brands and products, is that a net gain or loss for me? What about for society as a whole? If it's a loss for me, what can I do to d
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by ddlatham 15y ago
I've had the opposite experience, where I'm more likely to mistype passwords with mixed case letters and symbols holding the shift key down too long. With mobile devices, it gets worse, as common words are easy to type, but symbols and mix
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by ddlatham 15y ago
I'll grant you that it's more important to have a password be difficult to guess, but that doesn't obviate the importance of it also being easy to remember. Even better, let's look for password schemes that are harder to guess and easier t
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by ddlatham 15y ago
First, that's still beside the point. You shouldn't evaluate a password scheme solely by entropy if it is a password you intend to memorize. XKCD argues that it's easier to remember 4 random words than 8 random characters. Second, your ex
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by ddlatham 15y ago
A lot of comments here seem to be missing the point. The main point is to use passwords that give you the most "bang for the buck" in the sense of adding the most bits of entropy for the least difficulty of remembering. Adding an extra num
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They know one twin murdered, but both may go free.(nytimes.com)
2 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 15y ago
One reason is that if they are storing the password in a recoverable format, it tells you something about how much you can trust the security of that site in other ways. Even if you're using a different password, you may be much more hesit
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by ddlatham 15y ago
That's not true. Some people say "We keep your password encrypted" instead of in plaintext, and make the dubious claim that they are then safe. It's good to help them understand the distinction that even if the passwords are encrypted, it
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by ddlatham 15y ago
They are not necessarily storing the password in plaintext. However, they are: 1. Storing it in a recoverable format, instead of a format that only allows verification. 2. Emailing them in plain text. Both of which are bad.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Exactly. What good are patents for deterring suits if those suing you have a license to them too?
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Very informative, thank you!
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Perhaps at the time they declined, they thought they still had a chance of winning the patents without giving them to Microsoft and Apple too. Or perhaps they thought that it wouldn't be worth the money they would have to chip in to the gr
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by ddlatham 15y ago
In other words, both sides agree that Google didn't want to enter into a partnership to acquire patents that they couldn't use to sue Microsoft, Apple, et al. Google claims that such suits would only be to defend itself when sued ("no first
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Your birthday comes around once every year, Halley's comet passes once every 75 years, but WiFi day still takes the cake as the most exclusive holiday. Happening only once on this fine day of August 2nd of 2011 and thus cementing it's posi
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by ddlatham 15y ago
The most fascinating aspect is that once you recognize the issue, you can't simply rely on using just the partitioned data or the aggregate. Be sure to read the "Implications to decision making" section. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simps
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by ddlatham 15y ago
How many affiliates are they willing to terminate? All of them (besides the 5 states it already collects for http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=4... ) ?
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The Tau Manifesto(tauday.com)
1 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Fibonacci_sequence#Co...
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by ddlatham 15y ago
One great way to ensure your DR site is tested is not to have a it be a special disaster site at all, but rather to have multiple active sites that each regularly serve production traffic. You still need to provision the capacity to handle

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