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by devishard 10y ago
Yeah, I think that having a product people would pay for is a prerequisite to success, but it's not a guarantee of success. I definitely think Uber could lose to a competitor in their product space. The distinction I'm making here
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by devishard 10y ago
Okay, if you want this stated more directly: I don't know the facts around this case, and frankly, I don't particularly care: that's his business and the business of his victims. If Applebaum is a rapist, he should be in jail
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by devishard 10y ago
Yeah. But even if they both charged the same amount of money, I think they'd just both go out of business, because nobody is going to pay for what either has to offer.
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by devishard 10y ago
Neither of them provide value people are willing to pay for, so that's unsurprising.
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by devishard 10y ago
> However, as a game developer with Free-To-Play development PTSD, I think this rule rests on an implied-but-important condition: People are already using and loving the service. No, that's exactly not what I'm saying. Uber did
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by devishard 10y ago
Do you disagree with my hypothetical scenarios? That is, do you think if Google/Facebook introduced subscription fees nobody would subscribe? Would you pay to read Twitter? Do you think that anyone would?
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by devishard 10y ago
Okay sure. They can figure out how the attacker got access and fix that, AND harden SSH. They should also audit their logs, install updates, use a linter on their JavaScript, use version control, use a library to sanitize SQL inputs, force
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by devishard 10y ago
My rule is that if nobody would pay for your service, you probably don't have a worthwhile business. If Google instituted a $0.99 monthly fee to use Google search, people would line up to pay it. They don't have to, because their
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by devishard 10y ago
> Static+strong typing is a nice combination, which is probably what hacker_9 meant to say. That's a rather generous interpretation, given that hacker_9 said nothing about strong types, and instead made a claim about static vs. dyna
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by devishard 10y ago
Apparently it's new to some people that C is a statically-typed, weakly-typed language.
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by devishard 10y ago
Okay, but how do you gather enough information to craft said messages? I posit that there's nothing stopping you from gathering that information at runtime; it just typically isn't done to the same extent in dynamic languages as i
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by devishard 10y ago
> I mentioned firewalling sshd to a subset of trusted IPs - which would still secure you against the above attack. No, it doesn't secure you against the above attack. If they can use an XSS to get full access to the server and get t
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by devishard 10y ago
To people focusing in on securing SSH: just because the person has SSH access doesn't mean that they got it through SSH. It's possible that they brute forced the password or whatever, but there's a ton of attack surface on a
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by devishard 10y ago
This is not only missing the point, it's easy to prove false: Python: `foo = '1' + 1` gives `TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly` C: `char bar[] = "1"; char* foo = bar + 1;` gives
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by devishard 10y ago
> The game has had a clear impact on this kid's life. The game has been out for 8 days. So no, it has not had a clear impact on his life. > Interested to see studies on the long term impact on children with autism playing this g
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by devishard 10y ago
As a white man, I definitely think that the problems of gender in tech are still huge and I'd like to help address them. But I also feel like I can't help, because people, both black and white, are so tense about race. As a whit
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by devishard 10y ago
Okay, given that this is a legal matter, your pedantry is warranted, I guess.
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by devishard 10y ago
God that's a horribly confusing way to report that bug. Why not something like? #include <stdio.h> int main (void) { signed char one = 1; unsigned char coerced_to_positive_255 = -1; printf ("
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by devishard 10y ago
Peter Doig is being sued, the person making the claim says that the painting was painted by a Peter Doige. Note the "e".
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by devishard 10y ago
The best part is where you visit the site in Chrome and it still looks terrible. Really, you needed to put an opacity transition on the orange background of each of your comments? Maybe if the site had a cleaner, simpler design it would be
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by devishard 10y ago
That's not "modeling the world", or if it is, it's a very bad model of the real world. Rockets don't render audio.
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by devishard 10y ago
I'm not saying that he said rockets render audio, I'm saying that has nothing to do with modeling the real world. If you're criticizing the idea of modeling the real world, we should talk about actual models of the real world
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by devishard 10y ago
Okay, given your understanding of what he said, I can see why you might agree with him (although I don't), but critically, that's not what he said.
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by devishard 10y ago
So basically, you're a victim because Valleywag claimed you said: > I could sell my home right now and buy a shed in Silicon Valley. > I would gladly sit through six or seven months of Chicago winter to experience fall. > San
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by devishard 10y ago
>> > And even in an OO language, no decent practitioner writes one-class-per-object. > But that's the stereotypical example of OO design. You have duck->paint(), duck->quack(), duck->plunge() all in one class (file
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by devishard 10y ago
> Lots of classes don't have a "real world" equivalent (linked lists, allocators, renderers, finite-state machines, functors, observers, octrees, parsers/loaders...). The "real world" will mostly give you in
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by devishard 10y ago
I totally disagree that #2 is a lie. Code should be designed around a model of some part of the world, it's just that what the author is describing is a pretty bad way of modeling the world. Take this part: "If there's a r
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by devishard 10y ago
I don't disagree that everyone has their own idiolect, but I don't think that's generally the most relevant attribute of the way someone speaks at the given moment. I think the group within which they are speaking has a much
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by devishard 10y ago
Of course you shouldn't let users define your product. Nothing about what I said suggests that. When you get requirements from your users, they're going to mix in how they think about the problem with how they think that problem s
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by devishard 10y ago
I think we use the term "Standard" because it accurately describes the fact that it is a standard enforced by a lot of institutions. Failure to comply with this standard is punished in a lot of ways. To be clear, I'm not sayi

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