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by dotBen 9y ago
I love DEFCON, attended a few times, but I never understand why the big LV hotels agree to host it. Before you say 'money', my experience is that DEFCON attendees are very unlikely to gamble (the main reason to host conventions).
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by dotBen 9y ago
something something something costs
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by dotBen 9y ago
I don't have a degree in anything (including CS, which is probably why as a self-taught programmer I reached a ceiling - but that's another conversation) . When I worked at Uber, a CS degree was a soft-prerequisite for all Produc
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by dotBen 9y ago
Product Management is a great path for software engineers who already have a curiosity for what goes on before and after code is written in their organization. (to be clear, I'm referring to product-management, not project-management)
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by dotBen 9y ago
Did the FBI give any reason/leverage as to why you should comply with their ask? If you are writing about it here, I'm assuming it wasn't an NSL (national security letter) and so would you be open to publishing a copy of it p
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by dotBen 9y ago
No, this is simply proof that consumers must pick carefully the hardware vendor they decide to buy as which software it comes with will vary greatly between devices. This is simply not an issue with Google Pixel/Nexus devices, Samsung
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by dotBen 9y ago
If the laptop ban comes into force, I doubt you will be able to bring that Geiger counter on board either...
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by dotBen 10y ago
Anyone thinking about futzing about with a WRT router should move their attention to Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter Lite [1] which is an amazing entry level enterprise-grade router that costs ~$99 to buy. It has all the configuration options a
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by dotBen 10y ago
"How do you get a group of people to watch a sports/political event on twitter and discuss in real-time?" Via friend lists. If all your friends are watching the game and tweeting at the same time then you are discussing th
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by dotBen 10y ago
I just looked at my cell phone and there's a notification of 9 friends checking in on Swarm - most of them early fellow-dodgeball users. YMMV but most of my friends who were hardcore users switched over to Swarm upon the pivot. The mi
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by dotBen 10y ago
I think this is kind of my point, actually... The monetization Twitter has been able to achieve from this niche content hasn't met expectations and that niche content has also seen stalled growth. Ephemera is what makes a sport/ne
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by dotBen 10y ago
"But it is a thing" If you can't turn it into money or growth (which Twitter is failing at right now) it won't be a thing for much longer. Twitter exists primarily as a public company to make money not to provide a serv
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by dotBen 10y ago
Yes, I'm familiar with the long tail ;) The problem is that Twitter has proven that it's incredibly hard to monetize this kind of content at a level that the public markets demand. The reality is Twitter has failed as a business
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by dotBen 10y ago
They've managed to already for it for NFL and MLB rights, and there's plenty of cheaper rights out there and up for grabs. Netflix didn't start producing original content to begin with, but Twitter could ramp their way up to
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by dotBen 10y ago
Foursquare managed to do this by migrating the original functionality to Swarm and pivoting the flagship product to something more monetizable. Arguably it saved the company from going under while still enabling the original functionality f
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by dotBen 10y ago
That's great but it's fair to say that's niche - both in terms of the number of people I'm guessing who are producing that type of content and the amount of monetization that can occur from that community. As a public co
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by dotBen 10y ago
They already have licensing deals with NFL and MLB, and built out the streaming infrastructure. I'd argue the licensing and execution is already proved out - it's time to focus on those, cut out the fat and double down on what&#x2
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by dotBen 10y ago
Refocus the company to be the Netflix of live TV, focusing on the delivery of live sports and news broadcasts while enabling fans/viewers to discuss in real time. It's a greenfield space no one else is really jumping upon yet. Foc
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by dotBen 10y ago
also, I probably don't want to share a url/uri that contains my email address on Twitter... (I guess it depends if Twitter would _then_ ingest the image to their servers or simply continue to reference the upspin url/uri publ
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by dotBen 10y ago
I wonder if he's been poached to work on Andy Rubin's new high-end Android handset startup. Timing and his background would seem to align...
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by dotBen 10y ago
That's a bit of straw-man argument - AirBnB is perfectly legal in many cities and unregulated (and thus not strictly 'illegal') in many others. It's like when people still refer to Ubers in San Francisco as 'illegal
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by dotBen 10y ago
I dunno, there's probably room for all of them. There's lots of uses for dashboards that are not BI-driven - Castor even suggested their service could be used for conference room information etc. I think the problem is dashboards
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by dotBen 10y ago
What you are looking for is a BI (business intelligence) tool. Those typically include dashboard but also look at trends - both automatically and programmatically via your own scripting. Looker is probably my favorite currently but it depen
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by dotBen 10y ago
A key development here is the move away from Blogger to what looks like a custom CMS. I wonder if we'll see Blogger deprecated or even shuttered in due course. Perhaps the only real indicator that Blogger was still in development was
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by dotBen 10y ago
While this question is aimed at SSH, be careful about a similar vector happening on more standard http username/email and password logins at any website. Most people use the same username or email address for all sites. It's pret
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Removing the 3.5mm headphone adaptor is a fantastic hedge by Apple(medium.com)
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by dotBen 10y ago
An additional vector for this kind of attack is to create a zonefile for a subdomain off of a working, live domain administered by the same DNS server. EG if foo.com is a working site on your DNS provider, try creating a zonefile for bar.fo
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by dotBen 10y ago
I'm wondering if EW-Public has a backdoor/weak encryption that EW-Govt doesn't.
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by dotBen 10y ago
It's really not that unusual for resellers to be given geographical territories within which they can/can't sell. Try looking up your favorite electronics on Amazon.com and see if they will ship to Europe - most times the pag
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by dotBen 10y ago
> "competing with Uber might seem intimidating, but in many respects the company is a paper tiger. Its massive valuation, which stood at $62.5 billion in January, comes from intellectual property — its brand and data — rather than

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