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by dotBen 13y ago
In some jurisdictions there is a discount if you pay before a certain date - but if you wish to contest then the time it takes to do that will expire the discount period. It's cleverly and obviously intentional practice that plays on p
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by dotBen 13y ago
BTSync continues to be a very interesting project but I remain concerned about how vulnerable the shared secret is to bruit-force attack. I'm not clear what there is to stop someone iterating through all combinations (especially as man
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by dotBen 13y ago
By using RISD (nb: where "d" stands for design) as an example... :/
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by dotBen 13y ago
Post ends with "While talent may be distributed everywhere, that kind of serendipity is the most concentrated in Silicon Valley." Um...
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by dotBen 13y ago
If you are not a US Citizen and think your career might take you here/want to come here to the US, then you should do college. Not having even a crappy and unnecessary degree from a crappy university made my ability to work in the US v
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by dotBen 13y ago
Some interesting context, Morgan Mayhem/@headhntr, who he is debating with, is also a Google Security employee. Interesting given they are having this conversation in public and that their joint-employer (where they both hold a securi
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by dotBen 13y ago
...if you want to middle-finger the US government. But why would Google, Facebook, et al want to middle-finger the government - a government that could massively help or hinder their ability to conduct business, etc?
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by dotBen 13y ago
I'm the last person to defend Zynga and it's practices but I agree this needs caution. If the boot is on the other foot, and VC's are expected to own such a degree of responsibility to maintain their reputation, then as a founder suddenly I
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by dotBen 13y ago
com·pa·ny noun: a : association with another b : companions, associates c : a group of persons or things d : a chartered commercial organization or medieval trade guild e : an association of persons for carrying on a commercial or industri
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by dotBen 13y ago
That's kind of an absurd statement - that logic implies that MI5 and CIA use everything that is secure. As it happens, we have a number of Fortune-50 banks and financial institutions as clients who host their WordPress with us <shru
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by dotBen 13y ago
I'm curious, what the answers to the comparisons you mentioned would make you conclude positively in WordPress's favor? Is security based on the number of users of your application? 1 in 6 websites on the Internet runs WordPress. Is secu
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by dotBen 13y ago
The Explorer units are practically waterproof. Mine lasts most of the day.
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by dotBen 13y ago
(IMHO) if anything in the voice/text feature phone days, using your phone at the dinner table was considered rude - but the use of a smartphone seems to have become more socially accepted, depending on various contexts.
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by dotBen 13y ago
So as I mentioned we don't use EC2, we use another cloud service, but the economics and technical issues are the same. But on EC2 Dedicate Instance (ie single tenancy) my guess is that if your application (or, business model) relies on each
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by dotBen 13y ago
Right. The problem is that a 'bad neighbor' test is often defined as when one can only get that guaranteed minimum amount of resource. That's the part that doesn't scale.
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by dotBen 13y ago
I'm loathed to perpetuate a 3 year old article, but... One of the key contributing factors to this kind of network degradation of AWS (/or other cloud vendor) is the abundance of the "bad neighbor test" - where a client performs tests to
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by dotBen 14y ago
This would make a great interview task... awesome if the candidate can design a cron-orientated decay but 'home run' if they can design a non-cron system.
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by dotBen 14y ago
I take issue with the problem statement: "today, phones are built around tasks and apps. To see what's happening with your friends, you pull out your phone and navigate through a series of separate apps." Firstly, the value to me in owni
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by dotBen 14y ago
"I guess I'm off by a year or two on your growth" or three :). We've been around for a lot longer than folks realize - just been very "heads-down" building a strong business rather "TechCrunch Hype" focused, etc.
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by dotBen 14y ago
no, we're not going to IPO any time soon. But, we're a lot more than 1% of $100mm in revenue. We actually did $1mm in revenue in our first year, and we're supporting our team growth based on revenue.
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Realtime list of aviation-related accidents, incidents and crashes(avherald.com)
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by dotBen 14y ago
re-read the parent comment, I think you're both actually in agreement.
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by dotBen 14y ago
Perhaps I'm going to look like the fool, but I don't understand what the fraud is, let alone the social engineering. "All the distractions with bad wife and irresponsible husband made us ignore the simple truth - what is the true cost of t
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by dotBen 14y ago
Come on, one would assume they would let you share a password even if it is "without the vendor's explicit permission". Who's the customer here?
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by dotBen 14y ago
I need to introduce you to a site called http://lowendbox.com - where scriptkiddies, 12 year old "web hosts" (like, a web host run by a 12 year old) and just weird (sorry, but I just don't get the personality type) people seek out to
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by dotBen 14y ago
One of the many reasons I pay for Linode is the "good neighbor" aspect the price point brings. I'm not saying that DigitalOcean suffers this problem but the cheaper a VPS provider is the greater chance of it being used by folks running bit
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by dotBen 14y ago
Danielle, I'd be delighted to offer you a complimentary WP Engine account if you would like. lmk ben [at] wpengine.com
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by dotBen 14y ago
Had to look that up... apparently Mishor Adumim is a factory area located near Jerusalem in Israel. Um... my guess is that it was not mentioned because it has no bearing or implication as to the reason why the advert was blocked by CBS.
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by dotBen 14y ago
Yep I got it before they even posted the blog post, and my friend in security @ Twitter couldn't yet reveal why. Here's the email: Hi, dotBen Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associa
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by dotBen 14y ago
I'm one of the 250k accounts that were compromised. Seeing as they are saying the attackers got the salted hashed passwords, not the originals, I'm wondering if that means it was Twitter's systems that were compromised as where else would

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