egyptiankarim

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by egyptiankarim 6y ago
"Important" in the sense that many IT organizations have predicated their data forensics and incident response capabilities on being able to intercept and analyze traffic at arbitrary points within their corporate networks. That&#
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by egyptiankarim 6y ago
I think the arguments are that there's a degree of security through obfuscation by forcing everything over a single common port (443), the transmission integrity benefits of TCP versus UDP protocols, and maybe just the overall simplici
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by egyptiankarim 6y ago
Correct. TLS-wrapped protocols don't seek to offer anonymity of the source and destination. They're designed to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data in transit. The best tools we have for anonymity are things like oni
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by egyptiankarim 7y ago
Turns out the most important part of the entire text is the acknowledgements section.
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by egyptiankarim 7y ago
A PhD is intended to demonstrate that a person is capable of pursuing a course of research within a field of study, and has a mastery of the existing knowledge and pertinent skills/methodologies. Unfortunately, in some fields, the PhD
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by egyptiankarim 7y ago
But for data we can use the seed files and associated patterns, right? Since it's just text in those files, they're trivially checked into source control, diffed, distributed etc.
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by egyptiankarim 7y ago
Is this approach materially different/more scalable than using the active record, ORM, and seed file patterns supported by popular MVC frameworks (e.g., like how Rails does it https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_r
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by egyptiankarim 7y ago
> Use these charts where the communication goal is to show intent or generality, and not absolute precision. Or just because they're fun and look weird. I love the intent and execution behind this. The implication of imprecision in
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by egyptiankarim 8y ago
Neat to see that they started by interviewing a diverse subset of their engineers; that type of user-centric research is invaluable. Moreover, I wonder what of their methodology could be mapped to a live analysis of the code review conversa
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by egyptiankarim 8y ago
I wonder if Amazon hopes to eventually get into manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. How long before we start to see AmazonBasics versions of Aspirin?
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JUST Confirms It Will Debut Clean Chicken This Year(vegnews.com)
1 points by egyptiankarim 8y ago|0 comments
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by egyptiankarim 8y ago
Agreed! I have a template built that allows me to spin up a basic web app with all my baseline common dependencies ready to go and a handful of little nice-to-haves in place and deploy to Heroku in well under an hour. I love Rails!
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Cops Around the Country Can Now Unlock iPhones, Records Show(motherboard.vice.com)
15 points by egyptiankarim 8y ago|1 comments
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
> Who will take his place? Who will be the Stephen Hawking of my children's generation? I nominate Brian Greene from Columbia University! Rhodes Scholar, mind-bending types of work in theoretical physics, cofounder of the World Scie
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Olympics: Flourishing eSports eye Games link for extra boost(reuters.com)
1 points by egyptiankarim 9y ago|0 comments
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Fair enough. Maybe I'm being an idealist hoping for some idealism in the world. And yeah, there've been several theories about who it might be. It's like the Banksy of the cryptocurrency world. Just as cool, but way less stre
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Fair enough. I know lots of researchers are very personally invested in their work and I can imagine the sting. I promise I wasn't calling you a blowhard or anything :)
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
You're absolutely right. There are. Blowhard professors, in my opinion, are the ones that prioritize recognition over research. There's a thread in certain research circles that would eschew any such recognition in the hopes of pu
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
I don't know. I think there's a benefit to having anonymized research. It forces the work to stand on its own. Sort of an extension to blinded peer-review processes. Plus, I highly doubt Apple researchers, or researchers at any ot
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Livable wage? Researchers at Silicon Valley powerhouse companies aren't exactly toiling away for peanuts, are they? Also, the implication of my statement is that blowhards tend to prioritize their desire for recognition, not that the d
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Definitely.
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Exactly!
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
My implication was that Apple had been doing that research work behind the scenes the entire time.
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
Right?! I can't wait for the computer-human interaction research teams to jump on this trend and start publishing! The CHI/HCI/HCC community would flip out. My favorite example of how this sort of transparency would benefit t
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
The occasional blowhard professor aside, there is a thread of idealism in many research circles that advancing the field is more important than advancing one's stature. My favorite example of this is all of the research that went into
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by egyptiankarim 9y ago
But in the sense that Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about research, it's a notable PR stunt. Unlike with Microsoft and Google, you don't see a lot of Apple in academic research circles despite them having a significant brain-s
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Is hiring hackers “A Black and White Issue?”(scmagazine.com)
1 points by egyptiankarim 10y ago|0 comments
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by egyptiankarim 10y ago
"Top 9 strategies for disrupting web markets... You won't believe number 7!" I'm a sucker for irony :)
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by egyptiankarim 10y ago
You just gave me flashbacks to giant chunks of GL boilerplate C code. (shudders... smiles)
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by egyptiankarim 11y ago
True and fair. I overstated my point. More appropriate to say "provably secure (under practical constraints)", and that's a rather significant caveat.

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