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by emmett 14y ago
They already knew he had an "unauthorized meter". The sting was wholly unnecessary to learn anything. It was purely the legal justification to slap on the C&D; they needed evidence in the court-admissible sense. But the idea that they "
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by emmett 14y ago
Regulatory capture is when you make it more difficult to work in your industry on purpose through regulation, in order to discourage competition. For example, McDonald's could push for a law that would require anyone who wants to run a chai
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by emmett 14y ago
So with #1, that's the Boston's right. But it's not what the C&D is about, so we should set that aside. This is about #2. With regards to #2, it's clearly reaching. You can make an argument that they're "measuring the distance with the
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by emmett 14y ago
They know your start location because you call them there. They use GPS to determine your end location, to save time. Uber doesn't really even publish a rate schedule for how much you pay, and it doesn't have stable prices. They go up durin
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by emmett 14y ago
Oh yeah? Name three.
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by emmett 14y ago
This is the kind of mean-spirited comment with very low content which has no place in this community. Please, if all you have to offer is generalized negativity, don't comment.
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by emmett 14y ago
You assumed wrongly. They accessed an employees account and took a file out, they didn't further compromise Dropbox's backend in any way. So in this particular instance, client side encryption wouldn't have helped at all.
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by emmett 14y ago
1) What about this issue would have been helped by client-side encryption? A valid username and password was used to access dropbox information, so it would have gone right through client-side encryption. 2) Do you not enjoy features like t
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by emmett 14y ago
Speaking as someone who uses a ton of mixpanel in production ( http://www.twitch.tv/ ) the way you handle this is to make all your calls asynchronous. I am bummed that we are going to have missing data though :-(
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by emmett 14y ago
You know Facebook is profitable right? Maybe not VERY profitable compared to other internet giants, but they made $1 billion in 2011. http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-1-billion-profit/
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by emmett 14y ago
Your argument makes great sense if you're hiring business development people, or sales people. Both of those kinds of jobs reward skill at negotiation. But if you're hiring software engineers, it's just not true. There's a pretty strong neg
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by emmett 14y ago
Because this is how progress happens. You could have equally asked about Ruby, why can't people be satisfied with Perl and PHP? Why would this bother you that they are trying new things and learning?
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by emmett 14y ago
Actually, this is often quite true for software patents. For a famous example, the Amazon one-click patent. It shouldn't be true, but it is, because patent examiners have done a very poor job screening software patents historically.
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by emmett 14y ago
This method leaves the minimum on the table in theory, so I see why you find it attractive. But it also leads to the situation where people's compensation is mostly based on how good they are at negotiation, not how good they are at their j
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by emmett 14y ago
The population of the USA is about 10x te population of the UK. You'd expect far more killings. The important number is per capita. Of course, going by what happened to get into a Wikipedia list and what you happen to recall is pretty slim
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by emmett 14y ago
The problem with non-recurring revenue is that it's difficult to justify further investment once you saturate the market. If you want them to keep working on your product year in, year out, you have to pay for it year in, year out. The alte
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by emmett 14y ago
Both of the kickstarter projects I funded have exceeded my expectations on actual delivery. I am sure there will be failures, but I think you're being a little overly cynical.
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by emmett 14y ago
$60 million is a low price now? My but we live in a world of inflation.
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by emmett 14y ago
That solution simply does not work. If your browser will accept the certificate that the server presents, anyone can pretend to be anyone and your browser will accept it. Enforcing identity is just as important as encrypting the connection.
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by emmett 14y ago
HAproxy is great at exactly one thing: load balancing. It's better than nginx for that one use, because it's more flexible, has better controls for flapping, is smarter about queuing, gives you cool stats pages, etc. Nginx is great for...pr
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by emmett 14y ago
When I read your post, I feel like I'm reading someone who is hoping for them to fail. It brings to mind this quote. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could h
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by emmett 14y ago
It's about 25% annualized returns for 5 years. Spectacular if it were risk-free. Depending on how much risk you think they were taking on at that stage (probably not much, given how proven out the model was) it's still very good returns. La
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by emmett 14y ago
What is the largest and most successful software tool? How much money does it make? [1] You can sell dev tools, but the market is small and fairly stingy. There are also lots of good free opensource alternatives, because your users are pe
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by emmett 14y ago
When I read suggested code where each class has one "process" or "run" method, I think that someone who lives in an object-oriented world has reinvented functional programming.
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by emmett 14y ago
Perhaps a binary or ternary order of magnitude, rather than a decimal one. 10x is probably an exaggeration I would say typically it's more like 2-4x. As I'm not an expert iOS programmer, I'm not exactly sure where the overhead comes from. G
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by emmett 14y ago
In every company I know where there is a capable web programmer and a capable iOS programmer adding the same features to their apps (supported by a shared backend), the web programmer is an order of magnitude faster. There's no peer reviewe
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by emmett 14y ago
No poaching agreements are not bullshit - you are giving them privileged information (who your best people are) and in exchange you're expecting them to use that information only for the purpose directed. It's similar to an NDA. Nothing bul
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by emmett 14y ago
Complaining that a business is charging too much money for its product is silly, if everyone is willing to pay that price. The central insight here is that there is no morally correct price for something, there is only the market price. Goo
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by emmett 14y ago
MD5 is not fine. MD5 is very very fast[1] and as such it's possible to simply brute force password given relatively modest computing resources. The space of passwords just isn't that big. Use bcrypt or scrypt. Don't make up your own crypto.
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by emmett 14y ago
Is there an easier-to-follow explanation of the math that makes this work? The video went too fast for me to quite understand it.

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