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by feralchimp 15y ago
(To split a maybe-relevant hair) in a purely royalty-based resale model, with no pre-negotiated minimums, there is no wholesale price. There is only the retail price, and revenue flow per the royalty calculation. Amazon clearly believes: -
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Downrank all you want. Nothing about this move means "Apple now has a bad relationship with security researchers." It just means Apple doesn't want Charlie Miller showing people how to side-load arbitrary code into their sheeps'-clothing
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by feralchimp 15y ago
"I don't think they've ever done this to another researcher. Then again, no researcher has ever looked into the security of their App Store. And after this, I imagine no other ones ever will," Miller said in an e-mail to CNET. "That is the
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by feralchimp 15y ago
So glad to hear this news.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I will now take 30 seconds to continuously click my screen where the "upvote" button initially appeared. A test case that confirms data loss would actually be one of the few things that COULD make this MongoDB discussion constructive.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Exactly. There is no "he said, she said" to be had about software on deterministic turing machines. If you're attacking the product's QA as grossly inadequate, do some QA: post steps to repro a bug and get others to verify. The rest is no
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Raise your hand if you're relying on package version numbers to tell you which packages to implement in your high-volume production environment against live customer data.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The numbers in this comments thread are staggering.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Because there's only so much value to be created, and we've reached "peak value"? False.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
"Hacking rewards thinking carefully and doing the Right Thing The First Time" You have just won the gymkhana for linguistic drifting.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Media will be led by their consumers, and to a good first approximation, no one anywhere (including many talented people in "highly technical" fields) has a decent grasp of statistics and probability. Maybe if we didn't wait until universit
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Sometimes it's up to engineers to say "I'm fixing this," and for QA people to say "I'm not signing off on this until it's fixed." Maybe I've just been lucky, but all the places I've worked had developers and QA people that were willing to f
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by feralchimp 15y ago
1. I'm confused about who the audience of this article is supposed to be. If you're a software development team that is not using version control in a fairly deep way, you're not "in technical debt" so much as "wasting someone's time and mo
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by feralchimp 15y ago
If you're writing people off as "too far outside your value system to be worth bothering with" because they happen to find swearing offensive, you're missing out on knowing a lot of really awesome people for a pretty stupid reason. Then aga
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by feralchimp 15y ago
When I imagine telling my Mom, "Good news; the Finder is an iCloud app!" I very clearly understand why Apple has not published this as a feature. Nice that it works, though.
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"If you choose not to sandbox your app now or to use a temporary exception entitlement, use Apple’s bug reporting system to let Apple know about the issue you are encountering. Apple considers feature requests as it develops the Mac OS X pl
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by feralchimp 15y ago
+1 The article makes some strong assertions about what is/is not allowable under the currently available set of entitlements. I expected more discussion here about whether all of those assertions are accurate. If there's a primary source th