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by feralchimp 15y ago
Is a music degree 'outdated' if one doesn't learn to play the piano parts to Adele hits, or create synth patches like Skrillex?
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by feralchimp 15y ago
It's been reported that a key factor in the rising end-user cost of State college tuition is that states are already deeply cutting this funding.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Technical response: soundproof != optically opaque Cynical political response: "turning tricks" == good first approximation of dealing with a modern government Entrepreneurial response: "turning tricks" + video cameras + fast uplink == reve
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by feralchimp 15y ago
TL;DR - Just because you don't use the library doesn't mean no one needs them anymore. Not everyone's Real Life Issues are amenable to a self-service web portal, and that's not just because no one has built the right widgets yet. > it w
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Seems to me that a high-profile entrant to the market, generating buzz and paying heftily to market the concept, could in itself breathe new life into SkyChalk. The cyclist on the team-sponsored, wind-tunnel optimized trials bike can still
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> Mozilla is between a rock & a hard place here, but there is no spin I think you can put on this story in which Mozilla stood up against abuse of trust I'm not sure it's worth our energy to be so disappointed in Mozilla here. That
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Many great points; some more perspectives in the bugzilla thread here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724929 There are a number of choice quotes, but my two favorites are from Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror if you aren't already
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Providing deep platform-specific support in a cross-platform codebase is a pain; believe me I get that. But platforms evolve, and frankly the ways they've been evolving recently is likely much tougher to keep up with than "loading plugins
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Good answer. I was lazy and didn't notice the CLI-only distro. Thanks-
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Can you explain plausible reasoning for not installing CLT by default? I'm willing to listen, I just don't get it.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
No CLT installed by default? That's just... weird . No more /Developer folder or uninstall-devtools script? I sure hope that means it won't periodically decide to fuck itself like every previous version of Xcode, prompting one or more ful
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Nothing, and IIRC this is what I've seen recommended on Dev Forum. Browse to plugin, copy plugin to app sandbox (or with 10.7.3 maybe get new security managed context handle to FS object), load. I don't have an app that does this so I can'
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by feralchimp 15y ago
MAS applications are not disallowed from supporting plugins.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Wow thanks; I had not realized there were 10.7.3 related updates to the Sandboxing Guide.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I for one welcome our new OS-level code signature verification overlords. May they smite evil and incompetence swiftly and brutally...except when 'evil' is defined by foreign governments, domestic law enforcement, or fair competition with
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by feralchimp 15y ago
They should have called this "the Dentata". You know, code signature verification with teeth . Can I get an amen for free code signing certificates that derive from the Apple Root CA? Not $99, not $5, free. Overall: more like this on mor
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Spot on.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> the domain knowledge needed to grow and scale a technology startup This is a common enough claim that it could be considered "common knowledge," and I wouldn't be in a good position to refute it even if I could figure out what exactl
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Welcome news, and hopefully the existing entitlements system will allow this change to be made quickly and clearly. More granularity might be nice also. They could have a separate "names only" entitlement, or allow users to identify addres
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by feralchimp 15y ago
People actually move to new cities in order to found startups? And when they do, they move to Silicon Valley or the Bay Area , where talent is more expensive than anywhere else on the planet? WTF? I live in Boston and dig it, but this so
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I have never seen a Terms of Service agreement that would make gigya's behavior seem reasonable or justifiable in this case. Even if their ToS reserved the right to start charging for the service at any time, and explicitly wrote in crazy t
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Contracts do not live or die on the basis of whether money changed hands.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Very interesting to hear those numbers. Is that personal experience, anecdotal, or public data from someplace? Still, an explicit "sponsored app links" section would be much better than inflation through bot-pumping.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> It was possibly the best way for the average indie developer to stand out without a large wallet (to buy banners). How indie is indie? $5k - $15k may not be considered a "large wallet" by internet advertising standards, but it's a who
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> You think what you've quoted from their privacy policy exonerates Twitter, but you may simply be misinterpreting it. Exonerates? Not at all! My point was just that (contrary to the article) Twitter doesn't make any claims whatsoever
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> How do you deal with entries like "Mom" or "Steve," names like "St. Clair" that may be entered dozens of different ways, or non-English names like "姚明" that may have dozens or hundreds of different possible romanizations, anglicizatio
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I think the original article alludes to this but doesn't say it explicitly: If they built such a service to let people test their own public keys, the service would actually provide a much bigger service to attackers than it would to users.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
So send multiple hashes per contact! Feral, Chimp, myEmail, myDeskPhone, myCellPhone H1 = sha1(Feral-Chimp-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone) H2 = sha1(F-Chimp-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone) H3 = sha1(Feral-C-myEmail-myDeskPhone-myCellPhone
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> On the web, Twitter informs its members that it stores contacts for up to 18 months, and may use contact information to make “Who To Follow” suggestions. Twitter is the only one of these services I use, and when I read that line it to
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Concatenate FirstName+LastName+emailAddress+phoneNumber, then hash or HMAC that. Your lookup table just got a lot bigger.

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