glesica

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by glesica 14y ago
So I was curious and replicated the experiment. Here is a summary of the results. * Twitter word list: ~2,000 passwords guessed * Just the word "password": 18 passwords guessed * Ubuntu words file: ~10,000 passwords guessed I cou
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by glesica 14y ago
Repeating his procedure using a word list consisting of just the word "password" (according to him the --rules option trys a bunch of variations) yields 18 passwords.
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by glesica 14y ago
That's totally incorrect because "the terrorists" also know that the TSA is terrible. Bad security that everyone knows is bad has absolutely no value. If the TSA was clueless was it was a secret, then you'd be correct.
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by glesica 14y ago
This is a good argument against DRM and e-book-related cloud services but not really against e-books generally. I own a Nook and have never bought a locked-down e-book, so the publisher really can't edit the copy I own short of breaking int
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by glesica 14y ago
I personally like this idea, or some variant thereof. Bringing the life of the author into the copyright term just muddies the waters with respect to corporate copyright (since corporations don't necessarily ever cease to exist). Additional
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by glesica 14y ago
Not if their container sealed properly.
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by glesica 14y ago
Ah, I see your point. Maybe "absolutely hate" was too strong. I wrote that pretty quickly. The sentiment I was trying to express is that I really don't find the iPad useful at all, nor do I even enjoy using it as a toy.
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by glesica 14y ago
Hehe, that's kinda funny since I've recently been accused of being anti-Google for defending DDG and using it as my default search provider in Chrome :) So no, I'm not a fanboy of any kind. I have products and companies that I prefer, but n
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by glesica 14y ago
I want one. I have an iPad at work and I absolutely hate it. I also have an iMac at work and I absolutely hate it (typing this on the Windows PC that sits next to the idle iMac). My personal laptop is a Thinkpad T61 with Xubuntu 12.04 and I
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by glesica 14y ago
Seems reasonable to me. Facebook is gathering what amounts to a static picture of each user then selling ads based on the pictures. There really isn't a time component in the data (though perhaps they can add one now that the service has ex
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by glesica 14y ago
Replying to myself to clarify that I wasn't really being serious. Certainly it would be nice to be able to tell arbitrary web sites "no interface, just human-friendly information". But since they'd all have to implement that, it really woul
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by glesica 14y ago
She wanted to "see the content". The "content" just included images as well as text. What she didn't want was the heavy interface. Maybe a new content type would work... "text/html" would be the application and "text/static-html" would be "
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by glesica 14y ago
This is really neato! I am perfectly comfortable using the command line tools to install packages and such, but having an attractive, powerful interface would be quite useful for exploration (i.e. I wonder if there's a package that does X)
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by glesica 14y ago
DDG is better for some people. I use it and haven't missed Google yet. There are some things I need Google for (!m gives me a map for example) and some things I prefer Google for (I use G+), but for general search DDG is a better experien
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by glesica 14y ago
Google's search button is grey on the landing page and blue on the results page. Does anyone actually click the search button? Heck, does anyone actually even go to the landing page? I don't think I've ever actually used DDG's landing page,
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by glesica 14y ago
I was thinking of wall time, but in general the number of clicks is the same. Again, for me. YMMV. I suspect we all tend to search for the same types of things over and over. Ruby developers search for Ruby docs and modules, stamp collector
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by glesica 14y ago
I switched. For 80-90% of my queries it gets me to the same place as Google just as quickly, or more quickly in some cases. For the other 10-20% there's the !bang syntax, which also lets me search images and maps right from the Chrome addre
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by glesica 14y ago
Based on all the anecdotes floating around, this one included, I wonder if part of the problem is that the demographic groups advertisers (that use Facebook) really seem to want to target are the most resistant to the ads. This would then l
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by glesica 14y ago
Keep in mind that all those page views and all that time spent on the site costs Facebook money. It's not like outdoor advertising where the cost is set up front (then amortized over the life of the sign, device or property lease) and the m
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by glesica 14y ago
I think you misunderstood his comment, though admittedly the word "expected" was probably unclear. He said "might". In other words, if the market price is $38 and you place a limit order at $40, you may get $38, you may get $39, you may get
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by glesica 14y ago
I said many other things as well. The comment wasn't totally false. I corrected/clarified my statements in my reply. Thank you for pointing out the need for clarification.
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by glesica 14y ago
It's not completely wrong. I never said the owners cash out entirely. But in terms of the company raising money, the IPO is pretty much it. Perhaps I was a little too loose with my terminology though, to the point of being confusing. Instea
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by glesica 14y ago
That's true, to a point. If Google's stock price fell off a cliff tomorrow it would be all over the news and their customers (advertisers) might have some questions. But there are two things to keep in mind: 1) If their stock price fell off
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by glesica 14y ago
The owner(s) of the company only gets paid at the IPO. That's the only time he gets money from the stock market (unless and until the company issues more stock later). So of course he wants the IPO price to be as high as possible, becau
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by glesica 14y ago
Just that "pip install ipython" has never worked properly for me when I'm inside an virtuelenv. I just tried it and it worked, so maybe the problem was fixed in the year or two since I last tried it, or maybe I was broken but have been fixe
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by glesica 14y ago
I've been aware of this for awhile but this prompted me to play with it. Killer feature for me: it can be easily installed inside a virtualenv. This is not (last I checked) possible with ipython.
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by glesica 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree that CTR might not be the most relevant metric here, but at some point their revenue is limited by the CTR. If they have a billion page views per day, one ad per page (for simplicity) and a CTR of 0.1%, then the
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by glesica 14y ago
Sure, nothing is ever perfect. But think about the alternative. How do uneducated people know which "experts" to trust? The term "snake oil salesman" came from somewhere... Learning a little about your car can help keep you from getting rip
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by glesica 14y ago
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120515120106322
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by glesica 14y ago
Which is exactly why a liberally (small 'L') educated population is so critically important to the functioning of a representative government.

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