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by iuguy 14y ago
I recently spent some time in hospital fighting pneumonia. Hospitals are exceptionally boring places. I loved it. I loved not having to do anything, not having to make decisions, not having to constantly think. The highest priority of my da
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It's surprisingly common. Here's[1] the most recent example of Schneier talking out of his domain with the potential to cause damage. The problem is that Schneier is a pundit, not a security expert. He has a good knowledge of cryptography b
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by iuguy 14y ago
I was hoping the changes would include a commitment to him keeping to discussing things he knows about, rather than having the expert's problem of talking about things outside his domain knowledge and being considered an expert for it regar
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Well it's a good job that only a guy and his family's life were ruined, but thank goodness she didn't have to consider the implications of shaming the offenders by asking the two guys to stop violating her moral righteousness first.
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by iuguy 14y ago
After the Tetris debacle[1] on iOS and putting obtrusive adverts into their iOS games for new ones despite me paying for them (a cardinal sin IMHO) combined with endless DRM debacles and horror stories about how employees were treated, I to
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by iuguy 14y ago
At Mandalorian we have to work 9-530 days, our customers expect to be able to contact us in this period. What we do though is allow everyone to work from home unless they absolutely need an office environment. Once a quarter we meet up face
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by iuguy 14y ago
I know what you mean, a lot of the time these things read a bit like this: > In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people prob
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If you can get to the point where your customers are getting "fucked", then you don't deserve them. You can't take pride in a job well done if you're screwing people over.
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I think the author misses the most important thing: The customer. I'm genuinely mentally obsessed about customer service. When things go wrong (and they do, it's only natural) I painstakingly pull them apart to make sure we know why things
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by iuguy 14y ago
> On a related note, consider the implications of someone dropping a box like this somewhere where there's open (say, municipal) Wi-Fi and 5 V from solar power or the mains to feed it. Last year I did a talk at BlackHat EU on abusing Mi
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by iuguy 14y ago
Does anyone else think that the author should set up something like mailchimp with an autoresponder to deal with the spam? Something that explains his policy, why he doesn't respond to emails, why he won't remove the link without charging t
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by iuguy 14y ago
I've read about that, and to be fair religion has a major cultural impact but I'm not sure how significant it all is in the grand scheme of things (given changes in religion over the years, reformations etc.).
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Sorry, I was thinking of werken (this is the bit where you tell me I'm wrong here too - sorry, I only studied German in high school which was a long time ago).
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> France is a hard working country. It's not where it is today just because there is an Eiffel tower and great bread. I'm not saying that it isn't. Sorry, I was commenting on etymological and cultural differences. Most of the French peo
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by iuguy 14y ago
I have an idea that the differences in work ethic across Europe may be partly to do with climate and partly to do with language. In France, the verb 'work' is travailler . Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Is it me or doest this read like it's half an article? I got through to the end expecting it to be about something that you can do with XMPP and Jabber, rather than a rather basic primer on Jabber and XMPP themselves. I don't have a problem
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Incidentally the article references a Book and Documentary both called "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan. The book[1] is an excellent read and the documentary[2] is also worth a watch, free on archive.org. [1] - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corpo
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At Mandalorian we generally have to work the standard work week when doing stuff for clients, but beyond that people manage their own time, often spending bits of time here or there to do the school run, take their kids to the doctors or as
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by iuguy 14y ago
I wouldn't use something like owncloud as a dropbox replacement right now if you were looking to go ahead with this. It seems to be going through that phase where the security bugs are being identified and fixed.
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Also HN doesn't rely on asshattery sign up tactics for you to read other peoples' content.
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Limited 44Con Early Bird Tickets on Sale(shop.44con.com)
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Does your app do Excel export/import? Protect it from Cell Injection(blog.7elements.co.uk)
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Disclaimer: I'm involved in setting this up. We've been working on this for months and I thought theres a lot of UK security people that would know about this, but perhaps not as many mobile developers or people who would go to HN London. A
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London Mobile Security Conference from WWJC and 44Con Creators(securemobilecon.com)
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Hackable Infra-red RC Tank Teardown(techbloginator.wordpress.com)
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> Beware the grass-is-greener trap. Please don't confuse my views for a grass-is-greener view. I live in one of the most expansive surveillance states in the world (the UK) and generally what happens in the US tends to come over here ev
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It's things like this that mean that I won't go back to America. I love Americans, and there's a great deal of the US I'd love to see but it's just not going to happen while stuff like this goes on.
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The City of London cannot pull the eject handle and relocate. The City of London is a separate legal entity[1] with it's own laws and rules, and it's those rules that meant that the trading that took down Lehman Brothers was conducted in th
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by iuguy 14y ago
When I speak at conferences, it's not unusual for me to receive heckles. It's part of a thing where a lot of people who know me know that I'm pretty good with banter and will usually respond with a put down or your mum joke in good nature.
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A very good and detailed piece on reversing a game.

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