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by iuguy 14y ago
The problem with PPI is that it creates perverse incentives that are taken advantage of by malicious people[1], in the process creating a large underground economy. I'm surprised that YC would get involved in something as shady as this. Eve
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by iuguy 14y ago
Oxfam is a variable charity at best. Oxfam India, for example was found to spend 70% of what it received in donations on fundraising[1]. In the UK it spends a significant volume of money on fundraising, paying a company called Tag Campaigns
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by iuguy 14y ago
I get quite upset when I see companies scaremonger for PR rather than try to help those who are actually doing things. It seems to follow a particular pattern. Find a bug or bug class in $product. Then start screaming from the rooftops abou
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by iuguy 14y ago
Well, hacks can be social too. I know quite a few social engineers, in fact I've had them speak at my security conference[1]. However, it seems that overcoming a significant hurdle (which isn't something to be sniffed at) isn't really a hac
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by iuguy 14y ago
> IMHO, this is a hack. May not be in the truest sense of the word. If not in the truest sense of the world, then in what sense does this come under the term hack?
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by iuguy 14y ago
The Romans (and many other civilisations) used to build beacons to signal various things along walls and coastal lines.
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by iuguy 14y ago
It is actually possible and Facebook does do it. Everywhere you see a facebook like button, javascript is loaded from Facebook. Facebook logs certain browser characteristics[1] with the request and uses this to identify you. Then when you l
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by iuguy 14y ago
This shocking new revelation no doubt completely undermines the integrity of Y Combinator. I for one am off to update Sendmail accordingly in disgust ;)
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by iuguy 14y ago
> but the weekend case struck close to home for noticeable fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit this community. Yet the whole of HN was full of nothing but Aaron Swartz articles for days. I stopped visiting HN for a
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by iuguy 14y ago
Here's a legitimate question that I'd like to know the answer to. How many petitions on the White House petition site, regardless of the number of signatories have resulted in a direct change to US policy, in favour of the petition? I think
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by iuguy 14y ago
For some reason I'm reminded of Colonel Carthcart in Catch-22[1], who continually raised the number of missions crew had to fly to complete a tour of duty. It's almost like the Whitehouse put the site up to listen to and respond to the peop
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by iuguy 14y ago
We have two simple tests. 1. Are they a cock? If they're a cock, or they exhibit signs of being a cock, they fail the test. Signs of being a cock include: - Lying on the interview - Being overly confrontational - Irritating people - Being e
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by iuguy 14y ago
I do the odd bit of mainframe security stuff now and again. You can argue the toss all you like about hercules, but the fact is that it's not up to scratch for running a proper stack. Saying you can run Z/OS on it with CICS and RACF and DB2
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by iuguy 14y ago
Hasn't this already been done with Epic Win[1]? Is anyone able to explain the differences between the two beyond cosmetics? [1] - http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/
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by iuguy 14y ago
Actually SGI were more or less destroyed by Linux too. I remember being in a meeting with them at the height of the dot com boom where we were told that they were embracing Linux for mid-range to replace lower-end IRIX systems. My colleague
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by iuguy 14y ago
I'm sure many people in this comment thread would say that this is a terrible idea. But lets say we had a different type of structure in the UK and someone drew up the current system for the UK - no doubt it would look like a terrible idea.
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by iuguy 14y ago
I have to say that Do Not Disturb is my favourite iOS 6 feature. As someone who has friends on most continents, it's not unusual for me to get messages in the middle of the night, which due to things I like to see during the day end up as n
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by iuguy 14y ago
We ditched Office back in 2007 and haven't looked back. We use a mix of OpenOffice and Google Docs for business and the only time we ever have any trouble is when someone sends a document that's really badly formatted. I use Markdown myself
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by iuguy 14y ago
Not sure I agree here. Running a single company allows you to focus exclusively on that company, but providing you have the bandwidth there's no reason you can't do something else as well. I run a company as a single founder and it takes up
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by iuguy 14y ago
> There's very little pirating of content that is over 20 years old As someone else pointed out there's a lot of decent old music, as well as older films (Star Wars or Snow White anyone?). One thing people forget is that there's a lot o
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by iuguy 14y ago
The big problem for Amiga programmers was that the Amiga was sold in NTSC and PAL versions, which ran at different framerates (50 and 60hz) with different resolutions. While PAL Amigas could play NTSC games (and most TVs could render the sc
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by iuguy 14y ago
You bring a good point to the thread about sins of the father, although you might not have realised it. The Armenian government claims that the Turkish government is responsible for the Armenian genocide, although the Turkish republic (and
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Not Turkey Well, maybe not Turkey as it hasn't been defeated in any wars nor committed large war atrocities, but the predecessor state the Ottoman Empire was effectively dismantled by the treaty of Sevres at the end of the first world
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How Not to run a social media competition(loveniamh.wordpress.com)
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by iuguy 14y ago
How does Svbtle distinguish itself from any of the other blogging networks that emerged towards the end of the last decade? Looking at the front page and at Ethan Kaplan's posts in an unscientific way it appears as though everyones posts on
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by iuguy 14y ago
Having just come back from touring Italy, I think I can say that anything south of the olive line (that is oil producing regions) would constitute Southern Europe. This, typically like European countries is not as useful as it seems as Fran
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by iuguy 14y ago
As someone from the UK, I see your list as mostly similar to mine, except I'd put Austria in the Central Europe camp. I'd also put Switzerland and Italy as Central Europe in location but Western Europe in culture. There's definitely parts o
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by iuguy 14y ago
It looks really cool as a concept, but I've found that playing around with the values and since closing the tab my eyes are really messed up now. I would hate to see this on a film, it'd do my eyes in completely. Still, really nice concept.
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by iuguy 14y ago
I think this is an unfair comparison. I mean, I could claim that Mandalorian is bigger than EA in terms of monthly penetration testing revenue and be right, but it doesn't really mean much. Having said that, Supercell have a good product an
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by iuguy 14y ago
Old news. Downvoted ;) Just kidding. This is a really interesting lunchtime article.

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