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by jf 17y ago
Last time I saw this I was in a lot of pain from RSI, it hurt to click on things. I spent a long time looking to see if somebody had found a way to replace the Mac OS X buttons with "no click" buttons like they have on that site. Next I l
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Why You Should Use 'Cache-Control: public' for Caching to Work with SSL(blog.pluron.com)
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by jf 17y ago
Where should the security contact information be? If you found a flaw on site example.com, where would you look first for a security contact?
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by jf 17y ago
As one of the organizers for superhappydevhouse, one of my main goals is to keep it from ever becoming an invitation only event. I share a lot of sentiment that Fred Wilson expressed in his blog post. As superhappydevhouse has grown in popu
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by jf 17y ago
Which reminds me. The Jargon File could really use an update. Any takers?
906.
by jf 17y ago
Los Alamos is still an amazing place. I highly recommend visiting if you ever get the chance.
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by jf 17y ago
Does this book cover the business relationship that Tesla had with Westinghouse? The impression that I got from Empires of Light is that Tesla's "research" needed a lot of "design" by Westinghouse's engineers before they could be turned int
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by jf 17y ago
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Jill Jonnes An extremely detailed and engaging book on how electricity was brought to the United States.
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by jf 17y ago
Hackers, by Steven Levy is a great book too.
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by jf 17y ago
Elastic Load Balancing isn't yet a replacement for HAProxy, for now it only seems to handle HTTP traffic, and not HTTPS: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/lates...
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by jf 17y ago
Perhaps I don't understand Tonido correctly, but it seems to me that Tonido would scale just fine, it just pushes the scaling issues on to the user: "Can't access your photos? Make sure your Tonido server is up!"
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by jf 17y ago
Another cool feature of SSH: Escape Characters (The following is an excerpt from the manpage for ssh(1) with the same title) ~. Disconnect. ~? Display a list of escape characters. The ~. escape character is useful for getting back
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by jf 17y ago
"they may be able to look back on their practical experience tagging along with Dad on his experiment and it may make more sense." I can say that has been the case for me personally. I was shown lots of cool stuff when I was a kid, I didn't
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by jf 17y ago
I think what you actually want is: PASS column = HMAC(plaintext_pass, salt) I might be wrong? As I understand it there are issues with MD5(MD5(password) + salt) that HMAC avoids. I'm still not 100% sure I understand the difference, but I th
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by jf 17y ago
Paul Buchheit has a blog post on this. The summary of his blog post is this: "Using a salted-hash such as MD5 or SHA-1 isn't much better. Use bcrypt." http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-read-this-if-...
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by jf 17y ago
Or better yet, don't use a password at all: Use a client-side SSL certificate. Set your password to something random, and use a client-side SSL certificate to authenticate yourself to your OpenID provider. You can use the password reset fea
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by jf 17y ago
Looking at their S3 competitor, I can't seem to find any documentation on how you actually place data onto their storage system. They mention WebDAV, FTP, and "API", and Blackberry/iPhone applications. I couldn't find any more details than
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by jf 17y ago
Even if it is just a eBay scraping service, I thought this quote was good: "So to recap, if you have an idea get off your ass and just go for it. The worst thing that can happen is you will learn something new, and you might just succeed be
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by jf 17y ago
As somebody who spends most of his day reading articles written on very specific technical topics, it is a delight to run across articles like this: written for a different audience almost ~7 years ago, and it still has useful advice for us
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by jf 17y ago
b) Inside San Francisco proper, probably. Outside San Francisco, possible for sure! (I suggest living near BART or CalTrain so you can get around without a car.)
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by jf 17y ago
if you come to SF you can also hit me up for a free dinner.
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by jf 17y ago
:-(
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by jf 17y ago
This is a good article. It reminds me of a talk I saw at SHDH by a guy named Shannon Clark. My main take-away from his talk was that "networking is about giving", meaning that when you are networking you shouldn't be thinking "how can this
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by jf 18y ago
Yes.
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by jf 18y ago
You do need to "install" SQLite, but not in the traditional sense. Most likely all you need to do is include a library that knows how to read and write to SQLite files. Worst case, you'll need to ship your code with a small static binary an
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by jf 18y ago
Did I miss something obvious? How does one configure Excel to use SQLite?
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by jf 18y ago
This is a great point. The California Department of Justice has a huge private network (On RFC 1918 space) that police stations and other government agencies must use to connect to the databases that the CA DOJ provides.
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by jf 18y ago
Maybe you should drop some of your FBI contacts a note and explain how this story is all over the internet?
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by jf 18y ago
Life was good back then. And it keeps getting better! Back then would you have ever DREAMED that IBM would be buying Sun, and that Sun would have open sourced almost all of its cool technology?
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by jf 18y ago
In regards to GoDaddy, I've been using retailmenot to get 10-20% discounts on the wildcard certificates I've bought recently.

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