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by jjguy 15y ago
From Miller's twitter stream last night: For the record, without a real app in the AppStore, people would say Apple wouldn't approve an app that took advantage of this flaw. https://twitter.com/#!/0xcharlie/status/133739410662494208
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by jjguy 15y ago
It's a bad move for apple. A good relationship with the community of security researchers is crucial - they're talented folks and their research results grab headlines. It takes just a tiny amount of corporate humility and public thanks
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I find the volume of defensive comments a little amusing, since three times a day we all vote up and universally agree ideas are cheap and execution is king. The author is drawing the same parallel to characteristics of individuals. Unlik
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by jjguy 15y ago
Sexy captures the imagination, but good execution is decidedly unsexy. The hyperbole of the valley and it's entourage is a siren's song; don't let it suck you in.
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Channel 9 did a great interview with him a few years ago. It was a good chance for us non-Microsofties to see the man behind the MZ. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Behind+The+Code/Mark-Zbikowsk...
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by jjguy 15y ago
same for win32 PEs: http://www.phreedom.org/solar/code/tinype/
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Forget TrueCrypt, use self-encrypting drives. Gear-level crypto. (seagate.com)
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by jjguy 15y ago
Link dead for me. Found the list republished here: http://thenextbigtechthing.com/10-books-every-entrepreneur-s... "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business Law" -- LLC vs C-corp vs S-Corp? Founder’s vesting? Liquidation Preferences? Equity
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by jjguy 15y ago
"Strategic Communication" is a phrase with very precise meaning to those in the DOD. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_communication
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List of the 100 all-time best non-fiction books(guardian.co.uk)
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I have a colleague who uses the term 'digital thaumaturge.' Thaumaturgy is the capability of a saint or magician to work miracles. A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturge or miracle worker. I like the spirit, but i
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by jjguy 15y ago
Amazon is a product: Bezos built a website and logistics tail to be the world's largest bookstore. When you give Amazon $$, you are paying for a book. In a services business, when you give someone $$, you are paying for a person's time.
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by jjguy 15y ago
I find it ironic he refers to grc.com for security advice. Birds of a feather...
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by jjguy 16y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398520 and that was the original, without a useless packetstorm frameset a la 1994.
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by jjguy 16y ago
That's clever and useful. Thanks. I've used http://checkip.dyndns.org for this problem for years, but this is an improvement. Checkip: >>> url = urllib2.urlopen("http://checkip.dyndns.org") >>> url.re
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Maryland man prepares for Vermont "Death Race"(washingtonpost.com)
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Mubarak finally resigns(content.usatoday.com)
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by jjguy 16y ago
Welcome to the opening salvos of the Age Of Preferred Internet. By publishing the streaming performance metrics of consumer ISPs, Netflix is making sure providers know they can influence the ISP choice of their customers. This as a warn
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Regex Visualization: give it a regex and see the state diagram (strfriend.com)
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by jjguy 16y ago
your proposed layout isn't bad, but I'm an engineer so change is tough. hackernews as it is feels like home, a new layout will take some to settle. btu thanks for the topcolor=ffffff suggestion. I like that topcolor change a lot, and th
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by jjguy 16y ago
lightoverhead, I agree with the sentiment of your post - there is no reasonable way to censor a fundamental technical topic such as Bayesian statistics. I find myself wondering what the author did not post from his book that was questiona
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by jjguy 16y ago
Is it April 1st? http://web.archive.org/web/20060412183431/http://www.nethash...
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Social Science Palooza - one paragraph summaries of human behavior studies(nytimes.com)
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by jjguy 16y ago
Everything's open source, it's just written in assembly.
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clicky: http://xkcd.com/657/
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Visualization of your svn logs in xkcd 657 style(vis.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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by jjguy 16y ago
can we recruit that cat from reddit to HN? I want that guy around here.
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Careful with subjective measures. Measure interest. Invest some $$ in google ads, have a purty-looking landing page that says "coming soon!" Build a site and ads for each of your ideas and chase the one that has most interest.
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by jjguy 16y ago
and sometimes it takes a while to understand the true nature of a bug. and sometimes the "right way" to fix something is unclear. and sometimes the fix straddles multiple components, managed by different teams. and sometimes "that guy" who
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by jjguy 16y ago
An "0-day" is generally any "non-public" vulnerability. Any "0-day attack" is an any attack that uses an 0-day. If only the security researcher and vendor know of the vulnerability details, it is still an 0-day. Once the vendor releases a

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