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901.
by jwatte 15y ago
Ten years after, and it's still true. There have been malware on iOS too. They ought to teach this stuff in grade school...
902.
by jwatte 15y ago
Exit interviews are effective if they are correlated over time. If you really care, send a letter to the chairman of the board. However, unless you have significant stock in the company, it is no longer your concern. Move on. I would use th
903.
by jwatte 15y ago
You "hand in" you thesis and are graded 8.5? What did you do before then? Did you ask your thesis advisor for feedback while working on it? Did you study previous 9.0 theses and compare yours? How did you track that you were on the right pa
904.
by jwatte 15y ago
I think using TLS is largely the right solution, and "shouldn't be hard" (a $400 certificate is the hardest bit). However, the article assumes that modify attacks are as simple as intercepted, which I do not believe is true. It's not about
905.
by jwatte 15y ago
That's because, during the Renaissance, "copying" something (like a painting) took (almost) as much labor as creating it, so you might as well create new things. What if "copying" a movie cost $100M?
906.
by jwatte 15y ago
The problem is that solid products do not come from one guy who works on one idea for a while. It comes from large teams that do all kinds of boring work to make the product solid . As an example, for most users, using Linux on the desktop
907.
by jwatte 15y ago
Copyright infringement is not theft from the people being copied, but theft from the cheaper alternatives finding no traction. If my choice of entertainment is "the best in the world, for free" or "some aspiring entertainer, for five bucks"
908.
by jwatte 15y ago
I bet at least 50% of failures are customers trying to use someone else's card, or habitual charge-backers. What is the experience for each channel 90 days in when actual chargebacks start hitting?
909.
by jwatte 15y ago
Taking credit cards is hard. You get random declines from merchant banks all the time. I bet the app store simply doesn't tell you about it. Not a single decline in 15 months? Hardly likely. 20% of all attempted virtual purchases bouncing s
910.
by jwatte 15y ago
The tone sounds like a fluff piece. Someone at 35 is "old"? Last I saw, statistics said the average successful founder is 42. Wish I could remember where it was, though -- I know how useless data without a cited source is. (Yes, that's a
911.
by jwatte 15y ago
They explained that a ground fault prevented generators from delivering power. Manual start doesn't help in that case.
912.
by jwatte 15y ago
Why would throwing the switch be risky? It's supposed to be HA. If it doesn't work, that's a bug, and you fix it! Just like backups are not backups until they have been restored (we verify this by making our data warehouse depend on the bac
913.
by jwatte 15y ago
I thought best practice backup power was to use large flywheels for re-generation, and spin up diesel engines to power the wheel in the event of a loss. That way, there is no phase synchronization issue, just a mechanical clutch. Seems like
914.
by jwatte 15y ago
You've got to kiss a lot of frogs. If you're an introvert who would rather stay home and build product, you're not alone, but you're also not slated for success in Silicon Valley. Find a partner that complements you, yet shares your work et
915.
by jwatte 15y ago
Interesting that the numbers in the defense are off. Good voxel schemes store neither color nor normal per voxel. In fact, storing a normal for a voxel makes no sense . Implicit storage and volume based materials have been the standard for
916.
by jwatte 15y ago
Nice! I've always thought emscripten is a bit annoying, as it doesn't integrate with the LLVM infrastructure, but instead re-parses everything in Python...
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by jwatte 17y ago
The article was intended to convey two things: 1) For IMVU users who may not be web server gurus, give a peek into what goes into building a large, 24/7 website. 2) For those who already know memcached, provide some data on load capability