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by kogir 14y ago
Pinkie Pie is helpful, but the DTrace Laser Pony is the best debugging pony :) http://dtrace.org/blogs/about/dtracepony/
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by kogir 14y ago
It's only magic if it's poorly or non-documented. I'm aware of many of the internals, and have written my own SynchronizationContext before. Execution actually can (and often) does continue using the same thread. I still strongly believe i
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by kogir 14y ago
Promises are fine, but I much prefer C#'s await. The last example using await: try { await Parse.User.logIn("user", "pass"); var results = await query.find(); await results[0].save(new { key = value }); } catch (Exception
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by kogir 14y ago
Please forgive me if I don't count coverage by Techcrunch as verification. Did he tweet it? Link from FB? Send a signed email? It could be legit, but the bar should be higher than this.
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by kogir 14y ago
Proof of authenticity? Anyone could have registered that tumblr, and it has no other content. Please leave tabloid gossip to the tabloids until real information is available - and then leave it off HN.
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by kogir 14y ago
Judging by all he's accomplished at Microsoft, I'm sure Scott could successfully lead a team to solve his problem and bring a product to market. But he doesn't. I (luckily) would not have use for such a product. If he doesn't care enough
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Aaron's suicide: System Contributed, Society Perpetuated(jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com)
20 points by kogir 14y ago|1 comments
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by kogir 14y ago
What was wrong with ROW_NUMBER()? It worked just fine for me, and partitioning was frequently useful.
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by kogir 14y ago
How about any cases where you don't want to transfer all the rows you're skipping over the wire? As in, nearly all cases?
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by kogir 14y ago
This is what my friends at Loopt helped build after getting acquired by Green Dot. If you have enough money to use Fidelity or Schwab there are better options, but their mobile tooling is really good, it's hard to get surprised, and the cus
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A new kind of checking account. No overdraft fees. No worries.(gobank.com)
42 points by kogir 14y ago|70 comments
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by kogir 14y ago
Does disabling Flash and JavaScript on all but approved sites count? I've not noticed an ad in ages.
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Hacking my Vagina(scanlime.org)
952 points by kogir 14y ago|253 comments
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Real World Cryptography Workshop(crypto.stanford.edu)
28 points by kogir 14y ago|3 comments
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Startup School 2012 Videos(startupschool.org)
284 points by kogir 14y ago|59 comments
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by kogir 14y ago
Hint: the web is one thing, but if you're deploying a library that talks to your own server, consider embedding your own root certificate. In addition to verifying the traffic isn't being proxied[1], you can also issue 10 or 20 year cert
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by kogir 14y ago
I suspect the "pure awesome" part is at the IHttpModule and IHttpHandler level, where you can do everything except receive and produce grievously invalid HTTP requests. If you need to do that, IIS is extensible via WCF to host more than HT
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by kogir 14y ago
Strange, because it's working great on my 2008 unibody Macbook Pro with Core 2 Duo.
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by kogir 14y ago
Does Parse validate the SSL certificate in a way that can't be patched at runtime? If not, it's just as possible to selectively spoof the Parse request as the Apple request. Sorry, but untrusted hardware can always win. For a case study of
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by kogir 14y ago
Can you cite a source for that? Experience suggests that is not the case.
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by kogir 14y ago
I think the generous free trial could allow them to raise the floor even higher than $1.49. Part of the reason I won't buy expensive apps on iPhone is because there's no recourse if they're terrible. Google's 15 minute trial period is a st
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by kogir 14y ago
Why don't they just build in a delay before the new key starts working? Even a few hours would be enough to prevent most thefts without being too inconvenient on the rare occasion you lose a key. This is just poor design, even given the EU
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by kogir 14y ago
I slid to unlock the bathroom door in elementary school in the early nineties. I fail to see how doing it on a phone is new or innovative.
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by kogir 14y ago
If only they would create a version with those features I'd be delighted to build it, sign it, and install it myself. Though I understand why they don't.
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by kogir 14y ago
The elephant in the room that nobody ever talks about is the linux kernel's lack of a stable ABI. Windows and OS X drivers don't need to be recompiled every time the kernel is updated, whereas in linux it's nearly always required. If the sa
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by kogir 14y ago
My worry is that we'll see a proliferation of models like has happened to mattresses, where each store has their own special line (even if in name only). If you can't be sure it's really the same, it's much harder to comparison shop. We mig
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by kogir 14y ago
Benchmarking anything on EC2 instances will yield statistically suspect results. You know nothing about the other workloads on the box, the underlying hardware, or the network connectivity.
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by kogir 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Skout is for meeting new people. So they'll just sign up with the same names and a different email, and start fresh. In fact, we had to start blocking problem users by unique device ID. Nothing else would deter them. Pedop
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by kogir 14y ago
Having operated a service similar in some ways to Skout, banning underage users is not the answer if you actually want to help them[1]. These same users will now sign up again but say they're 18+. It's much better to encourage people to be
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by kogir 14y ago
If only it were that simple :) Sadly, HN is not disk IO bound.

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