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by kogir 15y ago
Wow, this is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on right now. It's rare incredibly rare for Windows ports of *nix open source projects to be so well integrated. It runs native code using IOCP and there exists IIS and IIS Manager
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by kogir 15y ago
This has only ever been a chipset limitation. Not that long ago there were 64-bit capable Nvidia chipsets that could still only address 3GB of physical RAM due the way they mapped device memory into the system address space [1]. Sandy Brid
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by kogir 15y ago
> The threat is not the UEFI specification itself, but in how computer manufacturers choose to implement the boot restrictions. Exactly. When Apple shipped the first Intel Macs without Boot Camp, there wasn't outrage that Windows/Linux
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by kogir 15y ago
I honestly don't understand all the hate on stored procedures. Tracking changes is trivial, since they're a part of the schema -- use version control. It's quite possible to use them with a properly sharded DB architecture, and still enjo
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by kogir 15y ago
This is what sparked my interest in F# originally, and I love it. For the first time ever I'm willing to write async code regularly in C#. I can't wait for something like this to make its way to python (for twisted) or JavaScript (for node)
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by kogir 15y ago
I haven't read the latest UEFI spec, but if each machine: * shipped with a randomly generated unique key in addition to any others * had an option in the pre-boot firmware to generate new keys signed with this unique machine key then users
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by kogir 15y ago
Queues in the DB are so common that in MSSQL they made it a first class feature: SQL Server Service Broker. Using it is an XML and T-SQL nightmare, but since it guarantees in-order, only once delivery, and supports routing and in-DB worker
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by kogir 15y ago
The ones with signatures that check out. That's the SEC part of DNSSEC. The root key(s) are published and you can verify authenticity all the way down.
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by kogir 15y ago
The last funding round I was involved in, I used a combination of mercurial (show changes over time) and scripted Word diffs. It worked really well. And there's no chance I would have uploaded any of it to a site or server I didn't contro
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by kogir 15y ago
If whatever framework or libraries you're using don't hide this from you nearly completely, you might be doing it wrong. Just use the default Unicode format of the OS and framework or standard libraries you're using and never think of it a
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by kogir 15y ago
So, to clarify, the "feature" I was referring to was replacing the system font (Helvetica). Even when we requested Helvetica by name , we'd get the random replacement. Are you suggesting we license and distribute Helvetica with our appli
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by kogir 15y ago
They should also ban reviews from jailbroken devices, where users may have installed custom fonts or other "features" for which you can't possibly test and account. And yes -- any test Apple does for this could be defeated, but I expect m
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by kogir 15y ago
If the performance is acceptable, I'd love to do all of my daily Windows work from a VM... on a removable drive I can boot with no fuss on my desktop, laptop, or friends' computer. If they can really isolate all the hardware this is a game
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by kogir 15y ago
In my personal experience most of this is true. At Loopt we used MSSQL from the beginning. Things didn't start this way (because I was young and foolish), but in the end: * Each developer had their own local instance of the DB(s) for devel
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by kogir 15y ago
After further thought, I'm wrong. I think the way this will actually play out is a little different. When Loopt had this problem, we had to support all the broken devices, or the carrier wouldn't put us on deck at all. Now it's possible
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by kogir 15y ago
This is better than nothing, and I suppose it's far too late to do anything else, but I was really hoping they'd force manufacturers to provide updates and unify the platform a little. If you have to test on all the devices and make individ
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by kogir 15y ago
Are the black boxes instead of images on purpose? http://imgur.com/fw52e
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by kogir 15y ago
It prevents both information leakage (number of users/posts/etc), and enumeration. It could also contain routing information about where your data is actually stored behind the scenes, avoiding a directory lookup.
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by kogir 15y ago
The worst offenders are android phones like my nexus one with capacitive buttons right beneath the software keyboard. Overshoot the space bar just a tiny bit? Hello home screen, goodbye app. Some apps handle this and you can just press back
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by kogir 15y ago
You're wrong. I use hashes so that if somehow the hashes and salts leak the attacker can't now log in as any user with no additional effort. While it's true that a hash compromise typically means you're owned, not having plaintext passwords
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by kogir 15y ago
On .Net this is definitely the way to go. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryp... Make sure to use the defaults or better in terms of rounds. The salt provided when you don't supply one is cryptographically random
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by kogir 15y ago
To beat the dead horse one more time, please use per-user salts and bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2 (RFC 2898). Single time hashes (even per-user salted), are no longer sufficient protection.
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by kogir 15y ago
The invitation UI showed a list of all your contacts, and let you select which ones to invite. It was pretty clear you could invite more than one person at a time, so our testing never caught going to the screen multiple times in one app r
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by kogir 15y ago
I can't speak to anything about u-Deals since I didn't work on it, but the SMS issue was actually a bug. The guy who wrote the invitation flow forgot to clear a collection during initialization of the screen. If the user invited one contac
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by kogir 15y ago
Did anyone else notice the Store icon on the start screen? I wonder if that will be the primary distribution channel for apps using the new UI. With any luck they'll sandbox apps like they do on Windows Phone 7. No more registry + dll he
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CyanogenMod nightly allows selective app permissions(androinica.com)
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by kogir 15y ago
Check out Windows Services for Unix. You'd be surprised what works out of the box with it. It also enables case sensitive access to NTFS volumes, which can be really useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
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by kogir 15y ago
So, if a user can get Chrome Frame on the system and running without admin rights... why not just have them download an admin-free standalone instance of Chrome instead? I fail to see the benefit of running in IE. I'm clearly missing somet
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by kogir 16y ago
Given that Nokia owns Navteq, my interpretation of "Microsoft has actually partnered with Nokia to include Nokia Maps in all their service platforms" is that Microsoft will use Navteq data everywhere. Microsoft's big sell to developers has
750.
by kogir 16y ago
Can't agree with this enough. If your workload is IO bound, SSDs will make a world of difference. Measure before making a decision though. You'd be surprised what's bound by CPU (Loopt's iPhone and Android builds) and what's bound by IO

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