kogir

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by kogir 19y ago
The Microsoft platform has worked very well for Loopt as well, though I can't claim we're good enough to have had only two bugs since launch :) As for cost, we spend less on software licensing per year than we do for our least compensated e
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by kogir 19y ago
The choice not to sell may very well have not been theirs. No VC I know would want to sell a company that's doing well for a 2.5 to 5 times return. This has been mentioned before: http://mattmaroon.com/?p=361
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by kogir 19y ago
Umm, this is a loan. I assume you'll need to pay it back whether or not you succeed? If you're the sole bread winner for your family, then potentially accumulating a ton of debt is not something to be done lightly. Test your idea, whatever
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by kogir 19y ago
PHP is the VBScript of the open source world. It's available on almost every web host, and it seems to be what beginners learn first. While I'm sure it's possible to write things in a safe and mantainable way, most code examples you see wil
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by kogir 19y ago
This is one of many reasons why I run my own dns server (which looks up the authoritative name servers for each domain directly from the root servers), rather than trusting comcast.
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by kogir 19y ago
Windows Server 2003/2008, Ubuntu 7.10, CentOS 5, and FreeBSD 6.3/7 I'm hoping to move to Windows 2008 and FreeBSD 7 or Ubuntu 7.10 everywhere.
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Hacked: Top 10 security mistakes(owasp.org)
5 points by kogir 19y ago|0 comments
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by kogir 19y ago
For a more "developer" oriented discussion of the same topics, I recommend the OWASP Top 10: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2007 another great resource is RSnake's blog: http://ha.ckers.org
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by kogir 19y ago
Many routing protocols commonly used (BGP, OSPF, etc) don't have sufficient authentication built in. They instead rely on ISPs setting up proper filters and everyone playing nice.
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by kogir 19y ago
Before I get raked over the coals: npgsql is great. It is up to 10x faster than the PostgreSQL ODBC driver for our workload. It has a few tiny issues that are irritating but not big problems, and I plan to fix them and submit patches when I
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by kogir 19y ago
If you find a legitimate bug in SQL Server, you can open a support ticket, and Microsoft will fix it. Frequently these fixes will make it into the next service pack, or if they're severe, a Windows update. This is all at no (extra) cost t
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by kogir 19y ago
I chose SQL Server 2005 for Loopt, but that's because at the time I made the choice MySQL didn't meet all my requirements. I should have looked more into PostgreSQL, but didn't. In your case, it sounds like MySQL should work just fine. For
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by kogir 19y ago
Yes, up to a point. I've used two 19" 1280x1024 monitors, two 20" 1600x1200 monitors, three 20" 1600x1200 monitors, and one 30" 2560x1600 monitor. The most productive, and what I use now are the two 20" monitors. With three there was alway
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by kogir 19y ago
PG attributes much of Viaweb's advantage to Lisp but I'm convinced that even if competitors has used Lisp they wouldn't have attained the same results. The real thing that worked at Viaweb was smart people working in a focused environment
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by kogir 19y ago
Making an installer project for your program (inside of visual studio) should detect the dependency on the C++ runtime and bundle it with your program. It's not so bad really.
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by kogir 19y ago
you should release the beta. Then you'll at least have user feedback for the redesign.
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by kogir 19y ago
If your site has sensitive data like credit card information or the like, rolling your own auth is the only good way to protect yourself and users from an incident. With openid in particular you have no idea how secure the provider is, and
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by kogir 19y ago
I think that if there is something you can do to prevent or discourage the use of your creation for evil purposes, then you should do everything in your power to do so. Sometimes doing so is also critical to keeping your users, especially i
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by kogir 19y ago
Call me paranoid, but I don't trust hosting where I don't own the equipment. Uptime aside, I don't like the idea that data and machines can be accessed (or subpoena'd) without my knowledge.
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by kogir 19y ago
You want enough founders on the board to maintain control if things go sour.
951.
by kogir 19y ago
With the Service Provider License Agreement, which most web startups fall under, you pay per month for what you use. Machines kept as backups cost you nothing. The monthly fees are quite reasonable and make the software cost inconsequentia
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by kogir 19y ago
We're moving from CentOS/Ubuntu to FreeBSD for all our *nix boxes. The decision was motivated by hatred acquired for CentOS over time and the fact our systems administrator is most familiar with FreeBSD.
953.
by kogir 19y ago
Nearly all CDMA phones sold in the US today support Mobile based and assisted fixes from applications.
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by kogir 19y ago
So, in mobile handsets there are three types of GPS. Standalone, mobile based, and mobile assisted. Standalone is the type of GPS you are referring to where the phone uses only the onboard GPS receiver. This type of fix is slow and generall
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by kogir 19y ago
Loopt supports a broad range of devices already, with greater accuracy: https://loopt.com/loopt/phones.aspx More are on the way :)
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by kogir 19y ago
I'm using Bitlocker + EFS on Vista and have noticed no performance problems at all.
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by kogir 19y ago
It's not such horrid advice to follow. As mentioned in another comment already, Loopt uses ASP.Net in addition to other Microsoft and open source technologies. If I could start over, I'd use it again. ASP.Net the framework is great. By f
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by kogir 19y ago
No offense, but I would have posted almost the exact same "advice" as a sarcastic joke. If you follow that advice, make sure that you don't make the mistake of thinking that you can build the real service on top of whatever the guy from cra
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by kogir 19y ago
So, I know nothing about the atmosphere there but from a tech perspective it'd be pretty sweet. They handle quite a bit of traffic and must have interesting problems of scale. My guess is that I could learn very much from it. Yes, they ru
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by kogir 19y ago
I wish they had given examples of how they use it internally. From the lack of authentication I would guess that they don't call it directly from the client, but it could be made safe for certain readonly data. While their reasons for using

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