lurker19

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by lurker19 15y ago
Huh? LinkedIn has absolutely no restrictions on who can be a member or who can be connected. They only data they curate is the global search index, but that can be replaced by anything else on the Internet, like email or XMPP.
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by lurker19 15y ago
How would the world be be better if Google steals and deploys the evil from Paypal, which is exactly what is at issue here?
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by lurker19 15y ago
However, it helps to pay one's own debt to society before calling in someone else's. I personally had to file a fraud dispute with my credit card company after receiving two promises over two months to reverse an unauthorized charge PayPal
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by lurker19 15y ago
(i) because free is more accessible than expensive. (ii) because it is expensive.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Just think about what 8 people in four bedrooms created.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Unless you have some sort of server-trusted hardware system running on the client, hashing on the client is equivalent to not hashing at all, since you cannot force a client to hash before sending a password guess.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Keeping something secret because it is evil does not dilute the evil.
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by lurker19 15y ago
You may as well say that passwords are always encrypted into ASCII code. The difference between encoding and encrypting has only to do with the difficulty of recovering plaintext. If there is no difference, there is no difference.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Absolutely incorrect. The system stores not only the hash of your password, but also the hashes of the forbidden variations, at the moment the initial password is processed.
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by lurker19 15y ago
I think elithrar was talking about the layer-2 modem password, not the layer-7 application user credentials.
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by lurker19 15y ago
...which brings this subthread back on topic to the growing practice of vendors attaching gag clauses to service contracts.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Haha. I once received a threatening phone call from the son of my landlord for posting a flier (protesting an illegal mid-lease rent increase) in the lobby of the apartment building where I lived, or as he called it, "his place of business.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It is wonderful that someone does. If doctors were as squeamish about death as I am, nobody would try to practice life-saving medicine at all and outcomes would be far worse.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It turns out that clinical treatment and medical research are two distinct activities, and patients appreciating not getting the one they did not expect.
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by lurker19 15y ago
It is certainly harder for the FUD to be unheard of when someone makes a point of spreading it.
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by lurker19 15y ago
But can it play files over DAAP? That is the (my) holy grail for Mac music. Songbird sort-of can, in a buggy crashy way. Nothing else I have tried (Banshee, Amarok, Rhythmbox, firefly player jar) compiles and loads and runs an plays on Mac
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by lurker19 15y ago
But can it play files over DAAP? That is the (my) holy grail for Mac music. Songbird sort-of can, in a buggy crashy way. Nothing else U have
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by lurker19 15y ago
This is a good point, but to your original point: "invest in me just because I impressed PG (plus more good reasons that may be true but the investor cannot see)" does not fall into your category of "unbreaking things" like the rest, espe
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by lurker19 15y ago
5ish years for 5ish people, some of whom could draw quite a fine salary in the M&A division of a big company or hedge fund or VC firm, and $5M doesn't seem too very generous an estimate. It is close to dead-on.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Your comment made me look at YC as an extended extremely thorough onsite interview, and it really clicked. But then I remembered that YC companies pitch demo day to a bunch of relative strangers-to-the-teams, not the YC investors themselves
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by lurker19 15y ago
Here is a great way to create brand value in the digital world, that generates both financial and non-financial value: give away your mass-produced stuff as free and/or open source and/or libre, and charge for custom work or advanced suppor
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by lurker19 15y ago
True, but unless FF adds a "re-version-tag my addons based on feedback from testers" feature, we will get bitten when FF5 final comes out and disables all existing deployed extensions.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Not your fault, but that is a risk of using a Beta (before Google hijacked the term to mean "Upgrades are Planned"). Bugs like what you saw are flagged as high-importance "data loss" bugs, and FF has gotten better about avoiding those, even
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by lurker19 15y ago
Firefox 4 took forever to launch, and in the meantime WebKit room over the world. A shorter tease cycle is the right thing the to do, and we can only hope that it didn't happen too late. Also, FF needs to fix extension versioning and API co
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by lurker19 15y ago
Trye, but unfortunately no one can match Chrome teams ability to rapidly ratchet version numbers. Chrome is is in a weird spot where they "had to" rapidly catch up to MS, but now it is awkward to shoot ahead to version 20 or 30. Presumably
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by lurker19 15y ago
Classic: Simon says how to write a paper and give a talk: Overview page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers... PDF slideshow: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
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by lurker19 15y ago
I had a stint where I bought and tried to read a few dozen cheap $8-$14 Dover math books. There is a reason most of these books were not revised and republished before their copyright expired and they became Doverable, and it is not because
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by lurker19 15y ago
When is assigning a pointer to be boolean false intentional and correct?
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by lurker19 15y ago
Hrm? That blog post is all about Google is using Clang to dig themselves out of a hole they fell into by using C++ with its weak type system, and doesn't suggest they have plans to change languages.
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by lurker19 15y ago
Hurts why? Because research universities do not teach much? Teaching was definitely hit and miss at the research university I attended. I was lucky that's my freshman math and CS teachers were among the best the university bad. I assumed th

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