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by m0nastic 14y ago
I'd be almost willing to bet that because the cost is so insignificant to them, the WWDC ticket price is almost entirely meant to set a bar for the types of developers that Apple wants to attend the conference. Specifically, professional de
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by m0nastic 14y ago
Based on some completely suspect math, having 1000 engineers available for the length of the conference "costs" apple ~40 million dollars in productivity: num_engineers * total_session_hours * (revenue_per_emp / 2000) where num_engineers =
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by m0nastic 15y ago
My gripe is the same as the overwhelming majority of people in my industry: that given unlimited resources, in your wildest dreams you couldn't imagine a less hospitable place for cryptographic integrity than the DOM. Some people are of the
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by m0nastic 15y ago
So, you're scheme would require the long answer... ;) Which is that it sounds rather complicated (which makes my security-sense go off, but certainly isn't a fatal indictment) and that I'd really need to either do an active evaluation of th
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I don't think that fear is really the culprit here. People on the internet don't seem to have trouble speaking out about all sorts of other things. I think the issues which are fundamental to the cypherpunk ethos (if such a thing can be sai
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I think what's changed is that the discussions during the heyday were around the technology, which at the time was the limiting factor. The technology isn't really the issue anymore (with some specific exceptions). The problem with crypto-c
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The short answer is "no, we can't" which every time someone proposes a new scheme seems to infuriate people (as though our inability to actually do it is a value judgement on whether or not it's a good idea).
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By contrast, I've noticed the exact opposite phenomenon that the OP describes (mainly, that over the past year or so, neo-cypherpunks have started coming out of the woodwork to prosthelitize things like bitcoin, and terrible in-browser Java
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'll add a vote for Prompt. I have iSSH as well, but have pretty much standardized on Prompt.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The past month, everything I've written has been done in a combination of Bywords (all my notes are Markdown) and Textastic (for code). I actually haven't used a computer directly since getting the new iPad (not because of any grand plan, I
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Freedom Included is a company that got set up in Cambridge specifically to sell the Lemote. They ship internationally apparently through a partner (can't vouch for it). The folks who run the site seemed like decent enough people, so I think
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by m0nastic 15y ago
After about a decade of testing people's web applications, SiteMinder has defnitely emerged as the standard third-party tool for SSO. Many years ago, it seemed like people were fairly evenly split between Siteminder and another one (I think
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by m0nastic 15y ago
That's probably true. I wish I had better data ;) As a contrast, I was the only resident who had an iPad 2 delivered during the launch weekend. There are 300 apartments in my building, and I'm actually in the minority demographically (my bu
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by m0nastic 15y ago
When I picked mine up from the package room of my apartment on Friday, the guy there said that 15 had been delivered that morning. That seemed like a pretty high number for a single apartment building in Washington D.C. For what it's worth,
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The debate around secure password storage is sort of orthogonal to initial compromise of a web application. The reason that it's important (although as others here have noted, less important than primary application security concerns) is wh
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Correct. I just spent the past two days sitting in a workshop on "Special-Purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems" and the most repeating thread from all of the talks was how to deal with the unique memory limitations of GPU's
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Dan Bernstein recently posted a page on getting Ubuntu working with a current-gen MacBook Air: http://cr.yp.to/hardware/air.html Some of that information might be useful.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
For what it's worth, I just gave it a try and it seemed to make some pretty good recommendations (including places my friends have been to a lot but I've never heard of). I don't really use recommendation sites/apps, because I've never foun
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by m0nastic 15y ago
This isn't a bug. The validation that they are doing when you enter the card is just Luhn validation.§ This is basically just to ensure that the numbers entered into the field "at least have the possibility of being a valid credit card". No
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Mozilla Partners with Telefonica for Boot 2 Gecko Phone(blog.mozilla.com)
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I want to echo Thomas's sentiment here about asking questions of the interviewer. It really is of tremendous benefit while interviewing to be the one driving (or at least steering) the interview. Even aside from any psychological power dyna
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by m0nastic 15y ago
You bring up an interesting point, in that I stipulated that dating sucks as a fact, and that it never even occurred to me that it wasn't a universally held belief. Because I can't think of anyone, besides those Seduction knuckleheads, who
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The rash of online dating startups always strikes me as a misguided use of people's efforts. I can appreciate that people think there's something they can contribute to it, and that they see it as a really positive win for social interactio
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I've never seen the original Windows 1.0 logo before (or maybe it's just been so long that I've forgotten), but I actually think that's far and away the best logo they've ever had.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I have no disagreement with your position. What I'm trying to articulate (and I think I might be failing at), is that there's a difference between arguing against something incredibly successful because you have a bunch of valid reasons why
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by m0nastic 15y ago
No, no. What I find troubling is our belief that the internet will progress in the way it "should" (based on our beliefs) rather than the way it absolutely will (based on a way of increasingly replacing higher friction interactions/services
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Yeah, I wasn't being facetious, I do actually find it concerning. I worry that as the internet continues to expand out into society, and more and more muggles make up the userbase; technology people will become more and more confused by wha
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by m0nastic 15y ago
This article is helping me validate my theory about someone's opinion about Facebook as a litmus test for how disconnected from regular people they are. Dave Winer doesn't like Facebook (totally valid opinion). Dave Winer doesn't like how c
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Lateral SQL Injection Revisited [pdf](accuvant.com)
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Modern static security checking of C/C++ programs [pdf](immunityinc.com)
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