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by m0nastic 15y ago
I should be clear, I haven't seen any of these people in many many years. The situation I've explained was how things were set up when I last had any contact with Colin. I haven't heard anything since, so I assume things are progressing mor
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So, where I grew up, everybody was a criminal. I don't mean that hyperbolically either. Everyone in my family (mostly bottom-of-the-barrel criminals, but a few actual bad-ass criminals), every other kid who lived in my neighborhood. All cri
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So, there are artificial constraints to the scalability of an operation like his. For starters, all territory is split up among the different crews who run them. That they do this democratically and unanimously without anyone muscling in on
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No, I'm dead serious. Colin (the aforementioned kid I grew up with) figured it was easier to attract good talent and keep them happy if he treated his operation like a professional job. So, he employs his team through an auto-repair shop, w
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That's sad to hear, but I think he's right to realize that it's going to be really hard to deal with losses when the auto theft community gets wind of their business. I am always amazed by the efficiency and technological prowess that the k
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For those curious, this is a sort of spiritual successor to his previous essay "The Free Lunch is Over"§. § http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
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Herb Sutter's essay about the evolution of computing "Welcome to the Jungle"(herbsutter.com)
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This comes up from time to time, so here are the ones that I subscribe to (and get OCD about making sure I'm caught up on). There's others that I might listen to here or there, but these are the main ones: - Informative After Dark : Overfl
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So, here is the list of the things that I'm most passionate about (all with equal weight): * Application Security * Black and White fine art photography with an emphasis on people * western furniture from 1910-1965 * The women's fashion ind
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So the bad news is I only got two emails, although I realize the timing for this post wasn't ideal. The good news is, both people who emailed me have gotten subscriptions (it's Christmas, after all). So, thanks everyone, and happy holidays.
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Gift HN: Annual Tekpub subscription
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clothes might be neat, but I think there might be some negative reaction to getting a text message asking someone's ring size (or at least it might set an unrealistic expectation to the recipient).
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I'm actually trying to get a Congressional Gallery pass for Wednesday, to see the session in person. Although it looks like if I do, I can't live-blog/tweet it, as you can't bring anything electronic into the gallery. That makes watching it
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Yeah, as I said in a reply below, if I'd have waited another couple months, the Nexus S would have been announced, which probably would have changed my opinion completely. As to your option 2, that's the type of option "the old me" would ha
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It's been a while, but here are the issues I remember: * GPS was completely broken (a known and admitted issue with the T-Mobile variant of the Galaxy). If you disabled it, you could use tower triangulation to get a rough position, but that
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Yeah, I picked up an iPhone 4 eventually, and I absolutely love it. What annoys me, though, is that had I waited another month or two instead of buying the Galaxy S, the Nexus S came out and by most accounts was a really nice phone. Instead
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by m0nastic 15y ago
When I was debating whether or not to keep or return my Galaxy S (the most recent Android phone I owned), the crux of my concern was whether or not I had faith that Samsung/Google/T-Mobile was going to fix the laundry list of problems I was
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by m0nastic 15y ago
So far, Dark Market is a little too "Dateline expose" for my taste, but I'm only about a third of the way in (maybe it gets better). I actually picked up Skiena purely from your recommendation of it on here. I wanted to go back to algo fund
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Right now I'm reading: Fiction- - Reamde (Bought it when it came out, but had to wait to start until I finished some other stuff on my list) - The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos Nonfiction- - Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia (Volume 1
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edit: I typed this on my phone while waiting at the airport, so it's a little looser grammatically than I'd like. I've been out of the network management space for about a decade, but ostensibly the big screen was pitched as a way to look a
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While it's useful to be aware of where a study comes from, at least in this case, I more than trust Accuvant. They're as good a team of security researchers as you're going to find.
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I used to design and build NOCS as a network management consultant, and we found one thing to be universally true at every NOC we designed: 1.) Even though the person who hired us fell in love with the set of NORAD from the movie Wargames w
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I find myself wanting to like WP7 (the Lumia specifically) but that may just be because I respect the different approach they're taking. I can't imagine a circumstance where I'd ever buy another Android phone (the 2 I owned were miserable e
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I went through a similar exercise last week. I'm trying to leave the place I'm working, and I'm mostly concentrating on places that are a little above my weight class (because if I'm going to try and get a new job, I don't want to go work a
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I don't know anything about your application, but if possible, I'd suggest de-coupling the application from the revenue source (i.e.: make downloading the application free, but extract revenue server-side via requiring accounts or another m
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I don't know anyone from Apple, but I asked around to all of my Google peeps, and they all stated that Google absolutely doesn't do credit checks. I have only actually done one interview where they asked for a credit report (and consequentl
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I definitely think there's a potential issue with buying into an e-book platform where there's a high barrier to switch. About two years ago, my girlfriend decided she wanted an e-book reader. At the time, you could only get a Kindle online
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This part seemed especially troubling: "But PopCap’s founders worried about the company’s reputation after hearing rumors of the company’s rescinding share awards and fierce internal competition, said two people with first-hand knowledge o
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I was performing an assessment of a content filtering appliance once and we obtained the word list of terms that it filtered. I'll never forget that one of them was "vertical bacon sandwich", which to this day I still think they made up (I'
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I'd bet not many, but I suspect there's a fair number of people who never amass a life's savings because of it. A quick back-of-envelope calculation shows my mom having spent at least 100 grand on lottery tickets (and that's just 20 years o

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