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by m0nastic 15y ago
Right, but then people stay logged into Facebook throughout the day while navigating the rest of the web (and spend an increasingly greater amount of time on Facebook itself). I have no idea if Facebook ad revenue will surpass Google's (and
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I've been using the beta for a while now, and look forward to it being launched. I must be in the small minority of people who prefer hosted Exchange to Gmail (but oh do I), but I've been pretty impressed so far with the functionality.
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Microsoft Has Acquisition Deal With Nvidia(informationweek.com)
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure. That's the "unstable" version, and it looks like some of the chapter's are missing (everything after part 6).
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I like the fact that they seem to be the only well-made laptops anymore. On the inside, pretty much all manufacturers are using the same components (Wifi cards being the only real exception), but Thinkpads have always seemed much better con
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Thinkpad... If portability isn't an issue, than the new W520 or T520. If you don't like lugging around a giant monster, the new X220. Everyone will chime in with a reason to avoid $Manufacturer (for me I avoid Dell and HP), I'm not sure if
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by m0nastic 15y ago
For what it's worth, the second edition of How To Design Programs drops the imperative programming[1] and is available online[2]. I can't comment about the pandering though. [1] "This edition of the book drops the design of imperative progr
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by m0nastic 15y ago
We don't normally crack hashes for proof-of-concept, it's not usually that hard to convince a client about the perils of insecure password storage (although I guess ocassionally you might need to give them a concrete example). Generally, we
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Which gives me yet another thing to add as a client-side script for my new discussion site: "Your post mentions the word "salt", have you read..."
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by m0nastic 15y ago
A few months back we built a 4-Tesla box for doing GPU cracking (I think for less than 15 grand total). Initially for doing WPA, but now for more general purpose cracking. It's ludicrous how much quicker we get results. I'm hoping to start
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I hope by this point you have a TextExpander shortcut for that URL. It's amazing how frequently it's useful in discussions.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I definitely do that. I have a lot of vacation days through work (6 weeks this year), but have pretty much no desire to go on vacations. I end up using my vacation days to go to Security conferences. I've found, at least with my favorite c
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'd have been thrilled in college to even have 15 weeks for a CS course. My school had quarters instead of semesters, and I found the density really off-putting (for example, going through all of SICP in 8 weeks). By the end of your freshma
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm not one for role models, but I'd pick the other "Reed" (Hastings) more as someone to emulate.
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by m0nastic 15y ago
You know they launched XP in 2001, right? and that it'll be supported until 2014? I think that's actually a remarkably good track record of supporting an operating system (for comparison, Debian EOL'd 2.2 in 2003) I also think Microsoft car
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm not sure about "essential reading", but I like most anything besides Science Fiction or Fantasy (probably the opposite of most folks here) Some of my top choices would be: Anything by Bulgakov (Heart of a Dog and Master and Margerita ar
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Just noticed this for the first time tonight. I was ordering Chinese food and wanted to try something new, so I Google image searched for a couple of dishes. Almost every one I clicked on tried to install malware. For the record, apparently
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by m0nastic 15y ago
It's easy to get spoiled. 12 years ago my computer was two hops away from an OC-192 and back then I didn't even have anything interesting to try and download (I think I mostly downloaded SunOS ISO's).
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by m0nastic 15y ago
In photography school we defined photography as just the act of capturing a scene in a photograph. We tend to define the purpose of that capture through the various sub-genres of photography. For instance, I'm a "fine art photographer" in t
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I can sympathize, as I'm in a similar boat. I love the CIA credit union, but their branches are all around DC, and I'm planning on moving soon. I keep checking the BankSimple web site to see if they're any closer to launching, as I'm hoping
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I can say it's a good deal because it coincides with Microsoft's search strategy. That strategy doesn't seem to require that their decisions be fiscally rewarding (I assume they're going after a really long tail). Money isn't something Micr
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Historically, I've updated my Mac every time a new release comes out (mostly of Macbook Pros). I've been doing this for about the past eight years. About a month ago I broke from that pattern and bought an 11" Air (right after the new Macbo
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Verizon already switched the default search to Bing for its Blackberry users back in 2009[1] (which included pushing the Bing app to people's phones), and there was some uproar from folks, but it seemed to die down quickly. This is a good d
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm not so sure that there's any useful conclusions to draw from this article (even assuming that the numbers they cite are correct). If the Xoom turns out to be unsuccessful, there's no shortage of possible explanations as to why that was
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by m0nastic 16y ago
All 3 of the main PC manufacturers (Dell, HP, and Lenovo) make such a system: HP Z-series (I like the Z600[1]), or the Lenovo Thinkstations (C20[2] is currently my favorite workstation, as it's tiny but still can have dual Xeons). [1] - ht
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by m0nastic 16y ago
My girlfriend reviews two movies a day over Watch Instantly for her blog and over the past six months I don't think we've had a single issue with the streaming. For what it's worth, we stream via the PS3, and it works flawlessly.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
One thing to be aware of when buying one used that I just had to go through is that you can't really get them serviced if anything breaks. Herman Miller gives a 10 year warranty that they'll fix the chair if something happens to it. I bough
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by m0nastic 16y ago
These are good (and updated frequently online): http://commonsware.com/
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Conceptually, I agree with you; but your HN profile isn't like setting up a Wordpress installation. There's a pretty minimal amount of things which can be tweaked.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm not so sure there is a bigger picture, just a bunch of people who each get different things out of reading/posting here on the site. Look at any of the comments on the articles about this so far, and you get the what and the why (pe

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