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by m0nastic 14y ago
Qubes to me seems like what I imagine would happen if DARPA threw a roomful of security nerds together in the 90's and told them to come up with something to let intelligence analysts process mixed-class data. The software equivalent of a o
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Yes, Apple is the reason most people don't care about an unbelievably inconvenient desktop sandbox.
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That's actually why all of these articles aggravate me so much, because, I agree, all of these things are true (which sort of points out how silly the idea of a singular entity "winning" or "losing" is).
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by m0nastic 14y ago
Oops, I misread that (I thought you were pointing out that I screwed up the numbering). The lawyers winning counteracts Google losing.
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This tea leaf reading continues to be ridiculous. So, based on the trial outcome: 1.) Apple won, because they established the validity of their patents and that Samsung was guilty of willful infringement of many of them. 2.) Samsung won, be
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I thought Siracusa had a really good take on this in last Friday's Hypercritical ( http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/81 ) One point he made that resonated with me was how it was offensive to say that people wanting to support App.net are doing s
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Those aren't mutually exclusive. It's actually quite easy to get this stuff wrong (and I'd argue almost guaranteed that some part of it is wrong, although hopefully not a part that makes the whole thing fall apart). To build something like
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I hope something like this takes off, mostly because I'd buy one for my apartment. A few years back I spent many weeks trying to figure out how to purchase and get shipped one of the Japanese capsule hotel units to my apartment. I found a m
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There's no reason to be mean. ;)
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Apparently I'm screwed; I cut it off the cob in sheets. So I guess that means I don't care about efficiency, but need things super neat and orderly. I have always liked Prolog though...
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Entrust Withdraws from CA/Browser Forum over SSL Patent Licensing Issues(entrust.com)
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Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks [pdf](usenix.org)
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NASA JPL C Coding Standard [pdf](lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Author and Essayist Gore Vidal Dead at 86(latimes.com)
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I'd actually been testing that theory for many months, and was all set to declare it victory when Groupon happened. I was sure that the level of negativity on the company leading up to the IPO would pretty much assure it's success. But I th
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Presumably, he'll continue to head the Oracle Labs Programming Language Research Group (which most likely is doing more than just researching Fortress). Although maybe the decision will be related to him going somewhere else (I'd imagine th
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This argument has been going around for as long as I can remember, and I think it's incredibly harmful to researchers (whether they be security or other). Upon discovering the vulnerability, the only real action he could take which would be
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I suppose. So a person contacts the article author and says "I spoke with them at a party or conference, and they denied knowing anything about a Windows client." That's a credible source? Of course not.
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I think it's especially silly in the case of a "source" from a really small startup. This isn't like a "source" at Proctor and Gamble, it's what, like one of five people?
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I think part of the problem in all the hubbub around the Sparrow acquisition is the attempt to represent people's apprehension as a single entity. The reality seems to be more complicated than that. Some people are probably just upset becau
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No, I use the Mac version for my IMAP email account as well (I'm in the minority of people who finds gmail to be awful). I suspect we're a tiny tiny minority though. ;)
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right, but you can at least hopefully prevent other people from asking. Comment Triage.
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If still within the window, you could just add an "edited:" to your comment including that information.
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I believe SoftwareMaven was referring to the literal "lead" spelling that the writer used (as the majority of actual journalists use the "lede" spelling), not to the reference.
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but...but...I had to do math to figure out that number. No fun.
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I actually think 1/3 of respondents being religious is "more 'religious' people on HN than you'd think" considering the demographic of people here. I think if you asked people familiar with HN to guess what percentage of folks here were rel
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by m0nastic 14y ago
One (optimistic) takeaway from this article for folks here is that this should show exactly how much of an advantage they can have in recruiting people (although obviously this isn't great news for people looking for a job). Not to say that
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It's really really comfortable. Maybe an 8 or 9 (I suppose I'd reserve a 10 for "the womb"). I've always had a hard time figuring out what to do with my arms though, as I either hang them down by my side, or sort of fold them on my lap, so
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I'm "serious" in the sense that this is indeed what I'm planning to do (I haven't gotten the Airtouch table yet as I've only recently come back around to the idea of having a desk at all, but I already have the lounge chair/arm mount combo
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I'm presently in the process of renovating my office, and for months I was adamant about not having a desk at all. I've finally compromised with a dual approach that I think will be workable (and still prevent me from spending 16-20 hours a

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