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by meritt 10y ago
FYI, this rant is from January 2015. Surprised to see it showing on HN today. If anyone is interested in what he removed, you can find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150101224641/http://c.learncod
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by meritt 10y ago
The open-office movement is actually a decade-long strategy backed by Sennheiser and Sony.
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by meritt 10y ago
Borland Turbo C++ was my first "real" programming language after GW-BASIC. Had some extremely heavy Tandy laptop ('portable computer' might be a better moniker) with a CGA monitor. Those were the days.
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by meritt 10y ago
I mean, the primary purpose of this blog post isn't to educate the public but to point Amazon to the sophistication of their process and convince Amazon M&A to acquire them.
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by meritt 10y ago
VSCode does seem pretty nice -- One thing I can't figure out is the Ctrl+P quick find. It doesn't seem to auto-complete/open files I have added in explorer? The same behavior works flawlessly in Sublime.
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by meritt 10y ago
I dunno, I'm just not a fan of Electron-based apps especially for a text editor or IDE. Native desktop applications always have such superior performance and memory-management.
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by meritt 10y ago
So Palantir offers expensive custom-coded ETL? Awesome.
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by meritt 10y ago
Why is there a giant heart-shaped lock obscuring most of the screen?
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by meritt 11y ago
Fail? They wrote a blog post and setup an email alias. It's not like they have a real cost of failure here. Besides, they already reached #1 on HN. That's a hell of a lot more success than most recruiters achieve in a week.
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by meritt 11y ago
You understand the online advertising encompasses vastly more than the standard IAB Ad Units your plugins block, right? Those barely scratch the surface of the behemoth that lies beneath. There's a reason the vast majority of display a
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by meritt 11y ago
Does enabling two-factor authentication impact the ability to use "Find My iPhone" (when presumably the phone itself is your second factor)?
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by meritt 11y ago
He was wrongly charged under the CFAA which does not apply here. Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA) have been pushing for "Aaron's Law" to curb the judicial abuse of the CFAA in cases like Aaron's and many oth
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by meritt 11y ago
It's going to be amusing when Apple tries to sue the FBI under VEP and they're told pound sand.
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by meritt 11y ago
Can you blame them? That CS degree provides essential knowledge when it comes to solving some of the world's most complex problems: to-do lists.
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by meritt 11y ago
CCC has been around for a very long time. That seems very unlikely they 'haven't been caught yet'.
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by meritt 11y ago
CamelCamelCamel has not went anywhere. But they also don't serve affiliate links as far as I can tell, so their revenue model (if they have one) is not dependent on an affiliate relationship.
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by meritt 11y ago
You know we've had supersonic passenger jets since 1969, right? It just wasn't cost-effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde SpaceX has brought reusability to space travel. That's slightly more
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by meritt 11y ago
The algorithms differ considerably across language and the PHP one is particularly inefficient. The algorithms must be held constant in order for this "benchmark" to be valid. As of right now this is just a programming competition
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by meritt 11y ago
Do you use the same (de)value justification when billing clients for your security services? Or, maybe, it's precisely because you're all security professionals who make a living by identifying security flaws and you'd prefer
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by meritt 11y ago
Yeah, I get the economics of it, which unfortunately can be a good deal for the company. They get numerous people working on a hard problem for basically free. And most of us do it purely for the challenge and fun, so the reward (if any) is
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by meritt 11y ago
The going rate for critical bounties is way too small. It's upsetting to see a company worth $10+ billion offering $5k - $15k when it comes to the protection of their user's information. Just earlier this month Facebook rewarded a
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by meritt 11y ago
Hey, an upgrade path for the 5s form-factor. I'm actually liking this announcement. The absurd size has been why I've avoided 6.
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by meritt 11y ago
Fastest jet in the world still doesn't solve tarmac delays at JFK.
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by meritt 11y ago
Which is why I think the long term reality of what we'll end up with is not simply ad blocking but blocking of the privacy violating tracking. There's two issues here only one of which I think is worth fighting: 1) Do companies ha
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by meritt 11y ago
And you can ignore online ads too (as most of us do). However the similar analogy here is what ReplayTV and Tivo did in the early 2000s -- Provided people with the ability to completely skip those advertisements. ReplayTV went bankrupt due
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by meritt 11y ago
I disagree. Fundamentally it's no different. Content-providers create or distribute content and they need to be paid for that in order to continue operations. That's traditionally came from one of two ways: Subsidized by advertisi
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by meritt 11y ago
This has been standard practice for at least 100 years: Newspaper. Radio. Television. Magazines. Internet. All have had roughly the same model of providing free or nearly-free content in exchange for periodically injecting the flow of that
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by meritt 11y ago
The good ole days of ICQ. I felt honored to hold a low six-digit user id which I still remember. On the other hand, I still haven't memorized my wife's phone number.
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by meritt 11y ago
> It seems one of the least developer friendly languages possible on a large project. That would depends largely on your developers. I know it's weird but PHP developers tend to be really productive in PHP.
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by meritt 11y ago
Telegram is good at marketing and Signal/OWS is good at encryption. Not too surprising.

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