mrduncan

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by mrduncan 17y ago
I agree with ajju, hate is totally the wrong word to use. Both parties simply have different interests. In this case, Sequoia wanted liquidity on their investment (the economy is in a downturn after all), while from what I understand Tony
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Etherpad gets a makeover and becomes even more of a threat to Google Docs(techcrunch.com)
67 points by mrduncan 17y ago|24 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Instead of sending notes, an easier way to weed-out most fakes would be to require a phone call. Sure, it can be faked but it's a lot more difficult do (especially if they have met the teacher).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I suspect that if RyanAir offers this they will nickel and dime those standing passengers for everything to recoup the lost ticket revenue. For example, in the standing configuration they effectively eliminate the overhead storage, that's
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by mrduncan 17y ago
This totally reminded me of something posted to Twitter by Cisco yesterday - http://twitpic.com/b5tl3 . Obviously the Cisco setup is a lot more expensive but it looks incredible.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
What I find pretty fascinating is that according to their numbers the 14 GPU cores were performing about 1.5 times as many hashes per second as the 115 CPU cores were.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
phubbard has a very similar submission as well: BUgs bUGS bUGs bugS BlaNK BLanK blANK bLaNK BugS BUgs BuGs bUgs liwcC Based on his Twitter account I'm a little more inclined to believe that they are indeed separate people all using t
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It looks like "hashbreaker" and "CodingCrypto" are both running through nearly the exact same word sets. Either they are from to different people using the exact same algorithm or (what I suspect is more likely) they have created multiple
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by mrduncan 17y ago
As a bonus, this strategy also makes it (relatively) simple to handle multiple currencies. By using raw integers, you never have currency information attached so it's a lot tougher (and messier) to keep track of the currency.
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Insurance on Rails(blog.thinkrelevance.com)
56 points by mrduncan 17y ago|26 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It's also possible that their move caused that supplier to add support after the incident so that such a thing doesn't happen again.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
How so? Since this is a brute force cracker my (admittedly limited) understanding is that the salt wouldn't do much for you. sha1(secret + salt) = hash Assuming you don't know the salt you're left with (secret + salt). In the likely
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I would imagine they have some pretty good stats on what people are posting and are making some inferences based on what they think would be most useful to the most people. That's what I would probably be doing if I were in their shoes (bu
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Good point, although if I remember correctly 37signals has at least one dedicated support person (possibly more).
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm curious what balance others have struck between development and tech support. I know personally I wouldn't want to be developing something and have to take a support call (or email) every 15 minutes. My idea would be to rotate who is "o
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Have you ever thought of open-sourcing it (or even parts of it)?
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Sounds very cool, I found the link in your profile and thought others might be interested to read more also: http://www.gleamviz.org/ As an Indy resident, cool to see this is happening at IU.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Pardon me if I've missed something, but I find that link totally unsolicited and it adds nothing to the conversation here.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
If you've never read it, I highly recommend the book that details his company Semco. According to Amazon it is the best-selling nonfiction book in Brazil's history. http://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workpl...
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by mrduncan 17y ago
when Microsoft hired him - Interesting, but I'm not sure that will be a very cost effective strategy for Microsoft.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
According to the technical info they are using the following libraries: Merb (main site), Sinatra (stats), Nokogiri, and Curb Their single(!) server is running: Nginx, Phusion Passenger, MySQL (stats), and Ruby 1.9.1 http://wikitech.wikime
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Wikipedia Mobile Officially Launches(readwriteweb.com)
19 points by mrduncan 17y ago|8 comments
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I believe most wireless carriers will also turn off SMS completely if you call and ask.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Unless the vulnerability is used to disable the updates. If that was the case, pushing out updates to all of those phones could be quite a lot harder.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I completely agree. Unless the database is doing something odd (ok, not out of the question I guess) like ignoring an index on the id column, it just doesn't seem logical that performing 48 more queries would be faster than allowing the da
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by mrduncan 17y ago
According to Wikipedia: The expected gains in weight and drag reduction may be partially or wholly negated due to design compromises needed to provide stability and control. Alternatively, and more commonly, a flying wing type may suffer f
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by mrduncan 17y ago
The legacy application is probably full of undocumented special cases that are necessary to get correct results, and have to be tediously reverse engineered. I think you hit the nail on the head right there. There is always some oddball
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm curious where the OP got the $30 million from, it sounds like it's a lot more than that unless some of these numbers overlap (it's tough to tell). A first attempt to replace it with Lawson Software was scrapped in 2006 after years of w
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Oh, I wasn't aware that the betas would upgrade into the RCs - good to hear. Downloading the RC directly will save an update step though.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
While I'm not necessarily arguing the accuracy of the story, it surely wouldn't hurt to put in a disclaimer stating that MSN and Bing both owned by the same company.

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