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by mryan 11y ago
It reminds me of a story I read via Joel on Software: > In one of Gerald Weinberg's books, probably The Secrets of Consulting, there's the apocryphal story of the giant multinational hamburger chain where some bright MBA figure
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by mryan 11y ago
A lot of job sites have location-specific sites, e.g. http://www.monsterboard.nl/geo/siteselection Germany: http://www.monster.de/ Netherlands: http://www6.monsterboard.nl/ I can highl
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by mryan 11y ago
If I'm using Windows 10 and I type my credit card number in to a text input field, is that sent to MS? Or, as partiallypro says, are they only sending the contents of e.g. browser search fields? If the answer to the first question is y
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by mryan 11y ago
Your thesis sounds interesting. I'm working with a company doing some research in a potentially similar area. They might be able to spare some time on their cluster - drop me an email if interested and I'll see if I can set some
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by mryan 11y ago
I'm using Slack + Gitlab + Pivotal. Overcoming resistance depends on the source. Managers like that they don't need to chase engineers for updates. Engineers like that everything is integrated, so if they 'git push' whil
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by mryan 11y ago
What a pointless comment. Nobody expects 100% uptime on any cloud service.
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Calling them naive seems misguided, and this scenario is no longer particularly far-fetched. > Meanwhile, few warn against widespread surveillance, the repurcursions from the use of drones, etc. The repercussions from drones could become
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by mryan 11y ago
I agree with your point - as hackers, we are often too quick to dismiss something as "nothing new" because we have seen something similar before ("I don't need Dropbox, I have rsync"). That being said, in this case
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by mryan 11y ago
How about "site:reddit.com visarga"?
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by mryan 11y ago
I'm not going to research specific statutes for you, if that's what you are asking. But some examples off the top of my head... Assume for the sake of argument that Nexmo is based in the UK. Using this exploit to access someone el
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by mryan 11y ago
It's not clueless to expect employees to show up at the pre-agreed time. The post goes in to some detail about why this is important - it's not just a case of a manager demanding he be at his desk for no reason. Let's say you
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by mryan 11y ago
No. Even though the company does not care about their lack of security, the OP could risk opening himself up to legal issues if he announces the exploit and provides enough detail for it to be exploited.
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by mryan 11y ago
I found the use of those logos disingenuous. At first glance you think "wow, they already have some big name customers", until you realise they are simply examples of companies that provide an on-premise version of their SaaS offe
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by mryan 11y ago
No. The act of blasphemy has not been abolished, but it is no longer a crime. Blasphemy is subjective. What is blasphemy to one person is common sense to another.
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by mryan 11y ago
> How would these compare to an Amazon micro compute unit Poorly. Do you mean a Beowulf cluster of mobile phones? It seems like it would be woefully inefficient to say the least. - each node in the cluster has an expensive screen attache
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by mryan 11y ago
No, it's not. It's a rant written with absolutely no value whatsoever. jfaucett gives a good summary detailing why this is a worthless submission.
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by mryan 11y ago
This is not relevant to HN. It is not news, nor is it interesting.
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by mryan 11y ago
Think of it like email: Email is not inherently secure, but there is nothing to stop you sending an encrypted message via email. So in this case you would push an encrypted message, and your app would decrypt the message before displaying i
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by mryan 11y ago
There are some nice introductory articles on Python/OpenCV on pyimagesearch.com. The author has also written an ebook. http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/01/27/hobbits-and-histogra...
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by mryan 11y ago
The absurdity is highlighted extremely well by Charlie Brooker, a UK news commentator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYXbWuJ7jnU#t=2m34s Fox News displayed the entire video of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by ISI
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by mryan 11y ago
The six million number comes from this study: http://www.securitynewsdesk.com/bsia-attempts-to-clarify-que... Note that six million is the high end of the estimate, with the low being a (still rather high) four million. Thi
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by mryan 11y ago
Other commenters have noted meetup.com seems to be the closest. I'm hoping something else more like this already exists, as meetup.com isn't exactly what I had in mind.
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by mryan 11y ago
I've had similar thoughts. Someone needs to create a kind of "Tinder for hobbies" app, if one does not already exist. Perhaps it could show a list of local activities allowing you to swipe right on things you would be interes
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by mryan 11y ago
Step 1) Increase the resource limits as much as possible Step 2) Distribute the load generator across multiple machines
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I've not read about Pixar doing this, but I found it interesting that IKEA does: http://www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpe...
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In the politest way possible, it is the former. :-) "Fostering a X culture" is a common phrase outside of the EC.
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This sounds a lot like git submodules.
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> Even if you could move to an almost-identical service, there will be not-insignificant switching costs as you reconfigure everything with a different API and reimplement the glue code. That's true. I think we're essentially o
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by mryan 11y ago
I don't worry about lock in in this particular case. At the platform level there is an element of implicit lock in because nobody else offers this exact service. However, the application level can be easily moved to another platform. Y
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> I saw a company pay $30K for 5 days access to a similar service. Do you know what features this service had that made it worth $30k for 5 days access? Did they have some unique and useful features, or was it more about the available ba

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