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by nathanb 12y ago
I agree that it's unlikely to be a problem...until your site gets popular and a .01% corner case becomes a weekly occurrence or until someone sees that you're using fast and exploits an attack vector.
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by nathanb 12y ago
I'm a bit concerned about this... On one hand, I'm a big proponent of "know your tools". I'll gladly use a fast sort function that falls apart when sorting arrays near UINT32_MAX size if I'm aware of that cavea
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by nathanb 12y ago
Yeah, I can understand going in and deleting specific things in your history if Google keeps serving you ads about them. But turning off the entire history seems like overkill. (And your point about hiding from the NSA vs. Google is what I
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by nathanb 12y ago
Can you explain to me why you don't want Google seeing your search history? Remember: you are voluntarily submitting these searches to Google. Why would you search using an engine you don't trust? Or is it that you don't want
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by nathanb 12y ago
This is certainly a concern. However, I believe that if the NSA or local law enforcement have a way to mine your search history internal to Google, they will not be stopped in this endeavor just because you told Google not to save your sear
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by nathanb 12y ago
Uh, so what are we afraid of here? Do you honestly believe that if the NSA decided they wanted your browser history, the encryption used by Chrome or Firefox would stymie them for too long? I guess I'm just not really clear on what fol
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by nathanb 12y ago
Am I the only one who finds this to be useful? Having a searchable search history feels kinda meta, but this basically solves the problem of "I know I found this webpage a while back but I can't find it again". Ideally this s
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by nathanb 12y ago
This article has a "path to market" section, which I appreciate. But that section raises its own questions, such as: if this technology is so amazing, why is it being deployed in satellites and medical devices but not cell phone b
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by nathanb 12y ago
It seems like I see headlines every few months that a lab somewhere has created a paper-thin battery made out of unicorn horn which charges instantaneously when exposed to the sun and will run for a thousand years without recharging, and th
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by nathanb 12y ago
Why does it say "Welcome to TakeItApart.com False" on the banner? Is it false that I am welcome? ;) (I'm assuming it's a bug...consider this a bug report) Very cool site. I've needed something like this for a while.
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by nathanb 12y ago
The story from a different perspective: on my old project, there was a bus factor of 1...and I was that 1. When I was a new college hire, I thought that would be a good situation. And while it has its perks, it also has many downsides. But
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by nathanb 12y ago
I concur. As the pile of notebooks full of barely-legible handwritten scrawl grows and grows, so does the amount of money I'd be willing to pay a company for notebook transcription. Honestly, I don't care if it takes a bloody age
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Enterprise-class cloud-backed storage systems(storagemojo.com)
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by nathanb 13y ago
I feel like so many people consider it to be some sort of moral imperative that every company care deeply about growth and market positioning and enterprise-readiness. What happened to "build the company you want to build and have fun
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by nathanb 13y ago
You're assuming that the svn running on the source control server is always the top of tree. I would assume that they use the latest stable release, not the latest checkin. And even if they did run into a problem like this, they could
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by nathanb 13y ago
I support removing the definition of marriage from the lawbooks entirely. I really don't see why the government should be in the business of telling people what is and is not a valid marriage. I realize that my point got a little lost
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by nathanb 13y ago
Here's the problem. Eich is free to believe whatever he wants. Prop 8 is trying to enforce those beliefs on those who believe differently. That's where the problem comes in. Religious fundamentalism (from more than one religion) t
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by nathanb 13y ago
What do we want to communicate to this young man? "If you stand up and announce a new idea, hundreds if not thousands of armchair quarterbacks will tell you why your idea is wrong / how they could do it better / why they are
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by nathanb 13y ago
Do you think this is because of difficulty in emulation or because the X-Box was so easy to hack? It was not super expensive to buy a used X-Box and mod it even back when new games were coming out for it, so maybe it just didn't seem l
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by nathanb 13y ago
Most of the conversation here seems to be around shipping costs and speed. But there are a number of other perks to Prime. Here are the ones that I use: * Streaming video: not all the stuff I want to watch is on Prime, but when it is, it sa
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by nathanb 13y ago
No, they did not. Fisher, the company which make the space pen, developed it themselves and sell it to NASA at the same price they sell it at retail. The space pen is decent in the sense that it writes very reliably, but it's not a par
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by nathanb 13y ago
For you, maybe. I'm apparently kind of a spaz when it comes to pens. I have to buy pens with caps, because my clicky pens always activate in my pocket and then literally ruin my pants by barfing ink all over them. It's also a huge
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by nathanb 13y ago
This is such a common refrain in the tech space. "We provide you with this disruptive new service that's really cool. Oh, it doesn't work for you? We also provide you with absolutely zero support." Sometimes this means y
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by nathanb 13y ago
Ok, so I'm going to have to disagree here about solving a problem that doesn't exist. There are a number of problems with the standard ballpoint and fountain tip pens: * They can ruin a pair of pants (or the inside of a purse). Th
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by nathanb 13y ago
I typed "12 c in f", a very simple example of the sort of thing I use wolfram alpha (usually by way of duck duck go) for most often. It choked. I bailed. I'm a Linux user. I have bc and units installed. I even have some shell
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by nathanb 13y ago
Someone offered him 50 grand for it, and he turned them down. I would be surprised if he hadn't considered it at that point, if not previously.
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by nathanb 13y ago
I'm not sure, at an implementation level, what the solution is. But I know the only way to get there is to not view the problem of fraud prevention without alienating the minority to be an insoluble problem. And that's the respons
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by nathanb 13y ago
I'm not making the demand that anyone solve the problem. I'm making the demand that we not view the problem as fundamentally insoluble.
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by nathanb 13y ago
A valid question...sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you think it won't, and then it does and you have to do some herculean things later to make it scale. Also, I think it's a fallacy to say that higher level
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by nathanb 13y ago
I started as a professional C programmer in 2007 at the age of 24, if that gives you any useful demographic data :)

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