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by nbevans 12y ago
Fact check: It was introduced years priors to discovery, not mere months.
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by nbevans 12y ago
"[...] the use of open source computer operating systems and applications reduces the risk of privacy intrusion by mass surveillance. Open source software is not error free, or less prone to errors than proprietary software, the expert
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by nbevans 12y ago
The bigger picture for MS now is building out Azure. They don't care what OS you are running on Azure as long as you aren't using AWS. You know Azure is forecast to exceed the revenues of Windows and Office by 2020, right?
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by nbevans 12y ago
> ".NET platform will probably get (finally) on track" Eh? .NET land has been on a higher technical superiority level to Java for almost a decade. Pretty much as soon as .NET got generics at the CLR level the tide was changing.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Yup. And that description pretty much backs it up too. SV has the same problem. Exposed air conditioning ducts above one's head used to be the sign of an unfinished office undergoing renovation. Now in London it is the sign of hip and
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by nbevans 12y ago
I'm pretty sure London or Shoreditch, London is. They call it Tech City.
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by nbevans 12y ago
It does. But this vulnerability is specifically with HTTP.SYS. HTTP.SYS is kind of like a SSL terminator and request router built into the OS.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Just to clarify to everyone that this vulnerability has absolutely nothing to do with IIS web server. HTTP.SYS is not part of IIS. HTTP.SYS is the way HTTP/S hosting works on Windows. Any applications may use it, it is an API. HTTP.SYS
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by nbevans 12y ago
It really isn't. OpenSSL's heartbleed was incredibly hard to patch because of the sheer number of products that link to the OpenSSL libraries. It required painstaking effort to ensure everything was running the latest releases. An
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by nbevans 12y ago
"But since Microsoft (on purpose) didn't make a unique name and logo for it, the media didn't pick it up." Haha! I don't think MS got that memo about having to name bugs and make logos.
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by nbevans 12y ago
It's a bad time for the C programming language. First OpenSSL. Then SQLite this week. Now HTTP.sys. They didn't move HTTP into the kernel as a driver lightly; it was done on the assumption the code would be vetted and tested throu
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by nbevans 12y ago
Yup. Entire article seemed hinged on a false premise about Microsoft. I stopped reading as soon as that became clear.
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by nbevans 12y ago
That's not true. There are loads of web learning resources for it.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Out of interest, and I've done no research into this yet, how is your SQL editor/code complete working? Does it use SQLite's engine itself to get the AST or some such?
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by nbevans 12y ago
@trentnelson Don't forget I/O Completion Ports (IOCP) :)
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by nbevans 12y ago
I'm glad somebody pointed that out. It's infuriating listening to people who've only ever worked with Linux to a low level when they preach about how it is the most modern kernel bar none. The facts are really quite different
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by nbevans 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oldmanjay Ah, you're from the HN Etiquette Police it seems? Apologies officer! ;)
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by nbevans 12y ago
Windows NT had them since 2000: https://www.microsoft.com/msj/0399/jobkernelobj/jobkernelobj... They are called Job Objects in NT, as opposed to Namespaces or Zones in other kernels.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Stand-ups don't work because the attendees are too focused trying to keep their mind full of their current stack of work, to not forget anything, whilst the 15 minutes of managerial meaninglessness plays out. It can be mind-numbingly b
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by nbevans 12y ago
TL;DR is "we just used AWS in a completely unexciting way".
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by nbevans 12y ago
Azure was always PaaS... they added IaaS much later.
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by nbevans 12y ago
You are wholly correct but even still, sadly, you can expect a barrage of down votes for stating the truth.
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by nbevans 12y ago
"Bring it up to disparage it"... uh what?
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by nbevans 12y ago
Perfect example ^
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by nbevans 12y ago
Yep. It always amazes me when die-hard OOP'ers get it all wrong and think FP is at war with their beloved OO. Well no. Plenty of FP languages exist that combine FP and OO together. Scala.. F#.. OCaml.. etc.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Here's another reply so you can down vote this one too.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Read the news, multiple sources, and form an opinion. Like I did. Then you won't just be a HN sheep that needs citations for everything.
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by nbevans 12y ago
Well, just search. But even just last week there was an article from a UK minister explaining that many dozens of Paris-style attacks have already been averted in Europe as a result of GCHQ spying. But that the tide is now growing so strong
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by nbevans 12y ago
After all the stuff the Guardian published, and which has directly resulted in a massive reduction in Europe-wide security from terrorism, it's easy to see why. The Paris terror attacks probably would have been stopped if Snowden/
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by nbevans 12y ago
Considering it's all built on well-known and tested (provided you follow the best practices) cloud services (AWS right?) I often wonder what they do all day. Netflix platform strikes me as something you invest heavily in at day 1 but t

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