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Fully patched OSX hacked within seconds of start of pen test contest(blogs.zdnet.com)
51 points by nikblack 18y ago|37 comments
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by nikblack 18y ago
I remember the same interview. They have also forgotten what made Firefox popular in the first place, it was simple, fast and secure. FF is starting to become bloat again - and it will eventually be eclipsed by the KHTML based browsers like
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by nikblack 18y ago
27.. phew .. my guess was 16. I feel better now.
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by nikblack 18y ago
Fact is it is a lot more than that. I remember reading on a forum that it is $4-5M a year, which would make more sense because that is what you get when you multiply out 19M pageviews per day by 10c CPM and 50% sales rate. They are, like
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by nikblack 18y ago
so thats why they are all so chilled out
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by nikblack 18y ago
how about instead of thinking about all the things you have already missed, think about what you could be missing right now. there is always a new opportunity - better to take part in them than to read about them in retrospect.
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by nikblack 18y ago
Google don't have to beat Facebook, its Facebook who have to beat Google, who currently have a major advantage. If Google can build their own social graph and have their applications run on top of it - there is less of a reason for users to
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by nikblack 18y ago
that is exactly why it isn't converting well. he should have noticed that after the kotaku review - but instead he submitted it to slashdot and burnt through 100k potential users. all those people who have already visited won't take a secon
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by nikblack 18y ago
"Dude, frack no. Having everything in a database means you are tied to the speed of disk, instead of the speed of ram. " database are not tied to a storage medium. there is no reason why you can't run a DB (key-val or even a full RDBMS) in
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by nikblack 18y ago
yes but its just a profile page for now - its not a network until it lets you establish connections to other Google users. It will be cool though once you can, then you can see your friends on mobile maps, in Picasa, gmail, chat etc. There
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by nikblack 18y ago
actually if you click on that link now the result is kinda funny
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by nikblack 18y ago
thats fine but at least let us do this: http://news.ycombinator.com/news/!erlang
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by nikblack 18y ago
if the "adds a bit of value" is enough for your customers or new customers to switch to the alternate product then you were missing something all along that your customers wanted that you weren't providing, so: * Listen to your customers *
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by nikblack 18y ago
he may be bitter because when hired he took the choice of a bigger salary and the corner office in lieu of stock options
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by nikblack 18y ago
not mentioned in the original post is that the change password field also gives you the option of entering the answer to your 'secret question' rather than your password as the second token. you replace the password query params with: &
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by nikblack 18y ago
I am in the process of doing this right now but I can't tell you my secret. I can, however, sell you my secret to making $30,000 for a low price of $500.
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by nikblack 18y ago
Here is a tip - don't hire consultants to talk to you about blog marketing and microformats etc. until you have the basics like backup and support in order. Magnolia hired such consultants was engaged with them for a while. I know because I
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by nikblack 18y ago
Further, here is a comparison of CPM rates and revenue for a typical TV episode. Network TV: $20-40cpm per ad - 15-19 ads shown in 30 minutes Cable: $1-15 cpm per ad - 10-22 ads shown (plus subscription revenue) iTunes: $0.80 per viewer, s
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by nikblack 18y ago
There is some background to this that is interesting. The reason why the content holders behind Hulu didn't want their content on Boxee was because it came too close to replicating the television experience. While the advertising was kept i
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by nikblack 18y ago
Yes it was. Kawasaki has had a long long list of misses since the first bubble.. Coghead raised a lot of money, in the order of $12M+. in the end, they didn't have a whole lot to show considering how crowded this space is and that they had
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by nikblack 18y ago
+1 for vim, which I didn't mention. I don't run X on *nix so when I am doing dev there I use vim, and have done so for a long long time
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by nikblack 18y ago
I am pretty sure the Azure services platform will eventually have full RDBMS
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by nikblack 18y ago
I have tried them all since I am back in PHP now because of our CMS. The new Zend Studio on Eclipse is just an embaresment, I almost bought it based on my experience years ago but it has really gone downhill. The best options in my opinion
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A more RESTful web browser: Using web forms to submit HTTP auth information(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by nikblack 18y ago|0 comments