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by nikcub 10y ago
They didn't get bored - they hired Ruth Porat as CFO and she trimmed many of the high-cost no/low return projects.
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by nikcub 10y ago
OneWeb will be putting their first LEO satellites into orbit this year. They raised another $1.2B from Softbank just a couple of months ago, and have the spectrum and launch contracts. It looks like they will beat both SpaceX and Google to
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by nikcub 10y ago
Keep predicting because it's a top 200 website and by no definition has it failed.
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by nikcub 10y ago
> "causing serious disruptions" So disruptive to MIT that they didn't even notice it until JSTOR emailed.
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by nikcub 10y ago
That is simply not what happen. He was never warned off MIT campus. The case was never one of trespassing with MIT - otherwise he'd have been slapped on the wrist with a local case. Rather he was arrested by a federal secret service a
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by nikcub 10y ago
There are plenty of companies who have scaled their revenue beyond this point without an enterprise salesforce - Trello's acquirer is one of them Its not a hard rule that to reach beyond $x you need to become an enterprise
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by nikcub 10y ago
Yes if you're going to include the senior non-programming roles then you may as well include the product manager roles. Some of those guys had multi-million dollar bonuses thrown at them - especially when Google, Twitter, Facebook et a
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by nikcub 10y ago
Except basketball players literally do have a maximum salary because of the cap
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by nikcub 10y ago
You're not taking your own advice from two comments up :)
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by nikcub 10y ago
it is more prominently marked as "secure, end-to-end encrypted communications" - which it certainly is not. it is also being marketed as such by you here
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by nikcub 10y ago
It isn't the login password but the message password - although using sha256 for a login password isn't great either if you're doing aes(plaintext, sha2(password)) = cyphertext given cyphertext I can get to plaintext with sha
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by nikcub 10y ago
That image isn't very useful on its own. the design of the app is that it injects content scripts with global variable names everywhere. any site can overwrite the encryption functions, or redefine some of the global vars that are used
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by nikcub 10y ago
I'd probably take the site down, or mark it clearly as being a hobby project. As for Chrome - that team has some of the smartest infosec and cryptography people in the world working on and contributing to the project. If you want some
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by nikcub 10y ago
> Next time I won't post in a rush during work hours. I'd suggest taking the same approach with your "secure, end-to-end encrypted communications" app you keep mentioning here[0] A one-way sha256 hash of a message usi
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by nikcub 10y ago
That's a great clip Fun fact: Tallman, the judge in the middle with the great stories - is one of three judges who sit on the FISA court
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by nikcub 10y ago
Just a heads-up that the self-installed plugin uses an extension update_url that points to an http endpoint and the extension is unsigned (hence developer mode) - so it would be easy to hijack the update process You're probably better
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by nikcub 10y ago
Nobody "deserves" attention - it is either good content or it isn't. I'm not surprised at all that on one hand scientists will complain about public misconceptions in science but then bitch about and nitpick any genuine
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by nikcub 10y ago
> You can find that same rationalization in many organized crime movies. Those organized crime groups are usually also involved in businesses where bad law has made it illegal.
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by nikcub 10y ago
Again, there are plenty of cities where Uber have been successful where they didn't break any laws. Likewise there are many cities that have banned Uber where they don't operate. The number of cities where they operate in a grey a
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by nikcub 10y ago
the Switch booting into its FreeBSD kernel: https://twitter.com/Y_Mokko/status/837610472362786817
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by nikcub 10y ago
In cities where Uber is legal and regulated, they are not breaking any laws and have no requirement to track city investigations against them. Uber were also being disobedient in order to get better laws for they and everybody else to abi
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by nikcub 10y ago
I think this is best exemplified by the 20th centuries most famous authoritarian, Martin Luther King Jnr
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by nikcub 10y ago
I'd like to +1 this - one year is a tough sell in a world where a 5-10 years is norm Backwards compat and LTS already comes up a lot with enterprise support, requiring an annual upgrade project will only complicate it
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by nikcub 10y ago
with a price target of $0 you could buy them all day, especially in a market where actual frauds and ponzi schemes don't go to $0
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by nikcub 10y ago
Have you ever shorted a company? It really isn't advice you should be loosely throwing about - the potential downside is unlimited. It really is a tool reserved for those with special broker access and a better understanding of what it
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by nikcub 10y ago
Mailvelope is OpenPGP as a browser extension and works ok with GMail: https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope
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by nikcub 10y ago
> A common comparison to describe Uber’s approach is Amazon, which lost money consistently over the first several years of its existence. As Horan notes, however, Amazon’s “worst losses were $1.4 billion in its fifth year of operations,
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by nikcub 10y ago
Mainly H1Z1, Battlefield and Overwatch but I also saw GTA V, Fallout 4, FIFA, Battlefront and Witcher. Both the games that are designed for the higher resolution, as well as the games that 'scale up' (can't recall which was
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by nikcub 10y ago
Titan X seemed to fit between the Tesla's used in business applications and the 10x series used for consumer gaming - prosumers doing video and rendering on workstations. I'm glad NVidia chose to canibalize that market rather than
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by nikcub 10y ago
My brother and his friends are PC gamers, and they were anticipating the Pascal 10x series for over a year because of the improved performance. Most of them upgraded from the two earlier series, because to get 1440p gaming on the new 144Mhz

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