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by nikcub 12y ago
being a cynic with startups and new tech is an easy way to appear wise and correct since ~90% fail, so it is no surprise many take it up as a position as you can appear a genius while offering no actual insight, base it on little actual und
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by nikcub 12y ago
> someone posted how to make an identical service with only a couple hours (tops) of configuration. now apparently worth $40M, so why don't they? seems like an easy return on investment if you believe the theory
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by nikcub 12y ago
I signed up in late 2001 iirc, one of those few rare moments when you see a new technology and you know nothing will be the same ever again.
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by nikcub 12y ago
It's interesting that the big law firms like DLA Piper[0] who backed him pro bono and conducted "extensive due diligence" on his claims walked away without even much of a tarnished reputation. [0] Facebook are suing them. ht
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by nikcub 12y ago
This was the same with Superfish. If you look at the Lenovo forums and other websites (Google search Superfish and set the time to before 2015) you'd find tons of complaints from users. In these instances it was only when somebody re
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by nikcub 12y ago
You're citing adsense which is CPC while most media is CPM and display advertising. They are two entirely different sectors. AdSense struggles to distinguish between DrDobbs and a 12 year old writing about learning programming on Blogg
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by nikcub 12y ago
RWW operated for 8 years with no money raised and then cashed out when Richard retired. HuffPo makes more in revenue p.a than what AOL paid for it. They may have only technically not been profitable at acquisition because of their reinvestm
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by nikcub 12y ago
I'm actually a huge fan of Dr Dobbs, been reading it since I was 10 and would go to a lot of trouble to track down issues. My disagreement isn't with the magazine, it is with the thesis that online media advertising is dying. Ther
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by nikcub 12y ago
> if your web site depended on advertising from Google They are dependent on Google DoubleClick, but not on Google's CPC product. I'd be surprised if AdWords/CPC made up 5% of GigaOm revenue (it would look more like: 50%
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by nikcub 12y ago
> With publishers dropping off like this; when will the decreased business show up in Google's revenue? Never. Publishers aren't dropping off in sum, just the bad ones are cycling out and are being replaced with more nimble, re
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by nikcub 12y ago
Google Adwords paid the least at TechCrunch, and by some distance.
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by nikcub 12y ago
Taking venture capital and starting at -$22M doesn't help. There have been a lot of very successful and profitable media companies[0]. The industry isn't broken (far from it), just some of the models are. This also isn't a ne
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by nikcub 12y ago
Finder > Preferences or Option + , You can then drag + drop other folders into the side pane. Also worth learning the finder keyboard shortcuts.
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by nikcub 12y ago
> How about showing the actual filesystem? $ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes I only realized recently after switching to a new Mac just how much the default Finder sucks. If you switch that option on, switc
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The Venture Capitalists Behind Superfish(uncrunched.com)
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by nikcub 12y ago
chrome://plugins Disable all of them Edit: if you have a site that requires a plugin, create a separate chrome user with that plugin enabled and run that site in it
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by nikcub 12y ago
I'm not American, but kudos on the bigotry. Incase you didn't notice, I wasn't spelling any word - just phonetic punctuation which is common in online chat.
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by nikcub 12y ago
Based on the current public info, nothing can be confirmed completely or discounted completely. Currently there are only two pieces that points towards the Sybil attack being used against Tor: 1. Some Tor Hidden Services were uncovered 2. T
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by nikcub 12y ago
It also isn't true: https://www.nikcub.com/posts/analyzing-fbi-explanation-silk-... Krebs also posted an update (which he should probably link to from his 'leaky captcha' post): http://krebson
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by nikcub 12y ago
You see it all the time though - it is either implemented that way from the outset, or when setup with a proper POST then someone in testing files a feature request or bug that says "when I bookmark the search page or email the link th
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by nikcub 12y ago
The difference between Facebook today and Yahoo during the dotcom bubble and the investment feedback loop is that Facebook's revenue is already a lot larger than what startups spend on advertising and user acquisition. A similar argume
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by nikcub 12y ago
This is my concern - they are starting with a motive and the DPRK and then working backwards to fit the evidence in. Everybody seems to have forgotten that this started as a financial ransom demand and the attackers made no mention of the m
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by nikcub 12y ago
Yes, and i'm saying that sharing a single IP in a botnet suggests nothing.
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> The attacks at Sony were routed from command and control centers across the world, including a convention center in Singapore and a computer at Thammasat University in Thailand. But one of those command and control servers, a computer
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by nikcub 12y ago
or create a web-based matchmaking market. I think the reason why it may not have happen already is because of regulations shrug - i'll ask the next time i'm speaking to a lawyer
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by nikcub 12y ago
If you're exchanging salary for equity you have to look at taking a job at a startup like an investment decision. I don't know what the broader startup stats are now, but 1 in 6 sounds about average. It means you should negotiate
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by nikcub 12y ago
The shortage of competent technical managers is massive . If you have the bare essentials of communication and project management skills, plus tech and have a good network to bring developers in - you're getting your email box torn ap
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by nikcub 12y ago
Stuxnet: named for files .stub (where config was stored) and mrxnet.sys (main driver), by Microsoft Duqu: named for the "~DQ-" temporary files it created, by researchers in Hungary who found it and wrote report Flame: is from a ro
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by nikcub 12y ago
> probably cryptographic incompetence and it's been undetected for 7 years, so what does that tell you?
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by nikcub 12y ago
> Why are we just hearing about it now? Once malware is identified properly antivirus firms will usually go through their detection archives and pull out earlier hits. The reason why they don't see them sooner is because they get te

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