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by nupark2 15y ago
This is a much smaller attack surface than a centralized data store holding static e-mail archives and accounts for a large number of users, open to at-will offline browsing. DNSSEC and SSL further reduce this attack surface.
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by nupark2 15y ago
If you ISP provides SMTP for their e-mail (almost all do), then barring outbound From address filters, you can set up your SMTP server to treat the customer facing mail server as a smarthost. The ISP doesn't need to do anything specific to
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by nupark2 15y ago
> 1. Rich webmail is an absolute must for me. I use too many different computers from too many different places for anything else to be remotely practical at this point. That's what IMAP is for. If these are computers you don't directly
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by nupark2 15y ago
The primary reason I won't outsource this service is trust. I don't trust anyone with that data. Access to my email allows for resetting all my passwords, seeing all my contacts, and tracking literally everything about my day-to-day busin
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by nupark2 15y ago
SpamAssasin will auto-update its rules if properly configured. I have touched my SA install in years.
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not sure where you're spending time on maintenance. I set up my current mail server 3.5 years ago (postfix, spamassassin, dovecot, sieve, roundcube) and barely ever touch it -- the only maintenance required is the very rare security upd
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by nupark2 15y ago
Actually, I believe many vacation home rentals were (and are?) done via VRBO. Renting out an individual apartment -- even 'professionally' -- is not necessarily unusual, but increasingly difficult due to the spotlight AirBNB has brought to
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by nupark2 15y ago
An AirBNB unit was rented out in our building, and was a semi-regular source of noise and trouble. So, we took the listing to the landlord and they shut it down: it's illegal here now, and it's specifically forbidden in the lease. The more
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by nupark2 15y ago
I think it's an accurate assessment. I live in NYC, and most neighborhood bars are not crowded and noisy as hell. However, if I go to a "destination" for out-of-towners[1], then yes: it's packed, noisy, and insufferable. Same thing with tra
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by nupark2 15y ago
> DRM period isn't a waste of money. DRM as it's commonly practiced is. Not necessarily disagreeing, but DRM would always be a waste of money if it wasn't for the anti-circumvention laws that prevent disseminating DRM work-arounds
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by nupark2 15y ago
This is the thing I hate about github. Hacked up code is all fine and good, but what I'm looking for are the tools that are necessary to make it easy to consume the code: * Stable, versioned releases, with sufficient API (if not ABI) comp
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by nupark2 15y ago
What is a speed reading program? Are you referring to the types of software listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading
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by nupark2 15y ago
> It seems strange to think that to represent everybody's need the web needs to be developed by everybody. It's not that strange. It's hard to represent the needs of people that you don't fully understand. When it comes to an under-re
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Ask HN: Is piracy actually a problem? (SOPA)
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by nupark2 15y ago
> It's wild to me that people are giving you trouble for "can't" when "ponderousnessly" is clearly the more compelling target. (An odd choice even if rendered as "ponderously". "Clumsily unlikely?" Eh, okay, I guess you can have it.)
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by nupark2 15y ago
[Fixed above] While I understand that I risked the ire of grammar (and spelling) nazis by invoking an argument for professionalism in communication, let's be honest: a small typo is a far cry from a seemingly near complete inability to arti
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by nupark2 15y ago
It seems ponderousnessly unlikely that the principals of N-Control were not already aware of Paul Christoforo's loose grasp of ethics[1], customer service[2][3], and professionalism[4]. I'm not particularly convinced that the principals at
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by nupark2 15y ago
Unfortunately, clang (and the shared llvm backend) are still fairly buggy. For example: http://blog.clickablebliss.com/2011/11/07/xcode-4-2-llvm-bui... There's a bug in Xcode 4.2 (the latest stable release) that results in broken armv6 th
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by nupark2 15y ago
In terms of historical interest, it's also worth noting why McVoy restricted and eventually withdrew the BitKeeper license: Andrew Tridgell (of Samba and rsync) had begun reverse-engineering the protocol with the eventual intent of impleme
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I believe these guys have an NDK-based implementation: http://www.apportable.com/
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by nupark2 15y ago
Which comes full circle to my original point, which is that other than Google, nobody with a vested interest is trying , and worse yet, they actively oppose progress on this front.
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A VM that provides a standardized bytecode and execution model capable of executing most modern dynamic and static turing complete languages with sufficient performance. This requires more general facilities for common functionality require
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by nupark2 15y ago
At the surface level, I could see how your position would appear logical. However, the nature of the replacement VM doesn't really matter in the context of what we're describing here. The problems of compatibility remain the same regardless
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by nupark2 15y ago
We were actually discussing JS VM replacement in the browser, related to: > True, but the JS VMs we have today have been refined over 15+ years and switching to another risks breaking the web in profound ways. The counter-point being
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Enumerate all the features of the web you can think of that have enabled it to explode and thrive compared to networked applications and the popular VMs of the last 20 years. Ubiquitous cross-platform adoption. Done. The web grew po
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by nupark2 15y ago
First of all, it's difficult to engage with your productively, as you're particularly confrontational. That said, if you give me some example code, I'll demonstrate its use in a JavaScript/Java hybrid implementation when I have some spare m
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by nupark2 15y ago
I think your points are valid as well. I'm not ready to take it as a given that we can't build a general purpose VM capable of running JS at or very near current speeds, but it's also not a solved problem.
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by nupark2 15y ago
> JavaScript and most dynamic languages do not run at full speed on static-language VMs like the JVM and .NET. This is despite tremendous efforts and motivation to run those languages quickly on such environments, see for example Micro
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Both directions. There are impedance mismatches, of course, but it's nothing like the doomsday scenario he's claiming.
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by nupark2 15y ago
> Why? What critical problem requires a bytecode VM? Developers refusing to write in anything but their favorite language? Your argument was that it wasn't technically achievable because it would break the web, yet it's clear that it

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