oasisbob

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by oasisbob 15y ago
Also, the newest syslog RFC ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424 ) allows for structured data to be included with the message. The nice thing about this approach is that you can serialize the received messages however you'd like: JSON, XML,
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Teredo is a pretty clever technology, but there are a lot of downsides vs native v6: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html
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by oasisbob 15y ago
For the curious, _Programming Windows Azure_: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596801984.do
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Previous discussion on Emphasis: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093820 The NYTimes open sourced it: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and... https://github.com/NYTimes/Emphasis
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by oasisbob 15y ago
If you're one of the people who keeps hearing about mythical street sweeper bristles and has never found one in the wild, consider the spring steel from windshield wiper blades. Someone you know has wipers that should have been been replace
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by oasisbob 15y ago
How do you expect them to serve you ads? They have to get to your phone _somehow_ so there will always be network overhead. The amount of network overhead can vary wildly. If the app is polling the ad network API on startup and at a fixed
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Not only are there more than 13 of them, most of the root servers are now being served by anycast, so the same IP address corresponds to many servers around the globe.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
especially one with such uniformly poor latency when compared to ISP-cobbled together crap it's supposed to replace, anywhere I've ever seen it deployed. That seems overly negative: Google DNS is consistently better performing for me than
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by oasisbob 15y ago
This is not a good idea. HTTP polling is enough traffic to put the mobile radio into its DCH state, which uses a lot of power. (Second only to the screen on most phones.) Once you're in DCH, there's a timer (typically ~8 seconds) before it
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by oasisbob 15y ago
He's pretty much saying that all problems in your company can be traced to people. I shared the same concern, but having heard Ries speak in the past, I think his use of "people" here is a bit misleading. A commenter on the video made the
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by oasisbob 15y ago
In this type of meeting the analysis always ends before it gets to the point of questioning the guy who was calling the shots that went in the foot. One of the things I really enjoy about 5 Whys done well is that it can be done asynchrono
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Forced SSL isn't a bad idea, nor is it hard. Many banks already do this. Most banks already offer an API, in the form of OFX. The security measures (like challenge questions) are already circumvented, and I've seen some really bad security
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by oasisbob 15y ago
It's really hard to generalize about this in the US, each state has their own laws, FOIA isn't applicable to state and local governments: http://www.nfoic.org/state-foi-laws The allowable exemptions -- and penalties for non-compliance --
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Google chose a name that works for them, the reverse naming is for their convenience and use, not yours. This is quite a common practice to use more obscure naming for internal infrastructure (eg, footprint.net is Level3 CDN). When you see
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I found this article on the same topic more informative and less sensational: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21195-bioterror-fears-...
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Additionally, if you use the app, Square knows exactly where you are at all times. That's absolutely not true, at least not on iOS. As mentioned in the article, Square is using the iOS geofencing APIs to wake the app when you enter a favo
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by oasisbob 15y ago
This is a big topic. The keyword you're looking for is the four-party system. Take a look at the GAO or Federal Reserve papers on interchange reform, they give a good high-level view. Gateways and merchant accounts are only half of the equa
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by oasisbob 15y ago
The authors didn't cite Netscape because the 40-bit key is too short, they cited it because the the PNRG in the SSL implementation was faulty. They link to this page with more details: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht
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by oasisbob 15y ago
It was posted at least once, about a year and a half ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1128711 Personally I don't mind reposts -- submitters usually have the best of intentions, and this story didn't get much play on HN the first t
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I think this article misses the point. Yes, MAC addresses are not to be trusted. They can be easily changed. However, the corollary to "you shouldn't blacklist MAC addresses" is "you shouldn't whitelist them either." Great, you just threw o
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by oasisbob 15y ago
The current submission is also just a heavily plagiarized rehashing of that part of David Lee Roth's autobiography, as (properly) quoted by Snopes.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. An arguably more-informative headline isn't worth bifurcating the dis
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Has anyone had any success using the osx-gcc-installer he mentions? I'm really curious how well it works in comparison to Xcode. https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I didn't downmod, but it makes little sense to complain about flash video when it's absolutely unrelated to the topic at hand, and it was uploaded to YouTube by the Linux Foundation, not Microsoft.
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by oasisbob 15y ago
I think this is a great gesture. One, it's from Microsoft Germany, which in my mind makes it seem more genuine. (High open source adoption, and I would be surprised if it was blessed by Redmond.) Two, it acknowledges the Halloween memos. Th
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Not being associated with a university anymore, Google Scholar saves me about ~70% of the time too. However, many of those links aren't legitimate (i.e., licensed) you see a lot of links like http://dept.example.edu/~prof/BIO332/resources/
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Well, it's more convincing than the last time: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/10/fake-apple-stor/
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by oasisbob 15y ago
This is from his personal site, http://www.aaronsw.com : He is the author of numerous articles on a variety of topics, especially the corrupting influence of big money on institutions including nonprofits, the media, politics, and public
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Traffic from the network you are currently connected to is much, much cheaper for the ISP. That's not always true. Eyeball networks are often spectrum-constrained and congested on the last mile. When a DOCSIS network becomes congested, th
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by oasisbob 15y ago
Fructose can be metabolized to glycogen via DHAP and glyceraldehyde. IIRC, it's a limited pathway though.

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