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by pak 15y ago
If those extra packets could suddenly and uncontrollably leak out on the Internet and destroy everything, requiring a trillion dollar government bailout to fix it and ten years to restore confidence in the infrastructure, yes I would be pis
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by pak 15y ago
Indeed, if Nigerian 419 scammers have already picked up photoshopping IDs [1], you can imagine what a low barrier this will be. The real question is if you can verify the ID electronically from the image, and the answer will generally be n
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by pak 15y ago
None of your points rule out my first implication, and I don't believe the logic for your second point was part of Paul's statement. Despite YC companies being a small part of the world economy (or whatever), they are disproportionately me
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by pak 15y ago
I appreciate your candor on this, but I'm curious if you are implying two things: 1) you think that people interested in reading about Airbnb are behaving irrationally, and 2) people rarely get angry at YC companies? I find the interaction
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by pak 15y ago
It is categorically false. Police have radios, backup units, plainclothes units, dogs, helicopters, and some level of support from just about every citizen on the street. Where this happened, you are smack in the center of Cambridge in br
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by pak 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with police skepticism or discussing libertarianism. Calling cops dumb and fat and saying you can avoid arrest by running faster... ehmm... what the hell passes for intelligent discussion on here now?
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by pak 15y ago
I see the anti-cop contingent from reddit has finally arrived. Seriously, for your sake, I hope you are just trolling.
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by pak 15y ago
Your reactions here are completely emotional. This is understandable, since the story is about a potentially emotional topic, but your response to it is not helpful for making a rational business decision. Try to divorce yourself from the
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by pak 15y ago
This guy is a professor I would have loved to have for one of my English classes. His positive attitude and willingness to adapt and work hard for his students is just remarkable and rarely seen in a college classroom. By the way, this is
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by pak 15y ago
In my experience, maybe 2% of software engineers are incentivized more strongly by positive social change than by money or fame. These are the idealists, like Richard Stallman and former members of OLPC, who are often ridiculed by the rest
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by pak 15y ago
Egh, pgAdmin doesn't feel native at all. I wish there were a Sequel Pro ( http://www.sequelpro.com/ ) for postgres, with a proper Cocoa UI. Once you use Sequel Pro going back to anything less friendly is a real grind.
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by pak 15y ago
How do you understand the charge of attempted murder then? A man brings a gun to a political demonstration where a VIP with whom he violently disagrees will be arriving. He reaches the front of the crowd and as the VIP draws near, the gun
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by pak 15y ago
How did this guy ever organize his buddy list when he used AIM or whatever? It's painful for a day, but it's not like people move between groups very often, and unless you are a celebrity it's an infrequent task after the initial setup. P
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by pak 15y ago
eh? I don't see that as one little omission. It's kind of straightforward that you would need to be the owner of the actual URL to be deleted, so checking the siteUrl is not sufficient. I can understand if they only intended to allow rel
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by pak 15y ago
'Business' does not just happen within the database! You will have to perform logic based on events that occur elsewhere, e.g. on the network or within outside data sources! And to say that something should be done in SQL just because it
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by pak 15y ago
Most academic journal repositories grant institutional access based on IP address blocks. Some institutions keep this narrow and force you to use an HTTP proxy, which gives them the ability to put additional institutional-level authenticat
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by pak 15y ago
Yeah, I think it's a bad argument to personify network protocols or imbue them with intent. Legally speaking, what is more important is the intent of the person using them.
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by pak 15y ago
>I take issue with the notion that someone who is accessing a service through a public interface is criminally responsible for downtime if too high an access rate causes service degradation or an outage Ah... well surely you've heard of
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by pak 15y ago
>At that point, it's equally easy to install a stack like haproxy + varnish + nginx + a bunch of CPAN modules as it is to rsync over a bunch of .php files Ahem. I get what you are trying to say, but I think you're gonna have a hard time
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by pak 15y ago
Hmm. Not to nitpick, but what if: - you're running a promotion - the price changed in between the time the person added it to their shopping cart and checkout - two people are processed for a payment on the last item in inventory at the sa
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by pak 15y ago
If only they could get the docs back up to par! Things were sort of OK for 2.x, even if you needed some background in CodeIgniter to really understand everything, but half of the wiki for 3.x is empty pages with TODO's. I still recommend t
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by pak 15y ago
>That is exactly the message that the unemployed and the rest of the country need to hear and take to heart. I bet they and the lady at Rite-Aid regularly read Forbes magazine, right? Don't kid yourself--this article is meant for the e
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by pak 15y ago
grellas, you're the man when it comes to assiduous comments on legal topics, but why this article? It's just a bunch of hard-nosed Valley boardroom hot air that namedrops from the NASDAQ-100 and tells middle america to suck it up. The onl
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by pak 15y ago
How about taking a harder line then? Make your warning at the start of the semester, and to everybody: any reasonable suspicion of cheating results in an immediate referral to the honor board, no protesting or second chances. The first as
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by pak 15y ago
Facebook will ban this app from FB Connect in 3.. 2.. 1..
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by pak 15y ago
The thing is, I don't see any effort by Twitter to try to separate the inband metadata, except for what they did with in_reply_to (which continues to have problems). They should have done exactly the same for hashtags, URLs, and pictures a
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by pak 15y ago
I think people need to be educated that SQLI bugs (errors in escaping) lead to usability issues as well as security issues. I can't count the number of times I've searched for something on a clearly handmade site and watched in amusement a
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by pak 15y ago
Perhaps; to avoid any verbosity for any real code I wrap PDO in something like IdiORM and Paris ( http://j4mie.github.com/idiormandparis/ ) or my fork called Dakota ( https://github.com/powerpak/dakota ). My point was that you can write a
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by pak 15y ago
Yes, yes, yes a million times yes. Every person starting PHP should be taught PDO with parameterized queries from the get go. The internet (and many respectable CS courses) are littered with examples using mysql_query() and string concate
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by pak 15y ago
Why not just order regular boards, cut the USB headers off with wire cutters and fill the ports with epoxy? That should prevent any casual thumbdrive usage. The only hangup I see with that is that most boards don't have PS/2 anymore and yo

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