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by phillmv 8y ago
different from _desktops_, but pointedly not browsers. from a HCI standpoint it's actually quite similar to browsers: sandboxed point and click
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by phillmv 8y ago
my dudes: charge yearly $$ to get a cert that allows you to request permissions higher than "access {camera, location while in use, microphone}" and most of the truly harsh PII issues go away afaict the harm isn't consumer or
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by phillmv 8y ago
I don't understand why people should not be permitted to go to netflix.com to install the netflix app, or to twitter.com etc etc
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by phillmv 8y ago
E como era a região, antigamente, antes do Estado Novo? Que interessante. Só aí à dois anos é que aprendi que o eucalipto que tanto cobria o mato ao redor da aldeia, quando eu era pequeno, não é natural na europa.
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by phillmv 8y ago
i'm old enough to remember "whoa look at linus flaming someone" at the top of slashdot.
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by phillmv 9y ago
I would hate to take credit for work I didn't do, so I would just like to quickly set the record straight: We had nothing to do with that feature! We legit joined just now. But it certainly demonstrated a certain synergy between our sk
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by phillmv 9y ago
Shameless plug but… we left Ruby and then came back ;) - https://blog.appcanary.com/2017/hard-isnt-simple-ruby-clojur... It's tricky, it's definitely not the bleeding edge like it used to be but – if you alre
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by phillmv 9y ago
yeah, especially because "[they] built the API in a few hours". having hosers abuse your free geoip service listed off the first hit from google is nice but the data being provided can't just be "hacked together" :P
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by phillmv 10y ago
>Rubysec is awesome but outdated, lacks many of the vulnerabilities in https://Snyk.io/ I'm one of the Rubysec maintainers. If you're reading this and you know about vulns not present in the advisory-db, please
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by phillmv 10y ago
Maybe by the time you climb the corporate ranks you're reduced to an efficient profit maximizer but I would presume they suffer similar incentives - there comes a time you'd rather kick back on a beach somewhere rather than Q2 rep
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by phillmv 10y ago
I left this unvoiced but let's fisk it: > new startups would be a status step down for them. No, but highly paid executives can always go to a higher status company; similarly, if you were status-motivated but also a well placed mid
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by phillmv 10y ago
I would buy this more if we routinely heard "problems with retention" as an issue with runaway executive compensation. It's possible I've not seen them, but seems curiously absent in the discourse to me.
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by phillmv 10y ago
A related question: how often are the people here scaling their applications up and down? Do you have large workload spikes, or traffic spikes?
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by phillmv 10y ago
You don't even have to go that far; half the people on these boards step over a homeless person to get to work every morning. >Why weren't we funding the ACLU to help these people? Well, I think that's easy to answer. Peop
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by phillmv 10y ago
>Which makes me curious what other art/media are important enough to stand in as a cultural literacy requirement? The cultural cannon is rather large and you're likely steeped in it whether you realize or not! Pierre Bayard rat
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by phillmv 10y ago
>There has been no wave of LED-encrusted buildings. Lol. Give them time. Here's two examples off the top of my head, in my city: http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2015/07/aura-illuminates-downtow... http:&
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by phillmv 10y ago
It just dumps you into a revamped, less intimidating AWS console so I wouldn't be too concerned about this for now. The thing that keeps me away from AWS services is the depth of the service - I need to be an expert in AWS on top of kn
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The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken(blog.appcanary.com)
279 points by phillmv 10y ago|256 comments
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by phillmv 10y ago
… Apple may be replacing the top row of the MBP keyboards with a a context-aware touchscreen, and y'all assume somehow that this means they're getting rid of ALL of the fn keys? No, you're still gonna be able to dim your scre
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by phillmv 10y ago
I am an advocate of ditching books you don't enjoy BUT After the first ~300 pages, I began to understand how all the stories fit together and the book went from feeling like work to being a page turner I just had to devour.
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A tale of 2 worms, 3 vulns and the NSA(blog.appcanary.com)
1 points by phillmv 10y ago|0 comments
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by phillmv 10y ago
>the mere mortals around him I think I can empathize with your view, now. Your mileage may vary, but as a mere mortal I personally find it much more reassuring when the role of luck is recognized. Too many narratives are akin to: "W
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by phillmv 10y ago
>Naturally talented is fairly consistent with >chock[s] it all up to chance A little humility does great for ego burns.
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by phillmv 10y ago
a lot of the crucial work in engineering happens only after you learn when to say "no".
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by phillmv 10y ago
I do not follow. The fourth amendment establishes that "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" Roe v Wade literally
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by phillmv 10y ago
>no precedent for political engagement actually helping! Off the top of my head: In the US: the fourth amendment, Miranda rights, the right to abortion, various efforts to decrim gay sex. Here in Canada, Trudeau père famously said "
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by phillmv 10y ago
Iunno, what's unique to ruby? I can only think of module mixins. Everything else (blocks, anonymous functions, syntax sugar) can be roughly approximated (i.e. generics), since I strongly doubt the book would use any of the metaprogramm
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by phillmv 10y ago
That part was… unexpected.
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“Should you encrypt or compress first?”(blog.appcanary.com)
463 points by phillmv 10y ago|235 comments
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by phillmv 10y ago
You have to look at in context; Rails got started in ~2006, long before you could do everything in JS, and its purpose was to enable you to build a web app from top to bottom. At a glance, I don't think you can really claim that the JS

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