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by philpem 8y ago
I'd guess it's either "browser plugins are banned" or "one of the advertising companies might sue us."
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by philpem 8y ago
This sounds similar to why I left my last job. Ended up at the doctors' with severe depression and they dropped a bombshell on me. "There's nothing medical science can do to help. I can prescribe you with SSRIs but that w
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by philpem 8y ago
Yeah I've seen a few patterns with the worse companies... * "We've already fixed it" (we haven't but we don't want to pay up, and a fix mysteriously appears a month or three later) * "This is not eli
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by philpem 8y ago
I submitted a similar bug to the OP after someone bragged about reading my DMs (and sent a bunch of them to me as proof). Spent what must have been a month poking at the website and API, looking at various attack vectors. Eventually I boile
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by philpem 8y ago
Well done for getting them to pay up! This looks a lot like the one I found a while back (after falling victim to it myself and spending a few weeks looking for it). Reported it through HackerOne and thanks to a shirty Twitter developer and
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by philpem 8y ago
The root cause of which is -- at least as far as I'm aware -- currently unknown to medical science. It could be a recessive trait (1 in 65536 doesn't mean "impossible")... but it could also be one of a near-infinite numb
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by philpem 8y ago
Not to be too cynical, but the people who start schmoozing after you become rich probably just want a bit of the gold...
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by philpem 8y ago
It's like the old RIAA battles of the early-noughties, Napster et al. Instead of spotting the market, buying up the company who built it and slapping a fee on "unlimited music for a month" (a la Spotify), they sought to legis
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by philpem 8y ago
Archive.is link: http://archive.is/WP9F6
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by philpem 8y ago
Same as John Scalzi's "How I use social media" page on his website, really. (and the various variants I've seen on that theme) Sometimes you need to spell out "hey, these are my personal opinions, not anyone else&#x
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by philpem 8y ago
I've had good luck with "I don't list my current employer publicly." If people ask why... "I did a lot of open-source work and I still get the odd over-enthusiastic support request -- and this at least stops them la
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by philpem 8y ago
There's a subtle-but-sneaky way to play this game. Put in a patent application. Abandon it. Congratulations, your patent is now going to come up in any competent patent examiner's initial search as "potential prior art".
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by philpem 8y ago
Thing is, if a CEO doesn't pursue profit and shareholder dividends above all else, they probably won't last long until the investors and board members vote them out.
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by philpem 8y ago
Probably the same reason some major companies (FTSE250/Fortune 500) do the same thing. It's called a "competitor product teardown" - the goal is to identify things your competitors are doing, whether they're patente
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by philpem 8y ago
I noticed similar in a MAX in Upplands Vasby (Sweden, near Stockholm). People just hanging out, but similar fast-food-style high-contrast decor. The big difference between that and the McD's (or even the Subway down the road) was the f
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by philpem 8y ago
"A single terrible Tripadvisor review could be the end of our massive chain!!!!111one"
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by philpem 8y ago
With regard to the restaurant, maybe that's the goal: encourage people to settle up and leave quicker so the restaurant can serve more customers? Or maybe I'm just getting old and cynical...
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by philpem 8y ago
I help organise events and it's been our biggest complaint for some venues: that as the afternoon progresses, the music gets so loud it's impossible to hold a conversation. We pass the complaints along, but the response is usually
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by philpem 8y ago
I try to find the quieter places... I find it damn near impossible to pick out one voice in a room full of muffled, echoing ones. It completely throws me off the conversation I'm trying to have with the person I'm with.
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by philpem 8y ago
Wow, SFP ports. I'm seriously tempted to pick one of these up... the only downside is that it appears information on the CPU (and specifically the TDM interface protocol) is locked behind a Marvell NDA. That'd limit its potential
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City of York receives responsible security disclosure, threatens submitter(twitter.com)
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by philpem 8y ago
Maybe they'll become the next Myspace? "Facebook? You still use that? Everyone's on MyFaceWebsiteBookThing now..."
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by philpem 8y ago
420% of zero is still zero ;)
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by philpem 8y ago
You too, huh? Last employer moved to McAfee "because active malware protection". Basically, AMP is a set of rules you can apply to disk accesses per application -- like for instance, "no application can delete PDF files from
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by philpem 8y ago
Teaching a team of hardware engineers moonlighting as software guys to replace ZIP files and "version[1..n]_backup_2_reallyfinal.c" type filenames on a network share with proper version control. Then static analysis and CI. Then t
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by philpem 8y ago
Pick the one that's the best fit for you. I picked a job a few years back based on "it'll look good on my CV" -- turned out to be the worst decision I ever made. That's not to say every job will end as badly as that
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by philpem 8y ago
There's a Jurassic Park quote in here somewhere...
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by philpem 8y ago
What would you suggest as an alternative? Is the SA602 or SA612 any better?
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by philpem 8y ago
Archive link for readers in Europe: http://archive.is/gUjbv
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by philpem 8y ago
Clickable links: Project page: https://brimaruk.com/menugbvp/great-british-valve-project/ Twitter updates: https://twitter.com/BrimarBob Call for volunteers: https://brimaruk.com/B

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