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by ratsbane 17y ago
This article cites repeatedly the idea that Windows is less secure than Mac because it has a larger market share than Mac and is thus a larger target for malware writers. Here are some counter-arguments which refute that idea that market s
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by ratsbane 17y ago
One successful claim against you changes the rate you pay for each employee. If your rate is set at 7.25% then for one employee you might pay 7.250% * $12,520=$907.70. You pay that much for EACH employee, e.g. 10 employees yields a bill f
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I like Lessig and I like this article but does this really belong on Hacker News? Articles about technology are fine; articles about technology and business are okay; articles about technology and politics are okay, but this story ...?
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Weird. I just typed that quickly and submitted without thinking much about it, but after reading your comment ... maybe you're right? But, fwiw, I don't work for Goog, Moscone, City of San Fran, etc. and I really am looking forward to the
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I'm looking forward to Google IO at Moscone in San Francisco this year. They've just added Paul Graham to the Tech and Innovation Panel along with Albert Wenger, Chris Dixon, Dave McClure, Brad Feld, and Dick Costolo. Who else among Hacker
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PG added to VC panel at Google IO, May 19-20(code.google.com)
19 points by ratsbane 17y ago|10 comments
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Not exactly to your requirements but related: we use the MaxMind GeoLite city database to correlate IPs with lat/lon and city/country names. It's free (the GeoLite version; the pay version has a little more detail but doesn't cost very muc
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Someone is paying for Larry Ellison's Gulfstream V. Oracle software and licensing sales last year (including non-DB revenue) were around $20B; MS SQL Server recently crossed the $1B/year revenue line. Although, to your point, it's rather a
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I'd like to see a real-word implementation of a sonic screwdriver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_screwdriver
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I was one of those poor bastards in a corporate IT department six or eight years ago arguing passionately that the standards were in the RFCs and not in "the way Microsoft does things" and we shouldn't design the intranet nor buy expensive
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Even IE6's support for HTTP 1.1 is broken. Sometimes it doesn't send host headers with redirects; there are several different scenarios in which it doesn't treat cache directives correctly; etc. Same with HTML 4. There's just no excuse fo
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by ratsbane 17y ago
The MagSafe socket (not the plug) on all MacBooks made since 2006 is magnetized also. If we still had floppy disks this might be a problem but I don't think it is in this age of CD/DVD and USB key media.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Will do! I reasoned this way: if I win it won't be the most rash ebay purchase I've ever made (I'm still paying slip fees on THAT one) because a) I'm curious about its workings (as apowell mentioned I'll definitely monitor its traffic) and
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by ratsbane 17y ago
That's quite clever. I like it so much... I just bid on it.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This judgement is a travesty. - Justice is only just if it is handed out evenly and in proportion to the crime. If ten million people share an mp3 and only one person is convicted for it, should that person have to pay for the alleged dama
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by ratsbane 17y ago
You do have a point. But if you're writing web stuff for the intranet or if you otherwise have enough control over your users to control their browser choice then it's a much better use of your resources to code for the future (FF, Safari,
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by ratsbane 17y ago
- Looking forward to using these new HTML-5ish features: storage, location, workers, accelerometer... It's going to be like web 2.0 all over again. - The Mozilla Developer site has a lot of good documentation and examples: https://develop
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by ratsbane 17y ago
"Better for education" might not mean "better for undergrads." It might mean expanding the sum of human knowledge through pure research. That's a lofty goal that might frequently lie at odds with the upstairs-downstairs nature of actual g
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by ratsbane 17y ago
There's a piece of original Google hardware in a display case in the basement of the Gates CS building at Stanford - a disk array or somesuch - constructed largely of Legos. It makes a lot of sense as a solution for prototyping. Lego should
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This reminds me of a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal in the early '90s by the president of Cornell. He wrote about how universities aren't businesses and about how treating them as such will have disastrous long-term effects. H
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by ratsbane 17y ago
I agree. And by censoring part of ED the Australian government will give the impression of having implicitly approved of all of the parts they haven't censored.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
... and 4: apply the same thing to twitter (!)
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by ratsbane 17y ago
1) If I understand correctly the first slider ranks greater similarity in commenting on the same threads the farther left you go and similar word choice the farther right you go. Why not make this two separate sliders? 2) For each of the m
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by ratsbane 17y ago
A few years ago someone gave me a stash of self-adhesive metal labels intended for vending machines. They are imprinted "INSERT 25 CENTS" and have coin slots cut into them. I'm sorry to say I have as yet not stuck them inside the elevator
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Argh. Down for me too now. Here's a page with an overview of the organization, not the actual list of servers I linked to in the title: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
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by ratsbane 17y ago
This is a textbook for how to set up a high-traffic web site. It's remarkable because of the openness. I was surprised at how many Squid machines they're running, but really, that makes sense.
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Wikipedia Servers: How Does It All Work?(wikitech.wikimedia.org)
22 points by ratsbane 17y ago|8 comments
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I have the vague impression that PhD computational biologists, bioinformaticists, are in demand and probably will be for a long time.
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Agreed. Although the successful one developer and one analyst almost certainly are wise enough to stand on the shoulders of giants - using an image-processing library here, an html parser there. Functional programming at the organization
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by ratsbane 17y ago
Upvoted for reference to Woody Allen's Sleeper. And because it was brilliant. Now, about that Polaroid stock...

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