rphlx

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by rphlx 17y ago
It's probably leftover from some stage of human evolution where it minimized physical violence. Most people are vulnerable (including hackers); exploiting it can be a direct or indirect reproductive advantage, and so it may never evolve awa
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by rphlx 17y ago
> moving ssh to a non-standard port number +1. If/when there's an sshd remote exploit/worm, it will probably only scan port 22. "AllowUsers" is good too. And, port knocking if you don't mind the hassle.
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by rphlx 17y ago
Seems every ~10 years, a major computer company has to re-discover this themselves. There exist some turds which even Steve Jobs cannot polish.
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by rphlx 17y ago
Getting married is the easy part. The challenge is in staying.
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by rphlx 17y ago
+1 duplicity. It can backup to IMAP, meaning it can backup to gmail. Why pay $10+/mo to an online backup provider when Google provides 7GB of free storage (per captcha) inside some awesome tier1 datacenter?
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by rphlx 17y ago
Somebody please do this for the low-end dedicated providers. You can get Atom systems for $30-$50/mo now, which should solve the performance variance (especially on disk IO) that affect cloud/VPSes. Provide network latency/tput data also, p
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by rphlx 17y ago
They don't confuse valgrind. If a pointer to the object exists in valid address space at shutdown, it's not technically a leak.
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by rphlx 17y ago
Good point, but to play devil's advocate: if you ramen-retire after a few years building apps for the unwashed masses, you can work on whatever you like until you die or the money runs out. IMO, a few years of total independence are worth a
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by rphlx 17y ago
Duh. You discouraged girls from attending parties. Correct or not, that's the last thing the world needs. I was in a hotel bar in Santa Clara last night with 60+ men and 0 women.
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by rphlx 17y ago
teledildonics
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by rphlx 17y ago
This is a great book but The Art of Seduction is more fun.
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by rphlx 17y ago
Real estate and business investments are illiquid, often hard to value, and require constant work. Consider the stock market instead. I like ETFs: spy dia qqqq uso dba ung tlt jnk slv gld ewa adre fxi $200k of JNK provides >$2000/mo int
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by rphlx 17y ago
Cool idea. What are you using to access twitter? I've been using tweepy, it's been good to me so far. P.S. There's an unnecessary horizontal scrollbar in firefox. Just sayin.
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by rphlx 17y ago
Do you support C++? There is a lot more C++ code than C# code in the wild.
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by rphlx 17y ago
I would seriously consider this in a major socal city.
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by rphlx 17y ago
It means that after it dies on the second day of heavy use, on average it will not die again until 1M hours later.
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by rphlx 17y ago
The US is perhaps the most import-dependent nation on Earth. If the dollar drops in half, prices for many physical goods will basically double soon after, reducing buying power within the country, unless credit simultaneously expands 2X (wh