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by rst 16y ago
I meant to say that the filenames were easily guessable after the random strings were exposed by 'ps'. Relying on unpredictable strings works fine, so long as you keep them away from prying eyes. But that requires attention to detail, an
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by rst 16y ago
"Apple doesn't sell computers"? The iPhones and iPods are arguably consumer appliances, but they aren't out of the Macintosh business yet.
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by rst 16y ago
Looks pretty slick, but it still has the search-form glitch I run into every single time : Whenever I want to use it, I wind up pasting a URL that I copied from somewhere else into the URL input at top. My URL invariably starts ' http://
1234.
by rst 16y ago
Summary of the vuln, from the original post: Heroku was relying on unguessable filenames to keep processes associated from one app from reading files containing the config files and source code of another app. However, the random portion
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by rst 16y ago
Heroku needs to be able to spin up and spin down server processes ("dynos") very quickly. Their process right now, so far as anyone can tell, is basically to untar a "slug" and start a ruby process. Booting a VM would be a lot more cumber
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by rst 16y ago
As I recall, IBM had an offer out for Sun, and Sun fell into Oracle's hands quite suddenly when IBM and Sun management couldn't agree on terms. It might be that Google was expecting that IBM would get Sun, and that they were OK with that,
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by rst 16y ago
For what it's worth, this still at least looks like it's mostly code from test frameworks, which doesn't necessarily even run on an Android device itself. So it could likely be dropped from the source distributions without compromising the
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by rst 16y ago
The argument is really against using the values of an autoincrement column in mysql as externally visible identifiers --- the problem being that they're easily guessable. I'm not sure I completely buy it --- if someone who isn't allowed to
1239.
by rst 16y ago
To say nothing of personnel. A Netapp NAS box doesn't do you a whole lot of good unless you've got staff to manage it --- a lot of the justification for cloud offerings, particularly PaaS, is that some of those staff functions get effectiv
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by rst 16y ago
The claim is that ISPs won't see it in their best interest to restrict access to particular content, or to charge premiums. That's inconsistent with their observed behavior (e.g., charging extra for mobile phone tethering, even though ship
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by rst 16y ago
Having just watched someone else give a chunk of "my demo", well... yeah. (And this is for a pure software project, which is rather less capital-intensive than deploying anything involving hardware these days.) Here's the flip side: if no
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by rst 16y ago
As a rubyist, my main reason for preferring it to Python is what you can do with "blocks". The idiomatic way of iterating over the elements of an array, for example, is: my_array.each do |elt| ... do stuff with elt ...; end That loo
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by rst 16y ago
FWIW, my roughly eight-year-old nephew is an avid Scratch enthusiast. A couple of other things that might be worth exploring are the Android App Inventor (a Scratch-like environment for programming Android phones), and Hackety Hack (a Ruby-
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by rst 16y ago
There's one other thing they do. While they don't market books to readers, for the most part, they do market them to bookstores, who can be awfully picky about what they put on the shelves. If you want to get books available on the shel
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by rst 16y ago
Oh, a little more Stross: the Laundry books, starting with The Atrocity Archives. The British Secret Service has a division which guards against Lovecraftian occult horrors --- and your narrator is one of its I.T. grunts.
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by rst 16y ago
Vernor Vinge --- A Fire Upon the Deep. (Also worth seeking out is the hugely influential novella "True Names", but you'd probably have to dig it out of a library someplace.) Neal Stephenson --- Cryptonomicon. (Present day setting, but wit
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by rst 16y ago
FWIW, Post publisher Donald Graham certainly likes Facebook; he's been on their board of directors...
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by rst 16y ago
Microsoft's "answer" to Facebook so far looks to me like they're trying to integrate with it, wherever they can make it make sense --- the most prominent sign of which was the recent Bing "social search" announcement. (This on top of their
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by rst 18y ago
Hmmm... simple stuff turned up mostly topical, so I tried Pierre Herme, a famous French pastry chef (at least if you follow French pastry). The top result was a stub article for a French immunologist; others include a musician and a TV new