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by rwg 13y ago
After a decade at the same employer, I was completely burned out -- I had worked 60+ hour weeks for many years, with nothing resembling a "real" vacation since ~2004. I didn't enjoy the bulk of the work. I wasn't learning anything applica
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by rwg 13y ago
The Excel thing started out as someone else's funny tweet and turned into me riding the bomb down while waving my cowboy hat, Slim Pickens style. This tweet started the ball rolling: https://twitter.com/sachinag/status/329701402546941953
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by rwg 13y ago
I can't wait until they get the flaws in JavaScript crypto ironed out so my "pure" Excel AES implementation can reign supreme as the worst implementation of a cryptographic primitive ever.
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by rwg 13y ago
I went with Data Matrix to backup my (encrypted) PGP key pair to paper. When I compared QR and Data Matrix, Data Matrix "won" because of its ability to encode pretty massive amounts of data by chaining individual barcodes together. (QR to
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by rwg 13y ago
Some of the relativistic error (time dilation) is taken care of on the satellites themselves by tweaking the 10.23 MHz frequency generators to run at 10.22999999543 MHz. The author actually mentions a third source of relativistic error with
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by rwg 13y ago
I'm having a hard time believing these sellers ever even touch these items. Given the cost of an embroidery machine that can actually embroider these items, and the fact that nobody seems to have non-stock photographs of any the items, and
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by rwg 13y ago
This Brendan guy just needs to switch to selling "handmade" monogrammed island clutches: http://www.etsy.com/search?q=monogram%20island%20clutch%20bl... (EDIT: Project idea for someone who's bored: Scrape images off Etsy, group items base
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by rwg 13y ago
I get a seriously bittersweet feeling reading her blog since some of the things she's doing are eerily similar to little "just for the hell of it" projects I did in college many, many moons ago. (Transmitting data with IR LEDs driven by my
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by rwg 14y ago
It's unfortunate that SRP is one of those things that's technically sound and has been around for a fairly long time but has never seen widespread implementation for whatever reason. (See also: IPv6, SCTP, C99.)
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by rwg 14y ago
This agrees with what I've read about Comcast's IPv6 deployment to cable modem customers — they're rolling it out quickly in markets served by Arris CMTSes and not at all in markets served by Cisco CMTSes, citing problems with the Cisco gea
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by rwg 14y ago
RFC 3546, which includes TLS Server Name Indication, has existed since June 2003. The problem preventing deployment is the lack of client support, especially Internet Explorer on Windows XP and Android 2.x [1]. -- 1. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by rwg 14y ago
I don't think that's an "HN employers" thing as much as an industry thing. I've been unemployed for nine months, though I've only been seriously applying for jobs in the past three. (I consider the first six months a well-deserved vacation
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by rwg 14y ago
It's interesting to read articles like this since I came from bizarro not-so-HPC world where "we" (academic department) didn't pay for electricity (the university did!), so there was no incentive at all to retire obsolete hardware. Right u
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by rwg 14y ago
For what it's worth, http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif is being referenced by pages on https://news.ycombinator.com/ , leading to mixed (SSL vs. not-SSL) content fun in browsers. Also, if SSL is now a permanent thing for HN, it
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by rwg 14y ago
At ${PREVIOUS_JOB}, I despised that certificate caching behavior. It did nothing but wallpaper over configuration errors that shouldn't be wallpapered over... Me: "Your site at https://blah.otherdept.myemployer.edu/ is causing visitors t
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by rwg 14y ago
What this means is that every Hypercard stack is a movie and can be played by ANY existing movie player, including (and demoed) MoviePlayer, WordPerfect, Netscape and OpenDoc's movie part. Yeah, that'll be useful for a
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by rwg 14y ago
There's no hiss at all with my late 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro... ...but there is an annoying pop every time the audio driver enables/disables the DAC, presumably for power savings reasons. (One day I'm going to get annoyed enough to patch t
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by rwg 14y ago
s/on the web/on the Internet/ twitch :-)
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by rwg 14y ago
How? I keep valid contact information in the WHOIS records for my domains, and all I get out of it is e-mail spam from my registrar, e-mail spam from everyone else, snail mail spam from my registrar, snail mail spam from competing registrar
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by rwg 14y ago
It's reserved per RFC 2606: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
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by rwg 14y ago
At ex-work, SSL certificates expiring was probably #3 in the list of reasons for services being unavailable. It's a really easy thing to overlook in service monitoring.
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by rwg 14y ago
Coincidentally, universities are the absolute worst when it comes to "we own everything you ever do or think of" clauses in employment contracts, even if you're not a student or in a teaching/research position. Those sorts of clauses really
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by rwg 14y ago
My local newspaper is currently going through their bullshit app phase: http://www.roanoke.com/digitalsubscription/#replica • If you're on a computer, you just head to their website, login, and read the newspaper. • If you're on an Androi
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by rwg 14y ago
It's more complicated than that. Like physical security, computer security is applied risk management. Your house probably doesn't have solid metal doors, metal bars over the windows, laser tripwires, a patrolling security guard, and angry
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by rwg 14y ago
If you care about compatibility with applications that use Schannel for TLS on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, be aware of which ciphers it supports/doesn't support: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa38... Note
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by rwg 14y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but if they don't understand the technology, then they should have an underling who does monitoring the abuse@ mailbox...
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by rwg 14y ago
I've already posted my "almost got arrested for using zsh" story, so here's another one: I used to work at a large public university. One day, a grad student brought me his laptop and asked if I would take a look at it because "the Interne
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by rwg 14y ago
In the ideal case, you'd only need to hash ~17000 * 2^24 MAC addresses to have a complete table, but the reality is that there are a lot of manufacturers who assign MAC addresses in products using OUIs that they haven't registered. (Regi
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by rwg 14y ago
Also, I don't remember anyone getting publicly bent out of shape about including AES-NI support in Linux's CryptoAPI. (I'm unsure why people would think Intel would backdoor RdRand but not the AES-NI instructions.)
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by rwg 14y ago
The entire CPU is "closed source." If you can't trust the CPU, then it's game over for everything you're doing on the CPU.

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