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by seldo 13y ago
I mean, you can . You are CEO, and there is AFAIK no legal restriction on you releasing details of your funding. It's just not in your interest to do so.
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by seldo 13y ago
I would have thought this was obvious, but orders of magnitude more developers know Javascript than Lua[1], thanks largely to the popularity of browsers as a programming environment. According to some recent research[2], the three primary f
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by seldo 13y ago
"It's no longer necessary to be a computer person in order to use a computer, and that means lots of people are using computers who aren't computer people!" TRAGEDY! Lots of people use cars and don't know how to fix
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by seldo 13y ago
It's like Freshmeat, for web apps! (Edit: apparently Freshmeat is now called Freecode? I guess it's been a while since I visited...)
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by seldo 13y ago
But the alternative possibility, when running a retail business, is that you blow 90% of your time being extra-nice to existing customers and never get around to building the features that would have attracted new users. It depends what sta
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by seldo 13y ago
I absolutely can. I arrived in this country on an H-1B, and then I co-founded a company where I repeatedly examined the option of hiring employees on H-1Bs. It never, ever made sense to hire a foreign employee if there was a local one avail
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by seldo 13y ago
"It would make sense that an employer would try to offer a lower salary to an employee it helped move to the United States since that employee also gains the benefit of getting sponsored, but the analysis found the opposite." This
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by seldo 13y ago
Thanks! Minor nitpicks: this would fail if the login page were itself on HTTPS (as most login pages should be). Also, Hotmail no longer exists.
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by seldo 13y ago
The attack builds on the CRIME attack, which is discussed in more technical detail here: http://zoompf.com/2012/09/explaining-the-crime-weakness-in-s... That page suggests that guessing known text like an SSN or e
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by seldo 13y ago
I was confused about that too. They don't make the request, they force you to make the request (by putting a bunch of them as pixels in an HTML email, or by getting you to trigger some JS). I'm still not clear on how they see the
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by seldo 13y ago
I hadn't realized the line around the shutter button was supposed to change at all. That's definitely not where I'd put it.
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by seldo 13y ago
This is neat tech and works pretty much as advertised, but man, this UI is pretty rough. The blue background and curvy borders are strangely superfluous; tapping the left-bottom corner controls pops up an intermediate selector but the right
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by seldo 13y ago
That's still more instances of IIS than I was expecting. Who uses it? Is it still as awful as it was the last time I fought with it 5 years ago?
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by seldo 13y ago
Yes, but Google Finance is on google.com/finance (for some reason; I'm sure it used to be finance.google.com at some point...). The importance of httpOnly had somehow escaped me until today :-)
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by seldo 13y ago
Does anyone else feel that XSS on google.com is probably worth a bit more to the wrong people than $5k? Arbitrary-eval is pretty much the worst. Unless I'm missing something, somebody could steal a user's cookie strings and post t
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by seldo 13y ago
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/2henryvi/2henryvi.4.2.html
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by seldo 13y ago
Are these syndicates only now possible because of the crowdfunding provisions in last year's JOBS act, or is it just that nobody thought of doing things this way before?
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by seldo 13y ago
I am absolutely saying to legalize all drugs, even the incredibly addictive ones. Spend a fraction of the money you spend now on locking up drug users to treatment of addicts. If drugs were all legal tomorrow, would you run out and try he
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by seldo 13y ago
"$100/gram" was just a random number; I have absolutely no idea what any drugs cost. But yes, I was referring to cocaine, which is the one that causes the most trouble for my country. You guys grow your own weed.
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by seldo 13y ago
I for one will weep no tears whatsoever if the ending of easy money for people dealing drugs causes the end of hippy culture. The cost-benefit analysis of "worldwide drug war" versus "some chilled-out kids living in SF"
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by seldo 13y ago
I didn't take the article as tongue-in-cheek, I took it as a serious list of the positive benefits of legalizing weed, and took it as an opportunity to soapbox for the benefits of legalizing everything else.
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by seldo 13y ago
Legalizing drugs cuts crime in two ways. Directly, by reclassifying a bunch of formerly criminal drug users as just drug users. But also indirectly: it makes them cheap, which makes them unattractive targets for organized crime. If western
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by seldo 13y ago
The thing about RabbitMQ is that it's so powerful and configurable that it scares a lot of people, but for trivial use-cases it is incredibly easy to get running. If you're using it as a message queue within your LAN (i.e. no dire
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by seldo 13y ago
As a former Yahoo, I can certainly think of a number of former colleagues whose function was unclear and possibly nonexistent but continued to be paid for years.
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by seldo 13y ago
You are absolutely correct. In the same way, in 2012, half of IBM's profits were from the sales and servicing of mainframes[1]. IBM is not dead, it's just irrelevant. And that's where Microsoft is apparently unstoppably headi
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by seldo 13y ago
Holy cow, the background of this website is an animation! That is really hard to read.
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by seldo 13y ago
Without details of some kind, juicy or otherwise, this will get flagged.
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by seldo 13y ago
I understand how prior disclosure works, my confusion is that nothing like that seems to have happened here. The patent was invalidated on the basis of documentation of a different piece of software with the same features released 5 years
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by seldo 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "prior disclosure" here. They filed a patent application: those are supposed to be public. The prior art Joel used was the documentation of the Win32 API from 5 years previously (a
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by seldo 13y ago
Headline: "the anti-virus age is over" Final line of article: "Now don’t get me wrong, AV still has its place in the security world ... However, it’s no longer much more than a filter for the most basic attacks." So... n

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