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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
>> It sounds like what you're implying is that Rackspace's employment agreements assign all code written by an employee, regardless of when/where/why it was created, is owned by Rackspace. This is not universally
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100% of them ask for outrageous salaries So what's an outrageous salary for a new programmer these days? (Also, what area are you in?)
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Fun fact: The Flame virus had several layers of self-encryption. It was basically an onion, with each "layer" being encrypted executable code. The outer layer was typically the only one that was active at any given time. It wo
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Even a mediocre implementation of something "impossible" can make a lot of impact. See bitcoin. Bitcoin was perhaps the worst possible example you could have chosen... The implementation was the opposite of mediocre; its code pr
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Who Are The Long-Term Unemployed? (In 3 Graphs)(npr.org)
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A 21st century adaptation of the Miller-Urey origin of life experiments(phys.org)
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
One problem with offering a dataset as a torrent is that it's impossible to edit it after it's released. However, it seems like that doesn't matter at all in this case, because any scenario I can think of which could be solv
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
While this initially struck me as black magic, I think I've figured out how it's possible: I'm guessing that you somehow take advantage of perfect forward secrecy. PFS works by constantly "cycling" the encryption
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Damn... I might lose my account for deleting that comment (I promised the mods I wouldn't ever delete a comment that had a reply, since I did that way too excessively in the past). I deleted it because you'd already answered my q
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Still, does CloudFlare ever receive user cookies, e.g. my Hacker News cookies? A single weak spot in your cert management security practices (or a demand from a government) would compromise all of those thousands of certificates. And if y
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Is it correct to say that if the government demands CloudFlare's SSL cert private key (or acquires it surreptitiously) then they'll be able to decrypt every packet served by CloudFlare? In other words, if the government seizes yo
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I was running out the door when I made the post, and wound up screenshotting the wrong tab by mistake. The correct tab had a big error message like "We're sorry, we didn't generate this code blob fast enough for you" wi
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Github, you seem to be having a problem (a code file is inaccessible): [EDIT: Problem is fixed! Took about 30 minutes.] Between this and your recent choice to disable zooming out when browsing code via iPhone, I'm starting to worry a b
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording) Google should put an LED light on Glass that turns on whenever it's recording, just like MacBooks.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Completely offtopic, but I can't resist: What's it like being in a position to choose how $500k per month is spent? Wow. That's equivalent to about forty engineers' salaries per year. EDIT: I visited your website and
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(healthcare costs being the biggest reason for personal bankruptcy) This is interesting. Is this true? I apologize if it sounded like I was complaining. I only meant I chose this life. How is it reasonable for me to choose this, and th
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
If I can't afford my lunch after being given so many opportunities to earn it myself, then it would be unfair for me to ask my countrymen to foot the bill. It's my problem, not theirs. I would have an extreme moral aversion to s
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That’s why, tonight, I ask every American who knows someone without health insurance to help them get covered by March 31st. Moms, get on your kids to sign up. Kids, call your mom and walk her through the application. I have no health ins
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
What position are you starting from? Accurately assessing one's own competence is difficult and makes for boring reading, but since it's probably necessary here, I'll give some background. If he'd already used Ubuntu
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She found out about it pretty quickly due to having syslog be a constant presence in one of her gnu screen windows I'm amazed that this is possible. How would I set something like that up? A realtime log of only the most significant
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
At the ~3 minute mark, Jobs says, "Apple and IBM emerge as the industry's strongest competitors. [...] It appears IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope. Dealers initially welcoming to IBM now fear an IBM-domi
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
A protester in Kiev did an IAmA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1w17qn/iama_protestor_... According to him, "Russia is trying to keep all the former Soviet Union satellite countries
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I'm legitimately terrified that you're going to replace HNSearch, and that therefore HNSearch may be shut down. Using your version, I get the feeling you've never used HNSearch extensively, or at least not in the way a power
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
For example, Wikipedia can't convey the atrocities which are being committed in Syria as we speak. Videos can. Such a video may be the spark to convince her to pursue a path of providing humanitarian aid to war-torn countries. But such
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She's probably not as innocent as you'd like to believe, and she's probably tougher than you give her credit for. She also has a basic human right to access information. Please try to see that restricting information when som
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I'm old enough to remember that gmail was largely the creation of one person; a person who was neither a programming god nor business guru. It's tempting to think that we could sit down and make an open source gmail clone.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Why is there no alternative webmail of the caliber of gmail? Is it a difficult problem? If there were such an alternative, all they would need to do is wait until gmail fouls up, as they did here. Then they'd have a flood of new users.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don't think they will be made sadly. It's im
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
It is the latest legal setback for Mr Moore, who was ordered in March to pay $250,000 (£170,000) in damages for defamation resulting from a civil lawsuit. I may have misunderstood, but didn't this $250k fine originate largely due to
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Should it be illegal to operate a website that hosts user-generated content, some of which is illegal, if you take reasonable steps to remove the illegal content when informed of its existence? The answer is pretty clearly "no."

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