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871.
by spydum 12y ago
rc4 may be "bad", but if you notice, it is so densely deployed on clients, it's hard to avoid.
872.
by spydum 12y ago
> The moral of the story is we should automate jobs that people don't like doing. who decides what jobs people dont like doing? Just because you might not like being a taxi driver, farmer, actuary, etc, doesnt mean you should demoli
873.
by spydum 12y ago
People walk around with checks? I cringe on the rare occasions I have to write one to the local water utility (they refuse to provide any recurring payment solution - I suspect because low margins, and they like the late payment fees).
874.
by spydum 12y ago
perhaps those west coast guys arent awake yet? too busy recovering from their launch parties.
875.
by spydum 12y ago
funny, I had the exact same conversation with some nyc guy on a flight to SF a few months ago. He was convinced I should go to back to school get get MBA, so I could know the vocabulary to speak intelligently with management. I mentioned ho
876.
by spydum 12y ago
i think there is a line to be drawn.. If the ORM is saving you no effort, I fully agree. However, I suspect most ORMs in the short term boost early productivity quite a bit. It's like writing an app from scratch in assembly, versus C..
877.
by spydum 12y ago
you are missing out! check out these unrelated CTF type ventures: - http://smashthestack.org/ - http://overthewire.org/wargames/ - NetWars @ SANS Actually on further research, here's a nice re
878.
by spydum 12y ago
this is true and at many companies the hiring process is so broken, the interviewer might have only an hour or less heads up that they will be interviewing someone. i have done that maybe twice, and since then i refuse tomdo interviews on c
879.
by spydum 12y ago
There was a guy who used to run around the street racing scene in Tampa with a really nasty Monza. It was somewhat funny as most folks had no idea what a Monza was, nor how some modern touches to that small block could create a pretty formi
880.
by spydum 12y ago
that is a sad, super strange coincidence, in a relatively small (but.. growing?) field
881.
by spydum 12y ago
very interesting, had no idea the capability was there. Tried on my own, I see SSID beacons from my wifi card, wifi channel signal levels, then you can go up several layers and see request URI's on HTTP requests.. very nice. More deta
882.
by spydum 12y ago
same here, only downsides: 1) you get to know your neighbors, and 2) it can turn into a real buzzkill of nothing but complainers. maybe that 2nd one is a good indicator of neighborhood decline though? not sure. I bet there could be some tru
883.
by spydum 12y ago
so all of the obvious questions have been asked, but if I hear the video right, we're talking about $10/month? Last I checked, Amazons own Workspaces product starts around $35/month, just no cool hardware interface, or fancy
884.
by spydum 12y ago
It's an interesting thought for sure, I just don't see how you sell it to shareholders. If I had to make a baseless assumption, I'd say the bulk of yahoos users are seniors who moved on from AOL, and don't know any diffe
885.
by spydum 12y ago
privacy typically does not drive revenue up, unless you are violating it. this might be something your social circle claims to want, but if you look at the "average" person, they have next to zero concern for their privacy.
886.
by spydum 12y ago
pretty wild, im used to running strings on process dumps and such.. never imagined opening an image editor to get something useful!
887.
by spydum 12y ago
im afraid this article will fall on deaf ears to those folks. most c-level folks are all about protecting intellectual property and racking up patents. indeed, there are special little ceremonies for patent awards, along with bonus at most
888.
by spydum 12y ago
the shanghai tower crane climb is INSANE.
889.
by spydum 12y ago
Really? That is quite a bit naive. I can tell you there is no question about who will be replacing the workers, this is exactly the same runbook every corp who has hooked up with these body shops. There will be a mix of H1B onsite and offs
890.
by spydum 12y ago
I heard a similar scummy kind of thing (cant remember name.. it was like Adtran or some other communications equipment corp) they used a fire drill to get the building vacated, then disabled access cards. Boggles my mind that this seems lik
891.
by spydum 12y ago
except that mouse over isn't really a thing in all browsers since the advent of mobile browsing.. so it seems his own style choices constrain users freedoms (ironic, isn't that more or less the underlying theme of the rant? enforc
892.
by spydum 12y ago
To be fair, in your example as long as you didn't make any claims during that period, the cost to them was next to nothing (maybe some stamps for mail? couple cents for your share of the automated billing processing).
893.
by spydum 12y ago
See fairbanks alaska: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3312118/Worlds-biggest...
894.
by spydum 12y ago
True, but bewary of automated transfer switches. I have seen DC's fail due to ATS's not doing their job. This can be pretty dangerous for a lineman/fire rescue if your particular ATS fails to switch...
895.
by spydum 12y ago
that is an interesting fact! wonder if there is a simple solution like a chemical blinder, that could be integrated into something sort of like a "EPO" button, making the panel inert in terms of voltage when hit? Just like the fir
896.
by spydum 12y ago
Wow cool idea, and well presented (the whole site and all his projects are a great read)!
897.
by spydum 12y ago
Poor browsers, the punching bag of all technologists. About the only software more despised/criticized/argued about is systemd.. that's saying something.
898.
by spydum 12y ago
sure, but if researchers can cherry pick the data and studies, they just have to avoid those quality double blind studies. all of a sudden, their meta analysis of # studies shows significance!
899.
by spydum 12y ago
pretty sure the big win here is: 1) low individual component cost (which is great when you need 100's of them for a datacenter build out) 2) no frills, high throughput non-blocking backplane which are normally only available from the e
900.
by spydum 12y ago
Cool to see tech creeping its way into agriculture. My in-laws run a vineyard & winery. For many years, I was convinced I would build a sensor-net and on-premises app with some automation capability (toggling servos for irrigation, &quo

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