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by swolchok 17y ago
There are some people with more complex gender identities. I don't pretend to fully understand, but "neither fully describes me" is an example.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Why make millions when you could make billions?
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yes, so /dev/urandom is not suitable if you want "secure random numbers", because its output may be pseudorandom.
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by swolchok 17y ago
"For example, if the key and JS are provided by the server, then it is the same as basic auth (all data needed to obtain the plaintext password is in the HTTP session). If the key is generated locally on the client, you have the problem of
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by swolchok 17y ago
Surely, you meant either "secure pseudorandom numbers" or "/dev/random".</pedantry>
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by swolchok 17y ago
At least in my last physics class, weight was defined to be the gravitational force of the earth acting on an object. Perhaps you're blown away because you're equating weight and mass?
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by swolchok 17y ago
The problem is that firmware is software. It is also legally recognized as software and gets the appropriate protections. However, it is functionally hardware in that it determines what is possible and in its often astonishingly low level
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by swolchok 17y ago
I am remarkably non-broke for a graduate student that went to grad school straight out of undergraduate. I was still amazed when my advisor whipped out his credit card to pay for Pandora One practically on a whim. On the other hand, I have
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by swolchok 17y ago
"Thou shalt not" is not a security policy.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I didn't get Stuff White People Like. It seems to be Stuff Yuppies and Hipsters Like.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The problem is tying the money to a good faith effort, not just signup. That's probably hard and costly to enforce.
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by swolchok 17y ago
They also had a lot of paper +1 passes, which were apparently acceptable even without a directly-accompanying badgeholder. It was pretty packed, but SNR was still improved over DEFCON as a whole.
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It should be striking how our newly poor and unemployed get fat instead of battling starvation, and how we nonetheless tacitly disapprove of the family for going nowhere and having no initiative to do something with their lives. Perhaps t
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by swolchok 17y ago
When I was in Redmond, the detectors had a visible rectangular outline on the roadway. Running a bike along the edge of this outline seemed to make them happy.
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by swolchok 17y ago
The theoretical economics are, potentially, even better, because there are many more PhDs than academic positions. The actual economics are probably worse. As the author briefly admits but never returns to and addresses, professors (in
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New Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice(blackhat.com)
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'm currently a graduate student. I could drop out after I get my master's degree, or finish my Ph.D. I realized that doing a startup sounds great, but if it failed, as is very likely, I would regret walking away from grad school.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I usually had success with an "addiction reset" by going cold turkey after every semester as an undergrad. As a grad student, I've found that even though I drink 3 cups of green or white tea per day, which is supposed to have relatively min
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by swolchok 17y ago
Also, do remember that brown rice takes slightly over twice as long to cook as white rice.
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by swolchok 17y ago
...let's go shopping? (sue me, I loved consultant Barbie and I have points to burn)
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pg says it's boring. I'm increasingly inclined to agree.
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by swolchok 17y ago
He didn't say that constitutional rights should sunset. He said "all laws" should sunset.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I agree that the relevance of the first link to the gp's argument is unclear at best. The second link is pretty good, and indicates that false labeling of imports was involved.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I met a very cute SEO consultant at a bar who explained that all she did were the basics: position keywords prominently, use meta description and keywords, move your site name to the end of the page title because you're going to win search
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by swolchok 17y ago
From your linked article: "Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments [13]. I
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by swolchok 17y ago
Both articles are in Joel's voice and credited to Joel. You can't plagiarize yourself. I also used the word "might". The Founders at Work interview is at http://www.foundersatwork.com/joel-spolksy.html . The Inc article is not a copy an
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'm not questioning anyone's credibility. I made a statement about the article's redundancy with a work that many HNers might read or have read. It's the same guy talking about the same topic, so he could reasonably be expected to say the s
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by swolchok 17y ago
Very similar to Founders at Work . Might be some lifted or paraphrased paragraphs in there.
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by swolchok 17y ago
If stocks are typically overpriced, I think you want to be in the business of IPOing.
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Well, there is certainly a missing factor in the model -- what about the probability q that a date with Carol will be a worthwhile experience, for whatever definition of "worthwhile" Guy uses?

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