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by teacup50 13y ago
Of all the problems we have, server-side adoption in the face of serious security flaws is not one of them. The marketing is just confusing people, and patio11's advocacy for more irresponsible marketing-focused disclosure is self-
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by teacup50 13y ago
Yes, a thousand times yes. The point isn't to market a vulnerability, the point is to get a fix out there. Forcing the entire world to scramble is great marketing, but poor security. Vendors needed time to prep releases and communica
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by teacup50 13y ago
Atlassian didn't get caught in the established wisdom trap of enterprise software: worrying more about generating sales leads than about the product. Upfront non-discriminatory pricing, direct purchase via credit card, immediate access
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by teacup50 13y ago
> The alternative approach is to alter your table's schema every time you find a new sub characteristic of how a given system is expressing itself. Which is what you're doing regardless. Untyped is just a sum type.
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by teacup50 13y ago
No, he just had to get the victim to visit a web page he controlled. That's barely social engineering.
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by teacup50 13y ago
"Schema-less" is a hack that appeals to people that don't realize that there is always schema. It's just a question of whether you want your data model to be ambiguous and poorly defined, or explicit.
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by teacup50 13y ago
David Pollack is known as a bit of a hothead, so take the one-sided (post-ban) explanation with a grain of salt.
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by teacup50 13y ago
> He wouldn't be giving away any value, somebody else would be starting a company that happened to pay him for service. If he wouldn't be giving away value, then how could there be enough margin for said company to survive? T
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by teacup50 13y ago
> I just don't believe it. I can't believe it. Well, I like having the option to say "no", even if most users don't know to do so. > For one thing, we know they're helping the government spy on peopl
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by teacup50 13y ago
"Assuming that everything went down as WingsofFury claims -- and since there's really no way to investigate it, we can't confirm that it did ..." Even if Microsoft is hypocritical, that doesn't magically turn what
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by teacup50 13y ago
Someone as smart as cperciva can figure out how to "wrap it up in a sales pitch" if he wants it wrapped up in a sales pitch, even if that means hiring someone to do it. It'll be authentic, and he won't give a dispropor
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by teacup50 13y ago
> While I agree with this, I find it equally annoying when people send 3MB attachments as emails (and then keep resending them for every email in the conversation!). Why? I don't think I've deleted a non-spam e-mail since ~20
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by teacup50 13y ago
> "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) Why do you think Scroogled is slander? Some of this stuff seems pretty accurate: http://www.scroogled.com/privacy By c
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by teacup50 13y ago
It's already bad enough that people put dropbox links in their e-mails, negating the value of long-term e-mail archiving. It's extremely useful to be able to go back in time and have full conversation history, including associated
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by teacup50 13y ago
I don't think patio11 would be the right choice for this particular market. cperciva certainly seems smart and capable enough to grow his business in that direction if he so chooses, without handing it over to a 'suit', even
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by teacup50 13y ago
You'd think this would be obvious. It's an inefficient and poorly designed "bytecode": - The only number representation available is floating point. - Concurrency is impossible except for the nearly useless web workers A
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by teacup50 13y ago
I don't know why Ubuntu ever thought that their user base -- Linux users -- would want to tie up their personal data in a cloud service.
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by teacup50 13y ago
> I think they are getting the direction right for opening up for external MS product users, and now it's time to recruit top talent again. There are just too many great hackers think MS is old ... I don't know who you think
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by teacup50 13y ago
We may finally see this, if only as a side effect of Eich's departure from Mozilla. Google and Mozilla are the only mainstream browser vendors that have an incentive to offer a bytecode alternative to the JavaScript status quo, whereas
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by teacup50 13y ago
No, it's really not. This is an argument that tries to emotionally justify the limitations of web browsers that force us to compile down alternative languages into web "assembly".
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by teacup50 13y ago
Copy the project's code into a GitHub repository that uses the project's name and start hacking on it there, and then release your own fork. Oh, wait, that's exactly what you shouldn't do . :)
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by teacup50 13y ago
Came here to say the same thing; I excitedly thought it was an announcement for a new Calibre beta. Looks like Calibre also holds a trademark: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:h6j... There s
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by teacup50 13y ago
Great engineers aren't great because of a CS degree; they're great because every time they saw the mountain of stuff they didn't know, they climbed it. When they got to the top and saw another mountain, they kept on climbin
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by teacup50 13y ago
This is a lesson Apple is going to learn the hard way.
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by teacup50 13y ago
> ... once its auto-updating feature is good enough ... This is why it's a very bad idea to implement silent automatic updates, and why they're the wrong thing to copy from the web.
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by teacup50 13y ago
They don't, but they're a lot saner to deal with. I don't even use inline assembly where it's supported; all the magic of a compiler, all the foot shooting of assembly, none of the transparency of either. I'm happy
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by teacup50 13y ago
> The browser code is distributed as an extension, which does not have the properties you describe. Actually, browser extensions have the exact same properties except for being code signed. That's not enough: http://a
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by teacup50 13y ago
You're doing crypto in the browser , while claiming on your home page: > Everything is encrypted before it leaves your computer. Even the Cryptocat network itself can't read your messages. You're seriously misleading us
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by teacup50 13y ago
As part of the industry, I can see an awful lot of irrational exuberance and shallow cargo culting that would benefit from a sharp, witty, cynical eye. You don't think some of those stereotypes and presumptions are well deserved?
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by teacup50 13y ago
> More importantly, why does NVidia, who contribute practically nothing to Free graphics development (drivers or the rest of the graphics stack) think that the Wayland developers have any obligation to make Wayland work well with their

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