thomasptacek

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by thomasptacek 19y ago
All due respect to aaronsw, but, the iPod's "one feature" was EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPRESSIVE. Help me understand what's impressive about this site, other than that it still has me talking about it hours after its launch?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I don't get it. Can you really "win" with an application just by making registration easier? I know the "every field, half your users" rule, but... is there anything more to this application?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
You mean besides fitting ten CD cases worth of music into something that fit in your pocket? What a silly argument.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
For example?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I guess I never really understood Infogami either. What's the market opportunity for Wikipedia without any of the content, controls, or attention? If it's a blogging tool, why is it better than Typepad, Blogger, or Wordpress? I'm not trying
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
You mean, like Mediawiki?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I'm not being clear. What does this site actually do? All I saw it do was echo the text I entered back at me, and store it the equivalent of a tinyurl.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Why is this interesting?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Why exactly is that sad?
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I kind of said the opposite: Gartner was right, and people stopping buying IDS. By your market share assertion, you either work for McAfee or TippingPoint; the combined IPS rev for McAfee, TippingPoint, IBM, and SourceFire is over $500MM.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Denny says Gigamon "contradicted Gartner", and "Gartner was dead wrong". This is my space, too. All due respect, Denny, but, not so sure of your policework there. Gartner predicted the demise of the standalone "intrusion detection system".
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
It seems like your odds of "winning" this contest are not great, and your odds of "converting" that win to an A round are also not great. I like the YC idea and have little more specifically to say about it than that, but if you're investin
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
You quit your job and put 10 months worth of effort into a product that succeeds or fails based on whether Paul Graham gives you $15,000? I know this is a YC forum and all, but the cargo culting here is creepy, which is too bad because if
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Because I'd be hugely interested in working with a "cofounder" who broadcast his unhappiness with his previous team to a public forum as a vehicle to replace them. That guy sounds like a real rock star.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Also: stunningly bad exposition on "salt" values. A salt is a public nonce. Each password hash should have a different salt. An attacker shouldn't be able to construct a "your-salt" rainbow table to crack all the passwords on your machine;
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Correction: passwords are routinely stored in plain text (or reversably encrypted); there are a variety of challenge-response protocols that you can't run if all you have is the hash. It's a tradeoff; what do you care more about, passwords
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Oh. This is a library under straight GPL. You can't use it in non-GPL code. No wonder I hadn't heard of it before. Thanks for the pointer, it's neat. I really like how my approach turned out; the STLport red-black tree is well done. Backpor
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Eww. Better to use C++ than AVL trees.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
He's not using "inline" for the C version, so it counts spurious function call overhead. He's also not holding constant the storage classes between C and C++; his C++ version arbitrarily gets to use optimal storage. This should be intuitive
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Gotta admit: "Apple is an abusive monopolist because the iPod doesn't have an FM receiver" is an awesome argument. Way to go, PC World!
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
There's definitely good C++ code; the MIT PDOS Click router ( http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/click/ ) is another great example. But there's good Perl too. I'd definitely use LLVM before I hacked up GCC.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
That counts. LLVM. Better than C++.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I reverse engineer and audit systems software for security flaws (OS kernels, hypervisors, filesystems, drivers, and higher-level stuff like client-server and message passing systems). I've looked at a lot of other people's systems code. Mo
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
I think you missed the word "evidence" in my request. I could have predicted that you believed STL was faster. But "it's faster because it's supposed to be faster" is a weak argument. Again I see people in this thread falling into the trap
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
You haven't refuted Linus. You've explained why the world works the way Linus says it does. But the impact is the same.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
What a silly argument. (a) STL's map and set weren't implemented in an hour. (b) Abstract data types (and, more generally, code libraries) predate C++ by decades. Six years ago, I took over as lead dev for a product now counting and stati
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
"What interesting empirical evidence you have. Allow me to refute it with theories."
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
It was a rude and egomaniacal comment that he responded to, if you think about it. But that's OK. I don't think Linus cares if you use his code or not.
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
It was also a uniquely useless comment he responded to. Imagine the alternate universe where Linus responds, "you're right! Git hackers, commence the rewrite!" In a job interview, statements like Dmitry's are what I'd call a "leading indica
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by thomasptacek 19y ago
Let's make it clear that that was a joke.

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