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by uxp 14y ago
> You can also limit exposure by blocking messages based on user IPs. Craigslist already does this to an extent in their high volume categories. For example, one cannot post Job Listings in highly populated areas (like New York or San F
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by uxp 14y ago
It's still speculation. Lodsys has come out to flat out deny any partnership or involvement in any way[1], but the #078 patent was originally assigned to Ferrera Etherial LLC in 2004, and then Webvention LLC in 2009, and then finally to Lod
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by uxp 14y ago
Sadly, this is true. Here's Groklaw's report on the jury selection of this case[1]. Note how both sides manage to get rid of anyone that's got any experience with IP, Patents or Programming, including a woman who happens to work for Oracle
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by uxp 14y ago
Due process only applies to arrest and trial (as in you can't be charged for theft of a candy bar and held in jail for 36 months until your trial begins). It's still not "right" how some people are on the infamous do-not-fly list, but it is
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by uxp 14y ago
Until a targeted attack turns every computer into a zombie DDoS farm inside an air-gapped network (thus, by definition not really a targeted attack anymore), AV companies and Mom and Pop shouldn't need to worry about these kinds of things.
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by uxp 14y ago
On a similar note, the image sharing site min.us[1] will display your local copy of the image you wish to upload in place of the uploaded image as it is uploading. Gives it a feeling that it uploads absolutely instantaneously, even though i
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by uxp 14y ago
That's the beauty of a distributed VCS. If my team member deletes every commit inside his master and tries to force push that to GitHub, either by accident or by malice, I have the true history for my master sitting on my local machine. I c
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by uxp 14y ago
Storing un-hashed passwords (encrypted or otherwise)? I'm largely unaware of crypto outside of the general "use bcrypt" webapp cases. SRP is a fairly unknown field to me. Edit: nevermind, you more or less confirmed this question further dow
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by uxp 14y ago
Interesting. As a hacker myself, I would be more interested in hiring (if I was in the position to hire) someone that could quickly `grep` and `sed` their entire repository for the occurrences of a function name that needed refactoring, all
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by uxp 14y ago
Well, in the original quote that was cited from "scary crypto stuff" was surrounded with: Last I checked they[GitHub] made you perform a bunch of scary crypto stuff on your local machine before they'd let you in. If performing `ssh-keygen
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by uxp 14y ago
It's less that is _can_ and more that it _has to_ in order to be optimal. The launch window pretty much guarantees that if the rocket launches, and stays on a course that is designed to get it outside of earth's atmosphere using as little f
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by uxp 14y ago
The appropriate traditional CSS should be #container #findMe { /* ... */ } #container input:checked ~ #main > #findMe { /* ... */ } (or) #container > #findMe { /* ... */ } #container > input:checked ~ #ma
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by uxp 14y ago
It's not hard. A friend of mine nicknamed a very rare disease on Wikipedia. A few months to a year later a news organization used the Wikipedia page's nickname for the disease when writing an article for it. He then cited the use of that ni
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by uxp 14y ago
Computers are physical machines that obey the laws of physics. Flipping bits at a lower microcontroller level can be observed as literally directing electrons to travel to specific chip pins. With unit tests and behavioral tests, we can ass
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by uxp 14y ago
> Can we really expect prose of such simple (more-or-less obvious?) functions to be patented? We're still talking about Copyright, not Patents. However, I agree entirely. I don't think I could come up with a function that verifies if a
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by uxp 14y ago
> pagination with blogs/news sites articles is total nonsense Furthering the derail: Increases ad-space. Makes perfect simple sense to me, though I may not agree with it all the time (or ever).
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by uxp 14y ago
The two comments just above this as I post are complaints about Draw Something requiring Facebook wall posting permissions, or else the game won't play. I could easily see a 30% decline in userbase due to silly restrictions such as this
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by uxp 14y ago
I actually had no idea about the whole thing. When I read the picture's subtext on the second page with the name Wilson, but was reading about someone I thought to be a woman, I became confused. The next couple paragraphs completely threw m
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by uxp 14y ago
"Skype: patched and recompiled to do other stuff" is a better title. Decompiling a proprietary product, changing a few lines of code, and then releasing that code doesn't make it "open source", it makes it stolen code (semantics of "piracy
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by uxp 14y ago
You can use most all of the verbs: get '/foo' => 'foos#index', as: :foo post '/foo' => 'foos#new', as: :new_foo get '/foo/:id' => 'foos#show', as: :show_foo put '/foo/:id' => 'foos#e
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by uxp 15y ago
This makes me think of WINE. WINE takes the direct API, as in all the doSomethings(), and rewrites how it does that thing to work on a different environment than the original API call intended it to do. In the end, it may have the same ex
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by uxp 15y ago
> So the other part of me disagrees, the code-monkey will be needed, just that they will be putting together different bits than they are today. It seems to me the Hiring Manager in the story was fishing for a jack-of-all-trades kind of
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by uxp 15y ago
Just like a lot of lead generation/spam email campaigns I've seen, I'd assume a lot of phishing and scam email "campaigns" are strictly copy and pasted from a single source (ie, a forum post somewhere), with very few scammers actually putti
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by uxp 15y ago
A billion dollar exit is not the only reason to start a company or work for a startup That's actually what I got from the editorial. A billion dollars shouldn't be your motivation to bootstrap a startup or look to VCs to turn a hobby proj
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by uxp 15y ago
He could also piggyback over existing copper/fiber owned by the large telcos. It's allowed by law even. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_carr...
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by uxp 15y ago
What I do have a problem with is advertisers tracking people across websites, and that all of the major browser vendors are happy to facilitate/encourage this. I think everyone has a problem with this to a degree. I'm ok with Google givin
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by uxp 15y ago
I honestly don't have a preference on the eye candy present in most operating systems, but I do know that I dislike the agonizing wait introduced to open a new window, watching it's open animation progress frame by frame after I've put my w
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by uxp 15y ago
> iAds might matter, but it seems to be a flop and Apple isn't exactly heavily invested in it. Even further, iMessage accounts are tied to existing Apple IDs, which in most cases are tied to the user's iPhone and iTunes Store account. I
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by uxp 15y ago
It's a hack, but if you have XCode installed, you can outright hide the directories. /usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Applications/Adobe\ Foo
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by uxp 15y ago
This was more or less asked a a few days ago on Reddit[0]. The top comment explains it better than I've ever heard before, in the perspective of an American organization. But, like the article hints at, even unlicensed radio frequencies are

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