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by walexander 15y ago
If you use a TPM to store your device encryption key, a PIN combination should be fine. Of course, by definition that requires hardware support. I work in Android security in particular for a manufacturer. We came across the unencrypted ema
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by walexander 15y ago
The correct answer is to use a TPM - Trusted Platform Module - for that key. Accessing the TPM itself requires a password, but the hardware prevents against bruteforce/dictionary attacks.
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by walexander 15y ago
Another point to make: if you're a developer, don't be afraid to ask for the best hardware. I've seen many developers sit around staring at laptop screens while I'm working on my 2x24" monitors. Do not feel like you're being greedy. Ask y
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by walexander 15y ago
Lots of people seem to think this is bad for plumbers, but I rarely see anyone complain when the same thing is dreamed by a 19 year old in YC.
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by walexander 15y ago
I'm not sure this debate is likely to go anywhere, but what exactly is wrong with people thinking they are better off than they are, or aspiring to be? If people don't want help, why force it upon them? Disclaimer: I love Android and 100% o
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by walexander 15y ago
Related to that, most of our debt is owed to the federal reserve, which just makes up money out of thin air for us anyway. Could the federal reserve theoretically give a forbearance on interest payments? The debt owed to the public and inte
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by walexander 15y ago
I'm fairly certain there is no crisis. They'll come to some last minute deal, as always, after they've done all the theatrics for MSNBC and Fox.
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by walexander 15y ago
Terrible article, in my opinion. The thesis is not supported in the slightest. This was just an unfocused rant about the new TLDs and a quick upvote grab by putting a trendy jab at free markets in the title. What are free markets making wor
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by walexander 15y ago
Yeah, I personally couldn't believe he had people copying entire articles into their paper and simply let it slide with a lecture on how to source articles. I've always tried to agonize over drawing some unique conclusions from a variety of
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by walexander 15y ago
That's not necessarily true. Lot's of people can "talk the talk" with a highly embellished resume and land a job. As a result of the cheating, grade inflation becomes worse and a possibly highly able candidate with a 3.4 GPA may completely
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by walexander 15y ago
In fact, I did look at the article. When I thought of a computer notebook doing this, I was envisioning a keyboard on the bottom like any other netbook. I suppose in the tablet sense it might be possible.
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by walexander 15y ago
I'm sure someone could, but why would they want to? A rectangular form factor for display has been the standard for decades. All applications, save for some desktop widgets, are shaped accordingly. Putting rectangular designs on this would
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by walexander 15y ago
If that's a criteria for you when looking for an employer, then that's your choice, but I personally would never expect such a thing. The last time I had to interview (being an engineer), I was sent 7 resumes on a Monday for interviews bein
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by walexander 15y ago
Did you not have your previous work clearly listed on your resume? Why would you expect, say, an engineer who just got FW your resume an hour before the interview to go google you and stalk your twitter feed?
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by walexander 15y ago
Instead of responding to your parent directly, i'll just add that this is exactly why I prefaced my post with "I believe". That said, I'm not implying we have built in instructions to go create a townhous. Simply that there is possibly a dr
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by walexander 15y ago
I believe some of us have an intrinsic desire to build things. Just like birds build nests and bees build hives. Some of us have a desire to build and are probably rewarded with some chemical brain fix as a result. At this point though, we'
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by walexander 15y ago
Well, I chose "Windows Laptop", since I primarily use a Win 7 laptop physically. My actual development, however, happens inside a VNC window on a remote Linux box.
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by walexander 15y ago
Did you actually read the WSJ article, or just the rebuttal to it? The actual article mentions almost everything he does, then focuses on wage increases as worsening the effect. This blogger decides to focus on 55+ employment, which he alre
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by walexander 15y ago
> Statistics and correlation are not meaningless. Granted. However, in a post about how correlation between unemployment and minimum wage is overstated, I feel his defense should be more rigorous than: A) Irrelevantly point out Bush was
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by walexander 15y ago
Where are the statistics to suggest that people 55+ are taking all the minimum wage jobs? Why does this author mention "Bush" four times? The blogger is editorializing worse than the WSJ here (not that the WSJ article was much better). Esse
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by walexander 15y ago
It would be useful to aggregate some of this based on a, say, 25 mile radius. I think separating Cambridge from Boston, for example, obscures some of the data here.
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by walexander 15y ago
I believe I've personally had more issues with misclicks on the honeycomb buttons as there is not as much of a clearly defined delineation between screen and softkeys as with the screen and capacitive buttons on my smartphone. I supposed th
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by walexander 15y ago
>Holding Nintendo Accountable >volunteers for Defective By Design assembled the cardboard bricks (and had some fun doing so!). They are fighting DRM by sending Nintendo... bricks? Wearing pink shirts wont get Bush thrown in jail. We
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by walexander 15y ago
One note about your website: I recommend enabling the controls on that jQuery scroll widget for the iPhone. Having the screen scroll away while i'm checking out the UI is a little annoying (and then having to wait a full cycle to see the sc
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by walexander 15y ago
What are with some of these comments? This is not a story about a man who lost his 401k value. This is about seeing the end of the road and realizing the greatest things you've done you can never do again. Here's a man who is considered by
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by walexander 15y ago
/me rolls eyes As didactic as that comment was, I suppose I could have said grandpa. I did use grandma, however, because I don't personally have any grandpas on my facebook, and in my own experience (and evidenced from this link) there are
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by walexander 15y ago
Grandmas use facebook. Grandmas use skype. This is an excellent pairing and will make it even harder for Google+ to get the non-HN crowd types off of FB. Great play, i'd say.
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by walexander 15y ago
Is there an android client? Why is this better than any other contact list? I know there was a post about how products don't need a homepage, just give an email form, but realistically I'm not likely to ever give my email out if I have that
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by walexander 15y ago
I had a paid internship but would have gladly done it unpaid if I had to. I interned at a big name place, so YMMV, but I can say that senior year when I was looking for jobs _no one_ cared about what I did in school and _everyone_ cared wha
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by walexander 15y ago
Anecdotally, a project I worked on involved evaluating some encrypted file systems on linux and encFS (on FUSE) was at an order of magnitude worse performance than kernel solutions. Not to say it could never happen, but the tradeoff on perf

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