wcummings

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   by wcummings 13y ago

   Saying CC's have robust fraud protection is equally misleading, imo. They require you trust every merchant, website, waiter, etc to not abuse your information. Chargebacks just shift the cost of the merchant, most of the time, and as b
2. 1202.▲
   by wcummings 13y ago

   There's an "AmigaOS" release from '06 [1] (you can buy expensive PowerPC boards that run it) [2] [1] http://www.amigaos.net [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS_4#Compatible_hardware
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   How would an attacker exploit a service while it was inaccessible because they're DDoSing it? Why would someone draw attention to themselves like that? Maybe the attacker stole the coins and then DDoS'd the site? It's all s
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   The idea that airgapping during DDoS attacks will prevent intrusions is laughable.
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   This benchmark is read-only so write-overhead doesn't matter
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   The problem is that if someone finds a bug in say, PHP, the exploit could easily be worth 60-100x the $1500 you'd get paid when its fixed .
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   I'm not a huge node fan, but these are some weak criticisms. Not sure "CGI" is really appropriate for all tasks.
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   I'm not sure anyone ever claimed snapchat was "secure".
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   by wcummings 13y ago

   I think most people are familiar with what pseudo-anonymous means, no need to keep restating it in different ways.
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Whatsapp is like iChat, but x-platform. You get delivery notification etc
11. 1211.▲
    by wcummings 13y ago

    Pseudo-anonymity is still loads better than a CC transaction from my point of view, but your point is taken. Of course, you can always buy Bitcoin with cash (:
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    It's obvious to me that many of the Bitcoin critics in this thread have never actually used it. I prefer Bitcoin for online purchases, if a vendor accepts it, I'll use it. Purchases aren't tracked, or being sucked up by some
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    All these slackware haters! Go back to heroku, lusers. Glad to see slackware is still kickin', still have fond memories of my first linux install :>
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Guile? http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    I'm not sure why he assumes the entire virus would be implemented in BIOS, as opposed to injecting code into the OS when it loads code of the disk during boot. Still kinda out there, though.
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    I suspect it's not configured for prod, since I'm seeing a stacktrace
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Probably just hitting the fd-per-process ulimit
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    node.js is sexier when it doesn't serve stacktraces in production. Plus async files reads still happen in an internal threadpool (one thread per core, hardcoded, IIRC) so it's pretty easy to saturate that anyway, you should be cac
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Error: EMFILE, too many open files '/home/ubuntu/robocoin/robocoin-website/views/index.html' at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:427:18) at fs.readFileSync (fs.js:284:15) at View.exports.
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Has anyone considered that blogging might be a disease?
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    Last release was 2.1, in June afaik
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    >Pre- and post-checks are of course possible, but I've rarely seen them used in practice. I agree, I wish more people (especially Javascript developers) saw the value of pre (and post!) checking. >The reason I call it one of the
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    I think a lot of the NoSQL hate comes from people who don't understand the use-case, and don't build High Availability/Low Latency systems. A lot of the things I work on require pre-summarized data to provide fast response ti
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    This guy is a little too souped on optional type-checking. This has existed in erlang for years, in the form of dialyzer (which allows for compile time validation of complex nested data structures), and in any dynamic language a good develo
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    I'm endorsed for "Social Justice"
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    by wcummings 13y ago

    >release something that uses this paradigm and let's me get something done and I'll use it >This allows programmers to write individual functions that execute one step at a time, but route data between these functions asynch