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by wilsynet 12y ago
It's useful to point it out in tech because in tech, we believe that we operate with the purity of egalitarianism. But real life is more complicated and messy.
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by wilsynet 12y ago
It's a stupid term. For the warez scene it makes sense, because a 0 day license exploit has the hallmark of having been available on day 0 for all time. Using 0 day to refer to "days since disclosure to vendor", well, it bec
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by wilsynet 12y ago
What if the vendor already knew? If Apple reveals 2 years from now that they had discovered it on their own 15 days before Google reported the exploit, does it become a 90 + 15 = 105 day, retroactively?
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by wilsynet 12y ago
Most programming jobs involve a lot of algebra. You have variables, you do arithmetic to those variables, you apply functions. It's not a great surprise to me that if you are good at high school algebra, you can probably learn how to
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Dart enters top 20 on the TIOBE index(tiobe.com)
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by wilsynet 12y ago
If Foursquare had been bought by FB, Google, Yahoo a few years ago when it had peaked, and then a few years later numbers were down, and engagement became sparse, the parent company would have either de-invested or shut it down. And then th
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by wilsynet 12y ago
Because that would violate the Apple rules (and also be practically infeasible for technical reasons). You can officially (as a matter of policy and enforced by iOS) distribute apps in 3 ways: 1. Through the App Store 2. As an enterprise de
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by wilsynet 12y ago
A few of my friends had a Danger device. My second hand observation (and you have to remember this was many years ago now) was that they were somewhat fragile. One friend was on his 5th hiptop in 18 months, and another was on his 3rd in ab