el_cuadrado

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by el_cuadrado 13y ago
What is the point of responding to a casual HN comment with a blog post, besides PR opportunity?
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
This is a good thing, mostly because the concept of 'reputability' is not very viable. A third party is reputable as long as it is 100% objective. And there is no such thing as 100% objectivity in human world. Everything is relative. Reputa
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
According to this logic, reporters should not lie about anything. Unfortunately, this phrase: "lose all of his credibility as a reporter" is already an oxymoron.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
It is not misleading information, it is brilliant marketing. Gotta give them that.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
I think the author is missing a point here: Macbook Air is a full-blown computer (I run several VMs on mine), while Surface is a freaking tablet. I am ok with 'wasted' space on a computer, because first, I expect OS to have a substantial fo
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Excellent explanation, thank you.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
I though this was a pretty much standard legal procedure in this circumstances. How is that news?
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
2006 happened 7 years ago. Time flies.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Is it just me, or are they successfully killing a strawman in this article? Who the hell uses js cryptography for such things?
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
HBO is 11th on the list. Sounds legit.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
align=center. MY EYES, MY EYES!
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
> Unless the article means that the key itself is a derivation (a hash?) of the password Why is this an issue? Other people call this 'issue' PKCS5.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
20/20, although MATTEL was tricky. That pesky capital 'A'.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
I, for one, would like to have more passwords in iOS. Like password-protecting my email app, file sharing app, and others.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Yep, right - fencing solution that relies on the network to stop the service. How could that possibly fail?
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
The person who did all this was not supposed to see the original picture. The whole thing happened because of sharing, tagging and mutual friends. It is a technological problem.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
> To be fair to Facebook, figuring these kinds of nuances out isn’t easy God damn it, it is called ACLs. Not exactly a rocket, or even computer science.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
High Availability strikes again. No surprise there. But I am mildly flabbergasted by the fact that GitHub uses STONITH. The technology is as safe as open-core nuclear reactor, and it works reliably only in very simple conditions.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
It is extremely confusing. - It does not work in the browser! - Which browser? - The browser! - I got that, you idiot. WHICH browser?!
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
I am pretty sure there is a huge potential to run machine-learning algorytms on the recommendation data to detect anomalies. It must be fun to be a computer science guy at Linkedin.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
FYI: most SPAM feedback systems reduce your account weight ('trust score') if you tag your non-SPAM emails as SPAM. Although I agree with one-click-unsubscribe sentiment, clicking SPAM on an e-mail you subscribed for is not very productive.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
ActiveSync is proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with iOS or Android. Everybody is implementing it (and paying hefty license fee to MSFT), because it is the best and most-widely supported sync protocol.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
I am sorry, but this is not true. IMAP as a protocol does not support push notifications. There are extension for IMAP that supports push, but they are not widely supported.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
> No bike directions. :| Yes, what is up with that? Android app had that for ages. I guess I am not supposed to have an iPhone if I bike.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Looks like they have MX and TXT, but missing A. Weird.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Either you do not get sarcasm, or very, very good at it yourself.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
> People criticize c++ because you can overload the operators to mean anything you want By the same people who struggle to read math, I guess.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
BMW has been making ActivE (all-electric 1 series) for a while now. They are not released to general public because, well, the technology is not good enough yet - and BMW is not under pressure of bankruptcy.
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Main function of a car is to move a group of people from point A to point B. Tesla is getting good at it, provided point A and point B are not too far apart, and pint B has an electric charger available. And that is a pretty critical limita
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by el_cuadrado 14y ago
Yes, if you do not travel, it is a perfect car. I would not take Tesla on my camping trip, or my ski trip, or my ~700 miles road trip. And I honestly do not want a car I cannot use outside of my commute.

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