hackercomplex

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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Developer laptop compromise is probably the biggest security risk that any startup company faces, because the developer laptop is an uncontrolled environment with a lot of "attack surface" which may have been previously compromise
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
In my view the entire problem is that developers in general have been brainwashed into beliving that they are better off dealing with recruiters when in fact the best thing they could do for themselves would be to do their homework, that is
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
"a period of disconnection, of feeling as if you have been abandoned by God, of not knowing how to get back on track." ^ that sounds to me a lot like a common "bad trip" on LSD.
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I believe that you can definitely wonder into the same territory through meditation. Some people even get there through athletics by pushing themselves really intestly. The experiences that people describe as "bad trip" can be fo
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
For all you fraidy cats read about "micro dosing" there is a whole community around it with some fascinating observations.
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Maybe this has already been asked, but the part that I struggle to understand is what about TX ? I mean is a smartphone going to have enough wattage to beam a message back to this drone ? If not then what's the plan for solving that 1&
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
How about figuring out how to advance Open Education in some meaningful way ? For example: Would it be possible to create a YC branded online University which confers honorary degrees ? Even if the degrees are not fully recognized would it
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
>Do people, without the fear of not being able to eat, accomplish far more and benefit society far more? Why not basic commodities ? I mean distributing significant quantities of corn, corn-meal, flour, rice, a wide variety of beans, dr
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Does anyone know if an extremely controversial new peice of software was recently pushed ?
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
As you point out there's definitely a learning curve with this tech, however there's also a learning curve with rolling your own versions of many of it's capabilities which is the alternative. I also personally find XML conf
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
In my view what we're really talking about here is PaaS. Every shop is left to implement a private PaaS on their own for the most part. There are software companies out there who specialize in helping teams deploy this kind of archit
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Well it looks like you're right I wasn't aware of how efficient COW forking is. I stand corrected
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I know they're native threads, they're lightweight compared to unix processes. You're trying to change the subject to CPU performance during context switch when what we were discussing in memory consumption. The memory overh
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
exorbitant! quite right The overhead for a unix process is significantly more than a lightweight JVM thread. In some cases this memory overhead can prevent you from utilizing the smaller cloud instance types which are sometimes the most co
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
in the Ruby world people end up consuming more RAM when using the C based ruby (MRI) because in order to achieve concurrency they must scale with processes and that consumes an absorbent amount of RAM. With JRuby you can scale concurrency
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I couldn't agree more, but I think you should add Clojure to the list. There's also advanced profiling tools available for the JVM platform. For those who do use Rails the Torquebox environment is available http://torq
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
Keep in mind that the AMP caching infrastructure will also be able to serve as a tracking platform because it records every single IP address. This effectively grants Google and associates a defacto monopoly in terms of an unblockable mobi
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I just went and dug up the material I was referencing, and the memoirs are from the third Balkan war of the 1990s. Here brother: http://shtfschool.com/community/selco-one-year-in-hell/ This guy's material is
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
You can do your own homework, there are well documented historical accounts. There are situations where a large city was cut off, for weeks no supplies in or out, the lights were off.. and the "shit hit the fan" for those people
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
well everyone should be armed of course, and have gone through firearms safety training, but it's not just about the sheer number of guns it's also about their capacities but most importantly it's training that matters. I def
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
There's ample evidence in particular if you study the Kosovo War outbreak there were situations where regions were cut off from supplies, power was lost, but yet there was no invasion or shelling. Ireland comes to mind, there are some
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> Yet with "Statistically speaking hurricane prepping is much bigger deal in America than survivalism" you imply that 'survivalism' does not include hurricane prepping, so is not the same as the 'prepper culture&
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
It's more like.. a disaster happens, so police response times have lapsed, dropped to days. Not everyone is stranded on their roof, tons of people have food but the real problem is that now heavily armed and well organized drug gangs
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I see where you're coming from, but you emphasize a widely held stereotype about the 'american prepper' which I think A. isn't true, and B. makes it seem almost fatalistic, which is the idea of "every family for him
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I have no personal experience but just from reading the news my feeling is that it's reached the point where both sides just kind of want to see the issue "go away" in the media. The people operating on these markets certainl
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
I think your confused about gold. Any coin shop or pawn shop in America will give you close to spot price in USD for the yellow metal. You don't even need to show ID. The hard part has been.. how do you buy or sell or pay with gold e
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> The point being, you might want to re-analyze "high seas gun battle" for its actual downsides. I agree that there could be tremendous downsides, but at the same time I wouldn't want to reach for any type of safety gear a
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
> there aren't many TV shows on preparing for hurricane season. You're making my point for me. Statistically speaking hurricane prepping is much bigger deal in America than survivalism but yet the TV media campaign leaves outs
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
To be honest I didn't mean to troll I just know very little about modern sailing, but I'm truly in awe of individuals who have what it takes to attempt that kind of an extreme adventure. Never the less, and perhaps it's my Am
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by hackercomplex 11y ago
You're thinking of circumnavigating but yet you're not psychologically prepared to push back against a boarding party ? Doesn't that mean even a small skiff could overtake you ? https://pbs.twimg.com/media&#x

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