inaequitas

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by inaequitas 15y ago
I find this to be somewhat of a depressing attitude. While it's not mandatory that everyone fight every fight worth fighting, I wouldn't actively discourage those willing to take a stand for the things they find worthwhile. Especially since
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by inaequitas 15y ago
A rant about software that he won't use. Clearly he has done some testing to see how things are, but why would he use something he's convinced is crap?
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by inaequitas 15y ago
The bitsquatted domain sends two records, one for the squatted domain and one for the original name, pointing to the squatter's server. The parent article isn't as detailed as the paper/talk was, but this is a point that the DEFCON presenta
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by inaequitas 15y ago
I saw this talk at DEFCON. ECC memory solves the problem, however there are many components that don't have it, even in servers: NICs, HDDs/SSDs, or routers on the path. The most hits reported by the researcher were related to FarmVille, an
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Telehack(telehack.com)
5 points by inaequitas 15y ago|0 comments
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by inaequitas 15y ago
The hacking scenes in 'Hackers' are completely off, but it's still one of my favourite movies. Maybe because of the age it's set in, or the 'feel' of the movie.
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How to destroy the Earth(qntm.org)
2 points by inaequitas 15y ago|0 comments
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by inaequitas 15y ago
Numbers are only important if you're not looking to stand out. There are plenty of doctors, lawyers, writers and economists coming out of Universities at any given time. You don't hear about most, because they don't do anything worth hearin
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by inaequitas 15y ago
Without knowing the internals of how Dropbox operates, my empirical observations are that they employ block-level deduplication, i.e. when you change bits in the middle of the file, the whole thing doesn't get re-uploaded. Which means they
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by inaequitas 15y ago
Why? I would consider this to be too much stuff if you had a lot of applications duplicating functionality. As it is, though, this seems like a pretty basic working set, very much what I'd call 'practical minimalism'
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by inaequitas 15y ago
That's kind of nifty, but I still prefer reading the hostname on the connection. I use a variation of Steve Losh's awesome zsh prompt and that helps make things petty obvious (if anything, because some of the remote shells won't have the be
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by inaequitas 15y ago
Zed Shaw wrote this ( https://twitter.com/#!/zedshaw/status/54434747652390912 ) and then him and Dan Kaminski had a good talk on Twitter about it.
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by inaequitas 15y ago
Definitely, but unfortunately a lot of one-off code meant for school assignments isn't valuable for anything else. And I wouldn't want GitHub to be littered with random things that aren't — and don't need to be — FLOSS projects, but instead
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by inaequitas 15y ago
I agree that this is the most valuable way to judge a candidate, but unfortunately I don't think it would work for most students and most companies (been through it all) because: a) students have a fair bit of school work to do, and: b) mos
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by inaequitas 15y ago
My knee-jerk reaction would be to agree, but I think it's also a matter of who can be helped the most. Smaller teams might not be able to afford extensive training from The Big Nerd Ranch or other outfits as much as larger corps might. So W
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Radiation Chart(xkcd.com)
85 points by inaequitas 16y ago|7 comments
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by inaequitas 16y ago
It's up to apps to implement it. But why, do you honestly think it will get in the way anywhere besides IDEs (and maybe not even there...)? This is an honest question because I can't really think of instances where I wouldn't want something
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by inaequitas 16y ago
The guidelines say that apps should auto-save their documents on Lion, and you can bet Apple'sown productivity suite will. So snapshotting every 2 seconds might not work out too well.
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by inaequitas 16y ago
That's certainly what I notice, and I am a student of CS. I find it bizarre that so many of my colleagues really feel they are in CS to learn how to program, rather than to study the higher level concepts. This is made harder by many progra
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What is the biggest weakness of students graduating with degrees in CS?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
5 points by inaequitas 16y ago|2 comments
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by inaequitas 16y ago
I'm sure they will, but 24 hours after a decently-publicized launch is a good starting point. I'd be more concerned with how the measurements were taken, because hitting the page to see how it looks or to bookmark it doesn't really qualify
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The Simplification of Computing (or: Why Geeks are Niche Users)(mrtoto.net)
5 points by inaequitas 16y ago|0 comments
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by inaequitas 16y ago
What is a 'minor version upgrade' and how do you propose Apple automates that process? Surely you don't expect that stealing your address book would prompt the developer to make the app a v2 because of the extra functionality?
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Pointless Firesheep countermeasure, BlackSheep(petter-haggholm.livejournal.com)
1 points by inaequitas 16y ago|1 comments
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by inaequitas 16y ago
I think Matt Legend Gemmel's post "Your App's Website Sucks"[0] is applicable to all webpages. As others have said, you get a few seconds. Don't waste customers' time with what you think is important. [0]: http://mattgemmell.com/2010/06/
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Understanding AMQP, the protocol used by RabbitMQ(blog.springsource.com)
2 points by inaequitas 16y ago|0 comments
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Ejection Seats, Cooking Dinner, and Vuln Disclosure(attrition.org)
7 points by inaequitas 16y ago|0 comments
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by inaequitas 17y ago
I remember having to symlink /usr/local/lib/python2.6 to /Library/Python/2.6 so that site-packages are automatically included in $PYTHONPATH. You should also see what echo $PYTHONPATH says, and make sure site-packages is in there. For refer
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by inaequitas 17y ago
Hg - 8.1s/clone, 1.5s/pull git:// - 8.7s/clone, 2.8s/pull Again though, I was curious if you had some numbers. I'm not here to argue which is better, because, really, it's a subjective argument.
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by inaequitas 17y ago
People don't have an agenda against git — it simply doesn't work for them. It's not the holy grail of DVCS', and neither are Hg or bzr; different tools for different people. Where are you getting your performance results from? The footnote

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