jamess

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by jamess 18y ago
Read K&R, a large part of the book is given over to writing a simple allocator. There really isn't an awful lot to understand if you're treating the hardware as a black box.
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by jamess 18y ago
Wouldn't they just pay some Chinese sweat shop a dollar a throw or something? If they're saving money on registration fees, I don't see how making it a little awkward will deter them.
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by jamess 18y ago
Very good idea, I'd sooner give away a domain name to someone who was going to use it than let some blasted domain parking business get hold of it. On the other hand, I have no idea how you'd stop domain parkers from actually using the serv
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by jamess 18y ago
I have an eeepc, but you couldn't do any serious amount of work on it. I'm not so concerned about the horsepower (if your software is so bloated it doesn't run at speed on an eeepc, which is way faster than my main development machine was o
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by jamess 18y ago
Yep. Worse still, he's wrong even on that small point. I'm working on Delay Tolerant Networking for mobile phones, mostly for deployment in isolated communities in the developed world. Mobile phones are everything OLPC strives to be, cheap,
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by jamess 18y ago
Hey, I've got a crazy idea. Instead of a completely unsupported, fantasy standard "smart link" you could instead offer a link to a vcal file, or vcard file, or a location XML file. Then every damn computer and mobile device in the world wou
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by jamess 18y ago
My bookshelf has been all fiction for about 6 years now. Technical books are more or less obsolete, the only ones I can remember buying in all that time is the Samba administrators guide from O'Reilly (useless.) and Stuart Cheshire's Zeroco
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by jamess 18y ago
Is this one of the ways you're looking to "monetise the internet", begging? Shameless. Even assuming this isn't pure scam, three words: Get a job. Flagged.
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by jamess 18y ago
Ew! They use the timestamp parameter for that? That's both sick and wrong. Requiring people who access your webservice to have an accurate clock is the most braindead thing I've heard this month, at least. Oh boy, network congestion and clo
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by jamess 18y ago
Sorry, but you aren't thinking like a security professional here. Consider the case, e.g., where you create a domain, delete it and recreate it. An attacker monitoring the deletion can with impunity wipe out your data at a later date.
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by jamess 18y ago
Does it worry anyone else that there seems to be no protection provided against replaying any particular authenticated request? If I were using this service, I'd heavily recommend restricting non-https requests to read-only operations. Any
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by jamess 18y ago
Hah, blast. Just when you think you have an interesting new idea... Certainly not using google gears would be a good idea, though.
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Ask HN: JsCrack, an experiment in distributed computing
5 points by jamess 18y ago|3 comments
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by jamess 18y ago
Personally, I think Objective C is a horrid and butcherous hack that really ought to have died when C++ was standardised. Trying to make C in to some kind of bastard and retarded cousin of smalltalk was never a good idea.
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by jamess 18y ago
Well, from a personal perspective, trade shows are a great place to meet people. If you go to niche trade shows year after year, you get to know the other people who go. I've made some good friends in the trade press who have really helped
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Analysis: iPhone doesn't benifit mobile operators business, may be damaging.(strandreports.com)
2 points by jamess 18y ago|0 comments
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by jamess 18y ago
You can. XServe is essentially a vanity purchase, and no company in their right mind would buy them. They're about twice as expensive as the same box from Dell.
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by jamess 18y ago
Generally, this sort of thing isn't worthwhile unless the liabilities you're exposed to by being broken are in excess of about $10M. Anything less than that, and it's a job for a butch insurance policy. If you're reasonably confident that y
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by jamess 18y ago
Oh, OK. The number I was looking for something close to had a couple more zeros on the end of it, I'm afraid. A decent code audit will take about a quarter of the time it took to write the code and its accompanying tests, and is an extremel
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by jamess 18y ago
What sort of price are you looking to pay? I've written a lot of secure software in the past, and I may well be able to recommend a couple of firms who have done a similar job for me but I'm afraid they don't come terribly cheap.
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by jamess 18y ago
Ha! A wonderful example of why we have laws regarding unfair contract terms. I can't believe they found a lawyer either ignorant or optimistic enough to put this in. The remedy is out of all proportion with the injury (which, as far as I ca
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by jamess 18y ago
Being involved somewhat in DTN, I'm here to tell you that the RFC 5050 bundle protocol is a steaming pile of crap. It desperately needs updating to stop trading off minuscule numbers of bytes saved in transmission for ridiculous pain in act
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by jamess 18y ago
So, if you're not sure how you feel about unions what have you done as an individual to improve your pay and how has it worked out? If they're saying no to the union, I'm guessing either you've done nothing or if you did ask for more money
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by jamess 18y ago
Not this Britisher. The only way I can stand to drink tea is the Indian way, stewed and with half a ton of sugar in.
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by jamess 18y ago
Does it annoy anyone else when people say operating system, when they mean user interface or window manager? You'd think after a year or so covering the industry, they'd get their terminology straight.
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by jamess 18y ago
By having a landing page that isn't just a giant map. You need to explain what your site does. As it is, I suspect most of your visitors will arrive and depart almost immediately.
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by jamess 18y ago
Not precisely a web app per se, but a product I'd really like to see someone produce. It seems to me that the BBC's iPlayer sets the standard for TV stations broadcasting their content over the internet. They have flash streaming at reasona
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by jamess 18y ago
There is one and only one such mechanism that exists, reverse-billed SMS. Even then, the fees payable will often amount to some 25% of the total. What are you going to be selling? If its something you are expecting lots of repeat custom, th
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by jamess 18y ago
I was going to go with 99% of the time they never generate enough revenue to cover their costs, but each to their own I suppose.
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by jamess 18y ago
Yes, I'm afraid you are. SOAP is out of control. You can tell how bad it is getting since it was originally named "Simple" which even back in the day was a misnomer. The fact that all mention or pretence of it being simple has gone out the

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