jwarkentin

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by jwarkentin 12y ago
Being aware of exploits and protecting against them comes with the territory. Luckily there are things like owasp.org to help developers keep up on web security. However, security is hard and it can't be done absent mindedly. There is
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
"If this was such a beneficial mutation, why isn’t it more common?" Based on natural selection it would only necessarily be more common if it affected reproduction. It may begin to affect reproduction now that people are sleeping
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What Jill Lepore Gets Wrong About Clayton Christensen and Disruptive Innovation(forbes.com)
1 points by jwarkentin 12y ago|0 comments
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
I don't know the history but if that were the case then the non-compete should be between the owner and buyer, not employer and employee. It makes no sense to go after the employees to prevent former owner competition.
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
Haha, indeed. Who would ever have thought to put a picture on a white background? Gotta protect that IP!
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
You're correct about the forward secrecy. That's what I get for commenting at 2am. I was thinking about TLS where there can be a frequently rotating asymmetric key pair. The symmetric key in TLS isn't used for PFS, only for p
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
If you're not bothering with the HTTP protocol then you don't even need a certificate at all. You just need to have something like SSH's 'known_hosts' file. All you need to know when initiating communication over a
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
> mixing of HTTP/HTTPS content This is ALWAYS a bad idea. A few points: - The only purpose of HTTPS and encrypting communications in general is to prevent MITM attacks. - If your server is even willing to serve unencrypted requests
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
http://okturtles.com/
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How do you perform brain surgery on yourself?(wiki.answers.com)
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
It's not necessarily "advanced", but it is unexpected behavior I think. I've run into this same sort of issue myself. It didn't take ages to figure out, but it was annoying. It's one of those things that separa
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
I never stated whether I believe in a creator being or not, nor will I since it is not relevant to this conversation. The belief that a creator is orchestrating things is what's known in science as a theory. The point I was making is t
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
See, this is what bothers me. Too many people seem to think that there is a conflict between evolution and creationism. The thing is, both can in fact be true. Who's to say that there isn't a creator orchestrating processes? Such
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
So if I believe I have the right to drive really fast and I think the laws need to be changed; but you believe I shouldn't have the right to go fast, does that mean that you believe I'm a second class citizen for believing I shoul
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by jwarkentin 12y ago
Given your analogy, it seems to me that if one wants to work for a start-up it would be wise to vet the CEO as much as they should vet any engineer. Naturally, not all CEO's are created equally and not all of them are bound to succeed.
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
It seems that OP thinks the asynchronous nature of JavaScript was meant as a performance optimization. Let's go back to its origins. It was originally a scripting language for the browser. If it were to be synchronous and/or allow
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
A better solution might be to throttle multiple requests to the same domain. Also, they could prevent it from fetching the same content multiple times and use a cache instead based on ETAGs and file information.
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
I never got that. He wrote a great article about the issue and then ended with using UCS-2. I always wondered if there was something I missed that made him choose UCS-2 over UTF-8, since UTF-8 can represent every Unicode code point.
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Unicode, UTF-8 and character encodings: What every developer should know(teknically-speaking.com)
1 points by jwarkentin 13y ago|0 comments
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
If your problem is the same as mine then I think I can help. I find that I often struggle to focus and be productive as well - even to the point of zero productivity. There are four things that I do that help a lot: 1) Eliminate distraction
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
That depends on how you measure success. Those "failures" added up to your successes today. So back then you must have successfully learned something...
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
Regardless of how "proper" your memory is at age 5, you can still learn things and figure things out. You get better at it with practice. It's also a well studied fact that younger minds are more impressionable and have great
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
3) There's a group of people who aren't lawyers, don't give a crap and just want to enjoy life without arguing over the technicalities and legalities of everything, especially things that can't provably affect the profit
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
Since I can't reply to your last two comments (too deeply nested I guess), I'll comment here. I agree that right now it's not going to happen, no matter how many different efforts there are out there. For it to really happen
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that as a generality. The stability and latency of the network very much depends on the routing protocol used as well as the strength of the connection between the nodes (assuming it's a wireles
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
Did you know that cell phone networks today are mesh networks? There is a huge amount of work going into mesh network development, though admittedly, there's still a long way to go. Also, did you see this (one of many interesting effor
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
A mesh network is a distributed network that removes the concept of having a single point of access as we do now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
That only works in places where a free market exists. In the case of ISPs there are generally very limited options and no room for new competitors. That being the case, we don't have much of a free market or opportunity for proper capi
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
Or we can replace the internet with a mesh net and solve the problem of regulation, centralized control and ISPs altogether :)
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by jwarkentin 13y ago
As long as it's targeted to sites I might be interested in, I don't mind. Everyone needs revenue and I'll happily support the attempts that aren't evil. Advertising isn't going to ever end. I prefer relevant, non-in

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