majelix

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by majelix 9y ago
This article is less about specifically running 100 mile-races and more about doing something that requires self-control; and the claim is that doing so will make anyone a more successful person.
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by majelix 9y ago
> ”Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning to program” Here's the full quote: "Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning how to program computers—but he only had that opportunity because he had the good fortune of havin
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by majelix 9y ago
> There is virtually zero use for this capability [running 100 mile races] That's a major point of the article, given it's discussion of the spillover effect: "The bottom line: Practice self-control in one area of your lif
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by majelix 10y ago
> Seems like way too much work for an attacker to try to figure out. I dunno, seems like way more work to come up with, maintain, and actually use the generator. Seems easier to just click a bunch in my vault to generate and copy, althou
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by majelix 10y ago
Of these, 1: Chose the project you want to contribute to (and 1.5: Choose the issue to work on) and 9: Follow up are the hard ones. Both are primarily social problems. For 1, it's mostly about knowing yourself. What projects interest y
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by majelix 11y ago
How would you go about testing your internal endpoints?
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by majelix 11y ago
> I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. That's a feature, not a bug. Limit your first reading to basic understanding of the plot and setting; ignore exploration of "deeper"
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by majelix 12y ago
Spoiler alert: Your "private" network isn't.
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by majelix 12y ago
If you're hourly, of course it's a different thing. But if you're salaried, it's an arms race. Employees willing to work extra hours get more done (or at worst, only appear to get more done), and thus will get the reward
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by majelix 13y ago
But yet we find 3-5 hours a day for watching TV?
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by majelix 13y ago
It's even worse than that -- kill is just a command that sends signals to a program, some of which happen to (gracefully or not) stop the program. You can even define your own!
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by majelix 13y ago
> while the president leads the day-to-day operations. How would you characterize the COO then?
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by majelix 13y ago
> How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ? For starters, Microsoft does not have a monopoly on game consoles.
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by majelix 13y ago
He's probably talking about client-side IDS, such as in a corporate environment. It's worth noting that in such an environment, he likely controls the client machines themselves (ie, only corporate machines on the corporate networ
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by majelix 13y ago
Snarky answer: He wants to be able to spy on his users in order to protect them from themselves.
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by majelix 13y ago
Why would technology be any different from anything else? The prosecution and defense are free to call on expert witnesses to explain SSL and heart surgery to the judge and jury.
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by majelix 13y ago
They're probably simple wrappers around https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassia...
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by majelix 13y ago
> It either relies on a waterfall-like process where the full design is known before-hand and therefore what tests have to be written, This is that fuzzy line between behavior driven development and test driven development. Sure, yo
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by majelix 13y ago
Yes, if you can't solve a problem, you certainly can't solve a problem in a supportable manner. Agile has the concept of Spikes ( http://www.scaledagileframework.com/spikes/ ) for researching new problems. The
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by majelix 13y ago
> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said This is true for the United States Postal Service as well. I've always thought it'd be interestin
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by majelix 13y ago
> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows through their territories. > So just stop, stop making excu
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by majelix 13y ago
> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?
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by majelix 13y ago
> You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently If your vendor doesn't do a decent job verifying who you are (and this may or may not m
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by majelix 13y ago
> The CA system is totally flawed anyway The flaw basically being that people aren't trustworthy, yes? Do you have any alternatives? There's ssh's model, where you just hope it's the right certificate the first time;
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by majelix 13y ago
> Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL. Except that SSL isn't just about transport-layer security, it's also about identity. The entire model of SSL breaks
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by majelix 13y ago
> It really does not add anything to the equation. Just extra costs and work for you. Of course it adds something: It makes it more difficult for someone else to go buy a SSL certificate in your name. Security isn't just about dri
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by majelix 13y ago
Here's a list of them that use Verisign's VIP: https://idprotect.vip.symantec.com/wheretouse.v Others may use in-house solutions. Here's Bank of America's two factor solution: https://www.bank
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by majelix 13y ago
> So, once you put on that uniform you have to keep your mouth shut even if you witness the worst atrocities imaginable. Absolutely not. But you don't have to shout every secret you have access to (relevant or not) from the loudest
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by majelix 13y ago
> If they show child abuse, they must break the confidentiality and call the police. The key point here is that they call the police, not blindly dump thousands of private documents onto the internet.
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by majelix 13y ago
> The difference here is that we're willing to pay those vehicular technicians a realistic amount of money for their expertise, Looks like computer technicians get paid plenty well. According to at least one random google search, en

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