markpercival

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by markpercival 14y ago
Since neither Forbes nor the author, Jon Matonis, saw fit to point this out, I will. This is an op-ed piece, written by a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Regardless of the merit of the article, it should have been explicitly stated
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by markpercival 14y ago
Don't be so flippant. Some of us have our doctorates from the prestigious WebMD.
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by markpercival 14y ago
Yeah, this is what I found fascinating in your paper( http://demoseen.com/bhpaper.html ). I had always wondered how they invalidated the old keys automatically.
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by markpercival 16y ago
I'm doubt their all entitled morons, but it does remind me of my favorite Louis CK bit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn8TwFCO4M&feature=playe...
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by markpercival 16y ago
It turns out the 10 passwords he 'hacked' were in the range of 1-6 characters. More details here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/amazon_cloud_sha_pas...
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by markpercival 16y ago
This is what I like about http://railsapi.com (which is just Sdoc), it gives you searchable ruby docs, and each method comes with a link to the code on Github. This way when you're looking at, say, the Request objects :remote_ip method, o
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by markpercival 16y ago
I'll preface this with, I don't have a better solution, so kudos to the FF crew for trying something new. That being said: I don't find this compelling at all. Do I really want to spend part of my time browsing, by sorting and organizing my
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Divining Rod - A rubygem for easy mobile profiling(squarepush.com)
4 points by markpercival 17y ago|0 comments
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by markpercival 17y ago
The site was pulled down, here's the copy of the rant: If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing pro
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by markpercival 17y ago
Yeah I'm completely perplexed by this. I'm not questioning the guys article, but there's got to be more to it then we are reading. $200 for a two week project is $5 an hour if you only work on it 4 hours a day. Even in the current economy a
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by markpercival 17y ago
"Cohen never sought a formal diagnosis but turned his considerable attention to the matter" Self-diagnosis. Are you fucking kidding me? Just because you were picked on in highschool and are a huge pain in the ass to work with, doesn't mean
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by markpercival 17y ago
I cancelled my subscription a year ago because of this. It's really a shame too, as it was one of the best papers out there. The frontpage always had one really interesting article and the rest(barring the op-ed) was really solid reporting.
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by markpercival 17y ago
Read the following Scott Adams blog quotes: "I can't get past the fact that it's sitting there wasting energy while its only function is to confuse me up to three dozen times per day." "Lately I have been wondering whether online reviews sh
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by markpercival 17y ago
And at $1.50 it's not going to be a particularly good cup of coffee. But I'm in the same boat. I already shell out ~$100 a year for the Economist, and various other subscriptions. If I have to start paying for all the news SOURCES I read I'
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by markpercival 17y ago
Why, if he can prove he's not infringing on their trademark, he should absolutely continue to make money selling his merchandise. If IBM didn't exist you probably wouldn't have Microsoft - doesn't mean they shouldn't compete with each other
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by markpercival 17y ago
Sounds a lot like what Freenet has always been trying to do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet If I recall correctly, files are split up, passed around and encrypted so you don't know what your serving up
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Narrow Banking by John Kay(johnkay.com)
5 points by markpercival 17y ago|1 comments
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by markpercival 17y ago
Well to some extent, that's partially the goal of Bespin, although it seems to be on the 'full rewrite' path these days too. I would love to see it happen though, along with the ability to easily pair on a codebase via the browser, like Bes
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by markpercival 17y ago
Yet non-profit colleges have a repayment rate of 95.3% while for-profit colleges sink to 83.3%. So it's not the 'only real difference'. But I'll give you that non-profits are not entirely blame free.
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by markpercival 17y ago
What's worse is the way for-profit colleges are abusing the system and taking federal loan dollars for subpar educations. Their default rates are appalling, but that's to be expected when you charge $40k for a two year degree in Fashion Des
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by markpercival 17y ago
Another reason why I Google with the Bing http://img.skitch.com/20100105-f2xhs1pm1bmi1wt24cng2hddyw.jp... Cause everyone knows "Islam is the light baby doll"
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by markpercival 17y ago
Oh come on, is it really THAT bad? :) As much as I like pontificate on the doom and gloom of our current economy, there are PLENTY of opportunities left in the US for an educated worker.
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by markpercival 17y ago
He certainly fits the mold of a microeconomist, but he revolutionized the study of management in the US. I don't think it's at all disingenuous to say that he drove management science to what it is today. And to sum up his teachings as "Wha
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by markpercival 17y ago
No, what's silly is that people still quote Peter Drucker with a straight face. Ever been frustrated by the many layers of middle management in corporate America today, or laughed at a dilbert strip? Blame Peter Drucker. Just look at the r
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by markpercival 17y ago
I've been using the table method with Gibberish AES, although I don't compile the tables, I'm not sure the size benefit is that significant. http://github.com/markpercival/gibberish-aes The advantage of mine is that it's fully OpenSSL com
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by markpercival 17y ago
I think it also illustrates where this article goes wrong. You don't say NO to the client, you say NO to a potential customer before they become the client. Citing the second part of the comic - Client: "Our last designer was an IDIOT". The
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by markpercival 17y ago
People see the 2-4% that credit card processors take and view it in comparison to cash - something they see as having no cost per transaction. What people don't see is the cost of taking cash - it gets stolen, it gets you robbed, it needs s
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by markpercival 17y ago
I buy the 25%, only because it was based on responses in Germany. This is the country where I get yelled at for jaywalking at 3am and some subways work on the honor system. Germans are ridiculously honest. In fact, now that I think about it
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by markpercival 17y ago
"The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Education,
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by markpercival 17y ago
For anyone that wants to know more about what a null-prefix cert is: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2009/08/12/curl-fooled-by-null-pr...

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