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Software compatibility and our own “User-Agent” problem(sigbus.info)
194 points by nmjohn 9y ago|64 comments
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History of the Internet in Webflow IX2(webflow.com)
13 points by nmjohn 9y ago|0 comments
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by nmjohn 9y ago
Doesn't the license explicitly state the opposite? > Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates files a lawsuit alleging patent infringement against you in the first instance, and
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by nmjohn 9y ago
There is something I don't understand about the HN comments when the React license comes up. Whenever something about software patents in general comes up, the majority of commenters seem to condemn them - at a minimum in their offensi
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by nmjohn 9y ago
I had the exact same thought after port scanning my own uverse gigapower connection - so seeing real exploits actually be found on it is not surprising in the slightest to me. Though instead of going with the 802.1x proxy approach, it'
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by nmjohn 9y ago
> having a significant portion of the world's TLS be under one umbrella isn't a good thing. Why is that? The damage from a CA being hacked is not proportional to the size of the CA - they are all equally (small number of except
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by nmjohn 9y ago
> Don't judge their code by their use of a VCS. It's like judging a person's articles by their notes. I've got terrible handwriting. Except notes rarely are intended to be public and used for communication with other
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by nmjohn 9y ago
This book really is fantastic - if you work on anything related to the web and don't know the history of the ARPANET and how it was the foundation of the internet we know today, I highly recommend checking out this book.
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by nmjohn 9y ago
> including the critical private keys If anyone actually has access to those keys in a manner in which they could be leaked, that is... utterly terrifying. Like the private keys for root CAs, they likely are under strict access controls
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by nmjohn 10y ago
I'd be tempted to think they decided to solve the logistics challenge instead of the technical one. So instead of trying to build a generic piece of hardware that detects its own position and lights up accordingly, each torch was uniq
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by nmjohn 10y ago
What a frustrating change. However it still is possible to disable (though you probably will need to do this every time chrome updates) Simply deleting the folder that contains "widevinecdmadapter.plugin" will effectively disable
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Joel Spolsky: Time to take a stand(meta.stackoverflow.com)
115 points by nmjohn 10y ago|39 comments
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by nmjohn 10y ago
Your artwork is great! I'm not sure #1 would really be a problem as that situation never should occur and is totally preventable (there always should be traffic cones/barricades surrounding the cover, something the car easily coul
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by nmjohn 10y ago
Yes, it works quite well - For an example setup, this is my setup script [0] to bootstrap a digital ocean droplet + launch an openvpn container using this image [1] [0]: https://github.com/n-johnson/setup-openvpn-server
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> SpaceX wants to launch 4,425 satellites into low-Earth orbits, with altitudes ranging from 715 miles to 823 miles. [0] Latency won't be an issue. Can't find any information on their plan to solve the second problem - but sinc
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by nmjohn 10y ago
FWIW, on a fresh ubuntu 16.04 install, this is what needs to be run: sudo apt update && sudo apt install python build-essential -y wget -O bootstrap.py https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file&#x
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by nmjohn 10y ago
Direct link to youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNySOrI2Ny8
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Amazon announces first autonomous drone delivery with Prime Air(amazon.com)
3 points by nmjohn 10y ago|1 comments
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> you can't practically log/monitor/IPS/SIEM...or am I misinformed? It depends the hardware you're using (specifically router), but using netflow / sflow / ipfix [0] you can get pretty high visibility e
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack. (linked article) > ... the Mirai botnet was at about 550,000 nodes, and that approximately 10 percent were involved
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> Do those ratings reflect actual tested durability or mainly marketing? They reflect what the manufacturers will offer the warranty until. A quick google search suggests about 2 petabytes of writes is the max you can get on a samsung 85
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> How many studies have been done verifying that enterprise SSDs perform significantly better than consumer SSDs in any metrics? Define perform. But short answer, lots. To be fair, consumer SSDs these days are pretty solid, and will perf
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> I guess a more direct answer to your question is that when you get down to the hardware, you have to deal with weirdo bit fields, volatile hardware registers, strange read/write ordering requirements, interlocks, and even some tot
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> To add to the downsides, you can't expand RAIDZ vdevs. > If you start with a 6 disk RAIDZ2 and want to add a couple more drives, you can't. The only way to add capacity to the pool is to add an entire new vdev. This is mos
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by nmjohn 10y ago
No, but depending on what program you open it with it may be able to do far worse than execute javascript in a browser sandbox. [0][1] [0]: https://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/ [1]:
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by nmjohn 10y ago
> A static library is a whopping 2.4 MB. The comparable number for C are 4K and 800 bytes respectively. It is possible to significantly optimize that number [0]. Not that binary size is not an issue, but rather 2.4mb vs. 4kb is not an ap
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by nmjohn 10y ago
I pay $5 / month for google apps for my personal domain. I've had to contact support twice, the first time I got a phone call < 10 minutes after my email, and the second was < 20 minutes via email. In my experience, Google s
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by nmjohn 10y ago
I don't think the problem is the modulo operator per say, but rather programming in general is incredibly vast and even very experienced programmers will not have encountered some thing X which many other developers consider to be abso
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by nmjohn 10y ago
I have a bash script that will do exactly what you want I suspect: https://github.com/n-johnson/bin/blob/master/dl_slideshare.s... . It needs imagemagick installed to build the PDF. It's not robust a
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by nmjohn 10y ago
$ strace node -e 'console.log("hello world")' 2>&1 > /dev/null | wc -l 304

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