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by nmjohn 11y ago
Yes - at Webflow I believe 4 of us were hired from the who wants to be hired / who's hiring posts.
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Building an Rdio Flash Cross-Domain Exploit with FlashHTTPRequest(thehackerblog.com)
1 points by nmjohn 11y ago|0 comments
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by nmjohn 11y ago
Amazons URL's are actually quite interesting - Original: http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/dp/0262510871/ Equivalent: http:/&#x2F
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by nmjohn 11y ago
This link should take you there directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hvxf6NMPaCUd-1iqm_968SuH...
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by nmjohn 11y ago
I use zsh per directory history [0] as well as this cron job I have set to run hourly: #!/bin/bash cd /Users/nmjohn/.directory_history \ && git add . \ && git commit -m "A
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by nmjohn 11y ago
Whats frustrating is when you have customers who are also down because of the outage - but when you say Amazon is experiencing severe outages causing 50% of our requests to be dropped and there's not much we can do, it makes us look pr
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by nmjohn 11y ago
I'm seeing it as well - majority of connections are being dropped for us atm The Amazon S3 team recently completed some maintenance changes to Amazon S3’s DNS configuration for the US STANDARD region on July 30th, 2015.
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by nmjohn 11y ago
> Amazon is investing up to $100 million to support developers, manufacturers, and start-ups of all sizes who are creating unique and innovative experiences designed around the human voice. Whether that’s creating new Alexa capabilities
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by nmjohn 11y ago
Have you ever used osx for an extended period of time? I was in a similar situation to you and I caved and got a macbook when I started my job. I absolutely love it. I have my linux desktop at home that I use perhaps 15% of the time, while
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by nmjohn 11y ago
I was hoping it was just a bad title - but it doesn't appear to be as the founders use the word lossless themselves. It's concerning because it either means they don't actually know what lossless compression is and believe th
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by nmjohn 11y ago
Interesting - 6 months ago or so I was monitoring all transactions on a handful of altcoins' blockchains in regards to which transactions were going in and out of exchanges. Because the number of transactions per block were a number of
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by nmjohn 11y ago
> What about the non-issues that are reported with complicated conditions but don't actually work? Just because you can throw out the obviously bad items doesn't mean the rest are real. Yes. There will be some which don't
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by nmjohn 11y ago
> 3. I'm sorry, but you lose credibility by claiming most security reports can be qualified in a minute or less. You can certainly throw out many in a similar time frame, perhaps five minutes, but real vulnerabilities? No. That was
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by nmjohn 11y ago
> let the 7-figure job offers roll in. I would know far more millionare engineers/hackers if that was actually true > go to federal prison for 30 years If one was talented enough to find such a vuln, it is hardly a stretch to say
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by nmjohn 11y ago
So when I find a bug in say Paypal which allows complete account takeover and could sell it to an organized hacker group for say $100,000 or report it to Paypal "because I'm invested in seeing it fixed" and receive nothing -
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by nmjohn 11y ago
➜ curl -i https://api.exchange.coinbase.com HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Server: cloudflare-nginx Set-Cookie: AWSELB=7541......;PATH=/ It looks like they are hosted on AWS and only provide acc
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by nmjohn 11y ago
And it just keeps going, love it ➜ ~ curl http://crashfirefox.com/ ....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯&
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John Oliver's Interview of Edward Snowden(youtube.com)
67 points by nmjohn 11y ago|8 comments
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by nmjohn 12y ago
var b = io.connect(); setInterval(function() {"00001001".split('').forEach(function(n) { b.emit('input',n); });},10) I found it interesting to see how hard I had to hit the server to a.) get all my re
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I was curious if there was any rate limiting/filtering being used... Since someone else noticed I guess there isn't!
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by nmjohn 12y ago
FTA: > While all instance types need to be updated, we have developed the capability to live-update instances running on newer hardware. The vast majority of the EC2 fleet will be live-updated, but a portion of instances (less than 10% o
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by nmjohn 12y ago
This highlights one of the fundamental flaws of text-based communication. In text-based communication, deciding what is important is 100% on the reader - and while to you someone may be responding to irrelevant parts of your questions - to
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by nmjohn 12y ago
That is not a fair comparison. Gzipped and minified underscore is 5.7kb. Lodash is 17.3kb. For the vast majority of sites that is a trivial difference in size. Both of which are linked from the front page of their respective websites.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
That works if you are using bash, but if you are, for example, using zsh, you would first have to run "setopt histignorespace" which would enable hiding lines prepended with a space in the history (it's off by default).
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I have found myself, now two hours after clicking this link, finally returning to the comments because I spent so long reading his other posts. Peter is an incredible writer and even in places where we have differing views on the world, it
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Are you funded? Are you part of an accelerator that gives you access to extremely large chunks of free cloud credits? How compute heavy is your workload? At this time, you will always be paying up for cloud services. That being said, you ar
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by nmjohn 12y ago
The step library [0] does something similar for javascript. Step( function() { getURL1(this.parallel()); getURL2(this.parallel()); getURL3(this.parallel()); }, function(err, res1, res2, res3) { }
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Here is how I'm using it personally: I have a handful of VPS's. Every once in a while I find a fantastic deal on one and add it to my "collection." Instead of trying to manage which VPS has what running on it - I use doc
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by nmjohn 12y ago
This point is quite nitpicky, no? The sentence you quoted could have been removed from the article and the article would have largely been unchanged - my point being it seems dubious to critique an article for a tangential point in the intr
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by nmjohn 12y ago
If a site doesn't offer an alternative form of sign up, I won't use it. Github and twitter oauth are exceptions though, all of that data is already public. However, there is virtually no reason at all not to offer both - and then

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