nupark2

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by nupark2 14y ago
Mine do differ. Anecdotal evidence, after all.
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by nupark2 14y ago
Mine was 5 characters, alpha and numeric, but no special characters. It was in there, prepended with 0's. Whoops. At the very least, it should have been longer.
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by nupark2 14y ago
> No, there YOU go doing it again. That comment was in a long thread of context, and you willfully ignored that. The comment was also non-actionable and was clearly political hyperbole. Not really, no. SOPA actually exists, and you jo
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by nupark2 14y ago
... and there you go doing it again. There's not much room to joke about assassination and lynchings in a country that has a very recent history of assassinations and lynchings. It's in bad taste, it can incite violence, and given your stat
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by nupark2 14y ago
Can you name a single widely used modern processor architecture that uses odd word sizes? Microcontrollers are fair game. I can't think of one.
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by nupark2 14y ago
They are broadcasting it to all of their neighbors. In our apartment building, I see about 30 WiFi networks.
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by nupark2 14y ago
> 1) There is very little chance of them closing their doors in the near future as they raised a large series A and have great growth. Until/unless they get purchased. As you said, it was a large series A. > 2) Having personally
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by nupark2 14y ago
I see Heroku, Beanstalk, et al as the future here. This code-less approach will hit a brick wall very quickly, at which point they'll be writing something not unlike Google AppEngine, which itself suffers from being proprietary.
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by nupark2 14y ago
There's a substantial difference between a service and an installed product. PostgreSQL 9.3 is installed on your database server, the source is available, and it isn't going anywhere. If Oracle discontinued their database platform tomorrow
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by nupark2 14y ago
Being a hacker has nothing to do with poor ethics. In fact, I'd say many of the best hackers I've had the privilege to work with have a strong sense of morals and ethics.
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by nupark2 14y ago
None of that is justification for theft.
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by nupark2 14y ago
The victimized party can choose to spin this any way they want, but it had no bearing on whether it actually did them harm or how they actually feel about it. That's not your decision to make, and 'shades of gray' is a lousy justification f
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by nupark2 14y ago
That neither proves that unethical behavior was required for Apple's success, nor that said bond could only be created through unethical behavior. If you want a recrimination of that behavior, I'd be happy to give it. It was immature and wr
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by nupark2 14y ago
This is a simple 'black and white' ethical case. He didn't have approval for the services and resources he consumed, he knew it was wrong (he purposefully avoided security), and he could have resolved any "gray area" at any time by simply a
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by nupark2 14y ago
I see AOL as doing their best to avoid a bigger snafu over a smaller, unattractive snafu. Opinions on the value of this PR will vary, but the fact is that there's no substance here. Somebody abused their fairly standard SV corporate perks,
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by nupark2 14y ago
That's an unsupported assertion. What unethical behavior are you referring to, and how have you demonstrated that Apple's success not only stemmed from such behavior, but could have only occurred through unethical means?
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by nupark2 14y ago
> They've actually been profiled as a reasonable company that invests in the future. The best thing they can do at this point is put a positive spin on it, but ... > The positive spin this article gives them is worth every penny
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by nupark2 14y ago
> AOL is going to get press out of this that am sure they will find worth the few months of squatting. That's AOL's decision to make. Not yours, not his. > Also, entrepreneurs break rules in order to get stuff done. Unethical p
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by nupark2 14y ago
I prefer to work with people that resolve ethical questions ethically, not based on who benefits (or loses).
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by nupark2 14y ago
This is an exceptionally long rationalization for unethical behavior that well demonstrates why I am so opposed to the focus on "hustle" (or as you put it, "moxie") in some segments of the business world. If someone leveraged this kind
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by nupark2 14y ago
AOL out the funds they spent on his theft of service and resources, and they're out the time they spent having security figure out why someone was sleeping there. They've been embarrassed in the press, and they're that much less likely to t
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by nupark2 14y ago
Just a guess, but the iOS keychain can be used to share information across applications with a common bundle prefix.
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by nupark2 14y ago
It's also a demonstration of an ethical failure. It was theft.
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by nupark2 14y ago
If you use unit tests and Interface Builder, that time should largely disappear.
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by nupark2 14y ago
Compared to most specifications, RFCs are incredibly clear. While quality varies, they're remarkably approachable documents. Of all the things to dislike, I find your dislike of SHOULD/MUST/MAY to be incredibly bizarre. The definitions of t
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by nupark2 14y ago
The direct mapping of the database that it provides isn't really direct, and the impedance mismatch makes a mess of what could be a simple, easy to understand in-memory application model.
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by nupark2 14y ago
No, you haven't. If your in-memory application model mirrors your database model, you're probably doing it wrong; either your application model is poor, or your database model is.
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by nupark2 14y ago
> Assuming your are using some OO language then you will have to, at some point, turn the relational data into objects. At that point you are always creating an ORM. This is not true. At some point, you will need to extract a subset o
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by nupark2 14y ago
Or, switch to PostgreSQL for new projects and stop throwing good money in after the bad.
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by nupark2 14y ago
The hardware in question very likely has computing power (and associated cost) not that far off from that of the Raspberry Pi. You also have to factor in the cost of the machine used to drive these USB display drivers -- with 4 users on a $

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