victork2

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by victork2 8y ago
Hey, thanks for putting that together, it's a very insightful read. One thing I would mention in the section "Encrypting Data": KMS is great and very useful but there are limitations, for example the 4kb payload max. Another
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by victork2 9y ago
Hi there, you seem to know a lot, any chance we could talk about this topic, would love to hear more of your thoughts on the topic? I don't see an address to contact you. Thanks!
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by victork2 10y ago
Interesting, this is a topic that very rarely get discussed on this website, but which is probably top of mind for many here. I am an immigrant myself, I don't think I have anything to complain about, but it is definitively harder to f
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[FR] Show HN: Un site pour connaître de l'intérieur les entreprises françaises.(vosentretiens.fr)
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by victork2 14y ago
Ah... trying to apply entrepreneur spirit everywhere, how could it go wrong? Okay so let's recap, we are shown a table showing the PISA score of a lot of countries and we see the US in a very bad position. Great. Now let's look at the count
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by victork2 14y ago
Thanks, I really want to get serious with that language seeing all the praise from people around. I have began to do some small things with it and it feels like a great language ( I love the no makefile idea !) My only regret is that this f
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by victork2 14y ago
Hi Steve, I don't know if you are going to read this, but I'm going to write it for the rest of the audience too. I think the trend of dismissing critics and commenting along the lines of "sour grapes" or "haters" very disturbing. Yes I go
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by victork2 14y ago
Not entirely true, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29#Wea... "security consultant, revealed that he had intercepted usernames and passwords for a large number of email accounts by operating and monitoring T
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by victork2 14y ago
I have read Steve Jobs biography and this is definitively a cautionary tale and a great warning for anybody, but for other reasons that stated in this article. I am no Apple fan, as a matter of fact I don't like the look and feel of their p
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by victork2 14y ago
Well it embodies the best and the worst of internet movements. While the foundations are good: protecting the web from bad laws, restrictions etc... the execution is really ridiculous. Imagine you're an old style Senator or representative a
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by victork2 14y ago
Hey another one of the "I was too different/intelligent for normal school", backed up by a TED Talk. Here on HN we have one of these articles every week. I think that all of the "misfits" should acknowledge one thing: school is not for YOU
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by victork2 14y ago
I don't want to be mean or anything ( and probably it will go against the HN crowd) but you're part of the problem. Basically it's the reliance on computerized system to assess somebody's skills that is at the root of the problem. I know it
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by victork2 14y ago
I like how I got downvoted. Please read everything that is on the website: The BBC say it's an estimate, with a link on estimate leading to its definition and a disclaimer about BMI. They never say that you are fatter or slimmer than the re
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by victork2 14y ago
Before complaining about "wah wah that's BMI, BMI sucks" please think twice. Everybody knows it's BMI, BMI is a rough measurement of your ratio height to weight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and... "The medical
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by victork2 14y ago
Very well put together, I just want to say I fully agree with your point. To give a face to what you describe I would say that Apple is one of the most blatant example of what you are describing. Furthermore the same dumbing down is happeni
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by victork2 14y ago
What about the quality of the headphones? For me that's the main problem of Apple headphones: they are utter crap in terms of sound quality. Another problem I could see: you add weight to the chord which will make the headphones more likely
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by victork2 14y ago
If there's one rule in gaming it is: "Do not trust Peter Molyneux". This guy is the biggest bullshitter in the gaming industry. A guy with such claims that the book "On bullshit" perfectly applies to what he says in many cases. Again this t
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by victork2 14y ago
Pardon me but ... I think that there are way worse dangers than "humanoid bombs"... One of the main reason is that to achieve a nuclear explosion you need to have a critical mass and the it's hard to conceal for a lot of reasons (radiation
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by victork2 14y ago
Same. At least you have my upvote, for what it's worth! Light table looks to me (with all the respect due to the work of the authors) like a fad where people get all hyped up about a product. I mean there's nothing revolutionary and while l
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by victork2 14y ago
Interesting point. Hard to discuss too, because as always with women-related issues the heat is pretty high. However, let's play devil's advocate and extend it to the man's case too. If I put myself in the role of a VC I would think twice a
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by victork2 14y ago
No we don't because regulators are always one step before the corporations on taxes. Actions that you take legally must have consequences too, as long as these consequences are legal the thread of legality has been preserved along the way.
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by victork2 14y ago
Why not, after all actions must have consequences. If he wants to avoid taxes and it's legal by all means he should do it. But there should be consequences to his actions, this proposition seems like a possible one (quite extreme though). I
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by victork2 14y ago
I have to agree and even add it's more dangerous than that. Never mind the fact that what attracted me to Google was its sober interface, its minimalist approach of results on the web (that's also why I like Hacker News). Never mind that Go
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by victork2 14y ago
Thanks for your answers. I am genuinely interested by what words carry and in your case the kind of people they are going to attract. I actually write a bit on that. If you emphasize a lot on ninja/ elite etc... I would guess you will attra
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by victork2 14y ago
Take that in your faces "Elite" startups, you wouldn't be selected, you're not even "Ultra elite"! More seriously though, I respect the initiative, but I would love to hear why this particular vocabulary is employed (from the website and
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by victork2 14y ago
I might have a bleak vision of this place but unfortunately I think this article is not going to ring a bell in here. Well it might be upvoted but sparsely read. A good portion of HN users don't care at all about privacy, or at least not wh
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by victork2 14y ago
I give it that: It's a good satire of today's buzzwords clogging HN. I would add "Beautiful" to the bunch, since it's so overused.
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by victork2 14y ago
Oh... your distrust uh? Do you seriously hold grudges against companies when they release a good product after some bad releases? And it's not like you need to do anything if IE 9 is not good enough, just don't be an ass and block them. I k
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by victork2 14y ago
The right title should be: The rise of the brogrammer in media. The thing is there's a huge difference between the perception that people have of a field and what happens in the field. It reminds me of how CSI (the show) shows police work:
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by victork2 14y ago
Here is the direct link to the study: http://sciencewithart.ijs.si/pdf/Do%20female%20and%20male%20... I think it brings a negative perspective on the propositions of several people here that assured us that creating role models was the wa

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