z-factor

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by z-factor 12y ago
This is interesting, but it would help if you could provide .wav files for others to hear and see for themselves.
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by z-factor 13y ago
AMD - $2.7B
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by z-factor 13y ago
You have a strange standard for 'savvy' people.
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by z-factor 13y ago
Yes.
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by z-factor 13y ago
I understand how the attack works, the question was about how a practical exploit would actually be carried out. I've figured out how one would issue GET requests from the right environment, but I don't know if the same is possibl
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by z-factor 13y ago
The request has to be issued by the attacker from the victim's browser. If the attacker can do that, why is he unable to read the response to that request? Edit: I think I can see a scenario where a third-party website does these reque
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by z-factor 13y ago
The attacker has to be able to issue requests on behalf of the user with injected "canary" strings. I fail to see a practical exploit where one can do this and wouldn't have access to the secret in the response anyway. What a
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by z-factor 13y ago
gallerix.ru has a lot of relatively hires art: http://gallerix.ru/album/Museums
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by z-factor 13y ago
Speaking from personal experience (Ukraine). There are plenty of job opportunities and the coders are relatively even more overpaid than in the West, so that's not the reason. The real reason I believe is that people mostly can do this
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by z-factor 13y ago
Banks seem to be doing ok.
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by z-factor 13y ago
Funny thing is that code is then compiled with a compiler was not formally verified, so it's still a 'fingers crossed' situation.
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by z-factor 13y ago
> A quality of a great leader. That or exaggeration.
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by z-factor 13y ago
I remember reading though a page where they listed their employees and I remember it was 100+, I wanted to include the link in my comment, buy couldn't find it this time.
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by z-factor 13y ago
Wikimedia employs a lot of people, I personally do not donate because I believe they employ way too many. Also pretty much all costs are already covered by corporate sponsors like Google.
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by z-factor 13y ago
They were using Akamai and not CloudFront last time I checked (which was a while ago). And of course they must have legacy systems that were built before their in-house solutions were available.
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by z-factor 13y ago
There seems to be a correlation between geek culture and liking engineering, but I'm not convinced there's correlation with being any good at it. I'd say there's negative correlation if any.
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by z-factor 14y ago
Here's a recent video of the last survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWPnm0JWG0
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by z-factor 14y ago
I want to add that I've been using heapq for scheduling in every piece of software as well and it's never been a problem even in heavily loaded projects.
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by z-factor 14y ago
> people didn't think they could have any kind of meaningful conversations without at least a paragraph of prose Still can't. (Oh, the irony!)
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by z-factor 14y ago
I asked something similar recently on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5039241 That got zero offers.
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by z-factor 14y ago
Not original source, but close enough http://js2coffee.org/
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by z-factor 14y ago
I think hmexx did not intend the money to be the major incentive. It seems to me that the major incentive there is seeing your idea finally implemented and having someone handle the part that you don't like or don't know how to do. However,
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by z-factor 14y ago
First of all the same problem exists with hmexx offer -- he can stop putting any work in and will still be the 50% equity cofounder. Second, if the business is promising and I have a significant equity in it, of course I'll pour more work i
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by z-factor 14y ago
Does it make you cringe in both my and hmexx's offers?
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by z-factor 14y ago
There's value in getting it done fast and right the first time and having quality talent invested in the success. The upfront money is more of a way to guarantee that the idea person is invested in the success as well. You could be right as
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by z-factor 14y ago
Well, the consensus is that the value of an idea is almost certainly zero, so the only way to make it worthwhile is to get one runaway success in a big pool of attempts. Everyone knows the VC version of this approach. This is how it would l
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by z-factor 14y ago
I got that. Imagine this chain of 50% companies growing to some length. That could lead to a subprime mortgage crisis in a teapot. =)
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by z-factor 14y ago
Well, my offer is to get 50%, not 25%. If you want to reduce my share you can increase the upfront payment, so I guess you can spend some money out of your pocket to get a portion of the company. This can get out of hand fast =)
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by z-factor 14y ago
Yes, of course. Still, given all the people who make the claim that the ideas do not matter, only execution does, how many will act on that belief?
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Proposition HN: I will build your MVP if you pay me $8000 + 50% equity
29 points by z-factor 14y ago|20 comments

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