zyphlar

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by zyphlar 14y ago
Do you want your bank vault to be locked with a Masterlock padlock, or a 1-ton safe door with glass inserts and an armed guard? That's the difference between unsalted MD5 and salted SHA.
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by zyphlar 14y ago
The horrors of Java! It's a single app, and it's cross-platform... oooooh. Now sit down and let me tell you a tale of Intuit.
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by zyphlar 14y ago
Why a $57,000 limit?
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by zyphlar 14y ago
1. What deductions? I fill out a ton of them every year and they're never more than my standard deduction. Maybe things change as I get older, but in the meantime it seems like a safe default. "Do you want to try and get your taxes lower th
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Also, as an entrepreneur you've officially graduated beyond the resume/interview/application process. The only people who fully appreciate those entrepreneurial skills are other business owners and executives; if you come in and ask me for
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Great but is this hacker news or just mini-reddit?
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by zyphlar 15y ago
That they let you accrue thousands or even millions in charges and then lock your account unexpectedly with poor customer service is the rub. There's no warning, just a surprise logistical nightmare that they benefit enormously from.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Absolutely. Have you seen some of the "off the cuff" town hall style meetings he's had? The one before the release of OSX was telling, he repeatedly said that if he were making the decisions, he'd do X, but he's not. It was very eye opening
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Generally it's pretty easy to get root on a system. Then you're generally 100% owned. The only away this will survive is on the good graces of malicious hackers everywhere.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Why would anyone buy $12000 in bitcoins, at this stage? That's just dumb no matter which way you slice it and asking for handouts via bitcoin after having your bitcoins hacked is the perfect scam. Sucks to be you, man.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Microsoft has tried time and time again (with their various .Net initiatives explicitly!) to lock the web into their platforms, because they saw back then (and are blinded by the fact now) that the web is the new platform and pretty soon no
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by zyphlar 15y ago
I'd buy your argument if Ruby on Rails only worked on Amazon servers, or if by using Ruby you could only use nginx and not Apache. The fact is when writing a .Net web app, if you don't like the way IIS or Windows Server or their providers a
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by zyphlar 15y ago
No, because terrorism is decentralized and the millions of people who (rightfully) hate us now will be even angrier. Which will justify further control of the populace for safety.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
You must read a lot of websites that are all forums, plain text. Web services and online stores on the other hand need techniques like this to lay out things in a way that makes sense. Imagine if Wal Mart had its cash registers in the back
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Those sites are designed oppositely. This principle applies to movies and in fact anything with a frame around it, there are certain emotions and intents communicated with framing. Think of this as website framing.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
"Most people have seen a gyroscope in action, so the stability of a rapidly rotating wheel should be fairly intuitive, making this a focus from the start. People have built bicycles with counter-rotating wheels and found that they still rem
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Those are calendar clients. Now ask Mozilla to write a calendaring server that syncs with every mobile device on the market across 150 calendars some of which have many thousands of appointments each (with years of exceptions to recurrence)
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by zyphlar 15y ago
There is 6-to-4 translation available. So we need to move clients to 6 in order that servers can move to 6.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Apple has a superior update model? Sure in theory, but I'm not aware of many significant updates to an iDevice that would be comparable to the Android update history. It seems like each phone gets one significant upgade before being phased
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by zyphlar 15y ago
Consider how much data you're putting on it. No phone is going to be fast when you ask it to pull down 5gb of email as some of my users do. The iPhone isn't that magical.
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by zyphlar 15y ago
More money, perhaps, but to me that's not saying much. As usual everyone is competing for 3rd place, not just in the market but in developers' hearts. Whichever platform gets an amazing new innovative app first wins, third loses. The rest d
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by zyphlar 16y ago
What's awesome here (aside from living in Arizona just like the plaintiff) is that one of the defendants asked the Internet if he should get a lawyer: http://answers.justia.com/question/2010/12/11/i-am-being-sue... Looks like conventional
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by zyphlar 16y ago
I like the article, and support anyone who wants to learn to code, but resent the increasingly frequent (and thus increasingly meaningless) use of the word hacker. There is an identifiable and very real hacker culture and ethic. To me, a su
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by zyphlar 16y ago
Or just paste.ly
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by zyphlar 16y ago
I want to say you're totally wrong and ignorant, but in case you have a good point, please explain. How is organizing a business like organizing a program, practically speaking?
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by zyphlar 16y ago
Visual studio is one of the best IDEs out there, so not a bad choice. Just learn ruby on rails as soon as possible so you aren't tainted by the horrible sample code of c#/java/php. Ay least get into codeigniter.
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by zyphlar 16y ago
Tazo isn't an island unto itself. Major brand websites affect the style of the entire internet (see Google and Twitter for two recent examples) and so it's right to say this is an example of a crappy 1998 "landing page."