AluminiumPoint

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Comment · 8 years ago

I learned it in australia many years ago from these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBw7k_8EbE

Comment · 8 years ago

there are many reasons while less code is better -- https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-best-code-is-no-code-at-al...

"very new line of code you willingly bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, code that has to be read and understood, code that has to be supported. Every time you write new code, you should do so reluctantly, under duress, because you completely exhausted all your other options. Code is only our enemy because there are so many of us programmers writing so damn much of it. If you can't get away with no code, the next best thing is to start with brevity."

More code, more bugs, more issues. 388 packages is ridiculous compared to practically every major system including operating systems. Javascript is Stockholm syndrome.

Comment · 8 years ago

Whats with the GDPR compliant thing? This seems disingenuous.

Comment · 8 years ago

Im sad that he got jail time, but this guy was distributing end-of-life vulnerable operating systems. These are very dangerous and no longer updated. Forcing old machines to run closed-source outdated operating systems, which put the user at a real risk of compromise -- maybe we should look at regulations here. Windows XP is not suitable or safe to use today. This isn't about recycling, its no longer fit for purpose online.

If he had shipped it with say, a supported Ubuntu, there would be no issue and the users would be protected.

Comment · 8 years ago

I cant think of anything worse than my plastic metal and glass friend being forced to snitch against me. Its like my best friend betrayed me. Beyond creepy, key escrow proposals are the very definition of totalitarianism.

Comment · 8 years ago

Do you live in some parallel universe where we do not have mass surveillance, nation states or internet providers modifying traffic or unencrypted wifi at coffee shops?

Your attitude is irresponsible. HTTPS is not a luxury, it is a requirement.

Comment · 8 years ago

Except that is not reasonable. Myself and many like me would buy way way way above $10.

This is the faulty argument in the 'its going to 0' position, there are too many folks like me that will keep buying as long as we can afford it.

Comment · 8 years ago

Absolutely insane, it is an irrational risk NOT to wear a helmet. Here are some cdc facts:

* Helmets saved an estimated 1,772 lives in 2015.

* If all motorcyclists would have worn helmets in 2015, 740 more could have been saved.

* Helmets reduce the risk of death by 37%.

* Helmets reduce the risk of head injury by 69%

https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/mc/index.html

Wear your helmet. Do it for yourself and your family, and never tell anyone NOT to wear a helmet. Seriously!

Comment · 8 years ago

Good one? It works, made a purchase this weekend ($4 stickers), channel cost $2 to create with a segwit tx. From then I can send/receive transactions for 1 satoshi.

LN is here. Watch it grow!

Comment · 8 years ago

Plenty of places to sell BTC for AUD; btcmarkets, coinjar, coinspot, livingroomofsatoshi, etc. Why do you want coinbase?

Comment · 8 years ago

bicycle day is April 19 why is this published now?

Comment · 8 years ago

such a good and accessible paper to leave you with an intuition on exploitation and weird machines.

Comment · 9 years ago

Sort of. You are missing the ephemeral of containers, which has a net security advantage. Ephemeral containers mean that its harder for an attacker to obtain persistence, and easier to cycle out and swap bad containers than it is to patching servers.

I would argue that container orchestration infrastructure is objectively more secure than plain old servers; I get where you are coming from, but this tech is solving real problems, the cool aid is good

Comment · 9 years ago

Yeah! We can also do 'cross chain atomic swaps'; A trustless tx that allows two chains to agree on a price. Either both sides claim it, or the money is returned to its sender.