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aaronAgain

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About aaronAgain

Work on availability and performance for Bing.com.

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    Comment #46129912

    Those are all free products, some of them are pretty good. But free is the best business strategy to get a product to the top of the market. Are others better, are you willing to s…

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    Comment #27755709

    Please don't conflate pain relief with impossible-to-avoid-murdering-your-mother-when-you-feel-better syndrome. /s Seriously, if I wasn't in as much pain as I am in then I would be…

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    Comment #27244237

    And I wanted to concur with this. A great description of complicated topic. Just enough information in each section to get you ready for the next, nothing extra. Well done.

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    Comment #27157493

    This. Exit strategy all along. Or they were sloppy enough to get monitored accessing the coin wallet and exposing their private keys/passwords.

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    Comment #24238964

    I've never looked at DOH as an attack on DNSSEC, though I suppose you could. I think the resistance is more about the big corporate and the Internet level DNS operators like Google…

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    Comment #24238840

    Yeah, the argument you are making about all keys being compromised doesn't make sense. You are leaving out a key assumption in your setup, and without it is not possible (for us) t…

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    Comment #24238747

    This is a classic arms race. The hijackers back off for a while, but as is always the case in low-margin, low-regulation, low-consequence environments, bad actors will present a wa…

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    Comment #24238679

    Right! Around 2010, when this feature was implemented in Chrome, hijacking was a business model that was discussed in regular meetings. I recall one hijacker trying to sell themsel…

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    Comment #24238038

    That is a very humbling response. I will be donating to Fred Hollow Foundation. Thanks for the fastai work. Edit: Donated. And reported a bug in their donation process that almost …

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    Comment #24193323

    "so we are “flying blind” to quote a U.S. senator. " Quoting a US senator on technology is not exactly a strong argument. Like arguing about email security and quoting a senator on…

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    Comment #23495017

    I work for Bing. Awwww, man. ;-)

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    Comment #23470625

    First, I'll say this to everyone: Get hearing aids if you need them. They can change your world. About music, this is getting much better in hearing aids. I've been from analog thr…

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    Comment #15725171

    It will take years to break apart some of the code into packages. In the meantime Git has to work on the monolith, so why not contribute back how we did that. Disclosure: Work at M…