Viewing profile — engtech

That was a great article. I love the idea of the heartbeat feature. Is that a real feature of the iwatch?

Are there any OSS projects for building a database of metadata about software reuse assets? We're in a work environment with multiple revision control systems, and I'm looking for …

You'd think, but most consumer equipment is abandonware and the firmware isn't updated once a newer model is out.

Are you bothering to check openSSL versions for internal apps like: - revision control - wikis - tool installs like perl, python (because of LDAP authentication) Looking around it …

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it looks like if you could install a system font on a computer then you could create a unique fingerprint for that computer that is detectable by any w…

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/

I have a boxee and I'd been thinking about how to implement this for a while. It seems like it should be possible to have a box act as a web server proxy where it mirrors a web pag…

except for the fact that you couldn't tell up from down in the dark because it was symetrical. It was really annoying when you went to pause, and instead turned netflix on.

do you have Netflix working on that setup?

xbox 360 media player was never able to handle mkv files (unless there's been an update in the 2 years that I've had my 360 powered down) There was also that xbox 360 dashboard upd…

"There also seems to be some performance problems arising. But nobody has been pushing any updates to fix that. So you need to reboot the device every now and then." I've been havi…

I was happy that they included the "you should change your password on all other websites if it is the same" line. I find that's the biggest hurdle that average users can't grasp, …

57kb of raw text without the images -- text is cheap. :)

I'd trust gwern's speculation. http://www.gwern.net/ The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the …

You have to enable the typo option and the amazon referrer rewrite happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

You have to enable the typo option and it happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

You have to enable the typo option and it happens. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946194

1. when I go to this link: http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser... It shows several stories at once, not just the google brainteasers stories. 2. In general…

Black Mirror S01E03: The Entire History of You was a pretty decent episode of a Twilight-Zone-like show about the dark side of having a video recording of your entire life. http://…

Thanks! This is a good read. https://medium.com/about-work/1cd9fbf8ca15