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Indeed there are. I don't know that I can speak for everyone my age, but I'm more or less the same guy I was at 25 -- better in a lot of ways, but the same person. If you asked me …

Helen Keller was quite conscious, and she could neither see nor hear.

Isn't PageRank deprecated by Google?

Leaves doubts in the mind of one guy. At least, that's all they could find. Just being able to grow and remain profitable in times like this -- doesn't that show something? And, uh…

Heaven forbid that the Internet lets people be more than just mindless spending machines.

I'm 45 and spend all of my time (currently) consulting with startups. At one, the average age is maybe 28. At another, at probably about 48 (no kidding). At yet another, probably 4…

Actually SHA-1 has been broken -- nomenclature alert! -- but not yet cracked . Mathematician and cryptologist Bruce Schneier reports on it here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv…

Summary: oh my god, this "cloud" thing might make us stop resting on our hardware "appliance" laurels! I will attack on every front I can think of, emphasize security to maximize h…

True enough, but it's also inevitable. Witness "hacker", "broadband", and the redefinition of IP into "intellectual property". It's annoying if you bother to pay attention, but giv…

In the world of encryption algorithms, you never, ever assume that some guy's new scheme is bullet proof. It takes years of testing before you can firmly say that an algorithm does…

I didn't understand what the rant was truly all about, but it was a hoot. Extra props for linking to suck.com's posting from 1998. Oh, and the photo of a Kitler.

It's got some good stuff, but it's a bit out-dated. Its mindset is maybe 2001-2002 and comes from the point-of-view that the days of the 2-3 person startup being able to compete wi…

I have also noticed the same trend -- companies are willing to spend money on worthwhile services and products. I'm consulting at two startups that sell products/services, and both…

I'd agree, except for all the reasons people gave below. Also, Slicehost is the only other service that provides RAM > 2GB. And EC2 offers more variety of configuration (higher CPU…

1- thx for the ruby dsl link -- I hadn't heard of it, and I can't understand why 2- the problem with using EBS comes when you have a larger DB, like, oh, 80GB or so. It takes no le…

To summarize: Circuit City's management ran the company as if it had contempt for its customers. B&H runs its company as if it was its own customer.

The answer to my question (does this work with 1.9?) is no -- YARV requires pthreads. So for a much more than 30% performance boost, switch to Ruby 1.9. It's more like a 4X perform…

Dupe or not -- anyone know if this equally applies to Ruby 1.9? I've started using it full-time now for my Rails apps (2.3.2) and the speed boost is serious. Another 30% ... wow.

As opposed to Chicago or Missouri? They're way more off the beaten track than San Jose.

I've been in the security business for 15 years and have never heard of Thomas. I'm a CISSP, was a CISO of a financial institution for 6 years, and do professional security auditin…

This is a fundamental flaw. I'm a CISSP, a professional security auditor, a successful CISO, and I'd give this site a huge black mark if I was examining it. If this is "Severity: L…

You could define the type by the accept header, but: 1) what if there's more than one accept header? which one do you pick? 2) most frameworks are not really thinking this way at t…

Now, if HAProxy could just handle HTTPS. Sigh.

owasp.org, the top ten most common vulnerabilities in particular. Separation-of-duties among your employees. If your ASP involves a webapp, consider a web application gateway/firew…