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This article is less about specifically running 100 mile-races and more about doing something that requires self-control; and the claim is that doing so will make anyone a more suc…

> ”Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning to program” Here's the full quote: "Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning how to program computers—but he only had that oppor…

> There is virtually zero use for this capability [running 100 mile races] That's a major point of the article, given it's discussion of the spillover effect: "The bottom line: Pra…

> Seems like way too much work for an attacker to try to figure out. I dunno, seems like way more work to come up with, maintain, and actually use the generator. Seems easier to ju…

Of these, 1: Chose the project you want to contribute to (and 1.5: Choose the issue to work on) and 9: Follow up are the hard ones. Both are primarily social problems. For 1, it's …

How would you go about testing your internal endpoints?

> I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. That's a feature, not a bug. Limit your first reading to basic understanding of the plot and setting…

Spoiler alert: Your "private" network isn't.

If you're hourly, of course it's a different thing. But if you're salaried, it's an arms race. Employees willing to work extra hours get more done (or at worst, only appear to get …

But yet we find 3-5 hours a day for watching TV?

It's even worse than that -- kill is just a command that sends signals to a program, some of which happen to (gracefully or not) stop the program. You can even define your own!

> while the president leads the day-to-day operations. How would you characterize the COO then?

> How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ? For starters, Microsoft does not have a monopoly on game consoles.

He's probably talking about client-side IDS, such as in a corporate environment. It's worth noting that in such an environment, he likely controls the client machines themselves (i…

Snarky answer: He wants to be able to spy on his users in order to protect them from themselves.

Why would technology be any different from anything else? The prosecution and defense are free to call on expert witnesses to explain SSL and heart surgery to the judge and jury.

They're probably simple wrappers around https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassia...

> It either relies on a waterfall-like process where the full design is known before-hand and therefore what tests have to be written, This is that fuzzy line between behavior driv…

Yes, if you can't solve a problem, you certainly can't solve a problem in a supportable manner. Agile has the concept of Spikes ( http://www.scaledagileframework.com/spikes/ ) for …

> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said This is true for the United States Postal Service as we…

> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows throu…

> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world c…

> You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently If your vendor doesn't do a decent job verifying who yo…

> The CA system is totally flawed anyway The flaw basically being that people aren't trustworthy, yes? Do you have any alternatives? There's ssh's model, where you just hope it's t…

> Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL. Except that SSL isn't just about transport-layer security, it's also about…