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If you are feeling the way that James does, that the magic is gone... I encourage you to try creating things in a new domain. Try making music, creating videos, making interactive …

Cranking out open source tools one day, endurance racing in IMSA LMP2 the next — I love it. Condolences about the DNF, but truly an impressive run nonetheless (especially the first…

What is the wholesale source for the gift cards and CD keys?

You're not alone in this. It might be a good idea to delete or edit this post; As currently written, it provides instructions and encouragement to make these connections. :)

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The smoothness is a huge improvement, but touch-latency and scrolling physics are still huge problem areas, even in Jelly Bean on Nexus 7 hardware. In testing, I've enjoyed the Nex…

Fair enough, and that's why I attempted to tone down the message with my statement of respect. I've followed Cody's work with interest for years. I do stand by my general point, th…

Was it necessary to wear a t-shirt that reads "It's fun to use learning for evil!" in the photo shoot for a Forbes spread? This doesn't help the negative perception of the word "ha…

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Not a typo. Ronny Conway is Ron Conway's son.

Good point; I may have replied too hastily. It's relatively straightforward to use CFUUIDCreate as a building block for an application-specific UUID, but you're correct in stating …

Such a thing has existed since iOS 2.0 (CFUUIDCreate [1]), and Apple's updated docs on UDID specifically recommend using CFUUIDCreate. The problem is that an application-specific U…

Push notifications use a device token that is separate from the UDID. An app can only get access to the device token if the user enables push notifications for that app.

EDIT: This is in reply to a deleted question about the impact of an inevitable commercial spacecraft failure. Great question. In my mind, I compare this to the stigmatization of nu…

As a former engineer on the Atlas V launch vehicle program, I'm so excited to see the commercialization of spaceflight come to fruition. The latest projections I've seen have the D…

ASLR is enabled, yes. ASLR actually makes ret2libc much more difficult to pull off (esp. on 64-bit platforms), because the location of libc.so itself is randomized.

Return-to-libc (a.k.a. ret2libc) is usually used to bypass NX-bit / DEP, but NX was disabled for level04 - the solution does not require return-to-libc.

Nice.. looking forward to the meetup. In the meantime, if anyone wants tips/tricks or just to chat about it, feel free to contact me (email in my profile). I captured the flag late…

Start working really closely with someone who is a user.

I believe the genesis of this line of quotes is Walt Disney. http://startupquote.com/post/859040744

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I presume you're saying this firmly tongue-in-cheek? ..or are you commenting that Altair Basic truly is a feature-not-a-product and that MS did well to move into the OS realm?