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The Amazon advertising fiasco? The commercial "Ubuntu Software Center"? The lack of upstream patches for many years? Debian maintainers and Red Hat wouldn't even thinking of pullin…

> Bose doesn't have nearly as good range of sound as professional equipment It's not about "range of sound", it's about producing sound accurately. A more accurate frequency respon…

Magic of Erlang? I hate to be cynical, but have you got benchmarks to back that up?

> p2p sync enables you... That isn't what "peer to peer" means, though. Peer to peer means that peers (the aforementioned browser, smartphone and tablet) communicate directly with …

Not passive aggressive? >the browser that nobody cares about >Now they see Chrome is going to win Implies that Opera never innovates or has anything interesting to offer, and impli…

Lua's runtime is small and easy to embed compared to something like V8. It's also written in ANSI C. I don't know about Guile.

I think finding a kernel exploit in the server's OS that let you run the firmware-bricking code would probably be more viable than installing a new operating system.

I've SSHed into my iPad to transfer media files (without using iTunes) that I can then play with another player... I really don't like iTunes.

I think it's more on the part of the reader. A lot of willpower is needed to fundamentally change yourself, especially based on just one person's ideas. It's up to the reader to pu…

This is my problem with self-help books... you must try to replace years of your own learning, rationalizing and understanding with someone else's ideas, absorbed only through a fe…

Nothing, the R Pi just has a different host triple and lands you more pageviews and ad impressions. /cynic

Although if you're running this over HTTP, you might end up compressing it with DEFLATE (either directly or with gzip), which partly involves adding references to duplicated data..…

Oh, yeah. My mistake. Although what you describe is a lot more functional in style. You could probably emulate it in a language with higher-order functions.

It's not about monopolistic practices, as another reply to my comment says. It's about developers using new, incompatible technologies and thinking that everyone is using a WebKit-…

>You should try it on Chrome And people ask me why I keep calling Chrome the new Internet Explorer.

If is an expression in a lot of languages. The syntax you describe is identical to the "ternary statement" in C-style languages.

I have never, ever seen nl2br referred to as making anything secure or safe. It just converts new lines to s. That's what the manual says it does. That's what tutorials say it does…

>Please leave your platform cheerleading at the door. And then you link me to an Apple security document that basically says (but in Apple style) "we encrypt a lot of stuff and use…

The exploit used in comex's jailbreakme was just a PDF vulnerability. Sliding the "slide to jailbreak" simply loaded the correct PDF with some JavaScript; it wasn't actually needed…

iOS has a jailbreak for every single version. Some have even used a variety of exploits to do this straight from the web. Apple have no magic up their sleeve that makes iOS 'more s…

Why do I see people talking about this kind of thing in Tcl being perfectly okay, while PHP is nowhere near as randomly dynamic and gets a lot of hate?

Isn't this blogspam? The original source is https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2012/12/...

>I thought that was relatively well known I find that most HN contributors are well-off, don't make too many movies/songs and contribute under their real name. Put those facts toge…

Not a real FreeBSD user myself, but I've heard that it has good/complete documentation[1], a solid foundation that doesn't change too often and a nicer firewall than Linux's iptabl…