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Do you want your bank vault to be locked with a Masterlock padlock, or a 1-ton safe door with glass inserts and an armed guard? That's the difference between unsalted MD5 and salte…

The horrors of Java! It's a single app, and it's cross-platform... oooooh. Now sit down and let me tell you a tale of Intuit.

Why a $57,000 limit?

1. What deductions? I fill out a ton of them every year and they're never more than my standard deduction. Maybe things change as I get older, but in the meantime it seems like a s…

Also, as an entrepreneur you've officially graduated beyond the resume/interview/application process. The only people who fully appreciate those entrepreneurial skills are other bu…

Great but is this hacker news or just mini-reddit?

That they let you accrue thousands or even millions in charges and then lock your account unexpectedly with poor customer service is the rub. There's no warning, just a surprise lo…

Absolutely. Have you seen some of the "off the cuff" town hall style meetings he's had? The one before the release of OSX was telling, he repeatedly said that if he were making the…

Generally it's pretty easy to get root on a system. Then you're generally 100% owned. The only away this will survive is on the good graces of malicious hackers everywhere.

Why would anyone buy $12000 in bitcoins, at this stage? That's just dumb no matter which way you slice it and asking for handouts via bitcoin after having your bitcoins hacked is t…

Microsoft has tried time and time again (with their various .Net initiatives explicitly!) to lock the web into their platforms, because they saw back then (and are blinded by the f…

I'd buy your argument if Ruby on Rails only worked on Amazon servers, or if by using Ruby you could only use nginx and not Apache. The fact is when writing a .Net web app, if you d…

No, because terrorism is decentralized and the millions of people who (rightfully) hate us now will be even angrier. Which will justify further control of the populace for safety.

You must read a lot of websites that are all forums, plain text. Web services and online stores on the other hand need techniques like this to lay out things in a way that makes se…

Those sites are designed oppositely. This principle applies to movies and in fact anything with a frame around it, there are certain emotions and intents communicated with framing.…

"Most people have seen a gyroscope in action, so the stability of a rapidly rotating wheel should be fairly intuitive, making this a focus from the start. People have built bicycle…

Those are calendar clients. Now ask Mozilla to write a calendaring server that syncs with every mobile device on the market across 150 calendars some of which have many thousands o…

There is 6-to-4 translation available. So we need to move clients to 6 in order that servers can move to 6.

Apple has a superior update model? Sure in theory, but I'm not aware of many significant updates to an iDevice that would be comparable to the Android update history. It seems like…

Consider how much data you're putting on it. No phone is going to be fast when you ask it to pull down 5gb of email as some of my users do. The iPhone isn't that magical.

She'll like it until she realizes it actually sucks. Which is why consumer electronics manufacturers can still turn a profit in last place. But eventually she'll see everyone else …

More money, perhaps, but to me that's not saying much. As usual everyone is competing for 3rd place, not just in the market but in developers' hearts. Whichever platform gets an am…

What's awesome here (aside from living in Arizona just like the plaintiff) is that one of the defendants asked the Internet if he should get a lawyer: http://answers.justia.com/que…

I like the article, and support anyone who wants to learn to code, but resent the increasingly frequent (and thus increasingly meaningless) use of the word hacker. There is an iden…