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Re: Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid

2009-11-29T17:07:48+00:00

If you are truly paranoid, you wouldn't depend on a central server to pass the data to S3. You have moved the data off your system but are still subject to a single point of failure (or attack). A native application that writes directly to S3 would be ideal.

Re: Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid

2009-11-29T15:57:52+00:00

You need to check out crashplan. Cheers.

Re: Sound Engineering Awesomeness

2009-11-27T01:29:30+00:00

Wow, that looks and sounds amazing! Washboard Chaz has so much character!

Re: Counter-Culture Corporate Culture: Netflix

2009-11-05T11:33:36+00:00

That's an extraordinary piece of work. It's immense in its scope and and detail. Some of their cleverest points are about market based comp and that everyone has the right to progress their career, and that may be better done outwith Netflix. Impressive.

Re: Outspokes Launches, Demo's at TechCrunch 50

2009-09-17T06:08:32+00:00

Thanks for the kind words Dennis. TC50 was great and we can't wait for what's next!

Re: Way to Stifle Creativity, Apple

2009-07-28T20:38:19+00:00

Good "devil's advocate" commentary. But that doesn't do much for the end-user: http://daringfireball.net/2009/07/google_voice.

Re: Fixing OSX's Java 1.5.0 Vulnerability

2009-06-16T22:39:05+00:00

Yes, it took them well over 200 days for this one. But now that it's updated I wonder why I posted this entry. :)

Re: Fixing OSX's Java 1.5.0 Vulnerability

2009-06-16T21:26:49+00:00

Man 166 days?? That's unbelievably bad. I can't imagine Microsoft not putting a big effort behind an issue of this size. But Apple really slacked on this one.

Re: Launch a Product with your Community

2009-06-05T14:55:50+00:00

thanks for recording it!

Re: Technical People

2009-02-09T20:31:57+00:00

I think I know you enough to know you'll never install a vulnerability-ridden software stack to run a blog. :)

It's ok for some personal projects to never reach completion. After all, it's a labor of love, and you can choose what you get out of it.

I notice that for my pet projects, I always write 2 or 3 features at a time. Then I go back and tear apart an old feature, and rewrite it with the best practices I learn recently. The balance of *creating* something new with that of rewriting it cleaner is amazingly satisfying.

Re: Don't Mess with My Tools

2009-01-26T18:58:34+00:00

The quote from the vendor about the "features" brought a smirk to my face. I mean, whooa, tab-completion? I didn't think there was anything left in my life that *lacked* tab-completion. I do notice that I switch on different sets of tools based on what I'm working on. For Java, I grew up on Eclipse, so I can't use Emacs like I would for other projects.

Re: Benefits of Certification

2008-11-04T18:22:51+00:00

Yes, there is that. If my certification pursuits were pre-requisites for my job, I'd probably hate them after a while, too. Much like the pressures behind undergrad studies vs. taking classes of interest as an adult, there's always the stuff we wish we could study.

Re: Benefits of Certification

2008-11-04T17:57:11+00:00

My dad has been an Windows IT guy for the past decade. He has always hated the certifications and saw them only as a necessary evil for his career. Besides the amount of personal time he'd have to devote, the costs of the certifications were also an issue. Most of the time, his company would pay for the certifications, but if there was a cert that he wanted for himself, then he would pay it out of his own pocket. When he was trying to persuade me to stay out of the tech industry, he cited the frequent and never-ending certification processes as one his reasons.

Re: Mind Your Web Presence

2008-10-23T17:54:12+00:00

I have been very surprised by all the times that I've been identified by my web presence. I was looking to buy a car on Craigslist, the seller had googled my name and email before I went out to see his car. Thankfully, that actually made it really easy to meet in person, but one can easily imagine how that could've turned sour very quickly.

I also strongly agree with the points you made about professionalism. Even thought I had known that companies searched for background information on their prospective hires, I was still pleasantly surprised to go to interviews and be questioned about my blog posts and public projects. It lets the interviewer know more about me, and it helps direct the conversation.

Re: Good Coding Music

2008-10-13T19:15:58+00:00

I have some old Sony MDR semi-aural action going on here. I wish it was a little more comfortable, but I hate spending money on headphones.

For online radio, I prefer Last.fm on OSX just because their native Cocoa client is so much better than having a Pandora window take down my browser in a crash.

psst. awesome blog by the way

Re: Just what we need: A TCP Stack Vulnerability

2008-10-10T15:23:40+00:00

It's only a matter of time that something like this actually gets discovered. The ultimate doomsday scenario is when a TCP stack implementation on the Windows operating system is vulnerable to an attack with the payload of remote code execution.. once again, it's not a matter of if, but when in this industry.

Re: The Self-Destruct Mentality for Security

2008-10-08T09:31:07+00:00

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Re: The Self-Destruct Mentality for Security

2008-10-01T17:17:16+00:00

There are 2 other products that can help protect your personal data when your cellphone is lost or stolen:

Maverick Mobile: They have an application that automatically lock your address book when another SIM card is inserted in your phone. It can also send your stolen/lost data and the information of the thief's phone number activity (phone numbers that were called, received...) to another phone number (using the air time of the thief's SIM card!). You can also turn off your phone remotely or trigger an alarm (that will stops when the battery is dead), making your phone unusable.
Mobile SuperHero from YouGetItBack: This GPS-based application will help track your cellphone even if the SIM card is changed.