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New comment by itsnotvalid in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

itsnotvalid — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:01:52 +0000

Agreed. I recently stumbled upon the fact that even Hacker News is using Firebase for exposing an API for articles. Caution should be taken when writing server-side software in general.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Kubernetes 1.12"

itsnotvalid — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:25:22 +0000

It's also that not all services used together may work on the latest version of k8s. For example, one of the services can only support up to 1.11 and need updates to use 1.12, then you suddenly cannot deploy 1.12 to those clusters. I think in terms of LTS it's more about having stable APIs for developing.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text"

itsnotvalid — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:26:24 +0000

For direct integrations there is already a tool called Sublimerge (https://www.sublimerge.com/) (I am not affiliated with this team), anyone compared the two? If it's a merge tool is not integrated directly with the editor, it's not as useful.

On a side note, the competition for this sector of market, for sublime and such is much tougher, like atom and vscode being "free" to use. The one thing that hinders definitely, is the amount of third-party packages available.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Graphics Launched: HP, Dell, and Intel NUC"

itsnotvalid — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 09:50:45 +0000

Just also wonder if this CPU is free from meltdown.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "DuckDuckGo vs Google"

itsnotvalid — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:39:35 +0000

Then what's the difference between using !g and startpage.com ?

New comment by itsnotvalid in "iPhone App will not stay open - just flashes when trying to launch"

itsnotvalid — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 05:37:14 +0000

Even if the customer is a dick, you can't lock someone out of their own door.

Now let's think again when you trust some third-party for something as important as your home door.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Docker Enterprise and Community Editions"

itsnotvalid — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 02:27:27 +0000

Docker Enterprise: https://www.docker.com/enterprise

What really trigger this is that their beta versions for mac and windows now have a changlog reading like this:

"Introduce Docker Community Edition"

It seems that they would be releasing the current tools as a separate but related product now. Just to clarify, Docker for Mac or Windows is not open-sourced (although it includes docker which is open-sourced).

New comment by itsnotvalid in "SVG has more potential"

itsnotvalid — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 03:41:43 +0000

Agreed. Just launched it over with different "modern" browsers and was disappointed by the support.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "“Should you encrypt or compress first?”"

itsnotvalid — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 05:47:31 +0000

I am always thinking, if the compression scheme is known, you would need some good noonce to avoid known plaintext (for example, compression format's header is always the same), and also by CRIME, which is to remover the dictionary of the compression.

I think it is best to use built-in compression scheme by the compression program to do the encryption first, as those often take these into account (and the header is not leaked, since only the content is encrypted).

New comment by itsnotvalid in "GCE down in all regions"

itsnotvalid — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 05:05:19 +0000

Rather, as they don't have SLA to end-users, they get credits from Google, so they still earn money.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Hublin: open-source video conferencing"

itsnotvalid — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:06:07 +0000

What a shame that Apple haven't got WebRTC supported, and I think it would still take a long way to go.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Dsxyliea"

itsnotvalid — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 04:58:45 +0000

Funny thing is that the text is still very readable (slower, but still readable) to me. I think it should be much worse for people who have the real problems...

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition"

itsnotvalid — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:41:16 +0000

That's what I thought at the first sight too.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep"

itsnotvalid — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:57:18 +0000

When I started listening to techno/electro music I quickly found about Nujabes (I am more into the Japanese scene) but later he got into a traffic accident. What a pity to this world.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep"

itsnotvalid — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:48:08 +0000

So there are already tons of apps on App Store or Play store featuring auto-generated beats for working and sleeping. Is there any clinical studies saying that this service is better than any of those? If the effects are the same, why choosing this over others?

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Show HN: Give 7 billion people a physical address"

itsnotvalid — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:54:12 +0000

All I can think of this idea is, just like internet time.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Announcing The Fog Creek Fellowship"

itsnotvalid — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 03:39:35 +0000

I was about to make a note of this but you found a much better example from co-founder's (sort of defunt) blog.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "Standings in 38th Annual World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate"

itsnotvalid — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:40:00 +0000

What puzzled me is that training for high schools varies so much that not all students interested was given some basic help.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore"

itsnotvalid — Fri, 30 May 2014 19:10:38 +0000

Multi Data Center Replication doesn't come in the free-lunch-pack. To get that with Riak, you probably need to downpay $6000 for getting that license for a node. So if you have two geolocations for your data, it would be at least $12000 for a minimal setup.

Of course for people looking at the usage for this, money is not the major issue.

New comment by itsnotvalid in "CloudFlare's Heartbleed challenge cracked"

itsnotvalid — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:26:58 +0000

Which kind of proxies? What are they using them actually?