TimMontague

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TimMontague··on Washington DC online voting hack contest suspended early

Here's an article by one of the researchers with much more information about the vulnerability:

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-in...

TimMontague··on Ask HN: Distributed Bug Tracking - Why?

There's an article on LWN from 2008 about distributed bug tracking: http://lwn.net/Articles/281849/

One advantage that it mentions is a more tight coupling with distributed source code management systems.

TimMontague··on Why Wesabe Lost to Mint

"Sex.com was sold to Escom in January 2006 for a reported $14 million price, widely cited as the highest priced domain sale in history. [1]"

Apparently it's up for sale again, so perhaps it's not worth quite that much...

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/01/sex-com-sedo/

TimMontague··on How Tucker Max Got Rejected by Publishing and Still Hit #1 New York Times

Of all the bullet points the author listed, I failed to see "produce quality content" as one of them

How about:

"The most important point, the thing that trumps all the rest, is this:

CREATE AMAZING AND COMPELLING CONTENT THAT PEOPLE LOVE AND VALUE. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, flows from that central principle."

TimMontague··on "So, what do you do?"

And that's why us programmers have jobs. We're professionals at telling computers what to do.

Which reminds me of a good xkcd comic about the question "what do you do?": http://xkcd.com/722/

TimMontague··on 75 Percent of Individuals Use Same Password for Social Networking and Email

The problem with that approach is that once someone figures out 1 of your passwords "PclarkUnsecureWebsite123$%^", it becomes easy for them to guess "PclarkGmail123$%^".

TimMontague··on Jailbreak for ios 4.0 and iphone4 just released

I have found the Dev-Team blog to post authoritative information about each iPhone jailbreak.

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

TimMontague··on My website similarity search engine (feedback please)

DDG: http://duckduckgo.com

TimMontague··on HP Updates MacBook-Imitating Envy Range

I wish HP would copy Apple's webpage too... It's practically unusable.

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/envy/

TimMontague··on The ARM, the PPC, the x86, and the iPad

In fact, it’s now a universally accepted truth that RISC is better than CISC!

Is that actually true? I'd like to see some actual numbers comparing RISC vs. CISC performance/power consumption.

TimMontague··on Password Chart

Why not just use the phrase+password as a password?

TimMontague··on See the ISS fly over ...

Spaceweather.com can tell you when the ISS and other bright satellites are going to be passing overhead.

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/

TimMontague··on EU approves new law requiring users approve all cookies.

Another good article, with excerpts from the actual law is here: http://www.out-law.com/page-10021

TimMontague··on Ask HN: Where can I buy 10-100 iPhone 3GS

Are you going to offer some kind of rental service? That would be an interesting business model...

TimMontague··on Ares booster damaged on return

It's not really a shock wave, technically it is the Prandtl–Glauert singularity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl–Glauert_singularity

TimMontague··on Apple keyboards hacked and possessed

The paper describing the attack is here: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/CHEN/BHUSA09...

It makes one wonder how many other peripherals have user programmable firmware.

TimMontague··on Ask HN: Who changed your life?

I agree. When I was in high school my Dad gave me an old computer and a Debian CD. I taught myself PHP and wrote a blog. That's what got me interested in programming.

TimMontague··on Bug #48669: PHP now includes GOTO

A few years back, Linus and some kernel hackers had a good discussion about the good gotos vs. the bad gotos.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/553

TimMontague··on Was Twitter’s May 8 Downtime on Purpose?

It was scheduled:

http://status.twitter.com/post/104738920/planned-maintenance...

TimMontague··on Ask HN: Making money during college?

Having a job doing research on campus gives excellent experience and looks great on a resume. It also helps when you need a professor to write a letter of recommendation if they know you outside of the classroom environment. Assuming you are going to a research university, there should be no shortage of opportunities. Your school website should have a list of professors along with what areas they are researching, pick something that sounds like fun and go an ask.

TimMontague··on Ask HN: Moving to a New City

The most important thing is getting out and doing things. Start small with 1 or 2 activities a couple of times a week, then as you start meeting people, see what other things they do.

Another tip is to meet your neighbors. As soon as you move in, walk around and knock on a couple of doors. It's always nice to know the people you live near and the best time to meet them is right after you move in.

TimMontague··on I Just Logged In As You

Passwords vs. Pass Phrases: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000342.html

Easier on the user, harder for hackers: that's a total no-brainer. I've adopted passphrases across the board on all the systems I use.

I guess the anonymous person discovered his passphrase?

TimMontague··on Why Developers are Switching to Mac

I agree with this. All three operating systems have their flaws, so it basically boils down to preference and ease of development. If you are developing a Windows application, you should develop in Windows; for Apple applications, use OS X; Linux applications, use Linux. One advantage of Apple platforms, which the article mentions, is that that they allow running of all 3 operating systems.

TimMontague··on Why Developers are Switching to Mac

The majority of this article seems to be the standard " OS X is Great!" talking points.

In my opinion, the real reason that developers switch to OS X is so that they can develop software for apple products (or in the case of web development, develop websites that are OS X friendly).

TimMontague··on Big Entertainment Wants to Party Like It's 1996 (Cory Doctorow)

The point is that the record industry is better off working with the public than in secret behind locked doors. The blanket license is simply a single possibility that may be compromised on if there is ever an open discussion.

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