andyzweb

228 karma · joined March 3, 2012

contact is hn username at gmail

here is some software that sucks less: http://suckless.org/

andyzwebon Ask HN: Good countries for American expats

nah bro. set up a foreign shell corp and have your employer pay your shell corp. defer taxes until there is a tax holiday. then still pay nothing!

andyzwebon North Texas citizens organize to monitor police with video cameras

sousveillance to maintain the balance

andyzwebon Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"

ADP off the top of my head

andyzwebon You Are a Rogue Device (2013)

I'm cynical about the "timing" in another way. that if an AP captures a sequence of the "random" addresses an institution can subpena whatever unique seed was assigned to each iDevice to feed whatever PRNG is shuffling the MAC addresses

andyzwebon What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel

are you an alien, time-traveler, or esper?

andyzwebon First ever Elixir Conf

Elixir is one of the most exciting projects in the Erlang/OTP ecosystem.

andyzwebon Disneyland's original prospectus (1953)

EPCOT (Every Person Comes Out Tired)

andyzwebon Write Better JavaScript with Promises

BiwaScheme has call/cc

andyzwebon Laboratory-grown vaginas implanted in patients

"If only you could see the things I've seen with your eyes"

andyzwebon Apple Claims Mogenerator's Methods

it might be worth looking at using a different kind of license: https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html comes to mind.

andyzwebon Coinbase user emails and full names leaked

>the problem is people

andyzwebon Microsoft launches Office for iPad

embrace, extend, extinguish

andyzwebon Wireless electricity? It's here

media generally has a memory of ~9 months to a year at most

andyzwebon 2048 in the terminal

going to make a PR that has support for vi-like navigation, (hjkl)

andyzwebon Paging Design M.D.

>but good luck getting past the EHR vendor guard dogs to even read-only access the back-end data.

I've had first hand experience with this. If you're going to build a startup in this area it is important to be a stealth mode as possible. It's also important to have a budget for legal services and LegalZoom™ won't cut it.

andyzwebon College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated

nothing succeeds like mediocrity

andyzwebon Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More

I would observe the CPAN community. I highly recommend reading http://www.cpan.org/misc/ZCAN.html and then begin forking+mirroring the registry immediately.

andyzwebon Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round

your sentiment is insufficiently appreciated sadly.

andyzwebon Libcloud: One Interface To Rule Them All

and in the darkness ...

andyzwebon Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential

and we aren't interested in the old content industries. they are "considered harmful" at best

andyzwebon Ask HN: How to become a Security Engineer

security is a state of mind —NSA security manual

andyzwebon Falsehoods programmers believe about geography

"Falsehoods programmers believe" is the new "X considered harmful"

andyzwebon Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4

I'm in two Pinkie Pie fanclubs now

andyzwebon A cry for help from a worrier?

    accept the things I cannot change,
    the courage to change the things I can,
    and wisdom to know the difference.

andyzwebon Google apps whitelist hardcoded into Chromium open source project

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.

        — Ron Jeffries

andyzwebon The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

The baseband processor may have unrestricted access to the entire address space of the device or to address space which the application processor (and the operating system it's running) implicitly trusts.

andyzwebon NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide

http://xkcd.com/898/

andyzwebon The Code Documentation Fallacy

this brings a smile to Knuth's face

andyzwebon Assassination Politics (1997)

another cryptome/internet classic