hornbill

19 karma · joined June 12, 2015

hornbillon Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME

I did not find anything about ME in BIOS settings, probably the code is not present as you suggested. I have not seen any DHCP requests from the box.

hornbillon Intel and ME, and why we should get rid of ME

How does Intel ME access network? Does it use the IP address assigned to the OS or does it try to get perform DHCP?

hornbillon Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup?

Link to wiki on that page (http://trade.strategic-options.com/index.php/open/wiki) seems to be broken.

hornbillon Firefox exploit found in the wild

I guess pdf.js will be advantageous if you are using browser always.

Most of the times, I have multiple pdf files open side by side. So I had a pdf viewer in the machine.

hornbillon Firefox exploit found in the wild

Out of curiosity, how many users will be opening pdf using pdf.js? Is it widely used?

I was never comfortable with pdf.js and changed the setting to use the default pdf viewer in all my machines.

hornbillon Useful Python Libraries for Startups

I am curious about why you have to parse dates in different formats. Is it part of a web crawler?

Once I switched to python 3, datetime has been sufficient for my needs as timezone is also handled.

hornbillon How Estonia became a leader in technology

Estonia’s success is not so much about ditching legacy technology as it is about shedding “legacy thinking”

This is the key. I think many people does not understand this or does not approve of this. By going digital (like e-governance), use of paper is avoided but the procedure remains same. Does it save time? Sure, it does. But the process remains tedious as ever.

hornbillon Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship

You might want to check the desktop analysis in Coverity. It runs a complete analysis at the first time. But afterwards, it can run analysis on the changes - but against a version present on your build server. I had set this up for a code base in C (>100Kloc) and desktop analysis was fast enough.