pieter1976
Re:Three Chapters at Cloudflare: Programmer to CTO to Board of Directors
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:08PM (#43918884)
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Re:Launch HN: Moonshot Brands (YC W21) – We buy and grow e-commerce co...
on Friday May 14, 2021 @10:56AM (#27154964)
Sounds a bit like Rocket Internet's business.
Re:Resurrecting Apple ][ code from a 1980 B movie
on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @11:46AM (#16377109)
Some people have way too much time on their hand. But thanks goodness for emulators.
Re:Fixing a bug in “Airwolf” code from 1984 [video]
on Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:51AM (#14315607)
The whole channel seems interesting https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindtheScreens Based on This Tumblr: https://moviecode.tumblr.com/
Re:Network Performance Issues in multiple locations
on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:58AM (#14247489)
For CDN, yes. For DDoS mitigation, no. Before they removed the figure from their website they claimed about 1/5th the DDoS mitigation capacity as Cloudflare.
Re:The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban
on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:15AM (#13967846)
Where does this end? After the liquid ban everything was banned from aircraft accept passport and boarding pass for a while. Imagine that becomes the norm.
Then terrorists realise that the rectum has a capacity of 500 to 800ml and decide to stuff a bomb large enough to puncture an aircraft wall in the anus and then remove it in flight.
Re:The TSA's Selective Laptop Ban
on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:06AM (#13967344)
At some point we are going to have to realise that terrorists are always going to want to target aircraft and just live with it. This ban makes no sense because $BAD_GUY can just via some intermediate airport with their iPad Bomb.
It's interesting that El Al has not decided to ban laptops (despite undoubtedly being a target) and, in fact, advises people not to put valuables in the hold: https://www.elal.com/en/PassengersInfo/Baggage/Pages/Policy....
"EL AL reminds all passengers not to pack valuable items in baggage send to the hold of the plane. These items should be carried in the hand luggage"
Re:Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World
on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:36AM (#13364625)
Dutch not so different from British then.
Re:Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World
on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @06:48AM (#13364178)
And there is the problem. He is being treated as a symbol, rather than a fellow human being who walked the planet with the rest of us and had his own demons.
Re:Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World
on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @05:34AM (#13363915)
I have never understood the raising up of Aaron Swartz to demi-god status by this community. It is tragic that he took his own life and I fully expect to be downvoted here for expressing this opinion as it is a thing you can't say here (http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html).
Re:Oracle buys Dyn
on Monday November 21, 2016 @10:00AM (#13005835)
I assume that was sarcasm, right?
72 Hours of Pwnage: A Paranoid N00b Goes to Def Con
Re:Britain’s vote to exit the EU sends Europe’s space sector scramblin...
on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:50AM (#12048950)
Wouldn't be any surprise if Tim Peake turns out to be Britain's first and last official astronaut.
Re:Is Hyperloop the future of travel?
on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:43AM (#11713528)
Haven't really fast trains (sometimes maglev) inside evacuated tubes been proposed over and over again. Trying to work out what is new here.
For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
Re:Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago
on Thursday May 12, 2016 @06:33AM (#11682473)
Good to see Zuse on HN. It's possible to go and see his machines in Germany and I highly recommend it. This is a "forgotten" part of computing history because of WWII and deserves the light of day.
Re:Peter Thiel to serve as Trump delegate
on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @12:01PM (#11668175)
I guess this is on HN because people are surprised that not all programmers are atheist members of the Democratic party.
Re:A conference for polyglot programmers – Regular tickets on sale
on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:35AM (#11660119)
The whole polyglot programmer thing is totally weird to me. Why would you not be a polyglot programmer? And why are we celebrating it as if it was something special?
Re:Richard Stallman's 22-Page Rider (2011)
on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:33AM (#11571267)
I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up.
It's one thing not to want to eat breakfast, but making it a taboo subject seems extreme.
Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on
on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @08:09AM (#11571115)
Two years ago I was lucky enough to visit Chernobyl with an organized tour out of Kyev. Strange to think of part of this planet as a forbidden zone, even stranger that it's a tourist attraction.
Re:How the CIA writes history
on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:05PM (#11565629)
In the film Spotlight there's a similar worry about disappearance of public records and a race to get them when they are released before a sort of Boston/Catholic Omerta makes them disappear.
Re:Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryptio...
on Monday April 25, 2016 @01:04PM (#11565615)
Sounds right. I work for a major Internet company and we locked down everything tight post-Snowden.
Re:Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software, warning issued
on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:54AM (#11564553)
The malware looks for processes with with a specific DLL loaded in it and then will replace two specific bytes with other instructions, which essentially trick the process into thinking an important check has been done.
It replaced a JNZ with NOP NOP. The BAE Systems blog post has lots of techincal detail: http://baesystemsai.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/two-bytes-to-951m...
Re:Open-source cloud with LibreOffice online
on Monday April 25, 2016 @09:04AM (#11563902)
Every time I try to use LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before that), I end up terribly disappointed by the software quality compared to 'equivalent' Microsoft or Apple products. Have things improved lately?
Re:Google wins copyright battle over books
on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:45PM (#11521264)
Good. Google Books is an incredible resource and this was a mistake. The Authors Guild are wrong to stop this scanning as it Google Books makes IMHO books more desirable not less.
Re:How a Diode Changed My Life
on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:15PM (#11521037)
Lovely story. Don't forgot that diodes also have a voltage drop across them which means that they can be used to change voltages from batteries or other sources if needed.
Re:Many railway lines in Britain that were closed in the 1960s are re-...
on Monday April 18, 2016 @10:15AM (#11520004)
Now, if only the tram lines would be rebuilt things would be a lot smoother (at least from a public transport perspective).
Re:Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole
on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:20AM (#11519302)
Sorry, no, it's the parents' responsibility to teach children how to interact in all sorts of situations.
Amazon Echo is no different. This person needs to deal with their child and not blame technology.
Re:Welcome to 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian mod...
on Monday April 18, 2016 @05:27AM (#11518658)
Seems vastly overblown to call this "the worst job in the world". There are far, far worse things people do to get paid.
Sure jumping out of your tree-hugging everybody-love-everybody mindset is probably a shock, but there's plenty of hatred in the real world.
Re:The Basics of Web Application Security, Part 4: Protect Data in Tra...
on Monday April 18, 2016 @05:24AM (#11518649)
There are plenty of countries that will do this. It is not a subtle hint about the NSA.