back
user profile
toomuchtodo
110,948karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
about
Forward deployed scholar
"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
(No AI is used to write any content within any of my comments)
recent activity (51,753 total)
comment
I don't see the benefit of having an HSM device in a multi-tenant environment. Great! My keys are safe! Now what's going to protect my data when there's a vulnerability in the dom0/hypervisor?
comment
http://xkcd.com/705/
comment
That's the glass is half empty view. The other view is your're saving money by being given an interest-free loan to purchase the phone.
comment
I use a Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile; I don't pay for tethering, and they only kick you back on HTTP connections if you're not paying for it (DPI/Layer 7). I just use HTTPS for everything when I tether my…
comment
Response to niggler: Yeah, I'm cool streaming them my business transactions via Yodlee/Mint/my bank if it streamlines the process. They can already get the data if they want it (audit, etc).
comment
Login to IRS website, be shown all your data. Is this correct? Yes. No. buttons. Workflow is present to deal with incorrect data. The data is already submitted electronically by employers, brokerage/r…
comment
Exactly. We have the ability to do this, and private companies lobby against it (and win!) to protect their profit. What the fark.
comment
Using Cloudfront should improve your availability (if using Cloudfront URLs).
comment
Typo on lower right of front page: "Build on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk" should be "Built on" Also: "All HTML interfcae is 100% customizable." should be "Our HTML interface is 100% customizable."
comment
Did she not single out two male developers at a conference for something that they said without speaking to them whatsoever? Take their picture and put it on twitter in an inflammatory way? And then g…
comment
Someone's already on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
comment
You'd think they'd go Open Compute and cut out the middle man (Dell, HP, etc).
comment
You not believing it doesn't really qualify as a violation of the law.
comment
Point: She singled out two guys at a conference, provided no evidence/proof while burning them at the stake online, and was fired for it.
comment
End of life does not equal non-functioning. Companies continue to use end of life gear in production environments (Cisco Pix anyone?).
comment
Coming from an environment where the CFO propositioned women about having a threesome with his wife, things like this seem extremely tame.
comment
Far if its all leases acquired with cheap money. Who buys equipment upfront for cash at that scale?
comment
Vs needing CPU cycles and you having to wait if someone else is using that shared CPU time? There are always tradeoffs.
comment
I want to live in a world where conversations can be had, where we can all sit down as a species and say, "Yes, this is what we want" or "no, we're going to pass on this." Unfortunately, there will al…
comment
Yes, "get over it." Oil is non-renewable; it's getting much more expensive to find ; and the US (my country) spends a huge portion of its tax revenue financing a military to ensure a constant supply…
comment
I guess DARPA is pretty ridiculous too, right? What have they ever come up with, what with their tax money grab and all? In all seriousness, you're not helping. At all. Clearly R&D is doing well, …
comment
Thank you! I actually found your blog because I stumbled upon wikioverland.org; I plan on doing the Pan American Highway route. I'll definitely get in touch!
comment
It's awesome to run into you on HN. I'm building travel plans based on your blog postings!
comment
SIR! (or mam) Permission to help scale out the leaderboard! (I'll hop on EFnet to ask)
comment
Worldwide is not everyone's requirement. Is Amazon reliable across the world? Sure. So is any other provider if they have more than one datacenter, or you use more than one provider and each provide…
comment
$20? Definitely. I think that's a great floor. $30? Meh. It's a small window for "I don't care about this purchase that much" vs "Hmm, I'll think about it".
comment
Definitely not like Amazon US-East-1.
comment
The device is going to be looking for the "airbag deployment" code on the OBDII/CANBUS port, as well as accelerometer data.
comment
Chrome SPDY Indicator extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-indicator/mpb... …
comment
Except its now legal for merchants to tack on a surcharge for you paying with credit (as it should be). Online merchants will absorb the cost of processing credit cards, as they aren't going to wait f…