This article is less about specifically running 100 mile-races and more about doing something that requires self-control; and the claim is that doing so will make anyone a more successful person.
> ”Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning to program” Here's the full quote: "Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning how to program computers—but he only had that opportunity because he had the good fortune…
> There is virtually zero use for this capability [running 100 mile races] That's a major point of the article, given it's discussion of the spillover effect: "The bottom line: Practice self-control in one area of your…
> Seems like way too much work for an attacker to try to figure out. I dunno, seems like way more work to come up with, maintain, and actually use the generator. Seems easier to just click a bunch in my vault to…
Of these, 1: Chose the project you want to contribute to (and 1.5: Choose the issue to work on) and 9: Follow up are the hard ones. Both are primarily social problems. For 1, it's mostly about knowing yourself. What…
How would you go about testing your internal endpoints?
> I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. That's a feature, not a bug. Limit your first reading to basic understanding of the plot and setting; ignore exploration of "deeper" themes…
But yet we find 3-5 hours a day for watching TV?
It's even worse than that -- kill is just a command that sends signals to a program, some of which happen to (gracefully or not) stop the program. You can even define your own!
> while the president leads the day-to-day operations. How would you characterize the COO then?
> How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ? For starters, Microsoft does not have a monopoly on game consoles.
He's probably talking about client-side IDS, such as in a corporate environment. It's worth noting that in such an environment, he likely controls the client machines themselves (ie, only corporate machines on the…
Snarky answer: He wants to be able to spy on his users in order to protect them from themselves.
Why would technology be any different from anything else? The prosecution and defense are free to call on expert witnesses to explain SSL and heart surgery to the judge and jury.
They're probably simple wrappers around https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassia...
> It either relies on a waterfall-like process where the full design is known before-hand and therefore what tests have to be written, This is that fuzzy line between behavior driven development and test driven…
Yes, if you can't solve a problem, you certainly can't solve a problem in a supportable manner. Agile has the concept of Spikes (http://www.scaledagileframework.com/spikes/) for researching new problems. The key point…
> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said This is true for the United States Postal Service as well. I've always thought it'd be…
> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows through their territories. > So just stop,…
> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?
> You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently If your vendor doesn't do a decent job verifying who you are (and this may or may not mean…
> Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL. Except that SSL isn't just about transport-layer security, it's also about identity. The entire model of SSL…
> It really does not add anything to the equation. Just extra costs and work for you. Of course it adds something: It makes it more difficult for someone else to go buy a SSL certificate in your name. Security isn't…
Here's a list of them that use Verisign's VIP: https://idprotect.vip.symantec.com/wheretouse.v Others may use in-house solutions. Here's Bank of America's two factor solution:…
> So, once you put on that uniform you have to keep your mouth shut even if you witness the worst atrocities imaginable. Absolutely not. But you don't have to shout every secret you have access to (relevant or not) from…
This article is less about specifically running 100 mile-races and more about doing something that requires self-control; and the claim is that doing so will make anyone a more successful person.
> ”Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning to program” Here's the full quote: "Bill Gates spent thousands of hours learning how to program computers—but he only had that opportunity because he had the good fortune…
> There is virtually zero use for this capability [running 100 mile races] That's a major point of the article, given it's discussion of the spillover effect: "The bottom line: Practice self-control in one area of your…
> Seems like way too much work for an attacker to try to figure out. I dunno, seems like way more work to come up with, maintain, and actually use the generator. Seems easier to just click a bunch in my vault to…
Of these, 1: Chose the project you want to contribute to (and 1.5: Choose the issue to work on) and 9: Follow up are the hard ones. Both are primarily social problems. For 1, it's mostly about knowing yourself. What…
How would you go about testing your internal endpoints?
> I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. That's a feature, not a bug. Limit your first reading to basic understanding of the plot and setting; ignore exploration of "deeper" themes…
But yet we find 3-5 hours a day for watching TV?
It's even worse than that -- kill is just a command that sends signals to a program, some of which happen to (gracefully or not) stop the program. You can even define your own!
> while the president leads the day-to-day operations. How would you characterize the COO then?
> How does this not trigger any flags for monopoly abuse at the DoJ? For starters, Microsoft does not have a monopoly on game consoles.
He's probably talking about client-side IDS, such as in a corporate environment. It's worth noting that in such an environment, he likely controls the client machines themselves (ie, only corporate machines on the…
Snarky answer: He wants to be able to spy on his users in order to protect them from themselves.
Why would technology be any different from anything else? The prosecution and defense are free to call on expert witnesses to explain SSL and heart surgery to the judge and jury.
They're probably simple wrappers around https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/org.swift.atlassia...
> It either relies on a waterfall-like process where the full design is known before-hand and therefore what tests have to be written, This is that fuzzy line between behavior driven development and test driven…
Yes, if you can't solve a problem, you certainly can't solve a problem in a supportable manner. Agile has the concept of Spikes (http://www.scaledagileframework.com/spikes/) for researching new problems. The key point…
> However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking that I needed to worry about what I said This is true for the United States Postal Service as well. I've always thought it'd be…
> At the scale the US is doing it? Absolutely. This sounds more like ability rather than choice. It seems odd to demonize the U.S. because practically all Internet data flows through their territories. > So just stop,…
> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?
> You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently If your vendor doesn't do a decent job verifying who you are (and this may or may not mean…
> Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL. Except that SSL isn't just about transport-layer security, it's also about identity. The entire model of SSL…
> It really does not add anything to the equation. Just extra costs and work for you. Of course it adds something: It makes it more difficult for someone else to go buy a SSL certificate in your name. Security isn't…
Here's a list of them that use Verisign's VIP: https://idprotect.vip.symantec.com/wheretouse.v Others may use in-house solutions. Here's Bank of America's two factor solution:…
> So, once you put on that uniform you have to keep your mouth shut even if you witness the worst atrocities imaginable. Absolutely not. But you don't have to shout every secret you have access to (relevant or not) from…