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Gilly_LDN

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gfy.com 10y ago

Advice given on how to hire and keep a programmer

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www.bbc.co.uk 11y ago

How sports bras helped transform women's approach to sport

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www.royalcourttheatre.com 11y ago

Live stream from London of former Anonymous and LulzSec hacktivists

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www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

US justice department charges Chinese with hacking

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security.stackexchange.com 12y ago

Are all SSL Certificates equal?

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www.cellslider.net 13y ago

Cancer Reseach UK - Crowd sourcing diagnosis search

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www.bbc.co.uk 13y ago

Berners-Lee wins engineering prize for world wide web

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news.discovery.com 13y ago

Doom, Death and Religion. The end of days are upon us

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news.sky.com 13y ago

Hackers break into a US television network

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: The Hobbit in 48fps, is it better?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Tell HN: Merry Christmas from the UK

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Is Syria back online now?

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youtu.be 13y ago

Understanding the MVP - By ThoughtWorks

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en.wikipedia.org 13y ago

Wikipedia has a new pledge drive - I gave £5, will you donate?

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

The Yacht that Steve designed...

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Digital Sizzle Art Hackathon by the 3 beards: Documentary

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www.zdnet.com 13y ago

Killing security through obscurity to defeat competitors

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www.slate.com 13y ago

New documents reveal how Apple really invented the iPhone

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www.coolfactor.org 13y ago

Quadrotor build writeup

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" The number of households affected by the attack on JPMorgan [76 million households and 7 million small businesses] compares with the 145 million personal records taken earlier this year in a breach of EBay Inc. and last year’s attack on retailer Target Corp., which affected 110 million. "

Do 'responsive firewalls' exist, that would close a hacked connection just because of the size of the data that is flowing out?

[I have often thought a firewall would be a good golang project]

This is directed at members of China's military for proven hacking attempts for industry secrets. It will be really interesting to see how the USA reacts as I doubt China will hand over their army officers for prosecution in the US.

Year 2038 problem 12 years ago

> The furthest time that can be represented this way is 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 (2147483647 seconds after January 1st, 1970).

I do hate bugs that only pop up at 3am in the morning.

As I understand it, the problem is more in the compiler/interpreter than in the storage medium. Say, your using mysql to hold an int field - to alter the storage allocation to include more bytes is simple, even trivial. It is the language which will need to be updated to understand that it is using an unsigned integer for the unix epoch.

Can you share some links, this is very similar to something I am building with an old university buddy. FYI, we are focusing on verticals first; to conquer a large share of a small market before moving on.

This is a great update and really opens it up for a hackathon project that I wanted to extend after the event, but the security issues had meant that it was better to wait until now.

Well done James T. and the rest of the Firebase team.

The plans in the draft bill include:

Internet service providers having to store for a year all details of online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient of a communication and the location of the device from which it was made.

They would also be having to store for the first time all Britons' web browsing history and details of messages sent on social media, webmail, voice calls over the internet and gaming, in addition to emails and phone calls

Police not having to seek permission to access details of these communications, if investigating a crime

Police having to get a warrant from the home secretary to be able to see the actual content of any messages

Four bodies having access to data: the police, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the intelligence agencies and HM Revenue and Customs

What if the winning hackers win at two of your events, and are funded for two different companies but aren't interested in the problem after the weekend - except for the running around money.

Is the money in the form of 'a gift which could be used to run a company for a couple of months'?

Who would collect the money, just one of them in their bank account?

Who monitors the teams afterwards - or is that just up to the your sponsor/the investor?

Basically, I like the idea - but I'd be tempted to use it to allow me space to concentrate on my primary software idea more, rather than a 3 day event health hackathon solution. As an investor, I'd be worried that I'd be 'herding cats' getting three teams of three random people (for example) to continue a project they don't genuinely care about and eventually have just lost that money.

How do you plan to address these concerns?

The only OOP I have really looked into since, was PHP frameworks like Zend Framework and I didn't find it made life easier for me.

I do make use of classes in Perl and PHP when they are presented in modules. I just don't choose to structure my work in objects.

I am using javascript as a functional language when in use with node.js or with firebase for example.

I just break my work up in simple functions which I use and re-use to do anything I need.

In regards to not developing as a programmer, of course if you have a style you will get better at it, but I find I grow better by learning more variety of skills, e.g properly securing password data with bcrypt, or playing stripes CTF2 to see where the vulnerabilities exist in software. As examples, I think there is more value in becoming a widely skilled and capable hacker, than an coding [style] guru.

Learnt Java at university and swore off it as soon as I finished my course. Had a day job writing Perl software and it has been much better. The only effect though is that I have been put off Object Orientated code to, I find that and Java too verbose and non-transparent enough to hack or maintain quickly.