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Account manager and support contract are sold together... $150,000/yr paid up front + 4% of yearly spend.

Seems insanely high, especially compared to the next step down which is only $250/mo per user... you could get by with a separate account with a single master user that controlled all the deployments and billing and only pay $3,000/yr. What you get for that extra $147,000+/year is that you talk directly with the lowest level engineer actually working on the problem rather than relaying messages that lose context... but you'll still need to know what you're talking about and be able to actually help the engineer rather than spin them in circles, or you'll be kept at bay.

Not true... you just have to pay for it. I worked for A fortune 100 company that was moving some things to Google App Engine, and paid for the highest level of support. We had a list of guys we could get on the phone whenever we needed, including the main guy in charge of everything.

I helped them fix a lot of bugs and broken processes, but I'm better than most at making reports. If they had to deal with bad developers blaming Google for problems that had nothing to do with Google, that would waste a lot of time. But on the other hand, if we didn't pay for support, those problems probably never would have been fixed, and I don't think we were ever compensated or given discount support for helping.

I ran an online multiplayer drug dealing game in the 90s similar to dope wars. The DEA contacted me to let me know they spent a month investigating me, and that it was probably not smart for me to do something like that, but that a lot of the agents were playing the game and enjoying it and I was cleared.

Have you ever used desktop solaris? it was terrible. I'll vouch. resize a window in the file manager, and every single item would need to be reprocessed and the entire system would lock until 1 by 1 they re-spawned. It was infuriating.

My first 2 years of university were using Eiffel in a NeXT lab. The professors had built up their own standard libraries. Some of the preconditions and postconditions got a little annoying, but probably staved off a lot of bugs.

Junior year they switched everything to Java. The CS lab switched to macs, but the main computer labs were mostly all windows, but CS students could finally work on their CS programs there if they didn't have their own computer (but everyone did anyways)

Seems like an obvious advantage to have your predator busy enjoying themselves.

Driver education doesn't matter when it stops at 16 years old. I've been in cars with these bad drivers doing less than the speed limit in the left lane... I told them they should get over... they said they prefer to drive "in the fast lane"... like they'll get there faster. They stayed in the left lane until the exit, and then exit across 2 lanes. I don't see how you can help these people.

We focused on it in undergrad too. If I remember right the entire kernel was like 8 pages in the textbook, including commentary.

It's just free advertising. After the public is sold on the fact that a certain NEW! feature represents a fix to the thing everyone hates, the manufacturers will have already embedded something new that will keep you idiots buying the next NEW! thing forever.

You're all sheep.

It seems the entire decision of using secp256k1 was made to avoid secp256r1. This is another piece of evidence that Satoshi Nakamoto must have beee active in the 1990-2000 cypherpunk community, so that he was well-aware of those discussions. This should shed some light on his possible identity.

I was well aware of all that, at the time and now, without being active in the cypherpunk community. Granted, I was in college for a CS and math degree, but the cypherpunk community was pretty loud if you were listening at all.

I paid for a semester of college at least thanks to that paypal program... I think it started out at $75 referral... then $50 to you and $50 to them, then 50/25, 25/25, 10/25, etc.

Within a month everyone on campus had an account.

But they aren't black. You really don't get this.

seed the whole system with live bitstream of a video feed trained on a wall full of lava lamps

i wrote the X12 EDI stuff for a major clearwater distributor... also wrote the ACH stuff that dumped someone a file and their job was to upload it via SFTP to the bank. so many badges.

i use let's encrypt on google app engine... it took less than 5 minutes. google could very easily automate it for everyone, but that removes the direct verification between domain owners and certificate authorities.

granted, you're already giving up this control when you host with any 3rd party, but the CAs are being reckless if they encourage it.

uh... isn't the whole point of "States" because a larger controlling body is a bad thing, and many groups want to make deals in their own ways? so then a Company WANTS to make deals their own way "Noncompete Pact" deals, and now you're telling them they can't do that... and you think by driving away these companies by not letting them do what they want, that you will somehow compete better? for what? the 50th spot on the economic rankings list?

idiots.

2^n + 1

he made the "people in charge" look like fools... (granted, they were idiots acting like fools, and if anything he was trying to help)

"people in charge" only stay in charge when they don't look like fools. so anyone pointing out the king isn't wearing any clothes must be tied to a stake and burned for all to see.

also, your dog must die.

seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus.

and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video streams.

PHP deprecates features all the time... you're an idiot.

google app engine now supports PHP and they completely reimplemented the language. it is extremely fast and seems to already do all the things this story eludes might happen.... they already have.

served

"Dave Engberg knows a lot about security. Before he took the CTO spot at Evernote, he designed and developed credential validation systems for the U.S. government. If anyone in Silicon Valley knows the value of secure access and keeping information safe, it’s him."

uhh.... doing IT work for U.S. government seems more like a reason to assume he's not good at his job. #HEALTHCARE.GOV

and are they really inferring that no one in silicon valley knows anything about secure access or keeping information safe? i'm done with the article. dumb.

assembly language is not an extremely concrete representation of a program if the hardware is engineered with backdoors which is exactly what this article suggests is happening.

if some specific set of registers is set a certain way followed by a very specific series of commands, there is no practical way to prove that the hardware is doing what it should.