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_nullandnull_ | 9 years ago | on: Why Billings, Montana, Is the Best Town of 2016 [video]

Boulder, Co is no longer affordable. Most likely the reason it is no longer on this list. The average house price is $668,000 and the average rent $2,600. I used to pay the same in rent while living on Wall Street in NYC for a one bedroom corner unit apartment.

_nullandnull_ | 9 years ago | on: Space Invaders: A Burglar’s Guide to the City

A Burglar’s Guide to the City is a good read. I have recommended it to a number of people. Two weeks ago while visiting San Fran I went to a security meetup and mentioned the book. One of the individuals pulled out the book and said he was reading it. Then he turned to a page that mentioned his name and noted his contribution to the book. Small world. One of my favorite subjects in the book is Nakatomi Space[1].

[1] http://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/

_nullandnull_ | 10 years ago | on: iPhone Sales Drop, and Apple’s 13-Year Surge Ebbs

I'm not surprised. I think Apple underestimated the demand for the iphone SE 64 GB. Its been out of stock in most stores since it was released. Apple's shareholders should be asking why can't anyone buy it in a store? Also many people don't want wait two weeks to receive their phone when they buy it online.

_nullandnull_ | 10 years ago | on: Reverse Engineering for Beginners

As others have said it's mostly the desire to learn. A lot of the brightest reverse engineering I have met started off hacking video games. They started with a desire to either understand the game or create cheats. From there they dug into the code.

Reverse engineering has a very romantic view from the outside. In actuality a lot of it is learning esoteric topics and boring concepts to be able to apply it to a single task. It takes a certain mindset to stick with it.

The main pre-requisite is being able to read and understand assembly language. From there it's operating system fundamentals, memory layout, compilers, basic understanding C & C++ and Python is popular in the RE community.

The RE sub-reddit has a good introduction for beginners.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/hg0fx/a...

_nullandnull_ | 10 years ago | on: Kindle Paperwhite

I wish Amazon or someone would make a smaller kindle. I'd really like something the size of an iphone (6 or lower). It would be nice to have an ebook reader that could fit in my pant or jacket pocket.
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