orofino's comments

I'm confused. If I put code out into the wild, as a website, as an application, as... whatever, I'm supposed to compensate people that take it upon themselves to poke holes in it?

I mean, I appreciate the effort and the time, but just because you run a large web service or any web service doesn't mean that I should pay you for vulns. You should receive my gratitude, anything more than that is being extra nice.

Now, is there value in posting that there is some bounty for these things? Will it result in better, more frequent disclosure and give me the ability to close holes before someone nefarious comes along? Absolutely. Until I do that, people shouldn't speculatively be doing research and then retroactively bitching about how little they got paid.

If you do work like that, please let me know, I've got some projects you can work on that I might decide to pay you for.

They mean not to use it as your primary DNS server. Pinging it and using it for temporary DNS is likely fine, I wouldn't suggest statically assigning it for permanent use though.

This is the easy part, the hard part is actually actioning this across you and your spouses 401k, Traditional IRA, and Roth IRA (god forbid you have 401ks from previous employers as well). If you are lucky enough to have the same funds across them all, it helps a little bit.

As an example, I target a portfolio with 85% stock, 15% bongs. Of the stock, I'd like at least 35% international. So, when making our IRA contribution for 2013, I need to get asset allocations of all funds and their balances, from all accounts. Figure out my total allocation and then figure out where my additional funds should go to maintain or rebalance to my target allocation.

There are some tools for this [1], but none are great. I've considered building a tool to do it myself, even started on one, but getting the asset allocation data costs and I'm not sure that there is a real business opportunity for an app. This leads to increasingly convoluted spreadsheets for managing the process.

Target funds can also help, but you typically get better expense ratios for doing it yourself. Though, I've recently considered just giving up an moving entirely to target funds.

[1] http://portfolio.morningstar.com/Rtport/Free/InstantXRayDEnt...

See, I'm inclined to call it sloppy, this would look nicer if it wasn't sloppy, the screenshot shows a state that makes no sense to a normal user.

However, if this is actually happening in some transition, then leave it. We all know that there are only so many hours. Bring some polish to this transition with a future update. I can't see dinging them on design for a slightly sloppy transition.

Because the NSA hasn't proven that they're willing to go through nearly unimaginable lengths to procure any and all data that they can get their hands on.

NSA hires hacker to install monitoring devices on all the samsung charging stations at O'Hare airport? Not out o the realm of possibility.

Six months ago, I would have called a comment like mine a little too tin foil hat, but not today.

Which rss app will you switch to? I own many of them and reeder still seems like the best.

Reeder is an app I bought years ago, that my wife and I both use daily, and comprises a large percentage of our time on our iPhones and ipad. I got my $5 worth after 6 months, and I'm happy to pay again to ensure that development continues.

I should have been clearer. They didn't.

We saved for several years and let them know last spring that we'd be quitting. We had expected to travel longer than 8 months, so we had sold all of our stuff, including our house, and then quit our jobs.

Upon our return, my old boss (now at a different company) asked me if I wanted to come work for him.

My wife and I took off 8 months last year. I like the approach of a month or maybe a bit more. If you're good at your job and have a good employer, they'll figure out what to do to keep you happy.

Eight months was a bit much for us, so we're planning to try a 1-1.5 month trip at some point. My boss was very receptive to the idea.

It is certainly an interesting product, I'm hoping for integration into video apps on the desktop (VLC please god). The news earlier this week about apps being disabled is a bit disheartening, though their TOS clearly states you can't distribute them.

It is clear that "slinging" content to your television is a direction we'll be heading.

I'll ignore the inflammatory parts and focus on the 1% thing.

Why is it that someone who is privileged isn't allowed to want something more? True, they have a lot, but that's the way of life at this point, people move up, people's position gets better, that's the story of human history. However, this person is SO well off, that they're not allowed to question or look for something better?

Just because there is suffering in the world doesn't mean I can't want for more for myself and family.

Edit: Nope I lied, I'm not going to ignore the inflammatory bit, fuck you for saying it.

Last year we sold our things and left to travel around the world. We'd lived in a house for three years, I'd lived in an apartment for two prior to that.

It required two garage sales and countless trips to goodwill. It was sickening at times, how little you could sell your things for. We got back a thousand maybe 1.5k on our goods, the rest was a write off. Even still we had about 8 boxes of stuff when we moved out.

We came back from traveling sooner than expected and had to re-buy a lot of things, but we've been cautious not to get too many 'useless' things. That isn't to say there is nothing to adorn our apartment, just... much less.

In general I'm happier this way, we've got pictures we took on the walls, a few things we picked up traveling, kitchen stuff, and furniture. I hope never again to get to the point where we were before.

Worst part of selling your stuff: getting rid of our books.

Reading too much into it. Users would adapt, moving to other services and traffic volumes would return to approximately "normal" levels.

So the big differentiator here is delivery in under 90 minutes?

Perhaps I'm jaded by my experience in the industry (parents = florists and I worked for FTD in the past), but that seems like enough to get just a handful of orders. Broadening to the entire market might be a struggle. You've got many local florists, drop shippers, and supermarkets to contend with.

I love the website. I can see that perhaps having and beautiful app + trendy website might give you traction in a younger crowd, a group that purchases fewer flowers today. A focus on quality will give you a leg up over a huge percentage of local florists, for many quality just isn't there.

Are you opening locations in each locale wish to serve? That's capital intensive and leads to procurement issues.

If you gain traction, I hope you're ready for what Valentines/Mother's day bring.

You're just playing with words though. People choose to use debt, I've got debt, on the car we just bought, that's it. I HAD debt, but the student loans are now paid and the house was sold.

Am I lucky to make a good salary that allows me to pay these things down? Absolutely. However, I'm also responsible for the choices I make. Many people make more than I do and don't save as much, many More people make less and drive cars that are twice as expensive as mine.

Here's the problem though - you don't need to buy the BMW or the suburban McMansion. Save that money instead and when you're in your 40 you can tell the boss that he should give you job to a whipper-snapper, you're headed to Thailand.

No one holds a gun to the consumer's head, they just convince themselves they need thing. Then they whine when they haven't saved more than 300k for retirement at age 50 and social security is looking rocky.

This goes off the tracks for me about midway through. While for many people the reality described is actually their life, there are many of us (and I'd imagine a huge percentage of those reading this) that aren't slaves. If you're making over 70-80k/year, you have the capacity to save a lot and do the things you want to do before you hit 55, 65, or 75.

I always kind of shake my head at this. On a board with many people making 100k+ per year, who are the "societal overlords" you're referencing. Sure there are people that make much more than that, but anything beyond 80k allows a person to save quite a bit and "quit" the rat race earlier if they like.

I'm not saying that it doesn't have the possibility of being unpleasant at times, I'm saying that it doesn't strike me as a serious objection to a brand new transit method that is superior to existing options in so many ways.

Similar, though less invasive, solutions exist for 'emergencies' on private planes and such. They come with support for both male and female genitalia.