ticktocktick's comments

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Morpheus Linux

There are a lot of distros out there. That is what makes Linux so great. You can roll your own formula of kernel and userland for YOUR needs[and then share it]. You aren't forced to just take what Microsoft or Apple or XXXX gives you nor do you have to completely write your own from scratch.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Morpheus Linux

<joke> Lennart Poettering </joke>

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Mapping Neighborhood-Level Obesity in the United States

This map follows the income distribution in my area very closely. Neat, but sad.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

It is terrific that your end users are willing to spend the time and effort on building their own BI solutions. In my experience, at least with C-levels, that is not the case at all. C-levels also tend to want the most stuff.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

A lot of what you are paying for in BI solutions is implementation costs and then to a lesser extent yearly maintenance and support costs. I wonder how they intend to lower implementation costs, since that is kind of lengthy and inherently difficult process.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Newly found TrueCrypt flaws

Every instance of this story omits the 'Windows only' part. It is sort of pertinent.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results

Hard to resist all that power under foot in Tesla's!

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results

Just stay off the brakes as much as possible. No big secret really.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: When Schools Overlook Introverts

We are 12 developers in a room that is half windows opposite an auditorium. We call it the fishbowl. It feels like we are in some sort of science experiment to see how long we can last the indignity.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Why Can't Startups Get US Government Contracts?

Because 20 year olds may not have the extensive government contacts required to land big money contracts.

ticktocktick | 10 years ago | on: Launching NginScript

Marginal bloat is always rational. Forest for the trees and all that.

ticktocktick | 11 years ago | on: Kaspersky Cyberthreat real-time map

If you are using Linux...

You can use this...https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver

ticktocktick | 11 years ago | on: Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?

The ONLY people who need to know about this is the manufacturer and their regulatory body FDA, etc.

The company can then pull all the inventory that is in and out of the patients and apply fixes or facilitate replacements.

If this could kill people, I'd hope the above ideas would be obvious...but well I know they won't be to everyone.

ticktocktick | 11 years ago | on: It's Time to Kill Surface

The Surface costs more than the average laptop and tablet it is supposed to replace. That is my problem.

And God forbid you want or need processing power or RAM >= 8GB...

ticktocktick | 11 years ago | on: Google Fiber: Working with content providers to minimize buffering

ISPs are trying to become Netflix. Google is trying to become an ISP.

Netflix is trying to commoditize bits.

Netflix should try to become an ISP.

ticktocktick | 12 years ago | on: AT&T’s GigaPower plans turn privacy into a luxury that few would choose

Now we know why common carrier will never happen.

ticktocktick | 12 years ago | on: U.S. jury orders smartphone maker Samsung to pay Apple $120 million

Your emotional outburst is not a constructive addition to this discussion.

Despite this tantrum it would seem that more people on HN agree with you than disagree as your comment is still visible. So I am not sure why you are bitching.

ticktocktick | 12 years ago | on: Null pointer dereference – new security bug for OpenSSL

Are we better off using decoder rings and snail mail at this point?

ticktocktick | 12 years ago | on: LibreSSL: FIPS mode is not coming back

So it will be consistent with OpenSSH, also a project of OpenBSD devs.

ticktocktick | 12 years ago | on: Introduction to MIPS assembly language (2007)

MIPS was fun to learn. Its instruction set is not nearly as gnarly as x86 or ARM.