Disqus - Latest Comments for adir1

Re: Advertising an Android game: Facebook vs. AdMob

adir1 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:14:46 -0000

Good writeup, thanks!
I'll tell you something else you need to add here - How many installs you got from being around the top of Hacker News! I gather that would be highest number yet.
Well, off to try the game meanwhile...

Re: XSS in Google Finance | Michele Spagnuolo's Blog

adir1 — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:12:40 -0000

Good catch - you didn't explain though why executing rogue script under guise of Google.com is such a bad thing. Is it just that others will be able to execute things under your Google profile, or something more?

Re: An Interview Question Too Many Developers Get Wrong

adir1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:32:21 -0000

But there are video games on Mac also now - Conundrum...

Re: Episode 141 - Magic Wand Keyboard Connector, Upgradable TVs, Apple's Subscription Plan, Netflix Arrives on Boxee Box, Vodafone's Webbox

adir1 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:51:36 -0000

This is just amazing shirt with beautiful sleeves - any idea where are these sold?

Re: Are Some NoSQL Technologies Going NoWHERE?

adir1 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:57:27 -0000

To me biggest NoSQL database feature is lack of locking, allowing for highly concurrent environment. Of course you have to rethink your software, but after that - Goodbye Relational Limits.

Re: Trouble in the House of Stackoverflow

adir1 — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:12:15 -0000

Frankly, I always thought that if candidate comes to me with 100k plus in SO score, It is a RED warning sign. It is a sign that someone enjoys round-the-clock Internet surfing, instead of Work!

Re: Google App Engine [gae]

adir1 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:07:16 -0000

Now that GAE finally supports full SQL (in beta), any plans to update this module for better integration?

Re: Quantum Phantom prototype lets you control your computer screen with a webcam (video)

adir1 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:44:42 -0000

Ha, I patented this 10 years ago!!! Well, actually I didn't, but I could have, as I thought of it at least 10 years ago and could easily have prepared all those silly Patent documents. Except for I don't believe in Software Patents or even "Computer Interaction" patents or other such abstract concepts (like Buy It Now button patent, remember?!).
This is exactly why!!!

Re: Dear Lars, next time don’t stop doing that weird drug

adir1 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:28:48 -0000

Great post.

Wave was a great concept and I do agree that biggest pitfalls were around trying to get Adoption. For that, people needed to "fit" this new "thing" into pre-existing notions (is it email? blog? forum? etc).

Since people couldn't "place" it, they didn't know how to approach & use it. As happens with many great new things, this is where you have the biggest challenge to keep with it. Keep perfecting your vision where you want it to go, while spending every waking moment telling people that they Don't Know What's Good For Them.

So, whether we call it the New Drug or just visionary fever or what-have-ya, you do need to keep doing it.

Re: A taxonomy of transparency

adir1 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:14:06 -0000

I believe some of it is already there at www.data.gov

The trouble can be that even when information is out there, too few of us will take the time to review it, understand it and act upon it.

Re: Install Flash Player on 64-bit Linux

adir1 — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:26:57 -0000

Just installed it into my IE9 64 Bit Beta. Works great!!! I've been waiting for Flash in 64 Bit browser.

Finally! Thanks for tip!

Re: Apple’s Ping is a big pile of steaming dung

adir1 — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:55:01 -0000

Grats on hitting TechMeme!

Anyhow, completely agree with you. I had exactly Same thoughts, to the bullet, when I signed up yesterday.

And now that they lost Facebook integration, it's slow and painful death... Unless they start RE-ENGINEERING and fast..

Re: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : There is no spoon

adir1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:30:31 -0000

I tried to share this on my Facebook, but there is no Facebook. And then I realized there is no Internet either.
Excellent post, definitely the best one yet!
Oh yea, and my iPhone 4 has no Antenna issue!!

Re: Congratulations to Soluto for winning Techcrunch Disrupt

adir1 — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:20:41 -0000

Sorry, this makes no sense.
First of all - All my Windows 7 machines start in seconds, and don't crash, so no frustrations!
Second - OS starts background services and other startup software simultaneously and usually at lower I/O and CPU priority, so on multi-core system it is hard to see much impact of things start nor know that eliminating something specific will speed things up by much.
Looks like 2 years 2 late, would be great on XP or even on Vista, most likely...

Re: Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!)

adir1 — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:42:13 -0000

Thanks for reply, and I am definitely working hard to educate women in my life on that.
I think everyone agrees that Facebook can do more in this department as well, starting by setting defaults to As Private as Possible, rather than Public with few exceptions...

Re: Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!)

adir1 — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:28:53 -0000

Robert, first - I am with you and I am pretty much Ok with everything I post on Facebook being totally public.

HOWEVER, ask most young women out there and they will tell you how important privacy is to them. It is of course for obvious reasons - but I ask you, should we just tell them just to stay away from Facebook and alike sites? It seems ironic, since that is the population that traditionally loved to SHARE most (and likely top facebook users already).

Re: Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!)

adir1 — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:24:58 -0000

It could be that person who's original post you commented on has "allow friends of friends to see posts", which I believe is the default.

Re: An inch closer to the end of privacy (thanks Facebook!)

adir1 — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:18:13 -0000

Specifically about Music - Zune Social had this over a year ago, as I recall. In fact, it's fancier - as it uploads your music listening history from offline device, once you sync. So you could be thinking you listening offline in your private little space, but it gets published later to the world.
Though, I welcome it - we just all need to learn to manage this new found publicity we all got.

Re: How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications

adir1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:27:41 -0000

Follow-up comment to my own comment.

After spending more time thinking about it, I think I understand now. The malicious app is making a request to the original resource on firststepsinflex.com . Browser sends a cookie there, because that is where the cookie originated.

So, I am actually in agreement with Ricardo that crossdomain policy is a weak link in this approach. Can you talk a bit (perhaps in a next blog) about alternatives to securing BlazeDS app via web-service tokens, rather than cookie/basic auth?

Re: How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications

adir1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:14:38 -0000

Hi,

Great article and discussion, but I feel like I am still missing something.

Your entire attack vector is based on "you are already authenticated" fact, but shouldn't cookies follow the server origin policy? That is, the session cookie should only be sent to original server it came from, no? The cross domain policy helps with access to other resources to be pulled in, but the outgoing request to those other domains shouldn't really contain the source cookie from firststepsinflex.com domain, as I understand the HTTP specs...

Can you shed some light on this?

Re: The Results From the Legal Collections Test

adir1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:38 -0000

As someone with some number of older 2007 loans that were "written off", I find this long blog post to be very important.

I don't feel that I fully understand that the new loans (notes) being issued right now by Prosper are fully "legally tested" and will fare better in the future collection efforts.

In addition, one of the things I hear "around the net" is that people try to use "it was not my loan" or "I never got the money, someone used my SSN and address" strategy. I understand that if Prosper identifies that such fraud really happened (someone really did steal SSN, etc), lenders are protected by Prosper. But what about cases where Prosper determines that actual laon went to the right person, and the claim itself is a lie now?

Re: The Results From the Legal Collections Test

adir1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:38 -0000

As someone with some number of older 2007 loans that were "written off", I find this long blog post to be very important.

I don't feel that I fully understand that the new loans (notes) being issued right now by Prosper are fully "legally tested" and will fare better in the future collection efforts.

Re: The Results From the Legal Collections Test

adir1 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:38 -0000

As someone with some number of older 2007 loans that were "written off", I find this long blog post to be very important.

I don't feel that I fully understand that the new loans (notes) being issued right now by Prosper are fully "legally tested" and will fare better in the future collection efforts.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

adir1 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:38:09 -0000

So what's next? Google Wave? or more Twitter?

I think the Blogs are where it's at, and even while I continue to use some Twitter, Friendfeed and some Google Reader social features, the Blog is where quality conversation will remain!

Now, lets figure out how to grow Blogs, Disqus is a step in the right direction, but not it. I think MovableType has something up their sleeve on real-time conversation around blog posts, and hopefully Wordpress will have something also (since that's my platform of choice right now).

Re: The biggest loser in the Twitter search deals

adir1 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:02:02 -0000

I can see where Facebook will continue and combine private family/friends interactions with public fan/businesses/media interactions, and so far I see them doing good job of keeping it separate.

I think we need to keep in mind that for search engines social and real-time is only a fraction of functionality. It can help spot trends and maybe more (with potential deal where Facebook can share people's Like ratings, and finding celebrities with more "fans"), but majority of their Core functionality is pure "Ask and Answer" research type of queries!

Speaking of which, I wonder if anyone has actual statistics which tries to separate Trending queries versus Research queries, to show us a nice pie?