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andrewjkerr

44 karma · joined December 26, 2013

security @ stripe; previously @ tumblr, cognito (yc s14, acq plaid), & the university of florida.

find me on the web @ajoekerr, www.github.com/andrewjkerr, or www.andrewjkerr.com

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andrewjkerr··on Grooveshark Shuts Down
I completely agree with you. Hopefully something will come to fill the space that Grooveshark left, but Grooveshark did a lot for the tech community there. GroovesharkU, presentations, events, etc. They'll definitely be missed.
andrewjkerr··on Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
I would love to see this as well. If I have some time this weekend, I'll look into submitting a PR :)
andrewjkerr··on Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool
Same here. Since they're both dealing with code I think the name confusion is a pretty big deal.
andrewjkerr··on How Surround Sound for Headphones Works
Not a question, but I just installed it on my Mac Mini and WOW! I am blown away by the difference. My music sounds much better. I can't wait to try it out with a movie :)
andrewjkerr··on The Interview
I just bought it through Google Play with the expectations of being able to watch it offline (since Internet while traveling is hard to find!). Turns out that, if I want to watch it offline, I have to either download it to one of my Android devices or my Chromebook. I'm downloading it to my Chromebook now, but it's a damn shame I can't download it to something that actually has a decent screen.
andrewjkerr··on Yik Yak Hack
> YikYak is mostly used on university campuses and odds are if a student is on campus they would be connected to the university wifi

Based on some of the vague locations that Yik Yak gives with each post I'd say a little less than half are actually sent from on campus.

andrewjkerr··on Gray Code
Hah! I remember learning about K-Maps in my Digital Logic class and it blew my mind. Gotta love them.
andrewjkerr··on Shit recruiters say
Ah, ok that makes sense. I wasn't really thinking about it from a recruiting firm's standpoint, but, you're right, that could cause problems.
andrewjkerr··on Shit recruiters say
My favorite emails are recruiters asking me to apply to positions which require a college degree and 5+ years experience even though I clearly state pretty much everywhere (LinkedIn, personal site, Twitter, etc) that I'm a student. Needless to say, I don't end up responding to those.
andrewjkerr··on Shit recruiters say
> Asking for where else you are interviewing.

Why exactly is this unethical? I've gotten that from pretty much every company I've interviewed with for internships.

andrewjkerr··on Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks
If you go to an individual company's page, you'll see references which may include a post/article about why they chose x over y. Tumblr's tech stack page (http://stackshare.io/tumblr/tumblr) has an article about why they chose Scala over other options and it's pretty neat.
andrewjkerr··on Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court
> I have reviewed a post on that Twitter profile, dated on or about November 6, 2013, the date when Silk Road 2.0 was publicly launched, stating: “All this talk about the #SilkRoad being back up makes me want to watch ThePrincessBride.”"

It's interesting because this is a retweet yet it's still mentioned as a "post on [his] Twitter profile". I guess that's true, but shouldn't it be mentioned as a retweet in official court documents?

andrewjkerr··on Jawbone UP3 Activity Tracker
My Moto360 monitors heart-rate and I'm fairly certain other Android Wear devices do too.
andrewjkerr··on Netflix Stock Price Crashes in After-Hours Trading
This is the #1 reason why I still have Netflix. As of a few months ago when I used Amazon Instant, Netflix has auto-play while Amazon did not, Netflix automatically chooses between SD and HD while Amazon made you pick, and just a bunch of other things Netflix does right that Amazon does so so wrong.
andrewjkerr··on Show HN: One Adaptive API for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive
I'm using a mouse and I had the same experience as parent. I had to like barely move the scroll wheel in order to not scroll all the way down to the bottom.
andrewjkerr··on Reading the Silk Road configuration
I don't think it came from Krebs. The pdf is labeled like the rest of the evidence submitted.
andrewjkerr··on “We've been acquired and Twitpic will live on”
I've had a lot of problems with Twitter's images not loading in the past few weeks. If Twitter continues to have problems loading images and, _if_ my entire account revolved around posting images, I would probably switch to Twitpic.
andrewjkerr··on Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard
Personally, I wouldn't use this to switch between three screens at the same time, but rather using it to not have to pair it every single time I use the keyboard on a different device. That's quite frustrating.
andrewjkerr··on Show HN: I'm building a game for the Nintendo GameBoy
I had the same problem though I was playing music with Radiant Player. However, I switched my sound output from HDMI (a Vizio TV) to my MBP speakers and it went away.

I'll also submit the above as a comment on the bug report.

andrewjkerr··on The Matasano Crypto Challenges
I've spent the past three hours working on some of these challenges and I probably will spend a lot more time working on them too. They're a fun and friendly reminder that I should brush up on my RE skills every now and then.
andrewjkerr··on The Matasano Crypto Challenges
Ah, that's good to know!
andrewjkerr··on The Matasano Crypto Challenges
I've only been able to find working pages for the C++ solutions, but hopefully the rest will be added soon.
andrewjkerr··on Game about squares
Hah, nice tip. I was stuck on that one too...
andrewjkerr··on Google's XSS game
I had to manually remove the https:// in front of the URL for it to work. The following error is:

[blocked] The page at 'xss-game' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'script-url': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.

andrewjkerr··on Rap Genius Co-Founder Moghadam Fired
I did too. Learned a hell of a lot from them that's for sure, lol. Their Engineering team does a lot of, in my opinion, cool things and I really appreciate them taking the time to write about it.
andrewjkerr··on Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work
I love Pixelmator! It was on sale for $15 when I picked it up and I haven't regretted it. There's a slight learning curve from Photoshop, but it's definitely cheaper which is a huge plus.
andrewjkerr··on $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students
I just tried my @ufl.edu address and it didn't work. I would assume my university is large enough to be included.

Also, as a side note, they sent me an email asking me to subscribe to their blog before they sent a verification email. Once I subscribed to their blog then I realized it was not the same as user verification, lol.

andrewjkerr··on How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch
It's been ~3yrs since I've graduated high school, but my high school (top in the county and an 'A' school in Florida) didn't have any electronics, shop, or computer science classes. I vaguely remember almost taking "Web Development" thinking they would go into PHP or something like that, but apparently they just made small sites on Microsoft Word and played video games the entire class. Such a shame.
andrewjkerr··on SMS logins: an illusion of security
Since the original link seems to be down: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:daniel...
andrewjkerr··on Squarespace: They Asked for My Password.
I actually encountered this with my registrar Enom. I reached out to them on Twitter with no response, but, in their FAQ section, sure enough the instructions were to email your domain name and password.

Needless to say, I changed that password and jumped ship. If any service requires your password as verification, it's definitely a good idea to look into other services.

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