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> will say that I don't fall into all of Zynga's traps: > I don't give them money because a) I can see that it's not > rational to send money on such items, and b) I'm broke and > don't have the money to spend anyway.

Especially on HN, i would expect people to point out that spending valuable time on X, is as irrational as spending money on X.

.. we all don't have the time to spend anyway..

The post links to a Microsoft Document titled: "The Economics of the Cloud". The original link is .XPS (which you might not have a viewer for).

I have converted to .pdf and uploaded here: http://thinkst.com/stuff/notmines/The-Economics-of-the-Cloud...

Everyone has a story about a friend who sold a vuln for X. At least one case though has been documented in an academic paper by a well respected researcher [1]. (That would put the cheque at < 10%)

[1] http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf

Prezi is awesome for some sorts of presentations, even if just to be different from ppt / keynote for a while. It's got really simple primitives, which forces you to deliver a pretty clean presentation.

Recently it has been used at NYU poly in their reverse engineering classes: http://prezi.com/a5tm-lf0879-/reverse-engineering-101-nyupol... http://prezi.com/e5a2tumdqocj/reverse-engineering-102-nyupol...

and has been used by the immunitysec guys quite a bit too: http://prezi.com/kmyvgiobsl1d/pyretic-rich-smith-blackhatdef...

This year i used it to demo a timeline of memory corruption bugs over the ages too: http://prezi.com/iemlmzvpnk_d/the-almost-complete-history-of...

It rocks..

I think the line that rings truest for me here is "here are a lot of variables to consider beyond a simple time measurement"

Interestingly enough, one of the reasons i enjoy startups, is because it enables one to make decisions that are less constrained by big company style black or white parameters. I.e. When share options are discussed in a big company, the deal is often seen as a zero-sum one. If A gets more shares then B gets less. A gets wealthier and B does not.

In an ideal situation (that is far more visible at small companies and startups), giving A more shares could well result in increased value for B too (since the company value without A drops dramatically).

In an attempt to answer the question somewhat better though, i would suggest you ask yourself not "what have i done till now", but instead, "how critical to our future success is the new guy".

While it is pretty difficult to answer what a piece of code written by a government would look like, a useful piece of information is also that the code targeted 4 different 0-day bugs [1]. If we consider previous reports on 0-day pricing [2], this alone could put the cost fo the worm at over $200000 making it more likely to be built by a well funded adversary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack [2] http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/papers/29.pdf

im sure your history on HN proves otherwise, but this almost reads like a veiled attempt to sell twitternames you've squatted.

"If only they knew me and my loved ones wanted to settle" The trick I guess is knowing when you are "the idiot across the table", and when you are the posts author. I.e. If the mantra is "always accept", then why did the "idiot across the table" have a chance to blow it? By the posts logic the author would have been willing to accept