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sblomon Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)

I believe that the Windows 10 logo requirements are exactly the opposite of that.

If you look at the UEFI requirements for Windows 10[1], specifically clauses 19 and 20, it says for non-ARM systems the user MUST be able to put Secure Boot into Custom signature-checking mode.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware/commercialize/de...

sblomon Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine

Project Centennial https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=516...

sblomon Mill Computing in 2017

Or a technical collective. This isn't necessarily sinister.

sblomon Git-annex: Peer-to-peer network with Tor

Maybe I'm lacking in imagination--what are the killer scenarios for this?

sblomon October Special Event Keynote [video]

I'd be sad to see physical function keys go. Maybe there'll be a gizmo that I can put over the TouchBar that gives me physical keys that can simulate touches for me. :)

sblomon October Special Event Keynote [video]

They're not just pretending nobody ever uses function keys--they insinuated that no one has had a use for them since 1971.

sblomon October Special Event Keynote [video]

I saw that, too. Their support matrix is fascinating: Safari pretty much anywhere or... Microsoft Edge. Any guesses why that is? Is this an HTML5 <video> DRM thing?

sblomon Eagle: Tcl interpreter implemented in CLR

I've always found Tcl interesting-yet-strange, but any language that lands on the CLR gets bonus points, especially if the interop design for calling into the .NET base class libraries is clean.

sblomon C#/XAML for HTML5 new Beta 10.0

As much as I love C# & XAML, I have trouble imagining why I would use this stack instead of writing JS/HTML5 directly.

sblomon Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem

sblomon Why you should not develop apps for Windows 10

And they have current benchmarks that indicate that it's still the right decision: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2015/12/29/revisiting-...

sblomon Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up

Part of their problem must be that they haven't done DropQuest in years. https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-Dropquest-2013-2014-a...

sblomon Beside a startup, what are the other ways to significant wealth for a dev?

I worked with a test engineer at Microsoft who started in 1999, which was after the get-rich-on-stock-options days at the company. He spent 15 years living below his means, and recently retired from the tech world forever. He didn't need any tricks or secrets to pull it off, just living frugally and saving tons of money. I suspect I'm way behind him despite earning more and even having a wife who used to earn a software salary as well. Makes me wish I would have saved more aggressively to date.

sblomon Math Blaster Copy Protection

I especially love where the author likens resuming a crack attempt after giving up for months to a detective picking up a cold case.

sblomon Police Body Cameras: What Good Is a Video You Can't See?

I think this made the HN front page the other week, but Seattle PD actually hosted a hackathon with the goal of getting good auto-redaction technology in place so that they could default-release body cam footage: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141222/14345929507/seatt...

sblomon Emacs Is My New Window Manager

I thought you were going to demonstrate x11-mode or something! Whew.

sblomon Working with queue and stack people

I think I'm a stack in the short term, and a queue in the long term.

sblomon WinJS: the Windows Library for JavaScript

http://status.modern.ie

sblomon Watch pg write an essay in real time

I seem to remember seeing this very same demo on Etherpad back when that was a thing.

sblomon How I Learned to Work a Room

I especially love the "recruit a second person to help break into a big circle". It's hard/awkward to break into a big circle solo.

sblomon Liberation fonts causing Windows 7 SP1 to BSOD

I don't know that they _had_ to release an update, but as a Mathematica user who was seeing WordPad (yes, WordPad) bluescreen my computer, I was really happy that Wolfram fixed it for me so I didn't have to wait for Windows to.

sblomon 'Ogooglebar' and Other Swedish Words We Should Incorporate Into English

Hilarious: "I'm going on a date tonight, but he's totally ogooglebar! What are the odds he's an axe murderer?"

sblomon Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative

And IE10. (!)

sblomon SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas

It's possible (although unlikely) that this _is_ a suspension.

"Tell the DDoS clowns that she's no longer employed there, they move on, after the Internet recovers from its non-linear response to this whole situation, reinstate her with a profuse apology to everyone."

I'm not sure that's better than just muscling through the DDoS, but when you can't deliver service to your customers, some folks get creative.

sblomon Stack Overflow ranks #2 for Google Search for "Stack Overflow"

What's HQoN?

sblomon The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise

What does BSD vs GPL have to do with my stove or microwave?

sblomon It’s the Sugar, Folks

That's not precisely conservation of mass and energy. At least not in the conventional E=mc^2 sense.

sblomon Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – working draft

> This isn't moving away from JavaScript.

Exactly, that's the point.