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Premature quality optimisation is the root of all evil(blog.lanthaps.com)
1 points by A1kmm 14y ago|0 comments
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by A1kmm 14y ago
I think the real problem is when people have an inappropriate model of what 'quality' is. Quality criteria, when used properly, act as surrogates for the realisation of the benefits that motivated the project in the first place, or for the
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Secret and probably illegal monitoring techniques cannot be used in court, because defendants have a right to know how evidence was obtained so they can challenge it, and it then wouldn't stay a secret. Just because they don't currently hav
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Perhaps... but birth is at least a bright line with a clear definition, and people are less likely to fear a slippery slope. If 'post-natal abortion' was allowed, I think people might fear a slippery slope where the deadline got later and l
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by A1kmm 14y ago
As I said in my comment, keeping Bitcoins is like keeping cash - you can keep either and hide them. Yes, you can secure Bitcoins better than cash if you want to, but that is irrelevant to my point. My point was that you can generally earn i
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Neither your criterion, nor the pain criterion, are meaningful unless you believe in supernatural things like gods or souls. Believing in the supernatural without evidence is not what I would call rational - if you believe that, why not als
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Even if you keep your cash in fiat currency cash (i.e. euro notes) you would be safe from this. Keeping your money in some form of cash (whether bank notes or Bitcoin) generally puts you in a worse position than low risk (i.e. diversified)
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by A1kmm 14y ago
It looks like using Avvo.com is more like StackOverflow - it is a Q & A site that claims not to create a lawyer-client relationship between the lawyer and someone who asks a question on the site. LawDingo seems to let you actually becom
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Show HN: Lanthaps ProdTimer goes Free as my business switches to consulting(blog.lanthaps.com)
1 points by A1kmm 14y ago|0 comments
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by A1kmm 14y ago
It sounds like the drink is made from natural sources, so it probably contains compounds that he isn't aware of. The risk (and the value of the experimental results) would probably be higher if he had found a way to isolate the compounds in
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Best, since this is a website based authentication: Support system has a feature where CSR can pop up a text box to enter the password in (or at least generate a link to give to the customer); password entered is checked against hashed data
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by A1kmm 14y ago
> Any suggestions on how to deal with that problem -- people > calling you paranoid because you don't use an easy to > remember password on all sites? They think you are paranoid because they think that you are worried about M
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by A1kmm 14y ago
I think the easiest attack on SR would not be one of the attacks mentioned in the article (although similar to their second attack, but focused on legal implications instead of fraud), but rather: a. Law enforcement creates a large number o
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by A1kmm 14y ago
If you want to do this in practice rather than as a specialised example, I would suggest using something like Conduit, rather than reinventing the wheel. Conduit is used widely in the Yesod web framework (for example, to implement the HTTP
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by A1kmm 14y ago
SodaStream tries everything they can to stop people competing with them to refill their gas cylinders or supply competing gas cylinders for use with the equipment they sell, and have largely succeeded, allowing them to sell carbon dioxide a
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by A1kmm 14y ago
A rough approximation off the graph: volume before the announcement ~190,000. The announcement pushed the price down by ~$0.30/share, so by trading before the announcement, they avoided losses of ~$57,000.
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by A1kmm 14y ago
That can't be the whole story. If Megaupload gives you access to the ciphertext encrypted with a key that neither you nor Megaupload has access to, that is useless.
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by A1kmm 14y ago
But when someone uploads the same file with a different password, if they want to de-duplicate on content alone, they need to be able to put that new encrypted file hash alongside the original. One solution to that would be to have two hash
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Carmen Ortiz's defence is an attempt to shift the Overton window. Her argument is that he was charged with so many charges that if he was given the maximum sentence on all of them he would have been put in prison for a very long time. That
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Interesting experiment. Some of the Twitter posts say where the parcel is, but there is no EXIF data on the images posted. I would guess that either the images were geotagged but are processed to remove it, or the author separately uploads
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by A1kmm 14y ago
The charge was that they blocked his MAC address, so he changed it with intent to continue accessing a system. Even if he had changed his MAC address by buying a new laptop / NIC and connecting it, they probably would have still tried to ch
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by A1kmm 14y ago
'Secret recipes' for major commercial food and beverage products are really a marketing myth - dominant brands want the public think their product is so good that all their competitors would copy it, except they don't know the recipe. The r
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by A1kmm 14y ago
> Why is this necessary? Shouldn't all encrypted traffic be > compressed to begin with? Compressing and then encrypting is dangerous in a partially chosen plaintext environment like HTTPS (and Nokia is probably putting their custom
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Real markets are not infinitely elastic; with a finite number of players, there is always going to be a finite number of things that companies compete on, and in inefficient markets like consumer Internet services, duopolies naturally resul
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by A1kmm 14y ago
I think that the real problem is the false dichotomy between 'all GMOs are bad' and 'all GMOs are good'. There is clearly a middle path - 'some GMOs are safe, and some aren't, and whether release is acceptable depends on the organisms, the
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by A1kmm 14y ago
I think the types of things ITU would want to assert control over are centralised functions around standards development and name allocation that are currently carried out by ISOC and its parts (IAB / IESG / IETF) and by ICANN and its parts
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by A1kmm 14y ago
The main problem with IP laws (and I exclude trademarks here because they have different properties) is that they discourage the use of content and ideas that have been created or invented. This is an unintended side effect of current syste
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by A1kmm 14y ago
The problem with making a business model rest on paying to remove anti-features in a product is that once you have sold the product, you don't own it any more, and you are inviting competitors to remove the anti-features for a lower price.
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by A1kmm 14y ago
That is not how the laws are being enforced, however. MegaUpload also apparently complied with takedown requests, and yet they have been down for 9 months as a result of enforcement action, with directors being held in remand for a period o
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by A1kmm 14y ago
If you have Greasemonkey: https://lanthaps.com/static/noapple.user.js

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