B-Con

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by B-Con 14y ago
> First of all, piracy is not morally wrong, the morals of it are ambiguous, just like everything else. Not really. The content owners stated that there are certain legal restrictions on their content. If you violate it, then you are ex
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by B-Con 14y ago
I wonder how much longer until the established banks adopt similar ideas. From looking at (but not using) Simple, it doesn't seem like they have any technical advantages, they were just able to start fresh without the bureaucracy bloat that
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by B-Con 14y ago
> During the holiday season or on birthdays send a simple, “Happy Thanksgiving from Parse,” or “Happy Birthday. You’re Awesome,” instead of, “Save 15% on everything today only.” Don't ever do this. I don't feel good because you send me
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by B-Con 14y ago
Being who he is, it would be interesting to hear him elaborate.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Don't forget Microsoft. They still control more endpoints than anyone else and they're entering the cloud and mobile market, albeit late.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I think it depends on if you're talking about expected case or worst case. In the U.S., companies will act out of their own selfish interests, but in theory the government can address the concerns of the citizens in areas the citizens don't
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by B-Con 14y ago
The author here is very highly respected in this community and already made his big bucks with other projects. If he says that he found something cool and then uses an affiliate link, it's a 99.9% chance that there's nothing more too it. Se
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by B-Con 14y ago
Well, they don't want to allow just any human in.
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by B-Con 14y ago
When in doubt, be as explicitly clear as possible. There was no harm in his pointing out something obvious.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Summarized: When writing code, > If you need something once, build it. If you need something twice, pay attention. If you need it a third time, abstract it. I like this rule. Pre-mature re-factoring is a cousin of pre-mature optimizatio
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by B-Con 14y ago
I must be missing something. Why is a versioned source code repository the ideal place for this?
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by B-Con 14y ago
It's difficult to prove why a decision was made, though, because there are generally lots of excuses. Similarly, hiring employers can't discriminate based on a lot of things, but it's still best to avoid mentioning them because you can't
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by B-Con 14y ago
Semi-relevant tidbit about exchange rates: Converting from currency X to Y, Y to Z, and Z to X does not always yield the same ending amount as in the beginning. The practice of arbitrage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage ) involves l
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Personally I don't understand this concept of forcing [...] on people and having change just for the sake of change Welcome to development, where anything over 24 months is old news and needs to be made different. Not better, just dif
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by B-Con 14y ago
Yes. Big-O is the worst case for the input , not for the algorithm. If the input is the expected average, then its Big-O is the upper-bound/worst-case for the average. But if the input is the worst case or just the algorithm itself, its Bi
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Big-O is an upper bound on the growth of a function. The function being bounded can (per his item #3) represent anything of interest. > In practice it is common for the function to be the average running time of an algorithm. In o
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by B-Con 14y ago
I'm confused by what the article is saying about the meaning of Big-O... FTA: > Misconception 4: Big-O Is About Worst Case But it is. Big-O is an upper bound which is by definition a maximum (aka, "worst") case. "f = O(n)" means that
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by B-Con 14y ago
FTA: > People were apparently surprised by me saying that copyrights had problems too. I don't understand why people were that surprised, but I understand even less why people then thought that "copyrights have problems" would imply "
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by B-Con 14y ago
> But he goes too far when he says that you should rely only on your brain's natural scheduling and short term memory. I mean, without a list, I can't even remember all the ingredients to make a birthday cake if I go to the store and th
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by B-Con 14y ago
Yep. Wrong tab. A different submission did not link to this page and I meant to post there.
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by B-Con 14y ago
"greater" here means that we would think that SHA-2 is easier to break than SHA-3. Technically speaking, it's a guess, but I think that the general consensus is that it is more likely that SHA-2 will be broken before SHA-3.
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Keccak's (pronounced: ketchup) I don't think so. From NIST's announcement: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sha-100212.cfm > Keccak (pronounced “catch-ack”)
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by B-Con 14y ago
A little more detail from NIST here: http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/sha-100212.cfm
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Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition(csrc.nist.gov)
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Being a member of Mensa isn't a bad thing, it's just not that big of a deal. I argue that it kind of is, in that only 2% of the population qualifies for it. And the idea is that it's not something just anyone can change about themselv
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by B-Con 14y ago
> vote-by-mail ballot (most secure way to vote) [Citation needed].
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by B-Con 14y ago
The author argues that you have to make $45,750 in order to pay Federal Income tax, which is complete nonsense. He generated this number from a perfect example with every exemption possible, then argued that most people will fit the example
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by B-Con 14y ago
> In what sense, I ask you, does a number with no possible definition actually exist? There is a difference between "describe" and "define". You are talking about what are mathematically called "indescribable numbers". They still have a
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by B-Con 14y ago
I'm using a more formal definition of "information". I don't mean trivia, facts, or geeky stuff, I mean "content". You read because you want to take in a certain type of content, be it a fantasy story, geek trivia, math, or tear-jerking rom
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by B-Con 14y ago
The point of reading anything is to ingest a certain type of content. He chose the desired content and read it. The books he read were educational. Why should he ensure that a certain percentage of his books are "classics"? He could have go

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