Beltiras

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   by Beltiras 8y ago

   I'm in the process of revamping a backend's password mechanism. After reading something like this I just want to adopt hardware keys or Google Authenticator INSTEAD of passwords.
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   I live in Iceland. It's a small country, only about 350.000 people live there. Close to 250.000 are eligible to vote. The most satisfying software project I did was a Voter Assistance Application that got used by around 70k users be
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   Solar rooftops on cars don't provide enough juice for it to amount to much. Let's say for the sake of argument you could fit a square meter of a car's roof as a 20% efficient solar panel (a ludicrously high efficiency). Sol
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   Use this bookmarklet: javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   Haskell rather than Erlang.
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   Apple has an /8 but Microsoft does not? How did that happen?
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   I imagine that they spent a hefty multiple of those 14 hours preparing for the operation.
8. 548.▲
   by Beltiras 9y ago

   Got one thing wrong. The Conduent app came after Propel made an app.
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   by Beltiras 9y ago

   This actually looks like a way to tackle poverty, even if in small steps. Pairing SNAP data for recipients with job opportunities is sort of genius. It might not be a large step up for each one but I'm sure it adds up at the scale th
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Yup. He gets into it on JRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ Amazing podcast. Well worth a listen.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    I found the most disturbing aspect of it that the defendant is barred from using the internet. This was perhaps a valid sanction to use 20 years ago but today this is tantamount to removing a citizen from society. I understand that you mi
12. 552.▲
    by Beltiras 9y ago

    It's going to take those people a hot 15 seconds to find another provider and switch.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    That's a very US-based list. Many countries around the world do not remove citizen rights to the same degree the US does. Not all countries have a sex offender registry. There is a culture in the States of looking on incarceration a
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Big question is if this will actually survive judicial review. I am quite sure someone will make a test case out of something. There's enough of "offending material" to make hay off.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Justify it with the benefits of previous activity.
16. 556.▲
    by Beltiras 9y ago

    "Just do it" actually sounds like a good reason. Tackling difficult engineering problems always creates spinoffs even if the core activity is fruitless.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    You can use battery swapouts instead of grounding the vehicle.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Still an astrophysicist. I'm a Computer Scientist. I won't cease being one even if I change professions, I will just be whatever I become in addition to a CS.
19. 559.▲
    by Beltiras 9y ago

    How does one relinquish one's credentials as an astrophysicist? If you have the education and can do the math, is it not a title you bear for life?
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    I have a recipe that I know is original (since I developed it myself) and I do my best not to keep secret. Good recipes are way better when shared. Date chicken: Cut two pounds of chicken breast into thin strips and marinate in red pesto [
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Maybe you would see silicate life happening at higher atmospheric pressures and gravities.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Chapter and verse would not be good enough, they are not "random enough".
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Yes, I thought about that. I'm working on extending the program to essentially change the King James Bible into a fair random distribution of any kind. Length of words is something to consider. Position on page might also be at issu
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    I'm fascinated by this as a problem. I had an idea how to solve it. Books are not contraband and you can pick two random words from, say the Catcher in the Rye or to name a less controversial book, the Bible and use the first letter
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    A brokerage made a bet against the VIX[1]. Was on HN several days ago [2]. [1] http://fortune.com/2018/02/10/vix-index-hedge-fund-colorado/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    I think the big thing here that is unspoken is that the Windows operating systems are compiled with that compiler. MS devs make tradeoffs for performance and their statement that no significant performance degradation is present in updated
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Isn't this the goal of every programmer? Programming their way out of a job?
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    I trained a junior dev so well I was laid off because he was cheaper than me. One of the proudest moments of my professional life to be honest.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Perpetually flawed. No matter how much resources you throw at fixing it.
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    by Beltiras 9y ago

    Or by way of setting a cookie? Haven't coded PHP (shudders) for 2 decades but that's where my mind went.