CHY872

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by CHY872 12y ago
Erm, it's a big tradeoff. You get better code density, but it takes longer to compile well and is slower to interpret.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Remember that Facebook is the largest employer in Menlo Park by a factor of about 10, which will totally skew those rankings. Edit: to be more clear, I'm making two points. Firstly, Facebook is not known for the sort of Tata/Infos
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by CHY872 12y ago
Ok so this isn't a Google product. In brief (please correct if I'm wrong), Google lets its employees work on their own side projects on company resources if they assign copyright to Google. This means that it gets published on the
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by CHY872 12y ago
It's more that when you do need to get hands on, the code's pretty minimalist, the manuals are very good quality, there are fewer moving parts so less to go wrong, there's a good focus on code quality etc etc.
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by CHY872 12y ago
One of my female friends has been through broadly similar experiences, and so sadly I'm not particularly surprised by this article. I'm glad that it's been posted, and am somewhat saddened by the defensive nature of a lot of
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by CHY872 12y ago
Mm, seems a bit hyperbolic, like a Wired article.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Mm, I'm not sure. These are slides, presumably designed to go alongside a talk, which could have fleshed out the points better. If you consider them as being summaries of what a speaker's saying, it makes much more sense. Fwiw, of
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by CHY872 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, have you ever used a tool such as Gerrit or Atlassian Stash? There are different mindsets, and both have their advantages.
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Google Location History(maps.google.co.uk)
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by CHY872 12y ago
Any prescription you get on the NHS costs the same amount (and there are many exemptions, for example they're free if you're a child, unemployed, retired, a cancer patient etc). There's always some debate about certain very e
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by CHY872 12y ago
> Now, I'm not saying the price they charge in the US is fair (for some definition of fair), but one does need to consider how much the ridiculous American drug prices are subsidizing the $24/year NHS prescriptions. A governmen
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by CHY872 12y ago
Very long to reply, but SpiderOak might suit your needs. It's a Dropbox competitor that uses strong local encryption to ensure that only you can decrypt your data. They have apps - poor performance but for text files should be ok.
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by CHY872 12y ago
This is terrible work from whoever's made this page. Many important advances have taken place due to software being licensed under the GPL. For example, Objective C wouldn't be supported by GCC unless Steve Jobs hadn't been f
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by CHY872 12y ago
If you're on OS X, use Disk Utility to make an encrypted disk image of a few hundred megabytes. When you want to edit the data, mount it, then unmount when you're done. It won't secure you against everything, but it'll c
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by CHY872 12y ago
How so? If the cost of making the computer able to do everything itself is greater than the cost of an equivalent system that takes human input, then you should use the human input version every time.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Nope, not under Kickstarter rules. If a company offers items as rewards, it has a contractual obligation to provide those items.
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by CHY872 12y ago
I think you have an incredibly short-sighted view of the difficulties associated with software engineering. In particular, your view of how hard it is to write large pieces of software seems to be way, way off.
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by CHY872 12y ago
You want them to be born in September or October (or, more generally, a month or two after the school year starts). Probably October, so that there's no chance they're born in August. They'll be more developed than their July
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yeah, but Stalin also had 700,000 people shot in 2 years, so it doesn't work amazingly. A more important point is that you must be pragmatic about such things. If you install a dead man's switch to your computer, you must realise
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by CHY872 12y ago
That only works if you assume that there's only ever one attack. If it thwarts another, then it's benefiting. In any case, I wouldn't really argue that the NSA 'disrupts' the nation at all - the spending on it is on
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by CHY872 12y ago
Of course, if you wait for people to commit acts of terror before you start spying on them, you've kinda missed the point of spying. The fix here is access control. When we have a problem like terror, civil liberties are the first thin
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by CHY872 12y ago
That's not the NSA's problem, though. By all means criticise the US as a whole for that. I'm less in agreement with your second point - you can easily apply it to any slightly frivolous spending. If petrol usage efficiency in
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by CHY872 12y ago
Clearly different circumstances however Spain, France, Germany, Norway all invaded Afghanistan, and Spain and Norway also invaded Iraq. Perhaps not as a direct response, though. To your second point, it's clearly a very complicated bla
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by CHY872 12y ago
I'm not saying your conclusion isn't wrong, but your argument probably is - largely because there are many costs of terrorism beyond simply loss of life - it's an incredibly efficient way to disrupt a nation. For example, som
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by CHY872 12y ago
Did you give a talk in Cambridge a few years ago? I went to a Zynamics talk and it was absolutely fascinating - really cool stuff you guys did.
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by CHY872 12y ago
But how is this particular guy in the wrong? This exploit is something that needs to be specifically installed by someone - it's not something you'd use to exploit the masses, it's something you'd use to monitor a target
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by CHY872 12y ago
They don't provide the Javascript runtime - Google does that. This is a fork of Node.js - glossing over this is at least a little disrespectful to Node.js.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Possibly not. It seems that this runs APM, which is an open source autopilot system. On their install pages, the Raspberry Pi is listed as a companion computer (presumably to be hooked to some other device that runs the code) (which this sy
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by CHY872 12y ago
This is truly unbelievable. It immediately puts their uptime to a maximum of less than 99.5% for a year that's only now a week in. Certainly, they don't seem to understand their customers.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Doubt it's as unpopular as you think.

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