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by ENGNR 13y ago
Also Orkut was built on a Microsoft stack. Legitimate choice, but also seen as slightly toxic within a company like Google.
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by ENGNR 13y ago
If money is so unimportant they should be a non-profit paying everyone as much as they possibly can. Oh you can't do that? Right, so money IS important then..
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by ENGNR 13y ago
There's an even worse kind of architecture astronaut, almost the opposite of this article. It's the architects who don't even know about encapsulation, loose coupling/tight cohesion or even not to duplicate data anywhere
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Some 3D printed objects are actually superior for strength, for example plastic with a honeycomb interior can have an amazing strength/weight/cost.
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by ENGNR 13y ago
One of the most important aspects of modern warfare is the asymmetry. It's best to pursue small efforts that can have stupidly large and devastating effect on your opponent. China is investing in sophisticated information attacks to st
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by ENGNR 13y ago
That's what I thought, but there are actually a bunch of Google apps that can't be uninstalled too. My old Galaxy Nexus became unusable as Google services got more aggressive (eating all the RAM if background service calls failed
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Hey cool, not having Rikaichan on android has been a huge pain, thanks!
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by ENGNR 13y ago
According to the article Microsoft Research contributed $1M in 2011 (not the Gates Foundation but related)
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by ENGNR 13y ago
What about government commercial negotiation information, surely the government can (should!) keep that secret at least until the negotiations are over, otherwise every single purchase made will have them ripped off due to information asymm
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Or they're not taking the NSA's need for secrecy very seriously
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by ENGNR 13y ago
You have to applaud anyone seeking to know more about technology. And the more your customers know, the more likely they are to choose the optimal solution (yours?) rather than some slick marketing pitch that will inevitably fail to deliver
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Is there a problem with recruiters working harder to find the best candidate/job fit? It's a nice change from having to compete (or work with!) people rammed into the wrong sorts of jobs. Worst case you can have fun with the level
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by ENGNR 13y ago
We're definitely entering e-feudalism. We need an e-revolution into e-democracy, whatever that looks like. Probably select acceptance into online communities, while increasingly irrelevant nations worry about increasingly irrelevant ta
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by ENGNR 13y ago
I think Orwellian surveillance was a degree worse because you could never escape it. Even in your most private spaces you had to act as if everything was ok, and the body lead the mind into thinking everything was ok. Not that I'm defe
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Unless they're only doing it so as not to be sued for breach of contract. If they're not chasing future grants from DARPA then there's no incentive at all to play nice on other fronts.
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by ENGNR 13y ago
They could ask questions perhaps if you had overwhelming superiority, such as when fighting an insurgency. In an actual modern war scenario however they'd have to use every sneaky trick in the book or would eventually lose the war via
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by ENGNR 13y ago
It's actually an important question, where should your smartest and most creative employee go; CEO or CTO? I think for a lot of companies (is tech startups) CTO would be the right answer. So long as the CEO stays the hell out of the wa
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by ENGNR 13y ago
It's better than having them start a whole new operating system. At least this way the apps will still be largely compatible (except for vendor services). Many developers will be able to just load the same .apk into both (or more) app
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by ENGNR 13y ago
He wouldn't have made it to Iceland. The USA grounded a government owned plane travelling within Europe to Austria when they thought he was on it. Realistically, China and Russia are the only nations powerful enough to stand up to the
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Highly specialised robots might be more efficient overall, but you lose the agility of being able to quickly give them tasks and repurpose them. A lot of smaller businesses would take a general human shaped robot that they could visually an
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by ENGNR 13y ago
It's scary just how much SCADA software (electricity, water, fuel, prisons, etc) is absolutely ridden with vulnerabilities, protected ONLY by that air gap. Typically this internal network will be accessed by terminals sitting immediate
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by ENGNR 13y ago
The browser UX should only show either of: Green - The channel is secure, Red - Security error Which the current system already does. How would you upgrade the UX without exposing the complexities of security to the user? Also, why isn&#x27
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by ENGNR 13y ago
And of course: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/
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by ENGNR 13y ago
I never would have thought myself a socialist, but a basic income (guaranteed payments from government) seems to make so more much sense in this context. You could scrap the minimum wage, scrap labour laws basically (?), at least from the p
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Is it folly to continue with https given that the certificate authority tree of trust has been compromised? Maybe baby steps are a good option, but I'd like to eventually see all traffic signed with keys stored in a distributed ledger
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Extremely unethical, the whole point of someone sending you a snapchat is that they don't want you to be able to save it (let alone save it on a third party server)
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by ENGNR 13y ago
Exactly, the more efficient solution is having a government you can trust.
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by ENGNR 13y ago
But surely after it goes to the senate it will be either a ratify or no-ratify on the agreement. Negotiations will have already finished between countries and everything agreed on, is there any scope for change or public input at that point
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by ENGNR 13y ago
The balance then is specific subpoenias for individuals authorised by a judge, with the individuals being informed after a reasonable period (say 9 months) which information was subpoenaed. The library could potentially even give anonymised
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Follow on to Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today(class.coursera.org)
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