IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
Is it Hayes compatible? ;)
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Note that the conference happened in 1992. Non-government cryptography has come a long way and become a lot more practical in the subsequent 22 years.
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This may be stretching the definition of "commercial", but in 1986, Run Magazine published this game I wrote. It was written in C64 BASIC and the code fit on a single screen (40x25). http://www.gamebase64.com/game
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Reading the article, I can't help but think that a GTA/CrazyTaxi street-accurate video game based on this test would be amazing.
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This is an excerpt from his new book; the article headline is the book's title. I agree this is not a good title for this excerpt. Later his argument goes "Information doesn't want to be free--people do" and this story
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Maybe if they had used invitations to gauge market interest they wouldn't have a quarter million unsold fire phones sitting in a warehouse. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/amazon-un
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Is the article from 1994? It contains the line "In 2007 the airport made the best of their sucky cipher and started promoting the airport with the slogan "FLY SUX.""
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Think of "work on infrastructure" as "work on developer-centric features" and maybe you'll be happier? Also: "Always work on more features" can be a pitfall, and it's why Zawinski's law of softwa
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It's a problem that's hard to solve: since the amount of work ebbs and flows, how do you keep your staff busy for 40 hours a week? Some companies drastically overcommit on a permanent basis, so that 40 hours is the minimum anyone&
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For any food with a large and well-known lobby behind it, look at any health claims with a very skeptical eye.
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You might be surprised. I just pulled up Process Explorer, which makes it easy to see which running apps are signed, and the only unsigned things I'm currently running are VLC, Evernote, and some Brother Printer utilities. Things from
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Also see this same gag on The Simpsons http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/05/08/310818693/did-h...
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"This hammer isn't a very good screwdriver."
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I think there's a critical mass of people in power at these companies hitting middle age and being confronted with their own mortality. (And the death of Steve Jobs probably reinforced the same notes in the minds of a lot of people.)
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Christ: my slightly hyperbolic rhetoric aside do you really disagree with anything in the logic chain that a faster web = a more usable web = a more used web = a larger audience = better for google?
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My memory was that there was a cold war, but not hot-and-heavy competition until chrome, although this article seems to agree with you. But man, Chrome sure got good fast. http://www.cnet.com/news/browser-war-centers-on
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> data that it would not otherwise get at. My argument is that nobody would have put that data online in a slow and sucky web. If you think Google wants full control over the audience, surely they also want a large audience. (Note that
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> There never was a good reason for Chrome to exist in the first place. Chrome kicked off the browser performance wars, especially javascript. A fast and performant web was important to any strategy Google could have had, regardless of
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I know we have skepticism over the 10k hours of practice theory, but I still kinda like it, at least in broad strokes. And if there's going to be another "10x" level, these are probably them. 100k hours of effortful practice
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I guess I mean the NCAA rules on academic eligibility. I'll admit that I don't have a detailed understanding but having completely nonexistent classes seems like it is likely a violation. I supposed we will have to wait for the
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MLB has the minor leagues as their feeder program. The NFL has college football as their feeder program. There are a lot of tradeoffs, but in the end I think the MLB's system is better. To me, the charade of "student athletes&quot
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If you go to a school that plays opposite UNC and your school follows the rules, I suspect you might care as it puts you at a competitive disadvantage.
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> I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail [...] Their anti-spam was stunningly better than all the existing web-based providers.
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Just to be clear: when I said "pool", they don't like, blend the blood--I just meant that your bag of blood is available for general usage. They can and do track individual packs. Regarding the postcard: I have donated in Il
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Most people who donate blood just go into a pool, but 'directed' blood donations are very interesting. I found out about directed donation when someone I know was found to be a close match for a baby with Diamond Blackfan anemia.
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Either way, I wonder if the twitpic guys fully understand the damage they may be doing to their personal reputations. Do they expect to be able to run a web service in the future? Because if the current situation persists, no one will eve
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Thus far the Twitpic guys haven't been very open or cooperative with the archive team guys. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523162680400830464
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> I assembled myself with the help of a mechanic. I believe in this analogy you are Argentina and your mechanic is Japan/Europe.
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Note for clarity: claar's complaint was prior to a headline edit; "FFS" used to say "For Fuck's Sake".
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Someone here probably knows, but two questions immediately spring to mind. 1) Was there any bowdlerization of the records--any attempt to cover up scandalous lineages that are or were at one time against Mormon norms? (For example, interra

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