KaeseEs

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by KaeseEs 15y ago
I would argue that the marketplace isn't well standardized, but rather that some information information (eg. on practices related to domain transfer and takedown) is unavailable to or ignored by most of the consumers in the market, causing
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
I find it ironic that the tone gets so bellicose at times, and also kind of wonder what the purpose of the implied threat at the end was in an article that started out so reasonably.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Lithium ion batteries, such as those in laptops, don't degrade based on charge/discharge cycles the way that older generations (NiCd, NiMH etc) did, but rather lose permanent capacity mostly as a function of time and temperature (although d
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
A conventionally tipped ICBM is indistinguishable from a nuclear tipped ICBM in all stages of flight except perhaps the last, and thus the launch thereof at a CVG could provoke nuclear retaliation. There are many, many better ways to sink
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
The naughtiness stuff works on HN despite this, probably since you can't downvote articles and an article eventually getting flagged into deep space doesn't negate the upvotes it received beforehand. The system relies on humans not rewardi
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
If you don't have numbers, you're not doing engineering, you're practicing druidism.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
How long have Australian police been in the habit of reading suspects their Miranda rights (or are they required to)? I'm really curious how that made it from our law to theirs.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
The arc90 readability bookmarklet fixes it for me.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Except RandomHouse isn't cutting out a middleman here, they're just using a different one.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
He almost had me, until he quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes favorably
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
I'm kind of curious why non-Europeans (such as myself) are barred from participating.
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by KaeseEs 15y ago
Oddly enough, I usually hear this the other way around - that if you work on a product that makes the company money directly (shrinkwrap software for a software company, HFT shit for a financial firm, etc) that you'll generally be treated (
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
While Perl is an eclectic language and has the kitchen-sink nature, the only thing it really bolted on without much forethought was its object system, which it borrowed from circa-1994 Python. Unfortunately for Perl, this wasn't just bolte
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
DDG has haters?
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
Good to see that Watson is making the transition to a useful expert system/aid-to-humans quickly; and interesting to see that David Ferrucci's and Chris Welty's comments about adapting Watson from Jeopardy use to medical use came to fruitio
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
Wow, didn't even realize the two authors had written two books on the subject. I meant the former and hadn't realized the parent of my post meant the latter, having not read the title after seeing the authors' names. Whoops!
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
PH is the standard undergrad text for an arch course in much the same way as Wakerly is the standard for digital logic/components.
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
Also because they tend to light on fire, have next to no torque where you want it, purposefully burn a metered amount of oil, get crap mileage (which degrades relatively quickly to boot), ... Eventually people tire of playing the rotary gam
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
There is some data to back up this fattening-over-time thesis: http://imgur.com/OjWoz
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
I am skeptical of the claim that verbosity for its own sake aids comprehension. To borrow an example from Rob Pike, reading buf[thisVariableIsTheLoopIndex] = foo(...); is no more obvious than buf[i] = foo(...); and indeed is mo
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
In America, yes, truth is an absolute defense against libel claims; in Britain, truth is no defence, yet: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/15/libel-law-reform...
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
Wonder if this will break anything hardcoded to point to java.sun.com/foo
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
If I write {comments in code, documentation, tutorials, posts on a technical website} in English, programmers in Latvia and India who have learned English as the standard language in which computer science and software development are done
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
Can I coin the term 'brogrammers' for this sort of code-soulmate, whole-far-greater-than-sum-of-parts partnership?
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
I think you've conflated "not trusting" user data with sanitizing it. To use an analogy from SQL, using prepared statements/parameterized queries doesn't sanitize user data, but it also doesn't trust it (as it doesn't treat data as code).
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
I got an android phone recently and started using twidroyd yesterday. The first time I tried to tweet from my phone, when I hit 'done' a 30-char-or-so ad for Twidroyd was appended onto my (20-char-or-so) tweet. I was rather irked that I h
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
If root can log in, the username is definitely known to the attacker and they must figure out the password. If root can't log in, the username of someone with an entry in sudoers probably isn't known to the attacker, so they must figure ou
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
The MPEG LA will most likely look at a ton of patent claims on WebM in the next 5 weeks, accept any with even a tenuous grasp on reality as legitimate, count how many they have, and announce a number of infringements essential to WebM. The
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
I agree, it seems fishy to me that saturation rather than wrap is the integer overflow behavior in these systems.
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by KaeseEs 16y ago
While I'm glad the extension of these provisions of the act didn't pass, I'm skeptical that compromise legislation that's as bad for privacy and civil liberties generally but more politically palatable won't pass shortly.

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