MichaelSalib

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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Perl was designed to replace 16 different Unix commands, and in that respect it is successful. Python was created as a scripting language with exceptions, and in that respect it is also successful. I don't think either of these state
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Some people actually prefer not having 100,000 built-ins Have you actually ever looked at Python? The core language is pretty small; much smaller than perl certainly. My point is that if you design the core well enough with orthogonal com
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
How many of those modules only exist to compensate for weaknesses in the core language though? For example, looking at http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/Scalar-List-Utils-1.30/lib/Li... just befuddles me: every
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Look, there are people for whom a felony conviction could seriously ruin their life. If you've spent your entire life trying to be a defense attorney, or you long to join the FBI, a felony conviction ends your dreams. Swartz wasn'
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
This really seems like sophistry to me. Everyone agrees that if Swartz had asked the library staff to help him download the entire JStore archive, they would have clearly said no. The difference between "some jstor articles" and &
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I don't get this at all. If Swartz had walked into the library and told a librarian, "hi! I'd like to download the entire JStor archive. Where can I plug in?", they obviously would have told him "No". Everyone
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
We really don't know that. There are reasons to suspect that he did, but as the report points out (section II.A.2), he never explicitly said what his intent was.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
No, it doesn't cause head scratching. You called the police because you need computer forensics expertise while investigating a crime. The local cops show up with extra computer forensics experts who are also law enforcement. Not a big
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Actually, they can't. Airline tickets are not priced the way static inventory in a warehouse is priced. The pricing is dynamic and extremely complex.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
There are other sources of environmental lead exposure besides leaded gasoline. Brazilian enforcement of environmental protections may not have been as successful as the US EPA was, especially in the past.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
How was the freedom of the press infringed? I mean, the government requires that journalists and newspapers pay taxes, so is that another infringement?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Except for the bit where ubuntu does regular scheduled releases.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
you literally suggested using publicly accessible breakfast cereal as a replacement for the equivalent of a controlled experiment. Perhaps I was unclear. I think they should have done the controlled experiment with university staff or stu
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
As an MIT alum who (1) has run experiments, (2) has had experiments performed on me by MIT researchers and (3) has actually studied this particular case in a Scientific Ethics class at MIT, I know a lot of things. Plus my brother is develop
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Right, it was MIT, so why not use the faculty lounge breakfast cereal? Or the student center's? I mean, it was totally absolutely harmless, right?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Which operational nuclear power plants generate electric power without using generators with rare earth magnets?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I think you are very confused. I've spent a lot of time with developmentally disabled people and I've yet to see one that didn't have a substantial cognitive impairment. Moreover, children in general cannot consent.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
If everyone thought it was harmless, why wasn't it conducted on college students, the usual specimen of choice for harmless experiments? Was it just a coincidence that the researchers decided to experiment on the most powerless and def
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Oh. Sorry about that. I should have looked at the diff more carefully.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
They're not using a crypto library, they implemented RSA from scratch.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I just did some consulting on helping another team improve their hadoop cluster performance and the first thing I noticed is that all 40 boxes in the cluster were burning a CPU core with a puppet agent process that was running at 100% CPU f
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
We're working on a system called Trecul [1]. If you're coming from Haskell, I'm sorry to say I doubt it would be to your liking. Right now we're spending most of our time migrating off Akamai infrastructure but pretty so
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
MediaMath -- Cambridge MA and NYC NY. Fulltime. H1B. We're looking for software engineers, especially with systems experience. We're also looking for a UI dev and a QA team lead. http://www.mediamath.com/careers&#x
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Which type system proves program correctness? A good type system can guarantee that your program doesn't suffer from certain classes of errors but that's very very far from correctness. Unless you only write programs that don&#x27
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
numexpr (a tool used to optimize performance of numpy code) has support for parallelizing operations. See http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/wiki/MultiThreadVM
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
IANAL, but there's a been a trend in American jurisprudence to raise the standing barriers for effective litigation. Scott Lemiuex, a political scientist has written a bit on this point [1]; see also this balkinization post [2]. In gen
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
First of all, I don't find the IP address argument persuasive and I don't think most courts have either. Secondly, given that it is quite common for DHCP to give a single computer different addresses and nothing like that happens
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Sorry, no offense meant to professionals. I was thinking more of random guys who rent a backhoe for the weekend. And yes, I know about dark fiber. Dark fiber networks don't have traffic but they're still on maps and have warning s
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Putting aside Prism, I don't see how the cell phone metadata is compatible with the fourth amendment at all. The 4A exists specifically to ban general warrants that allow the government to seize whatever they want without any specifici
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
You mean you think there's a classified fiber network operated by the government that covers the entire country and transports about as much data as the real internet? So, are those cables marked on maps or with signs (like legit cable

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