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by Nimi 13y ago
I thought it's part of established economic theory that monopolies have an incentive to invest in infrastructure, as they are best positioned to reap the results. Explains Google's Internet balloons, and many other investments.
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Yanis Varoufakis - Confessions of an Erratic Marxist(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|1 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
I think a lot of the confusion about the article is that Curtis himself doesn't claim to understand what's really going on: """Computers, "financial engineering" and credit, social media, algorithms that p
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by Nimi 13y ago
Agreed. This sounds like a debate that could be settled by testing different antivirus products (and their old versions) against state-sponsored malware.
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by Nimi 13y ago
I have always wondered: don't adopted children provide another natural experiment, on a much larger scale than the (presumably quite rare) cases of identical twins reared apart? You don't even have to hope there was another child
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by Nimi 13y ago
Maybe calculate the SHA256 on your own box, then upload a document containing only the SHA256?
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by Nimi 13y ago
I think there's a strong distinction between "the government can read everything unencrypted" and "the government has a horde of vulnerability researchers, and routinely infects huge numbers of computers with their code&
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by Nimi 13y ago
May I suggest a different perspective: We did need the Snowden disclosures to know this, for some value of we. A lot of members here on HN appear to realize this for the first time, and this is obviously a computer-related community. Non-te
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by Nimi 13y ago
I see, thanks for clarifying. Actually sounds similar to a course I'm teaching at my university - supposed to be an "advanced C course for EE" (whatever that means), I threw in a bit of "intro to agile", what little
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by Nimi 13y ago
Thanks for replying. Could you elaborate on your stance? Obviously, being agile doesn't do away with processes and tools. But giving a lecture on TDD to unwilling programmers seems to guarantee the "people and interactions"
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by Nimi 13y ago
That's what I meant - even if your employer asked for TDD training, ObjectMentor should have objected on the grounds that it will achieve nothing.
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by Nimi 13y ago
I find the described interaction problematic from an agile standpoint: "People and interactions over processes and tools" - and then, they agree to give a lecture on TDD? You're describing literally shoving a process down
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by Nimi 13y ago
AFAIK, not the head , but one of the founders - one of the signatories of the agile manifesto back in 2000: http://agilemanifesto.org/
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by Nimi 13y ago
I'm not proficient in Haskell, just a bystander, but this isn't the sentiment I get from reading Neil Mitchell's posts on the subject: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2538488 http://neilmitchell
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by Nimi 13y ago
It didn't need those amounts of resources when Dropbox first started... What changed? Now it's literally causing Windows Explorer to be stuck on folder renames etc, I'm dying to get off the bandwagon the first opportunity I g
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ImperialViolet - Pond(imperialviolet.org)
2 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Sounds similar to the perspectives project (although with different goals in mind): http://perspectives-project.org/ Also, what do you mean by "we've taken away source-routing for other security reasons"? Did
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by Nimi 13y ago
Funny, I just experimented with __builtin_prefetch this week, and got no speedup. Does anyone know whether the kernel list.h always triggers hardware prefetching when going over a list? BTW, my case wasn't the problem the kernel mainta
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by Nimi 13y ago
If you're still reading: wouldn't having a gamma value significantly larger than 0 mean that for each miner, it has more malicious peers than honest ones? For example, let's assume a "levels" topology, where mined b
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by Nimi 13y ago
Something always troubled me: Why are long hours the equilibrium? If everyone is fighting to hire engineers, why not proudly declare "We're working 40 hours a week here, and still pay market rates"? Every engineer in town wou
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"Return to Justinia" - or How I kept three kids engaged for over four hours(justy.me)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Kindly disagree here. Many people simply "need a favor", and frame it as such, without any manipulation. While I'm requesting another person's time, I might as well bring a small token of appreciation.
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by Nimi 13y ago
One can include the narratives of the key figures depicted. One recent Israeli movie, The Gatekeepers, did so (for leaders of Israel's security service), and the differences in opinions remained unsettled at the end of the film.
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Science is Awesome, Science is Broken — I.M.H.O.(medium.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Meraki sells devices, AFAIK. I have to kindly disagree with your opinion that there's nothing to learn here for aspiring entrepreneurs: one possibly actionable take-away seems to be "You haven't missed the train if you'r
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by Nimi 13y ago
A friend of mine said he contacted the people in charge and suggested some ways out of the counter-intuitiveness. He said they just didn't get it - if each feature works as specified, what's the problem?
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by Nimi 13y ago
This is probably not a good idea, but what happens if the "badge" on the site is simply a link to a binding contract that forces the company to always fight patent lawsuits in court? No insurance or anything, a simple way of signa
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by Nimi 13y ago
That's very interesting, thank you for the response. Your joy talking with strangers and sharing your expertise with them (exemplified here too) sounds like a very good asset to have, for salesmen and for hackers too.
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by Nimi 13y ago
Your former manager sounds like a very interesting person. Could you elaborate a little about him? What was it that he saw in you?
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by Nimi 13y ago
Is the possibility of not finding another job realistic? I keep reading about the amazing demand for developers etc.

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