Simucal

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by Simucal 14y ago
I think it would be interesting to build a game like EVE which maps the management of spaceships and cargo to the management of real world businesses like a toilet seat manufacturer in Iowa. While users of the game are creating distribution
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by Simucal 14y ago
To me, the phones primary purpose in this scenario is to maintain state. I can be working at home and instantly sleep my "phone-computer", slip it in my pocket and then resume right where I left off when I arrive at work by re-docking it.
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by Simucal 14y ago
Thanks for the book suggestion, I just purchased it. I had been looking to read a book about Medieval times but hadn't taken the time to find out what one to read. The reviews look promising.
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by Simucal 14y ago
This is truly a great book and I can't recommend it enough. I've been working through the projects for the past couple weeks. As the author states, it can be hard for CS students to see the forest for the trees among all the computing topi
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by Simucal 14y ago
A lot of the phone phreaking scenes in the movie were pretty real as well.
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by Simucal 14y ago
I had briefly considered creating a service that would backup your Dropbox, GDrive, and SkyDrive but it seemed to me that because most of the users had the files on their computers locally anyway the idea didn't have a lot of value. That
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by Simucal 14y ago
Are the copies of the files on your computer in your Dropbox folder not defacto backups?
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by Simucal 14y ago
No, this is incorrect. The site creator has earned between 40% and 15% of that 7 million as a fee. One particular teacher has earned $700k by selling her lesson plans through the site.
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by Simucal 14y ago
I wonder if there is any need for software engineers down there to support the scientific teams? I'm not a sys admin but I wouldn't mind doing a tour just for the experience.
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by Simucal 14y ago
Can you really do this that easily? I remember one time trying to cancel a payment to a service which failed to provide what they promised and I was given to a resolution specialist. That specialist said they would refund me right away bu
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by Simucal 15y ago
I think DDG uses this as one of its primary sources for search data.
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by Simucal 15y ago
I would suggest you attempt to solve the "Cult of the Bound Variable" programming problem[0]. The first stage of the problem requires you to write an emulator for an "ancient" computer that has a very easy to follow instruction set. [0]:
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by Simucal 15y ago
First off, I commend you for sticking to your ethical principles. I know a lot of people in your situation who would have folded and done what the company asked them to do. I'm curious, how will you present this situation to prospective em
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by Simucal 15y ago
The article blew me away when I read that he was a high school senior.
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by Simucal 15y ago
Then the testers should be given a financial incentive to get the items through.
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by Simucal 15y ago
I used to use them years ago and it certainly wasn't issue free. When they took away their free private accounts it was a pretty big pain only to have them re-implement them less than a year later.
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by Simucal 15y ago
It seems like an exception is being made just because Alan Kay is a well known figure in computing. If he was some random guy who asked the very same question I feel pretty certain its status would of remained deleted.
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by Simucal 15y ago
Couldn't you have sorted the questions yourself using the Stack Exchange data explorer[1]? [1]: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new
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by Simucal 15y ago
Maybe I'm being the kind of developer that the blogger was talking about, but would it be such a bad idea for a Mailinator like site to use Redis to store the email messages but hosted on the same box as the web server? At least that way, i
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by Simucal 15y ago
Submit a pull request.
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by Simucal 15y ago
I figured he was being sarcastic.
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by Simucal 15y ago
It sounds like your place the js file on some post-purchase page. That way when they request it you can be pretty sure they just completed the transaction.
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by Simucal 15y ago
Eh, that test seemed like it could be unintuitive to those that have never had programming exposure before. How are they to know that "=" is assignment and not testing equality? I guess you could glean that from the context where they imme
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by Simucal 15y ago
These "wipe the drive" decoy password scenarios would never work in real life unless their forensics team was really inept. There would be copies made and the drive that has the encrypted volume would likely be accessed with a "Write Blocke
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by Simucal 15y ago
I agree. However, having the capability to have an undetectable hidden innner volume feels like it makes a lot of this moot. That is, as long as the inner volumes remain truly undetectable.
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by Simucal 15y ago
No, it doesn't. This finds files suspected to be TrueCrypt volumes and it does so by looking for certain heuristics. If your file passes a chi-square distribution test it is likely to be a TrueCrypt volume. If I create a file with a bunc
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by Simucal 15y ago
TrueCrypt supports Hidden OS partitions much like its normal hidden containers and it asks for these passwords at boot. You could enter one password and have it boot into a boring Windows XP environment while the true password would boot to
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by Simucal 15y ago
I'm curious what the courts would say when told that it is possible to have a hidden inner volume that is impossible to detect and when I hand over my key it may just be the outer containers, not the hidden inner container that I have unloc
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by Simucal 15y ago
I think you ignored mseebach's point. The mechanics of how the search results are ranked (pagerank) is irrelevant. The system is "broken" when original source content is ranking below people merely linking to it from another site.
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by Simucal 15y ago
I don't know if you have been keeping up with the pirating scene around ebooks but there are now torrents with massive libraries of high-quality, drm-stripped mobi (Kindle) files. It isn't all poorly formatted PDFs anymore.

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