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by Smerity 14y ago
I was born on the edges of the 80s and 90s. I missed the entirety of the space race. I never even knew the enthusiasm towards space flight. Suddenly SpaceX appears and in only 10 years looks in place to eclipse NASA. They're poised to achie
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Exactly. He says only follow what you're passionate in. Most normal people I know aren't passionate about mathematics but they're forced to be competent. If we taught mathematics like we taught computing, people would only ever use calculat
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If nothing else he got free food, correct? If each meal cost AOL around $10 then that's $10 * 3 * (2 * 30) = $1,800 worth of damages. This is not including any snacks / soft drinks / free gym / other perks that he might be snatching on top
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I believe we're arguing the same point. Advertisers are the ones who do the targeting and even with the tools Facebook provides, they make terrible targeting decisions. It doesn't matter if good advertisers use it properly, the majority do
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I can tell you my profile is full of information on me yet looking at the ads I see on Facebook right now: a) "Join the Army as a Truck Mechanic" (university graduate in IT...) b) "Study Marine Biology" c) "Cheap baby strollers" d) "Learn h
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He points out some of the terribly targeted ads that Facebook pushes on users. I think this is a huge issue that's not discussed enough. Facebook has all the data but no real targeting. This stems from two core issues: 1) they don't seem to
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This release gives 37Signals a number of advantages. 1) Free press towards the 37Signals brand and 2) a product that they're proud of and which indicates the future quality a customer can expect from them. This will benefit them far more th
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I'm glad to hear all's well. Your original point is incredibly important and I'm glad you made it. Years ago when I was 13 or so I pointed out a bug in Blender to Ton Roosendaal[1]. My knowledge of C was ... let's just say I could probably
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by Smerity 14y ago
From all the open source contributions, we know Kenneth enough that he's not trolling. Thus I say assume that he misread the Linus discussion and leave it at that. He was trying to make a point and picked the wrong example. The core of his
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Email isn't sent in an encrypted form by default so this still indicates a serious concern. Either they a) don't hash passwords or b) are happy sending passwords in cleartext across the internet to machines that you don't directly control.
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Focus. Both from my own ventures now and from start-ups I've worked with previously in the past, I see focus as one of the largest needs of a start-up. Without focus, successful start-ups move on to too many fields, dividing their resources
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Almost all ads to some degree are something that "no sane person would ever want". The difference is that Sellaring makes ads that are not easily ignored. In contrast, the on-screen ads on Android's AngryBirds are easily ignored even if ani
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One thing I'm always curious about when I see revenue from mobile applications is: does advertising on a mobile device really work? I'm hesitant to sell anything unless I'd be confident selling it with my name attached to the label and I'm
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by Smerity 14y ago
This presentation is by Armin Ronacher, the author (amongst many other things) of Flask, Werkzeug and Jinja2. If people find this presentation interesting he catalogues and provides slides (and recordings where appropriate) of all his previ
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Exactly. I was not saying software should be theoretically guaranteed -- the responder just assumed that. Adobe has a fix to a serious vulnerability. Not releasing it when the cost to them is tiny is essentially criminal negligence, especia
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If a car company sells you a car engine that bursts into flames, they're still held liable for damages. They can't just say "Uhmm... The engine may burst into flames, you should buy our next model". The fact that Adobe can get away with thi
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Luckily when a client demands something outrageous they tend to discover that it comes with a formidable price tag. Uptime requires redundancy, redundancy requires a substantial increase in cost without even factoring in the additional deve
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The ability for S3 and CloudFront to properly handle GZIP compressed files would further encourage the use of S3+Cloudfront for static websites. As a host S3 + CloudFront have arbitrary scalability, good performance across the globe and is
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by Smerity 14y ago
The part of this article I really associated with is the focus on "startup drama". The startup drama has its place -- stories of founders fighting through the hard time or working out when to throw in the towel are wonderfully didactic in n
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As the article points out, they must be making good money for this attack to be practical. The back of the envelope calculation seems reasonable: even paying Google reasonably high CPMs they're making it back via Amazon through even casual
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Simply Explained: The Dining Cryptographer's Problem(smerity.com)
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by Smerity 15y ago
I did a light benchmark of their 512MB VPS[1] which is insanely cheap. The only things that change when moving to the 2GB VPS is RAM, hard drive space and total data transfer. The CPU remains a single core and the same speed according to [2
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I haven't looked at SoftLayer's offerings re: RAM but the most important thing to note with Hetzner is that only some of their dedicated machines have error-correcting code (ECC) memory. Hetzner's 16GB machine[1] (89 Euros/month) has ECC me
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by Smerity 15y ago
I saw the same pricing as you did but it _just_ changed as I refreshed the page a second time. 1 TB now costs $49.99 per month, or $600/year. This is a substantial jump from $256/year and means it's no longer an attractive proposition...
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Indeed I hadn't -- Edis doesn't rank highly for searches involving "LevelDB + Redis" which could be how it avoided me for so long. This sounds like what I envisioned, so I'll be looking at it with a keen interest =] The real question is how
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Antirez mentions that a limited set of on-disk data structures could work well but that it will take one or two years to even reach the drawing board. Fair enough -- Redis is first and foremost an in-memory database. If there was the time t
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by Smerity 15y ago
Whilst I was an intern at Google I worked with Hilbert Curves. Range queries are something BigTable and Cassandra excel at and are the core database component of any Hilbert Curve based spatial index. The real issue is building the database
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I've been following your reports for some time and am always pleasantly surprised when I see the next one pop up! One thing though is that whilst your writing conveys passion and excitement your English is still below par. If you're interes
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One possible option is challenge-response authentication. There a number of variations, but the simplest example is to hash both the hashed password and a nonce on both ends and check the resulting hash[1]. This means that the server only r
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It has the feel of interactive embedded footnotes with positive reinforcement for opening them -- each time I clicked it revealed a few more features about you. Positive reinforcement is an important factor as you feel like you're discoveri

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