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by ademarre 13y ago
Are there to be any regulations to prevent ISPs from artificially degrading delivery of low-priority content providers? Prioritizing content is one thing, but artificially withholding or delaying delivery of content is quite another.
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by ademarre 13y ago
Dan Rosensweig (Chegg) on what it takes to be a founder: > You have to have a very specific perspective of not caring about other peoples’ opinions, believing in what you’re doing, being willing to fight through things—and that’s not f
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Start-up Tips From The Bosses Of Ebay, Chegg, Airbnb--And Ashton Kutcher(forbes.com)
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by ademarre 13y ago
A fair point, but don't you think with sufficient demand there would be competition in a free market?
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Linux Foundation Releases First-Ever Collaborative Development Trends Report(linuxfoundation.org)
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by ademarre 13y ago
HN doesn't like subtext. Of course, it's terribly impractical to ask MS to release the XP source code, and that might even exacerbate the ongoing need for security patches. But look at all the millions being spent now, and imagine
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by ademarre 13y ago
Dear Microsoft, Better yet, open source XP and earn some serious cred! Sincerely Yours, The hacker community
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by ademarre 13y ago
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/454792635279220737 Pic of the CloudFlare team reviewing the attack. Ten guys crowded around one monitor.
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New Catalog Brings NASA Software Down to Earth(nasa.gov)
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Why Software Patents Are So Useful To Patent Trolls(usv.com)
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by ademarre 13y ago
The author seems to discuss OpenSSL as if it were the protocol itself, not an implementation of it. OpenSSL != SSL != TLS
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by ademarre 13y ago
Maybe it's time for Netflix to follow Google's lead and get into the fiber-to-the-home ISP business. If more big players on the side of net neutrality did this they might succeed in reinventing the ISP business from the inside out
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by ademarre 13y ago
> if you are disciplined, you can write perfectly pure, functional Scala That's a key point right there. If you are an OOP guy trying to learn FP, Scala makes it too easy to stick to what you already know. I find that Scala's O
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by ademarre 13y ago
As I grow tired of journalists publishing their shortsighted opinions of Bitcoin, it is refreshing to see a critic employ a model to make his point. I don't know anything about Modern Monetary Theory, and I'm not sure that it&#x27
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by ademarre 13y ago
I think a lot of programmers don't properly understand character encoding simply because their programming languages don't give them the proper treatment. We need more APIs that force developers to acknowledge character encodings,
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by ademarre 13y ago
no.
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by ademarre 13y ago
That's certainly not the MPAA's or RIAA's definition of stealing.
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It's refreshing that the overall tone of the hearing is not one of 'we don't understand this cryptocurrency thing, we need to shut it down', but rather, 'this thing is happening, we have some concerns, but we need t
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by ademarre 13y ago
To revise his analogy with music: Garamond would be the genre, but the analogy falls apart from there. Adobe Garamond Pro is a typeface, so maybe that could be likened to an album? Adobe Garamond Pro Regular is a font, as is Adobe Garamond
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by ademarre 13y ago
While I appreciate the desire for fastidiousness, I don't entirely agree with Mr. Ingebretsen. I prefer Jon Tan's perspective: http://v1.jontangerine.com/log/2008/08/typeface--font A typeface is a f
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by ademarre 13y ago
I think there's a difference between working with first principles to develop an idea, and reasoning with first principles to explain the developed idea to others. When it comes to explaining the idea to others, using a first-principle
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by ademarre 13y ago
Hear, hear! Yes, I do that too and noticed the same when reading from microlancer.com. I think it drives my coworkers crazy when they're looking over my shoulder reading from the same screen.
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by ademarre 13y ago
I don't hear enough people talking about vendor lock-in with AWS, or any other cloud provider for that matter. Too many of us are building our company's infrastructure on AWS with little regard for the cost of switching. I try to
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by ademarre 13y ago
Many medical techniques were probably pioneered by specialists and later adopted by general practitioners. The perceived difficulty of mastering pure functional programming for practical work might be a result of bias in the typical CS educ
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by ademarre 13y ago
Arrrrgh you would think so, but no, it's the C.
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by ademarre 13y ago
The point "about the transience of linked information" has been made. But the problem isn't new to anyone, including NYT. It should pointed out that Justice Alito included a date with the URL, which allows the URL to functi
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by ademarre 13y ago
You're the one that added that bit about the Raspberry Pi to the RNG comparison page on Wikipedia? Thanks for the tip! That helped me with a project I was working on at the time. I've since learned that there is also a HW RNG on t