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by ajdecon 14y ago
I've seen this implemented (in a very special case) with statically-linked GPG on a USB drive and a Crypto Stick[1]. Better than JavaScript (because you don't need to rely on an untrustworthy interpreter), and the keys never leave the smart
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Open source won (radar.oreilly.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
It's not a rational thing, but more instinctive. Your immediate surroundings influence you in all sorts of unconscious ways, but all the people in that global distribution are pretty abstract. You can quote statistics all you like, it's dif
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Tor/Forge E-Books Are Now DRM-Free(tor.com)
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California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit(wired.com)
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7 Reasons Why I Can’t Do “Free”(sharonhayes.com)
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Mellanox Makes Infiniband Hay While the Sun Shines | insideHPC.com(insidehpc.com)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
"Every moment you spent with your family and friends has made you happier. Only some of the moments you spent at work did. So re-focus, why don't you?"
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Honestly, I'd be surprised if the total number of studies on gender balance in open-source projects was higher than single digits. This is probably true, because open-source development doesn't seem to be a well-studied phenomenon in soci
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When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: 'People Staring at Computers'(wired.com)
213 points by ajdecon 14y ago|64 comments
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I've seen these sorts of things happen, and had one paper where the author list was a subject of much debate. Though it seems much more common in the life sciences.
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by ajdecon 14y ago
If it stands, this ruling is going to be a huge mess for a few years... but I actually think it will turn out to be a good thing overall. (Measured in society's terms, not web developers.) As others have pointed out: the point of the ADA is
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The calculator is useful for approximations, but I've been bitten a few times. The only real way to know, as always, is to measure it. The Dell/HP salesmen are worse, if you try to talk about power, especially if you do HPC. They will oft
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by ajdecon 14y ago
It's not reasonable to expect it... but it is reasonable to use that as a reason not to use Apple Maps.
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Obsession(johndcook.com)
80 points by ajdecon 14y ago|9 comments
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Stupid question: Whenever I've used GPG to sign an email, it includes a line saying "Hash: SHA1". Does this imply PGP-signed messages are vulnerable to this, or does PGP/GPG do something different/smarter?
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I loved The Martian Chronicles , though I found it difficult to enjoy much of the rest of his writing. But his skill was undeniable, his influence is still huge, and you can find touches of his style in many other authors' work. RIP
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I've never known anyone take or refuse a job because of any specifics in a benefits package. How many people do you know with families, or with serious health conditions? Differences in benefits can make a real difference in cost-of-livin
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The one that comes to mind immediately is MetaFilter. Not huge, but a pretty decent-sized community and above-average comments. No threading or non-chronological sorting involved. John Scalzi's blog Whatever also has a pretty large pool of
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Here's the thing: I think threaded/collapsible/sorted comments are good for technical discussions, or for discussions which break apart into sub-conversations you want to be able to ignore. I know that's a very natural model for me, and for
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by ajdecon 14y ago
When you return you are surprised to still find a whole bunch of people milling about your foyer having completely insane conversations. All the reasonable folks have left a while ago, but these folks are making themselves at home. Intere
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by ajdecon 14y ago
What follows is a pretty standard lament about online communities In my personal experience, the comment sections I've found on any web site eventually fall into three painful and unsatisfying categories: - Ghost towns: the blog or forum
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by ajdecon 14y ago
For me, this is the strongest case yet for niche social networks being the future of social media. FB is too broad and demographics tell you little about the people you are speaking too unless you can inject some sort of context. If (via a
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by ajdecon 14y ago
The thresholds are non-public, and adjusted from time to time based on pg's perception of the growth of the site. My impression is that comment downvotes seem to occur about 500 karma these days. There's no post downvote that I know of.
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I don't even want to make the user drop general-purpose email clients; I just think that email, as a back-end distributed messaging protocol, is more understood and battle-tested than just about anything a startup is likely to invent. Two p
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I've wondered a lot about why e-mail isn't used more as a backend for different services. But as far as I can tell, messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols.
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The science of password guessing(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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by ajdecon 14y ago
I'd guess that there are current website editors (especially writing docs) whose existing workflows include a lot of offline time. Poor Internet connections at home, lots of time traveling and working on airplanes, vacations to beautiful pl
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Hey, that's really cool! Thanks for posting the link. I wonder what kind of resolution Ponoko can get, and what the pricing on the parts in the post were. I don't have a ton of experience with acrylic microfluidics -- I mostly did soft lith
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by ajdecon 14y ago
Well, like so many other things, it's field-dependent. :-) If you're working in software, you don't even need a garage: a dorm room or studio apartment, a laptop, and a few thousand dollars to pay for web hosting, will fill your need for ph

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