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by akadien 11y ago
I'm going to report David Danon to the IRS. He could have made more income as Wall Street corporate lawyer instead of working for Vanguard as a tax lawyer. The extra income he could have made would have resulted in more income taxes t
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by akadien 12y ago
I would add netmap to that list, too.
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by akadien 12y ago
You can get zero-copy for tcpdump with PF_RING or netmap.
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by akadien 12y ago
Namecheap has 2FA.
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by akadien 12y ago
I was excited about Swift. After learning enough to write code that does something meaningful, I find it boring.
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by akadien 12y ago
This article does not address Warren Buffett's advice at all. Instead, it compares two target date funds, one active and another indexed. Not really apples to apples.
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by akadien 12y ago
That is probably another example of where his policy doesn't apply to most of us. My guess is that their is more than enough cash such that 10% in short-term gov bonds would throw off sufficient income for his wife to live very comfor
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by akadien 13y ago
This is my favorite line and the one that damns so many "big data" efforts: "They cared about correlation rather than causation." Analytics are a tool to help find correlations and patterns so that humans can do the har
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by akadien 13y ago
The world would be a little better if every software company could inform its users of security vulnerabilities and bugs as these guys did.
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by akadien 13y ago
How is the dev EULA scary? Don't leave us hanging.
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by akadien 13y ago
Metadata is extremely useful.
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by akadien 13y ago
How is this different from disruptor queues ( http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/ )? (Here is a plug for our C version: https://github.com/redjack/varon-t ).
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by akadien 13y ago
<blog>I recently signed up for Kaggle. I think it's cool, too.</blog>
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by akadien 13y ago
> we are asking to have the most expensive internet on the planet Indeed, it will be unfortunate for the United States when internet services are akin to healthcare and prescription drugs.
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by akadien 13y ago
I develop primarily on FreeBSD (80% C, 20% nodejs) and test for compliance on Centos Linux. My experience is that code written and tested on FreeBSD has so far fewer bugs this way. Package management is more intuitive, too.
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by akadien 13y ago
What does Do do?
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by akadien 13y ago
This is absurd naivety. I know so many people who were the uber-hacker robots that looked down with contempt on older guys with kids. When the robots got married and had kids, everything changed to "work-life balance" and afternoo
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by akadien 13y ago
Software technology is dead if John McAfee is now a spokesman and authority.
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Software, Design Defects Cripple Health-Care Website(online.wsj.com)
3 points by akadien 13y ago|0 comments
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Louisiana to use USADATA to track CS grads(theadvocate.com)
1 points by akadien 13y ago|0 comments
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Is Google a bigger threat than the NSA?(businessreport.com)
2 points by akadien 13y ago|0 comments
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by akadien 13y ago
This means that a lowly engineer with a great idea will leave Google to develop it instead of developing it at Google. Perhaps, this is a good outcome given the way Google keeps killing web services that people find useful but aren't
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by akadien 13y ago
I see a broadly titled patent like this one as a mechanism scaring small companies into settling. I wonder if it is worth building systems anymore.
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by akadien 13y ago
Angular.js makes me hate Javascript.
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by akadien 13y ago
This is cool. It demonstrates that imagination is more important than tools. I'm going to code in Notepad.exe today as a show of support.
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by akadien 13y ago
:facepalm:
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by akadien 13y ago
The difference is intent.
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by akadien 13y ago
Ok, technically you are correct. Good job. What I meant is he wasn't hacking benevolently to discover vulnerabilities to promote world peace and economic development for poor orphans and endangered species.
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by akadien 13y ago
He didn't discover a vulnerability. He hacked Apple, got scared, and tried to save his ass.
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by akadien 13y ago
Gmail gets creepier and creepier. I'm not there yet, but I'm close to looking for alternatives.

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