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by amichal 8y ago
bitflips are also single char typos in ascii. I'm guessing that is what you saw
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by amichal 8y ago
I am appalled at how bad Facebook did here but buried at the very end of the article Vice does indicate that they needed to provide a valid traceable drivers license and last four of a (maybe?) matching SSN. This means that had they intende
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by amichal 8y ago
Gig E uses all eight. Just learned this recently when some of the Wi-Fi access points in the office kept falling back to 100mbit
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by amichal 8y ago
Vermont. 60/6 for $100/mo. And I’m a lucky one. I have friends with 3mbit dsl and there are pockets of dialup
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by amichal 8y ago
I'm just quoting them. I'm well aware that all we have is "certification" and "audit" programs to verify their claims. I am also that these are less then perfect and they have been found out to misleading&#x2F
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by amichal 8y ago
Also: > When a customer of Analytics requests IP address anonymization, Analytics anonymizes the address as soon as technically feasible at the earliest possible stage of the collection network. The IP anonymization feature in Analytics
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by amichal 8y ago
Not intentionally but this happened to me. I have bad adult asthma and spent 6hr in an my in network ER (on the advice of my pcp) a couple of years ago. Got some meds a chest X-ray (turns out I had pneumonia!) and got sent home stablized. m
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by amichal 8y ago
Very helpful! I don't know much about css grid support but I played around with "Grid Gap" and got it working in your tool but when i exported it to a "CodePen" (awesome feature BTW) it didn't come over. The pe
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by amichal 8y ago
I wanted this so badly as a Rails dev checking out Rust a few years ago (and still kind of do). At the time, i convinced myself that if I was going to move to a type-safe compiled language i should see if compiled type-safe templates could
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by amichal 8y ago
Maybe DNS was free and SSL cost something? The $200 figure is ringing bells. All I remember was the faxing and trying to explain to the CEO we need to send copies of incorporation documents to a random company no one had heard of.
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by amichal 8y ago
I dont know for certain. I'm almost certain it was Verisign. They might not have been using that name yet. There was a bunch of phoning around to see how this was even done. Asking Wikipedia isn't helping me much just confirms tha
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by amichal 8y ago
Around this time the method to get a DNS name was basically the same. Send an email with some reasoning to the right person and the name was yours. I remember being amazed that was the case. I also got a SSL cert issued around 1995-6 and th
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by amichal 8y ago
previous discussion found: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17272120
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How Big Does a Minority Have to Be to Reshape Society?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by amichal 8y ago|1 comments
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by amichal 8y ago
High yes but 8.95% is the marginal rate for incomes over 413,350/yr. The median income (according to recent census data) is 57k/yr. On a 100k you would pay something like 5% to Vermont. $0 - $37,650 3.55% $37,650 - $91,150 6.80% $
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by amichal 8y ago
Sigh... That is just absurd. Our company is domiciled here but nearly all our income comes from outside the state so we provide the same economic benefit. Even if the state wouldn't pay moving expenses I'm sure we would for the ri
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by amichal 8y ago
It can be but its much better then it was 5 years ago even in smaller towns. My office is on fiber. My house has 50 mbit cable that is quite reliable and never over subscribed. Friends that live several miles out dirt roads have either sate
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by amichal 8y ago
I can't resist. We are here with tech jobs waiting. http://www.greenriver.com/jobs Edit: On the article: COL is similar to Boston in Brattleboro (for the nice lifestyle that we expect as devs) but in different areas. Y
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by amichal 8y ago
Don’t kno about Mac but: https://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+task+from+email&ie=U...
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by amichal 8y ago
or some IO/parsing got mixed into the processing of each node. big-o is one problem. Forgetting or not noticing the constants is another
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by amichal 8y ago
Jscript asp was a real thing. “Run jscript on the client and the sever” was supposed to be a big time/labor saving. Ala nodejs
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by amichal 9y ago
i have a 10+year old project on mysql doing 6+ way joins, groups, etc against 100million row tables in sub second time. It all depends on the indexing, disk layout and size of intermediate products etc. We dont know why they did "UNION
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by amichal 9y ago
For many years "SQL for Smarties" by Joe Celko was on the desk along with whatever specific technical reference i happened to need at the time. There are no physical books now on the desk but the table of contents of some of the o
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by amichal 9y ago
Long ago there was a ms dos. program called “rude dos” that if installed would replace the all commands with versions that randomly and rarely would refuse to work with various rude messages. I always ran it before letting my little brothe
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by amichal 9y ago
you can can disable your access to it and its background upload to google. If you read the fine print the "anonymized" gps/cell-tower/wifi data is still used periodically by google to refine their maps etc. Same for appl
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by amichal 9y ago
At a local Starbucks the other day the person working the register insisted the quarter(25c) I gave him was nickle(5c). Later when giving me 16c in change he gave me a quarter and a penny. At McDonalds the next day I was refunded for a 4.6
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by amichal 9y ago
There is a mechanism in the new policy that could work for this. They allow automated re-tweats still. Post the big news to @CorpABC and then re-tweat to @CorABCVertical and @CorpABCRegion as needed.
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by amichal 9y ago
This is because active record models learn their attributes by querying the database scheme. I haven’t tried it but there appears to be a way to cache this information in the local file system which would likely avoid the early dB connect
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by amichal 9y ago
"anonymized" is a statistical measure. What you are doing is making it less likely that someone can be identified not necessarily impossible. I think it would be best if folks were more honest about that. The article mentions
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by amichal 9y ago
GridBagLayout was the worst back then. It almost got banned in my office and we had several views with gross manual implementations of it because whatever we wanted to do triggered insanity and writing the few constraints see wanted to work

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