amirmc

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by amirmc 12y ago
An interesting requirement. You might like to take a look at Irmin, which is a git-like distributed storage system. It's still being actively developed but it's far along enough to be worth kicking the tires. http://ope
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by amirmc 12y ago
This is why the 'nothing to hide' argument irks me so much. It implicitly accepts the asymmetry. If everyone had equal information, then it would be a very different environment.
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by amirmc 12y ago
You might like to look up work on the Theory of the Firm, as to why companies exist. I'm not suggesting it's the answer but I did find it interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
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by amirmc 12y ago
Is it a negative signal if you're older but still only find one or two things you feel are 'impressive'? One of the things I noticed is that older founders I've met wouldn't bother with YC because it's for &#x2
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by amirmc 12y ago
If you're ruling yourself out before you've even begun, then I find it difficult to have any sympathy. If the 'type' you're referring to is 'young, white male' then there are many aspects of life where you
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by amirmc 12y ago
What gives you this impression? From what I can tell (from the outside) YC is a pretty diverse crowd and I believe PG once said that academic background doesn't much matter. Grit (aka resilience, determination, relentlessness, etc) is
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Rosetta: Audacious comet landing site chosen(bbc.co.uk)
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by amirmc 12y ago
Minority protections probably already cover the cases you describe (eg veto rights).
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by amirmc 12y ago
In an era of 'parallel construction', you build a separate case and use that as leverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by amirmc 12y ago
Visit the iPhone 6 page and scroll down [1]. There's a list of participating banks and merchants (currently US only). https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/apple-pay/
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "It's the reason why if you look at a list of the world's oldest nations the United States is right at the top, and is one of the largest." Really? Please can you elaborate on this as it makes no sense to me.
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by amirmc 12y ago
That's a great interim step but ultimately people still have to learn to drive. There may even be an increase in risk as you become less skilled at the things you don't do very often (when the car hands you control, the cognitiv
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by amirmc 12y ago
I think the goal would be not to need those special maps at all. (In the long run). In any case, no-one is disputing that driverless cars are coming. Just reminding the over-zealous that there are real obstacles to overcome.
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by amirmc 12y ago
For people who think this is some kind of 'hit piece' on Google cars, please go read the original source, where a lot of the information comes from the director of the google car project. http://www.technologyreview.com
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by amirmc 12y ago
From the source: "Data from multiple passes by a special sensor vehicle must later be pored over, meter by meter, by both computers and humans. It’s vastly more effort than what’s needed for Google Maps." In other words, the map
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by amirmc 12y ago
Where in the article is it being ridiculed? I read it as a dose of reality, which useful to provide some perspective on the challenges that remain (that many people are probably not even aware of). The original article might be of interest
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by amirmc 12y ago
... and that's one reason why I won't use it for anything meaningful. I'm tired of my digital activities simply becoming fodder for a third party's data mining.
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "It makes sense to me to spy on all the folks in other countries. I don't see how else you would honestly do a good job of governing." You've equated spying on me with good governance. This is fallacious (as well
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... despite any lack of sense or evidence." With secret courts, secret interpretations of laws, gag orders etc. How does one obtain hard 'evidence' of anything (beyond whistleblowers)? And what exactly do you mea
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by amirmc 12y ago
I wonder whether all the people talking about microservices have come across the unikernel approach (c.f Mirage OS [1, 2]). It seems like these two ideas, at some level, fit quite well together. [1] http://queue.acm.org/deta
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by amirmc 12y ago
In that case, I'm curious whether you use a smart phone (iOS/Android) and whether you've read all those documents too. That's typically a much higher-value product. Also, recall that I said that a certain level of knowle
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by amirmc 12y ago
You're extrapolating from one comment the viewpoints of everyone who cares about privacy? That's quite ridiculous. As another commenter has mentioned, de-anoymising data isn't that difficult [1]. Why should privacy advocat
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by amirmc 12y ago
I can't tell if you were being serious. Assuming you were, then 1400 words, presented as a wall of text, is an anathema to the short attention spans of many users. In addition, that 1400 words is a subset of around 5400 words for the
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "They all pretty much say the same thing." This is not a safe approach when you're dealing with legal contracts , which is what T&Cs purport to be. Minor difference in wording can have very different intents/
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by amirmc 12y ago
> "... it is their own responsibility to read the T&Cs of those services." While some people may believe/feel this is reasonable, it has rapidly become impractical. Have you read the T&CS for all the services y
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by amirmc 12y ago
Irmin's still being developed, hence not many docs at the moment. Apologies there was no-one responding in irc (I assume you mean #mirage - there are usually 30+ folks there). The mailing list is quite active and is a good place to po
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by amirmc 12y ago
If anyone's interested in git-like storage systems then it's work checking out Irmin [1]. Previous discussion is at [2]. Excerpt: "Irmin is a library to persist and synchronize distributed data structures both on-disk and in
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by amirmc 12y ago
> " Every person stopped by a cop should feel safe instead of feeling that their wellbeing is in jeopardy. Shouldn’t the community members extend the same courtesy to their officers and project that the officer’s safety is not threa
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Polymorphism for beginners(roscidus.com)
7 points by amirmc 12y ago|0 comments
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by amirmc 12y ago
People might also find the following post of interest. Polymorphism for beginners - http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/12/20/polymorphism-for-be...

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