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by amscanne 12y ago
I disagree: the hardware virtualization mechanisms provide an extra level of protection. Just like the non-virtualized protection mechanisms do. No virtualization developer is under the impression that it's magical or bulletproof. You
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by amscanne 12y ago
Perhaps he used a technique known as "fraud". It sucks when programs like this are abused.
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by amscanne 12y ago
Unfortunately they don't qualify for T-N visas! :)
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by amscanne 12y ago
Canadian Controlled Private Corporation: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/crprtns/typs/ccpc-eng... I believe that permanent residents would also qualify under the requirements, citizenship is
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by amscanne 12y ago
I disagree with this advice. SR&ED consultants are simply exploiting a knowledge gap for serious profits. If you can, you should find someone who can help you and give advice, but don't give away 10%+ of the return.
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by amscanne 12y ago
Donning my pre-mortem cap: perhaps they pre-died because it's impossible to figure out what mailcloud actually does .
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by amscanne 13y ago
It took me a bit, but I think I now understand what you are saying. I'm a novice, so please correct me if I'm wrong. The "greedy" behavior would be when minors explicitly prefer a sequence of transactions such as: Custom
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by amscanne 13y ago
I was disagreeing, but I don't think you are wrong: just misinterpreting. I think that a good currency really has couple properties: fungible, no inherent value (i.e. not a good value store). (This could be viewed as a weakness but I t
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by amscanne 13y ago
> If Bitcoin's deflationary nature prevented it from acting as a currency, it would also prevent USD/CAD/dogecoin/etc. from acting as currencies because people would chose to buy Bitcoin instead of spending their infl
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by amscanne 13y ago
Beyond that, I think some people don't accept that sometimes they will need to do things they don't like (i.e. work hard to do well in a "boring" required course). This may also come with age, but I think it's a mor
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by amscanne 13y ago
I completely disagree with this. While it may be true that if classes were more interesting then cheating would be reduced slightly, that doesn't make it the problem. Similarly, if content creators didn't want any money for their
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by amscanne 13y ago
YC S11... after two months? Huh?
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by amscanne 13y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to refer to the entire banking system (incl. wire transfers, etc.) as "legacy". It's like referring to BTC as legacy crypto currency, because now we have dogecoin.
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by amscanne 13y ago
I'm replying to myself to provide a bit more context for those asking questions about the games I was trying. I'm very capable of debugging library and video driver problems. In this case, it seemed to be actual game-internal issu
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by amscanne 13y ago
Anecdote. I actually installed steam yesterday (for the first time, I'm not a gamer) to see the available games for Linux. I was pleasantly surprised that there were a few that looked okay. So I bought a couple. None worked -- mysterio
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by amscanne 13y ago
Interesting relevant paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bianca/fast07.pdf Table 3 suggests that there are data sets that include all components (CPU, memory, power supplies, etc.).
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by amscanne 13y ago
Yes, I know. My point was related to the terminology re: static, dynamic, shared, etc. A statically-linked library won't share any state with other users of the library. It's statically-linked into the binary. State will be shared
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by amscanne 13y ago
Interesting list! I was actually surprised that the VDSO [1] page was missing from that. For those unfamiliar... the Linux kernel selects the best system call implementation for the current system and exports a special page to user-space. I
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by amscanne 13y ago
> It's not shared state - dynamic libraries don't share any more state between processes than static libraries do. The above sentence could be misconstrued. I assume when you say static libraries, you mean standard shared libra
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by amscanne 13y ago
AFAIK there's no shared, writable section in ELF. But of course you could still easily mmap() a file to achieve the same thing (even from the shared library .init functions). I can understand that the shared section might be abused by
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by amscanne 13y ago
That's a neat solution to the security problem also. You go to the app on your phone and select the card you want. The coin will now function as that card for the next 5 minutes only. Otherwise, the coin is nothing. Now even if your wa
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by amscanne 13y ago
> I really do not like these articles that say "science says not to worry, you must be a very stupid and uneducated person to be worried about this." Any honest scientist will tell you that science does not know exactly how the
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by amscanne 13y ago
The headline is weird (and misleading). The body of the post says: "anyone we offer an engineering job gets $1,000 cash". Just because someone passes your technical interviews doesn't mean you'll extend them a job offer.
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by amscanne 13y ago
Alas, I suppose us systems programmers are a dying breed (and I'm not really that old..). At some point "developer" started meaning "web developer". I know this is the reality of 2013 but I found it a bit depressing
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Huptime: zero downtime restarts for unmodified applications(github.com)
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by amscanne 13y ago
I think my points are valid. What I mean by initial blockchain is that the initial bitcoin nodes you are talking to indeed represent the legitimate bitcoin network, and not a malicious network with an independent blockchain (valid and verif
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by amscanne 13y ago
I think you're not considering the full problem. You are describing a particular greedy algorithm wherein each individual car gets home as fast as they can. 1) Car #1 gets home as quick as they can by following closely. 2) Car #2 gets
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by amscanne 13y ago
Definitely. I only remember one thing that I didn't agree with. The narrator at one point said that the whole process doesn't require any trust. But that's not true. You still need to trust: your software implementation, the
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by amscanne 13y ago
How exactly is OpenStack a poor abstraction for what people want?
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by amscanne 13y ago
> Hi, I'm the author of the article. Awesome! Although I don't agree with the thesis, any systems article is a great article :) > Also, the container types you mention don't support independent, fine-grained choices of

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