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14491.
by api 12y ago
The instant I walk into a company and see people working on mobile devices instead of PCs, I will change my mind. I don't mean trivial bits of work like note taking... I mean real work: CAD, coding, devops, serious spreadsheet/acc
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by api 12y ago
"The iPad has more than enough resources to be a fully functional computing device." The thing preventing mobile "convergence" is not hardware capability and never really has been except at the high end. Mobile won'
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by api 12y ago
Makes me think of a quote from another recent HN front page article on Docker vs. CoreOS and the idea of "simplicity" in the enterprise. I think it's relevant here. "You can't avoid complexity by pretending it doesn
14494.
by api 12y ago
I've never liked the idea of files "belonging" to apps, for numerous reasons. It strikes me as an irreversible institutionalization of the "WIMP" model -- "weakly interacting massive programs." It also mak
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by api 12y ago
If it was flagrant and damages are obviously there I could see it prosecuted as grand theft or trafficking in stolen goods. Could also fall under computer fraud and abuse act or wire fraud statutes depending on what he did. But IANAL. It&#x
14496.
by api 12y ago
Sudden, catastrophic leak of an operational QC would definitely be a cryptogeddon scenario.
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by api 12y ago
I trust Joe Random Coder enough to install new software on my machine all the time. But if the U.S. government wanted me to install an app, I'd really be suspicious of that. Consider what that says. I don't think my attitude is at
14498.
by api 12y ago
I personally feel like all the causes you list are secondary. Primary, at least for me, is abuse of trust and power. People seem to earn trust in our culture only so that it can be "spent" later in abusive ways. Our relationship w
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by api 12y ago
I thought that was obvious. The greatest utility of these programs though isn't in suppressing dissent or busting crime or terrorism. It's in routing pork to government IT contractors.
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by api 12y ago
I feel like there's been a general collapse in trust in at least America in the past 40 years. Short-term behavior is a logical individual response to that. I smell game theory.
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by api 12y ago
That's really the problem I foresee. It'd be extremely hard to pull off without a bank run or a speculative frenzy. Financial markets are unbelievably skittish about uncertainties.
14502.
by api 12y ago
I read it. Bitcoin also relies on elliptic curve crypto, which will fall to QC. Without a replacement, the entire concept of cryptocurrency as we currently know it falls.
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by api 12y ago
If PKC turned out to be almost impossible post-QC, boy would that ever change the world of computing, networking, pretty much everything. It would mean everything would have to run on pre-shared secret keys. It would also be the absolute en
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by api 12y ago
Ahh yes... mobile first... because Mobile Is The Future(tm) this week. Last week Cloud Was The Future(tm). Tomorrow it'll be Internet of Things and mobile will be old and busted and nobody will ever pitch a mobile startup again.
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by api 12y ago
"Who decided that a centralized entity could be the authority for these things, anyway, instead of a Web of Trust?" Usability. Try explaining to a non-technical person how to bootstrap their trust system. Things either "just
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Living Bits: Information and the Origin of Life(pbs.org)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
That is the standard conservative incrementalist position about systems. I think it's a denial of the efficacy of conceptual thought. It often stems from an analogy to biological evolution, but evolution is a geological-timescale proce
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Ask HN: Best places to submit PR and news releases?
1 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
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by api 12y ago
Sure, but those old mainframe OSes are utterly archaic in every other way.
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by api 12y ago
That's why reusability is so important.
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by api 12y ago
I haven't looked deeply enough into Plan 9, but from what I have seen it's a step in the right direction. A major weakness of all existing OSes in this area is the network subsystem. The outdated "privileged ports" restr
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by api 12y ago
Outside of build and test systems and extreme legacy software support, virtualization itself is in the category of things that should not exist. I should be able to put up a server and sell accounts on that server to the general public. Peo
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by api 12y ago
... and the number of people who can write that kind of code -- low-level driver code -- is pretty small.
14514.
by api 12y ago
Luckily we have better computers than in the Apollo era. The capsule can pretty much fly itself.
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by api 12y ago
Drudge is one, but there are thousands.
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by api 12y ago
There's a whole industry on the net of pimping "fear porn." Sometimes the fears are even complete fiction, like Fukushima causing a cancer epidemic on the US West Coast. These sites are click farms, and some of them make a lo
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by api 12y ago
Why do all these boards have 100mbps Ethernet?
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by api 12y ago
I've wondered for a while about the idea of treaties to limit deception/propaganda and surveillance; "strategic intelligence limitation" treaties. We were able to do this successfully with nuclear weapons during the cold
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Psychopathy predicts dominance in conversational settings between strangers(plosone.org)
8 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
While I'm generally pro-solar, more workers is not an inherent good with an energy source... quite the opposite. The idea of energy is to require as few workers as possible so that human attention and labor can be spent on other thin

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