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by austinz 13y ago
It actually makes sense, I think. The bottleneck (bar, qualifying exam) keeps the supply artificially low, so those who pass and qualify are always in high demand (low unemployment). Those who don't pass either try again, or after a wh
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What a strange world the author lives in where someone's free labor of love (which, incidentally, looks and plays very differently than Threes, and was originally released on a whole different platform) is somehow more of a moral offen
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I was surprised and gratified to see that pressing 'up' in the terminal window did exactly what I was hoping it would do.
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Stealing technological secrets is older than you might think. China lost its monopoly on silk production and trade with the West after Byzantine monks smuggled silkworms out of China using their canes, defying an imperial edict forbidding s
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It's realpolitik: doing and saying anything and everything to get an advantage over a perceived opponent or rival. This includes intentionally making misleading statements and convincing people you care about moral standards when you d
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A Growth Spurt at 1,500 Years Old(nytimes.com)
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This is awesome, and makes me want to try building something similar. On a related note, can anyone recommend a good source for learning about PCB design?
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It's a profoundly non-technical problem, I think. People who care about content creators get screwed over by DRM and complain loudly. People who don't care about content creators take advantage of the lack of DRM to pirate stuff t
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If you change https to http, it works for me (and I'm not logged in or privileged in any way).
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If you want to read more about shellcode/C vulnerabilities you can check out the Phrack and other links at Stanford's CS155 web site: https://courseware.stanford.edu/pg/assignments/view/280907/b
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Lasers in eyes are more than just a distraction. Certainly not a 'non-violent crime'. c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca_laser_in...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
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This looks like something a lot of startups could benefit from, even those who can't be arsed to care one whit about security otherwise. By the way, the alt-text for the portraits on your "About" page needs to be fixed.
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A couple of links to support your hypothesis: - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/business/global/high-speed... - http://www.economist.com/news/china/21592628-china-opens-b
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by austinz 13y ago
Wait, just to be clear - so anyone who downloads this app can trivially retrieve the username and password for all 2000+ users of the app? Did I misunderstand the article?
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Interesting. From the linked article, it looks like coordinate data was transmitted as well as telemetry. Given the high speed of airliners, ocean currents, and travel time for rescue ships, even minute-by-minute transmissions wouldn't
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by austinz 13y ago
Certainly, at least for those planes fitted with satellite Internet uplinks, a status report every two minutes or so would be technically feasible and not terribly expensive?
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by austinz 13y ago
Interesting. A weighed average between at least two values in an array? Makes sense in the context of computer graphics. Thanks for the correction.
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by austinz 13y ago
I know the author despises types, but sometimes types provide valuable semantic information . Like, indexing into an array using a float is completely unnecessary and meaningless.
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> The BASIC language eliminated much of the complexity of FORTRAN by having a single number type. This simplified the programming model and avoided a class of errors caused by selection of the wrong type. The efficiencies that could have
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by austinz 13y ago
Large, private credit bureaux hold a significant amount of my most intimate personal financial data, much of which is shared freely with banks but grudgingly (at best) with me. Credit card numbers and other identifying data are constantly b
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by austinz 13y ago
Many families of uCs (e.g. MSP430) are extremely power-efficient. Power consumption is dominated by the radio; the fewer packets the better.
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It's also good to mention that what you think is relevant and irrelevant as a college student may not match up which what actually turns out to be relevant as a working professional or researcher. I learned this the hard way.
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DOM element intensifies! Are there any use cases where this might be practical? iOS has the app icons quaking in fear when you tap-hold on them, although the effect is somewhat different...
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MtGox: the apotheosis of Not-Invented-Here. EDIT: NIH is pretty bad overall, but it's especially terrible in crypto, where 'useless' and 'useful' take on something akin to binary values, rather than a continuum.
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Of course it doesn't. I'm firmly in the native camp, and I honestly didn't find this article convincing. I'll believe that mobile webapps are as performant, secure, and capable as native apps when I see it happening on a
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I'm really not sure I want to see the day that Javascript webapps have the same level of access to system resources (camera, microphone, address book) that native apps now have. Even if the OS asks the user for permissions. Especially
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Anyone remember 2007? Apple's 'web apps are good enough' stance and everyone clamoring for a native SDK? Seems like things have gone full circle.
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Since fields like this have so much speculation and so little hard data to go off of, they have to resort to historical analogies for much of their analysis. Who really knows if China's South Sea strategy is the result of a concerted
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by austinz 13y ago
I read like 8 paragraphs of blather before I got to the first bit of useful technical information, a confirmation that they were using Erlang.

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