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by aylons 13y ago
I think the problem relies on getting curated updates of other people's lives through Facebook. It gives a very biased impression on how life should be.
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by aylons 13y ago
Am I the only one who feels the same in technical forums or even in Hacker News? Of course people will talk about things they know (and I come here to see these), but I can't help but have a feeling that I don't know enough, or th
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by aylons 13y ago
I think you miss the point. They are talking about people who live in the US and must sell their work primarily in English.
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by aylons 13y ago
I wonder what caused the peak of shit just before 3.0.9, and what reversed it. The spike just before 3.2.17 must be a glitch, but if it isn't, it's very intriguing.
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by aylons 13y ago
Surely more Google employees have read this from here than from the window.
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by aylons 13y ago
As a hardware and platform engineer, I can relate to the very satisfying feeling that is making a tool that enable several projects beyond what you could do by yourself. This is why a part of me dies everytime I read "full stack engine
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by aylons 13y ago
Clicked on the news, was frustrated by the kind of accident and came here to post something just like your comment - link included. Not only me - this is the top comment and there are three more comments about this. This is a good measure o
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by aylons 13y ago
Break your tympans, get a cochlear implant.
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by aylons 13y ago
They know the taste of power.
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by aylons 13y ago
Actually, now I am wondering what are the others, at least the reasonable ones. I can only think on Digital Signal Processing.
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by aylons 13y ago
For prototyping, I go with SciPy. So I can deploy at least a demonstration without the need to reprogram the algorithm in a new language. Specially useful when the algorithm is actually a tool which can be used several times, changing the p
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by aylons 13y ago
> Nonetheless the tradition allowing self-directed research continues at 3M - and this might mean using lab resources, or creating prototypes without getting approval. And get hours paid for it, even it being extra hours you wouldn'
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by aylons 13y ago
> If by 2-turn you mean majority-runoff, that still has perverse incentives against voting for other than the more preferred major party candidate, though slightly less so than does plurality. Highly less, I would say. When the two most
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by aylons 13y ago
The only way this could happen is if US voting system for presidency changed to a direct, 2-turn election. This way, someone could vote for a third option knowing that it won't help the opposing party.
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by aylons 13y ago
No, and at least on the GPL, this is by principle. Free software, as proposed by the FSF, is agnostic to these issues by design.
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by aylons 13y ago
This deeply relates with the "Do things that don't scale" essay from PG. http://paulgraham.com/ds.html As long as you can, do things that don't scale. Even if the end of this history were different, the
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by aylons 13y ago
Actually, I don't thing being a whore compares to this. Prostitution does not involve deceiving anyone and is not unethical. What Samsung asked him to do is way worse than prostitution.
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by aylons 13y ago
Yet another reason for teaching programming at high school. This is not about learning programming, but about gaining a mindset that is not easily learned unless you really need (or want) to get through it. And people who does not understa
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by aylons 13y ago
The point is that the most heinous software patents are actually patents on abstracts concepts and uses. Things like patenting "One click purchase" and "Detect phone numbers on an email". This is such an example.
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by aylons 13y ago
Do you know what mass surveillance and analysis is good at? Chilling political movements and spotting rising leaderships. I bet NSA is not blind to that. Actually, they're not blind at all.
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by aylons 13y ago
US$10/year is more realistic, and I bet is still more than what Facebook makes for a single user.
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by aylons 13y ago
No, assembly languages are not simpler, except for a few processors, mostly didactic. Programming in assembly generally requires understanding registers, how the processor works, lots of branching variation, a few other ways to loop, memor
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by aylons 13y ago
This is part of the "other allegations". I'm not discussing them. The allegation in the OP has nothing to do with this - he says he can change the results AFTER the ballots have printed the results.
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by aylons 13y ago
And perfect for manipulation and black-mailing.
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by aylons 13y ago
> It's true, our eletronic ballot prints the report but there is no way to check if the sum of digital records are the same as the printed reports Yes, there is: you can check the electronic records online and compare it against the
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by aylons 13y ago
You may go to the TSE website and check every ballot's vote count and check against the printed voting report. Voters and political parties have access to the printed copies of each ballot's report, printed before the ballot leave
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by aylons 13y ago
His allegations are easily disprovable or provable. Every eletronic ballot in Brazil prints the vote count for each candidate before leaving the voting room. Several copies of this report are printed, every citizen may ask for each and poli
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by aylons 13y ago
I am so glad to read something about hardware startups here. As a engaged hardware engineer who aims to build my own company soon, I miss reading more about hardware startups. Funny thing, I read the whole OP thinking about how all these id
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by aylons 13y ago
> Ordinary Citizens have always been the driving force behind every major change in this country Sooo cute.
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by aylons 13y ago
Well, Tannenbaum actually talks about the development of Linux and how it relates to Minix on his other book on operating systems. Linus disagreed on the microkernel stuff of Minix and decided to build its on. So, he surely likes the Tannen

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