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by ballard 13y ago
Awesome. A go pro video of going from Filbert and Lyon to Filbert and Van Ness, now that would be rock: http://goo.gl/maps/OlHc7 For those that don't live in the city, it's one of the steepest streets in the
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by ballard 13y ago
At present time: tw is back, nyt returns 500.
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by ballard 13y ago
Bitcoin currently has a tiny market cap (1.3 B USD) compared to USD (~6 T). [1] Average BTC transaction volume is around $35 M USD/day or roughly $12 B USD/year. [2] This is comparable to stock market capitalization (57.5 T) to
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by ballard 13y ago
Second link from the bottom. I looked around at the others but didn't see much support material.
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by ballard 13y ago
Non-orthogonality: Multiple features that accomplish nearly the same result in different ways. For a language maintainer, this is another piece that will have to be supported, troubleshooted and documented. The other problem for users is th
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by ballard 13y ago
I'm guilty as anyone of being a xenophile, but the analogy doesn't hold for scale reasons: The CEO of a startup is the leader and public face, so should be in command of the company's message. If this person cannot make them
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by ballard 13y ago
I cackled to myself 4.6x. Honesty is the sniper of the mind. Thanks 'pg.
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by ballard 13y ago
Good work. Great claims require great evidence. It could be a jilted lover or frmr business partner.... Who knows. Are there any public records which support this counter-blogger's claims? The other thought is: does the original blog
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by ballard 13y ago
Interesting. Perhaps if there were a term to succinctly describe a zeitgeist where participants think they are doing good but actually causing great harm in retrospect, without invoking Godwin's law. Also, any lessons or warning sign
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by ballard 13y ago
Really cool giveaways (say a Tesla) seem to work for mass appeal on the other end of the double-end of this. And the press lap it up = free marketing. :)
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by ballard 13y ago
Deep pipelines, single cycle RISC and the history of MIPS (eg Hennessy is a badass) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture#History
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by ballard 13y ago
I'm curious if much will be open-sourced like http://www.opencompute.org/
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by ballard 13y ago
Ugh, the community is barely alive and it's an unwieldy collection of non-orthogonal constructs. Generics and a few whiz-bang features doesn't paper over the sins upon sins. I see this project cutting back features or dying unde
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by ballard 13y ago
Funny you mention OTR. I started to write that and thought of this and next comment down. Why not show a no configuration technology that could be packaged/advertised a little better and be really useful instead?
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by ballard 13y ago
Dan did such a great job on the Stanford Crypto course, it's worth learning the basics to learn the important bits. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
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by ballard 13y ago
Probably the same people that think hashing a message and a secret key together is a secure MAC (sans Keccak).
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by ballard 13y ago
FWIW, I wrapped the c scrypt in go with the adaptive mem/cpu selection for parameters N, r, p. The standard go crypto scrypt library is not adaptive. https://github.com/steakknife/scrypt
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by ballard 13y ago
Strawman recapitulation of PHKs thoughts. Unfortunately, the conclusions are both wrong, and naïve at worst. Crypto that gets used has to be easy-to-use, MySQL style. I think a project like tcpcrypt is great example, in theory. Simple is
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Why inexperienced developers often side-track technical discussions(gist.github.com)
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by ballard 13y ago
Ah nice. Reminds me of ECS175, IIRC, crash course in quaternions and reimplement some of the OGL pipeline in c.
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by ballard 13y ago
http://damninteresting.com started with lots of obscure nonfiction, under-reported stories. Haven't checked it lately.
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by ballard 13y ago
When I was at a GPS shop in '99, the back lot already had Case and Cat farm and mining equipment in fully-autonomous mode. The challenge being worked on at the time was handling traffic between vehicles. The other one was that having
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by ballard 13y ago
It's interesting that business processes are often described as input, process, output. Whether a human or a machine accomplishes the process is another discussion. But what is not unique is that designing the process, it's all
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeap. Most gear over 10 years old is likely to have this problem. Power supplies, TV, cheap a/v gear. As an interesting note, I cracked open /A/D/S car amps and related gear from 1980's. Crazy engineering... No
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by ballard 13y ago
It looks like he's using text mode. IIRC text on VGA (not this) has 4 pages and supports blanking interval stuff by virtue of VGA. 80x25 is 80x9 x 25x16 = 720x400. The character maps are actually 8x16 with the right pixel duplicated
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by ballard 13y ago
From a long-term cash perspective, it is likely that, due to the market segment, saturation may be reached faster as most UHNWIs that want one will have already purchased a unit already. But of not yet customers are at least un-convinced,
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by ballard 13y ago
Clever.
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by ballard 13y ago
Sad, but true it seems. There might be a difficult way out, but I don't believe we should accept this. One insight is that the framers of the US Constitution did not necessarily anticipate the current differences of today (even though
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by ballard 13y ago
How is Mt. Gox on the legal and lobbyist front? They might be able to go hard on this with USV and others to back off the pressure and cut a deal that preserves BTC without onerous regs. (It might be expensive.)
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by ballard 13y ago
The most obvious question: Does Microsoft annually fire the X% lowest "performing" as some other shops do? But more importantly, there are much bigger problems at Microsoft than gaming performance reviews: product strategy, how pe

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