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by bandy 14y ago
We haven't lost the ambition, it's just that the funding processes have become highly politicized, and once we beat the Godless Communists to the Moon, the politicians felt that we didn't need to do any more research.
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by bandy 14y ago
>I hope any HR people who have had your resume cross their desk are sweating at the thought of age discrimination scrutiny. Did Glinda flit in from Oz and wave her magic wand, correcting the past two generations' worth of age discrimina
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by bandy 14y ago
And a lot of systems (i.e. linux) will reject it as a "dictionary word", even if such words don't appear in its dictionary. Such a password in an obscure foreign language isn't going to be cracked until someone starts doing a full-space se
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by bandy 14y ago
There's no Job Security in that! You need to rearchitect the entire system to add in protocol support for the flavor-of-the-moment each time it changes.
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by bandy 14y ago
How stormpath could make a more legible website: avoid text of color on a similarly-colored background, especially with a single-pel wide font. (In this case, blueish text on a blue background)
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by bandy 14y ago
No, it's because the author didn't have a domain lying around to point at it. This is Amazon's name of the website.
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by bandy 14y ago
You're speaking in the theoretical sense, as you looked at the page source and noticed that the password is hashed with SHA1 locally before being compared against the database, right?
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by bandy 14y ago
• Also, don't buy airplanes or spaceships manufactured by corporations with Daedalus in its name.
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by bandy 14y ago
The Amazon reviews of Keen's book (linked from the article) are priceless.
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by bandy 14y ago
I'm sure many people could, starting with the Deaf. I'd certainly enjoy a break from the incessant yammering of humanity.
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by bandy 14y ago
Google's products seem very buggy, and they don't seem to give much of a crap about fixing them. That's the essence of Silicon Valley right there. The Cool Kids don't fix bugs. They don't test their code much beyond "Well, i
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by bandy 14y ago
Perl is a shining example of OP's complaint - it is the kitchen sink. Sure, it allows you to do a ton of things, most all of which duplicate standard UNIX™ commands (those you'd find in PWB or v7), wrapped in a syntax that makes APL progra
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by bandy 14y ago
No change of clothes??? No sleeping bag/pillow? No raincoat???
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by bandy 14y ago
Not swapping and getting rid of Linux's ridiculously noisy (for a personal laptop) and duplicative logs and perhaps mounting with "-o noatime" will help a lot as well. Additionally, the SDD in your 901 isn't just a hunk of flash - it contai
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by bandy 14y ago
A car that cheap here isn't expected to last long, either, but some of them do. You might have a door wired shut, the windows may not work, the air conditioning, if the car had any to begin with, doesn't work, and it might be loud. But it
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by bandy 14y ago
And drove the price of used cars through the roof. A car that might have run you $100 twenty years ago ("drive it until it's dead") will now run you a cool kilobuck - granted, the high value of scrap (a Geo Metro is worth about $300 locall
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by bandy 14y ago
The BPA problem (and hence the Nalgene problem) was discovered because it was interrupting people's research on other things due to BPA leeching out of polycarbonate lab ware, causing differences between cell cultures grown in the plastic a
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by bandy 14y ago
When I got my T61 after three plus years of using netbooks, my fingers were very happy to use that keyboard. After I got the ultranav set up, disabling the damn trackpad, I was a very happy camper, indeed. Years had passed since I'd retir
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by bandy 14y ago
The tap water in Silicon Valley is generally terrible - a legacy of [a] not enough water in California and [b] the industrial legacy of turning "The Valley of the Heart's Delight" into a manufacturing center.
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by bandy 14y ago
Looks as if one of the three versions on this disc would likely be the "Ise a Muggin (Magical Musical Numbers Game)": http://www.amazon.com/Complete-1936-37-Sessions-Stuff-Smith/... The other Stuff Smith version of "Ise a Muggin" has resu
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by bandy 14y ago
It's a newer version of the old "Ise A Muggin" magical musical numbers song, originally recorded in the 30s by Stuff Smith with 7 and 10. Here's a more recent recording ('60) using 4 and 10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4AGv6HWLs
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by bandy 14y ago
As you add people, you'll find that you will also need to deal with some vegans (which means some form of vegetable protein at every meal) and a less well-defined set of preferences ("Joe can't stand Indian food - he just doesn't like it.",
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by bandy 14y ago
But what's the cost to the company when everyone disappears "at lunch" to eat their mid-day meal (whenver "lunchtime" is - Fred gets up early, so he eats at 11, Constance chows down at noon, and Paul, who arrives at work by 12:30pm every da
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by bandy 14y ago
I am no longer a user - mostly because I'm not paranoid enough (everything up on dropbox is basically public info) and I have old slow computers that take forever to run the python programs (circa '09/'10) that do the encryption. But yes,
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by bandy 14y ago
That would be SpiderOak. They don't hold your keys - they only hold blocks of data. Everything's encrypted and decrypted on your local box. The exception to that would be data you've marked as sharable.
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by bandy 14y ago
I got it to install late Saturday or early Sunday. The data it provided was unsurprising.
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by bandy 15y ago
Mike Meyers taught us that in '97: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/quotes?qt=qt0367876
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by bandy 15y ago
Across a couple of platforms, too.
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by bandy 15y ago
It's nearly a rudimentary FORTH.
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by bandy 15y ago
Ah, another rehash the "AI springs forth from complexity" argument. This is entertainingly laid out in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Colossus: The Forbin Project", "The Adolescence of P1", "Man Plus", etc.

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