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by bcoates 10y ago
I'm mostly on the buy side so I'm not sure how much of the dogwhistle comes through, but here's a random article about how Vox is basically a platform for brands to sell products as news: http://digiday.com/pu
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by bcoates 10y ago
The Atlantic doesn't deserve to be nearly that high; they're a Vox-tier (sub-HuffPo) advertorial garbage house monentizing out the last gasp of their dead brand's reputation. To complicate your linear model of news quality, t
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by bcoates 10y ago
Not really, because the exponential scaling with strength of password dominates the sub-linear scaling in quantity of passwords. The passwords in the dataset will neatly divide into "trivial" and "intractable". A single
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by bcoates 10y ago
All peppering does is make it trivially more difficult to check for duplicate passwords. A system with a decent amount of GPU power can try passwords against SHA-1 at billions of attempts per second.
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by bcoates 10y ago
It works the opposite way; by having a touch laptop touchers have this hilarious public shaming moment when the UI recoils away from them pawing at my display. What's particularly weird are involuntary touchers who are physically inca
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by bcoates 10y ago
In my experience the overwhelming majority of process introduced in the name of PCI compliance are not actually required by any of the documentation. Whether you can find an auditor that will let you get away with merely following the rules
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by bcoates 10y ago
The Rams have spent half their history in Southern California, them moving back isn't weird.
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by bcoates 10y ago
I'm seeing Roger Dean (of the Yes album covers) or maybe "Heavy Metal". Whatever Piaget stage prog rock is, AI has reached it.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Beware that this is almost certainly subject to Campbell's law, and trying to actually rate organizational bias by hire-to-promotion rates will result in companies gaming the metric without fixing the problem. https://en.wik
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by bcoates 10y ago
I guess I'm missing the part where I'm supposed to care that CEOs are in the long, long line of people fleecing dumb investors.
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by bcoates 10y ago
-1 from me. 'localhost' is an artifact of a model of network computing that is no longer relevant; it's a special case of the general antipattern of network-topology sensitive design. Back in the bad old days only a single us
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by bcoates 10y ago
The double negative phrasing Google and the spec uses makes it sound weirder than it is. You could phrase it as "only use tags that are needed for the document to be parsed correctly" which makes explicitly including an <html&g
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by bcoates 10y ago
That's the point. This is Obama scoring points with the most gullible parts of his base. If there was any chance of it actually mattering he wouldn't have done it. This is standard lame-duck presidential politics, making grandstan
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by bcoates 10y ago
Home audio/hifi/theater systems
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by bcoates 10y ago
This makes me wonder if they'd be better off pursuing complaints with Customs than with lawsuits. Getting a shipment of infringing hardware impounded at the border would be a lot of leverage.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Super clickbait title for yet another enterprise single-sign-on product.
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by bcoates 10y ago
In the second case, IO is not allowed to interrupt between between 'someoperation' and 'stuff' and change your program's state. In node, the first form is only needed when 'someoperation' has to perform IO
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by bcoates 10y ago
Blanket blocking of third party cookies and frames isn't necessarily a complete solution, but it breaks most of these and very little of value.
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by bcoates 10y ago
I know a lot of people prefer Lyft as a first resort but to me it has two serious problems: * Lyft doesn't let you book a ride by web or sms, which means in an emergency, I can't cadge a ride easily at a web cafe, library, laptop
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by bcoates 10y ago
They're extremely complimentary. In LA (for example) mass transit has a tendency to strand you, and traditional taxis and car services have gigantic no-go areas unless you're a VIP. I can take a bus or train anywhere at any time,
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by bcoates 10y ago
At least in the LA market, Uber's cheapest level of service appears to accept any car that can wedge in 5 adults. I've been picked up by sub-compacts and 20th century Corollas on UberX.
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by bcoates 10y ago
I'm honestly a little surprised Uber and Lyft can't manage a duopoly, considering how many miles ahead of the nearest competitors they are and how many mutual enemies they have.
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by bcoates 10y ago
I'll bite: sliding windows are a pain, if you hit them by accident they result in a weird self-DoS. Why not token bucket? It's a simpler algorithm to implement and less pain for the client. If I'm unaware of these limits and
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by bcoates 10y ago
Perl 6 regexes are really awesome and I hope the eventually become the "standard" system in other environments the way other perlisms did.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Judging from the responses, I'm not the only one that missed the subtlety on the first read. Good Job.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Crack down on the businesses mass-importing slave labor from outside the US. Unskilled labor isn't being replaced by robots and outsourcing, it's being replaced by imported labor that can be kept in line with various legal and ex
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by bcoates 10y ago
"Hear the Biography, not the ideology" This is just another way of attacking someone else's position, with the added bonus of letting you be intolerably smug while you do it. You're not communicating in good faith unless
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by bcoates 10y ago
Nobody in a position to make the decision gains anything from lowering your salary. Reducing your pay doesn't solve a problem they have, but explaining how you don't work 10 hours a day like the employees of $BADMANAGER creates a
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by bcoates 10y ago
Planned obsolescence would be changing the base on the lamp every few years so that people would have to buy new fixtures when they can't buy replacement bulbs anymore. Author is not using that term correctly. The actually interesting
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by bcoates 10y ago
While I'm sure the US isn't losing sleep over Edrogan going away there's no reason for the US to have any role in this besides the standard assurances to the coup plotters that the US won't move against them. Recently, e

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