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"Congressional oversight of the NSA is a joke. I should know, I'm in Congress"(theguardian.com)
5 points by blackhole 13y ago|0 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
These posts have been around ever since I started to learn how to program. When I was a wee little lad, everyone told me that C++ was going the way of the dinosaur and no one would ever need to learn it. That was 10 years ago. It still hasn
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The Microsoft Word Problem(blackhole12.blogspot.com)
2 points by blackhole 13y ago|0 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
The problem with moon hoax theories is that, in the modern day, we're accustomed to extremely realistic CGI. What we don't realize is that in 1969, it would have been harder to FAKE the moon landings than to actually land on th
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by blackhole 13y ago
Sarcasm. You're missing it.
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by blackhole 13y ago
"Not More Goddamn Cat Photos"
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by blackhole 13y ago
You can't control other drunk drivers, either.
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Security Analysis of TrueCrypt 7.0a(privacy-cd.org)
2 points by blackhole 13y ago|0 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
I think a lot of people would love to cancel their citizenship with the USA, save for the small problem of not having citizenship anywhere else.
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by blackhole 13y ago
The universe Apple occupies, of course.
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by blackhole 13y ago
Why yes, I'd love to drive over the Atlantic ocean.
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You Can't Fix People(blackhole12.blogspot.com)
25 points by blackhole 13y ago|30 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
This is a fantastic idea that would be really cool if it worked... but is there a cryptographer in the room that can verify that it actually does work? There's a dime-a-dozen "secure" communication methods that aren't
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by blackhole 13y ago
I feel like too many people get sucked into the idea of furthering their career, to the point that they forget to further their own life. What is the point of existence if we never get around to experiencing it? "It's not the thi
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by blackhole 13y ago
I may know javascript, but my god I wish I didn't have to.
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Defective Heat Sinks Causing Garbage Gaming(randomascii.wordpress.com)
84 points by blackhole 13y ago|23 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
No, I found it on twitter, but it wasn't tweeted by the author either. In fact that website appears to be the only place on the internet the author exists, except for his github profile: https://github.com/stephomi
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SculptGL - A WebGL sculpting app(stephaneginier.com)
166 points by blackhole 13y ago|37 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
What are you talking about? There are lots of problems I'd like to work on. I even asked a professor about them. The problem is that none of the problems I wanted to work on were problems the graduate students were working on, so there
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by blackhole 13y ago
The CSE program does not use its funding very well. This is not something I claim, it's something a CSE professor told me when I pointed out various shortcomings, and he agreed with many of them but was not in a position to do anything
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by blackhole 13y ago
That is exactly the point that I raised in the essay. Education is a really hard problem . I don't claim I know how to fix it, but while everyone seems to agree that everything is broken, we are heading in the wrong direction.
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by blackhole 13y ago
Several people seem to get this theme out of the essay, which I think is partially due to the sarcastic tone I take in certain sections. I try to make it blatantly obvious that I disapprove of the system in general and think it's a dis
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What I Learned In College(blackhole12.blogspot.com)
118 points by blackhole 13y ago|74 comments
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GCC 4.8.1 released, C++11 feature complete(isocpp.org)
127 points by blackhole 13y ago|20 comments
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Julian Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing Swedish extradition(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by blackhole 13y ago|0 comments
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by blackhole 13y ago
If you have an equation in your program that can be effectively simplified, you should have simplified it before writing in the first place. The thing about equations that can be simplified is that 99.9% of the time, they can be simplified
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by blackhole 13y ago
Hey, if he wants to make a symbolic algebra system, that's great! But don't go advertising it as a replacement for floating point, because it isn't.
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by blackhole 13y ago
Wrong, that isn't what this is. This isn't a nested radical to infinite terms , it's a nested radical to n terms. Thus, it cannot be simplified.
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by blackhole 13y ago
This is a terrible idea. This is a catastrophically bad idea. How do you compare numbers? How do you figure out that 2.2 is less than exp(65)? You have to represent these as numbers at some point in the calculation, and in order to do that,
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Contact (Why we should ask ourselves, What If?)(blackhole12.blogspot.com)
1 points by blackhole 13y ago|0 comments

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