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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Indeed. Tynt is an absolute abomination going against both basic clipboard usability and Web content mores. I will forevermore pronounce Tynt as taint.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Old/Repost, Flagged: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1174181 Additionally, it's nothing "new".
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
"You need a random source close to 60hz" Correct. I specified a Zener diode source coupled to an oscillator. This would provide the signal noise filtering and phase-locked-loop (e.g. the necessary +- ppm signal power spectral distribution
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Seems like a suitable countermeasure would be a localized source of randomized ENF (say a Zener diode in cascade overload in a low-freq oscillator), but the coupling would be sufficiently different as to highlight the deliberate attempt at
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
There was some really forward-thinking work on Fractal Image Compression in the late 90s, but largely due to time-efficiency, plummeting storage costs, and patent encumbrances, it's never caught on.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
FWIW, certain legal documentation mandates the role of an "executive officer" or "president", but clearly those are mere formalities in companies of this size. I've always preferred to keep titles quite "loose" (e.g. "Member of Technical St
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Silver lining. Until today I had not ever heard about 6pm.com. Due solely to their mistake, this post, and their honor, I'll be sure and check them out for future purchases.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Depending on the state and whether or not the inquiry comes from local or federal officials, you MAY be required to give your full legal name and full address of your legal primary residence. That's it. Ever since the Hiibel ruling http
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
My route standard response to law enforcement queries: "I'm sorry Mr./Mrs/Sargent/Lt X, but I don't talk to police on material matters without counsel present."
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
No surprises here. Nothing serves as a better poster child for that "uncanny valley" just outside Silicon Valley than San Jose. San Jose is literally the end-of-the-line on Caltran and has no single "cultural" or "business" identity of its
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
How much of the work is Hamilton Smith's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_O._Smith compared to Mr. Venter's? I know he's not the type, but I'm really surprised that at least his name isn't mentioned more often.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I think "make everyone look bad" advice only applies in a specific set of job contexts where team members are essentially interchangeable, rewards are largely zero-sum, and there is a higher value placed on throughput and compliance than cr
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
So true. When someone new moved into the neighborhood, my Dad used to always go over and attempt to borrow a simple hand tool. Keep in mind, (at that point) my father had been a mechanic in the Marines, a butcher and chef for over 20 years,
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Overt initial intimidation is usually an attempt to mask a weakness or fundamental flaw ( Thanks Dad! ). This lesson has applied equally well to middle-school brawls, sports competitions, college professors, and litigious organizations.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Does anyone who writes words (or code) for a living know anyone who would ever consider using such a tool in the first place?! Please. The best writing tools are a good text editor, a simple meta/mark-up ontology, and a focused min
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I can't stress this enough. DO NOT rely upon emails at this point. The company can simply ignore them and nobody is going to fork over the money for a full discovery search of those server logs. Think again about how long this has been
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Um, I HIGHLY recommend that you DO NOT do this. Technically, you are mis-representing yourself as an "officer of the court" (e.g. a firm which employs people who have passed the Virginia bar). It's a crime similar to impersonating a la
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
This article's analysis is dross. This is purely a selection bias issue. ANY significantly smaller video site with similarly-sized content will have a higher engagement metric. This is no different than "deep" cable television channels, or
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
FWIW, that sort of phone behavior can be construed as "harassment". Additionally, VA is a "one-party" wiretap state so the company could very easily record the content and frequency of these phone calls and have your number blocked, and/or
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
The ethics are clearly in your favor, but it's highly unlikely that formal legal actions will result in any net dollar gains on your part. I'll explain. Assuming you've completely exhausted casual diplomatic channels, I would firstly send
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Here, here. Cable management is essential for a data center where multiple sets of maintenance hands, multiple owners, SLAs, fire codes, and cooling/venting needs demand organized layouts. Cable management is also important for tight spaces
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I love how this article is 7 years old and it keeps getting reposed time & again. Classic stuff.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Just one example: http://tinyurl.com/2739npb It's not that sabermetrics itself is without value, but the principles put forth in MoneyBall for "success" with sabermetrics in baseball have not held water for other teams in other markets. E
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
True. In financial markets, even small inefficiencies and impedance mis-matches can be exploited due to liquidity, fine-granularity, high transaction volumes, and uniform standards of measurement. The same principles don't down-scale to t
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
It's a kiss-simple, cheap, innocuous (until recently) timing, team coordination, and secondary intelligence gathering mechanism (via time-indexed observation logs of potential target activities). These models are probably available for cash
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Actually, it is. Mr. Lewis can spin a fine yarn, but as with much of his first major work (Liar's Poker), a good deal of detail, and outright truth, is sacrificed to back-up the original thesis and offer a more compelling reader narrative.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
No. You misunderstood my verbiage. Rather, that Adobe has had more than decade to refine their algorithms and data structures so asking comparable performance from, ahem, far less than a decade's worth of engineering development is rather
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Yes, it is. Any kind of non-hardware-accelerated video playback will be CPU-intensive. The MAIN point is that Flash is MORE CPU-intensive for a given frame-rate, color depth, and resolution than comparable codecs. Comparing open, fresh-of
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I also recommend his 2003 UCSB lecture paper: [PDF] http://www.tilsonfunds.com/MungerUCSBspeech.pdf
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Nothing. It was just recently announced that the full-body scanner machines will shortly be mandatory for all U.K. international arrivals.

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