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by borski 16y ago
Wooo. Popular Science is all I had to read when I was a kid. It's precisely the reason I got into science and engineering. Now I have something to read for the next year :)
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by borski 16y ago
Not trying to just be contradictory here, but does anyone else notice that almost all these websites look the same? I mean, CarbonMade stands out, but almost all these other websites, from a 10-foot view, look exactly the same. Is that beca
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by borski 16y ago
This is actually an incredibly important point. The Trojan Horse worked for a reason. Many seemingly beneficial pieces of code also do some very malicious things: one of the best ways to hide is in plain sight.
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Ask HN: What sorts of non-traditional recruiting practices do you use?
3 points by borski 16y ago|0 comments
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by borski 16y ago
What a great article. While I certainly don't agree with everything Deresiewicz tries to say, I will echo one bit I found to be true at least in my time at MIT (which is, incidentally, the only experience I have with an 'elite' university):
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by borski 16y ago
From the code: status = 'I browsed twitter insecurely on a public network and all I got was this lousy tweet. http://jonty.co.uk/idiocy-what'
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Irony - Minimalism in Website Design(webdesignledger.com)
1 points by borski 16y ago|0 comments
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by borski 16y ago
For all the sexiness that is the idea of automated cars, there is one fatal flaw: way more people are going to be driving drunk. Yes, eventually, maybe the tech is good enough that it won't matter what state you're in, but for now there sho
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by borski 16y ago
This is awesome. Example 7 is going to be particularly useful for something I'm working on. Thanks for the post; I was actually looking at how to do this on my own, and now I don't have to. :)
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by borski 16y ago
And, it's probably prudent to note, directed at Israel from the US.
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by borski 16y ago
That's not necessarily true. There are, I'm guessing, plenty of contracts Akamai has with the U.S. government for content delivery (the military comes to mind) that are not public knowledge and probably require some level of security cleara
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by borski 16y ago
Firstly, it's a bit ridiculous that such lengths are taken to "anonymize" the country's name. Turns out it's not that hard to speculate, especially given the JTA article posted above. What I'm really curious about is whether Country X appro
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by borski 16y ago
Mostly, I hack away at a personal project (fixing that shelf, or repotting that plant, or finally building that damn calendaring app for me and my girlfriend) or watch a bad TV show (I mean _really_ bad; guilty pleasure kind of stuff). Fair
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by borski 16y ago
Having taken this class, it is billed as a breadth-first introduction to a ton of topics in mathematics. It is not meant to go into any of them in depth, but to give you a taste of many different topics in one short semester. We were told t
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by borski 16y ago
In addition to the fact that I've always liked taking calculated risks and gaining greater reward, I also like working on things nobody else has done before. I'm the kind of guy who sees something that sucks and then promptly fixes it. Then
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by borski 18y ago
+1 for dropbox