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by brianclements 11y ago
I think this was completely lost on all my math teachers growing up. It wasn't until I started teaching myself programming and exploring the patterns of the universe and reading philosophy and science and even too from being a musician
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by brianclements 11y ago
an update on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9485470
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The Education Startup Backed by Mark Zuckerberg – NBC News(nbcnews.com)
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by brianclements 11y ago
The built-in password generation tool looks awesome. I'm curious though for people that do: why do you use tools like this for credit cards and other non-password information? Seems to me that all that information already lives in plac
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by brianclements 11y ago
Unlike previous guidance, this doesn't focus on trying to get ever more entropy into passwords. Instead we're encouraging system designers and security architects to think more about where they're requiring passwords, and wh
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by brianclements 11y ago
WhatsApp does this too. I find it very inconvenient since I have many devices. I think it's not for security as much as theft/identity. It's a lazy way of forcing what is essentially 2fa on a user. Just give me real 2fa and l
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by brianclements 11y ago
what a cluster fork
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Geophony, Biophony, and Anthrophony(eoearth.org)
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by brianclements 11y ago
Technology is superb at remembering everything and helping us sort and cherry pick and focus on whatever segment of data we like. And an unintended consequence is things like this where it becomes even easier for us to segregate ourselves,
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SAT Scores Fall to Lowest Level in 10 Years(entrepreneur.com)
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by brianclements 11y ago
“My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.” -- Oliver Sacks Oliver now gets to take all the elements he borrowed, and that he loved so dearly, and return them back to the stars
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by brianclements 11y ago
>100+ % debt:GDP ration is not healthy By itself, there's no reason it's unhealthy if it's spent on solid investments in the country. After WWII when it was last way above 100%, the composition of that spending had a muc
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by brianclements 11y ago
"As robots fulfill these menial tasks, our society becomes more productive, and we are able to meet more needs than our current system. And as more of the basic needs of society are met, more will begin to move up Maslow’s Hierarchy of
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by brianclements 11y ago
I think this is a classic problem with alternate music platforms in the Internet age. With all the services based around and using the prevailing media industry (Pandora, Spotify, iTunes), which all happen to be "good enough" to t
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by brianclements 11y ago
A nice and relevant anecdote I recently discovered. When talking about the invention of the periodic table, everyone always focuses on the sudden dream that Dmitri Mendeleev had that revealed to him the table in it's full form, but the
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by brianclements 11y ago
I've thought a lot about this. It's a very interesting problem to construct a musical Turing test because music is such a relative and personal thing. The "best" works of all time are meaningless to someone with no relat
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by brianclements 11y ago
In my interpretation of meditation, "ignoring" seems to take up too much energy; it's too combative. I've seen it described as acknowledging, and then letting go the thoughts. You acknowledge that they pop up, they they
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by brianclements 11y ago
AKA "back burner" AKA "sleep on it". I've grown more and more to appreciate and try to use this modus of thought as much as possible. For me, it's cycles of active research and "cramming" everything I
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by brianclements 11y ago
80 columns of text is wonderful in my dual window vim with NERDTree on the left. All my screens are some version of the 1680x1050 aspect ratio and it fits perfectly. I'm always using 2 windows for simultaneous code/test writing, d
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by brianclements 11y ago
It's interesting, for the examples given in the article, research like this is crucial from a software perspective. If this does succeed though, I can only imagine it will make cracking all forms of DRM more prominent. And there is my
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Death to DRM, we'll kill it in a decade, chants EFF(theregister.co.uk)
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Oracle waves fist, claims even new Android devices infringe its Java copyrights(theregister.co.uk)
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by brianclements 11y ago
As a long time *nix hobbyist user, I can't help but notice how containerization is starting to essentially provide microkernel-like os design patterns using the more mature Linux kernel instead of starting from scratch. I'm curiou
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by brianclements 11y ago
probably naive, but still honest idea here: what about a nationwide system to capture rain/snow and pipe it around where needed? A smart grid but for water. Rain/snow capture on every rooftop perhaps? It can be pumped into natural
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by brianclements 11y ago
anyone have any insight into the perl anomaly in q3 of 2012? What was released then? Or, perhaps, what perl program really sucked at around that time?
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I think (hope) fortune will favor more modular approaches to these types of suites/programs instead of huge monoliths. Since projects of this type, especially ones that are OSS, are so very new and few in number, it will take some time
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by brianclements 12y ago
IMO, Android 4 was the pinnacle of stability and usability in their lineage. I had a Moto X and 2012 Nexus 7. The upgrade to Android 5 on my Nexus was saddening; it was different for the sake of being different, and it fixed problems that d