brianpgordon

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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   You've been playing with it? How did you get your hands on a copy?
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   You may change your mind after reading some of his blog posts: http://blog.magicaltux.net/2008/11/30/eve-online-pathfinder/ http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   Not sure if serious... this reads like one of those over-the-top joke comments bragging tongue-in-cheek about how 10x the author is. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that: 1. Ditching TCP for a social network app is insane. 2. Byp
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   Also, most critically, JSON doesn't allow circular references.
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   > "You don't have to work a lot of hours, but some people choose to." You want to impress your boss. Hell, you want to impress yourself. So you go die-hard to meet an impossible deadline. You delivered the project on time,
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   > Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thi
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   Satoru Iwata has said: > Our primary focus is to think about and actually carry out something which other company's hardware can never realize. We are trying to provide consumers gaming experiences that can only be available on Nint
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   I pay taxes. I'm blown away by your assertion that I'm to any extent at blame for this crime. Some people abuse a man and I'm at fault because I don't write to my senator?
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   by brianpgordon 13y ago

   All right, this calls for an interleaved response. > you can't judge based on how much time I spent at university I was judging based on your age, assuming you're an average-aged student. You're right that if you were a ca
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Creating unsustainable businesses that get acquired is a sustainable business.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    > C (UNIX), C++, C#.NET, Objective-C (Cocoa-touch), Java (J2EE, Android), Python, PHP, OCaml, JavaScript (Node.js), SQL, HTML/CSS, VBA, Shell scripting, MySQL, MongoDB. And I am currently learning Go! OK, there's literally no w
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    If it SOUNDS too good to be true, it probably is?
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Cambodia? It's well-known that if you want something without having to see a doctor, you can just drive over the border to Mexico and pick it up from a pharmacy. Obviously you can't get serious narcotics but you can certainly get
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Nope. I bought (fish) amoxicillin for my first-aid kit a couple of weeks ago. It says USP pharmaceutical grade, and the pills look exactly like Google image search says human amoxicillin looks. I suppose since it's unregulated they cou
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    If they were only blocking based on IP address then students wouldn't be able to ping the server. So they're blocking on at least the TCP layer. ... not that that constitutes DPI either.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Here's a Google spreadsheet for those of us without an xlsx viewer installed: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ApVHgXTTTuMfdEF...
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    One of them serving legitimate files, even! (Only on waning gibbous moons.)
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    So apparently I have a natural pressure gauge that makes me click my HN bookmark to let off some steam after some minutes of intense concentration. I found it incredibly bizarre that being unable to access the site prevented me from letting
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    I'm amazed by how long and exhaustively-researched this article is. And it's all on one big page with only a few ads at the top. How can this possibly be profitable for the author?
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    "Discrete mathematics" is easier than "Advanced calculus" (presumably real analysis) so I'm not sure why it's at the end of the list.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    There's also the perhaps more-cynical Dilbert principle: > In many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnu
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Eclipse ? Surely you mean IntelliJ IDEA.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Where does fusion occur then? At the surface of the neutron star? Or is the star supported by the kinetic energy of matter falling onto the inner star?
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    You don't even need to pay for S3. http://pages.github.com/
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    The author of netcat must be a trillionaire .
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    What is a receding keyboard? Your comment is like /** * Recedes keyboard. */ void recedeKeyboard() {
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    Well for your case you might as well have done your backend in Node since you didn't know Python and you had to learn JavaScript for the frontend anyway.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    It's pretty scary how much Google controls the internet. I wish Bing or Yahoo or DuckDuckGo weren't so much worse than Google, or I'd happily use them.
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    If you're interested in seeing some of these "killer questions" there's a book of them called "You failed your math test, Comrade Einstein." Coral CDN link (since the author's file server seems ridiculousl
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    by brianpgordon 13y ago

    TLS provides forward secrecy though, so leaking the SSL keys doesn't mean anything for those exabytes of recorded transactions the NSA is presumably saving for a rainy day. If the secret keys for the default Dual_EC_DRBG configuration