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by burke 13y ago
The one thing that's bothering me about this is their choice to use sapphire crystal for the screen. Sapphire is definitely more scratch-resistant than the Gorilla Glass used by iPhones and high end Andriod phones, but my understanding
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by burke 13y ago
Heat dissipation and manufacturing concerns aside, a 3D stacked architecture seems to be the most obvious thing to increase clock speeds. Light can only travel about 30cm every nanosecond: components clocked at 4GHz can't be more than
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by burke 13y ago
At a really rough approximation, this is how an SSL pageview works: 1. DNS query in plaintext for en.wikipedia.org. 2. Open a connection to the resultant IP (the fact that you connect to this IP is trace-able). 3. Do an SSL handshake. 4. HT
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by burke 13y ago
> ...compulsion to shove things into neat little cubbies... > So how do you classify life? I believe that's the point.
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by burke 13y ago
Does it strike anyone else as unfortunate that every new social news site has to be its own completely closed ecosystem? What happened to the age of the protocol?
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by burke 13y ago
Not the same Ryan Davis as https://github.com/zenspider .
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by burke 13y ago
One alternative would be a graphical installer that asks for your root password. It would very likely also be served over unencrypted HTTP. This happens all the time, and HN never calls anyone out on it. How is this different, other than a
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by burke 13y ago
The lisp part isn't necessary (or necessarily helpful), but it's certainly an improvement on embedding C-as-a-string in more C. ...though I am concerned that abstracting this stuff too much makes it less obvious how to optimize fo
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by burke 13y ago
s/akin to// It is torture. Human beings are not meant to be deprived of interaction that much, and you can be sure he's not in solitary because he's a danger to other inmates.
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by burke 13y ago
SOPA and ROPA.
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by burke 13y ago
This is fairly obvious. From the NSA's perspective, people that act like people who have something to hide are more likely to be hiding something. I'd be surprised if they didn't take it into account.
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by burke 13y ago
True, but it does essentially mean that what the public considers to be "strong" crypto is not secretly broken by the NSA in such a way that they can decrypt communications in realtime or en masse.
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by burke 13y ago
It's a fine line, trading freedom for security. Two hypotheticals: 1) NSA monitoring known Al Qaeda operatives while being required to publish public reports detailing the scope of the surveillance (after a predetermined period of secr
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by burke 13y ago
Related: http://gist.io/
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by burke 13y ago
Negative (or minus) ten degrees celsius.
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by burke 13y ago
Everyone loves to dress it up with "facts" and "data", but I have always been and will continue to be confident in viewing these sorts of posts as barely-glorified change aversion. Three weeks from now everyone will prefer this iteration.
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by burke 13y ago
It's just a faux-poor-translation because it sounds amusing, I think. It's a playful book with a playful title.
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by burke 13y ago
We don't deal with that case adequately right now. It's up to chance which one you get charged. For customers (ie. one-time sales), we unfortunately lump this into "get it close enough and the taxation bodies won't really care". For merchan
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by burke 13y ago
We pay an external service provider for the raw zipcode-to-rate mappings. Their company exists solely to manually aggregate all these rates in a mostly-machine-friendly format. We developed all the peripheral logic through skimming document
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by burke 13y ago
Hah. Not quite. Fixed the unclear wording ;)
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by burke 13y ago
Interesting. I haven't actually read the bill yet. I assumed it wouldn't make it this far. I guess if it actually results in tax code simplification, that's a decent silver lining.
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by burke 13y ago
I wrote Shopify's current US Sales Tax calculation system. Here are a few interesting tidbits: * There are over 23,000 distinct tax rates in the US. Most of these can be nicely pigeonholed as 'State', 'County', or 'Municipal'. Some can not.
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by burke 14y ago
Skimming our github: * Service for taking snapshots of websites (in production) * noeqd (not our code, but it is in production, and written in Go) * Webhook delivery service (production later this month) * Stats server for storefront statis
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by burke 14y ago
Thanks! Updated.
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by burke 14y ago
My theme probably doesn't work super-well on mobile. Sorry in advance for that. I haven't put much effort into theming this blog yet.
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Character Encodings 101(burke.libbey.me)
3 points by burke 14y ago|3 comments
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by burke 14y ago
No mention of mmap in the ack release notes, so I'd imagine ag is still much faster.
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by burke 14y ago
Winnipeg, Canada. Clear skies, but the aurora wasn't very bright. Just barely made it out.
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by burke 14y ago
Agree. I slogged my way through it a while ago, and I wish I had this Go translation at that time to help me along. It is much clearer to me than the notation used in the paper.
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by burke 14y ago
I can't help but wonder whether this is just a limitation of our current e-reader software that will be overcome in the next years.

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