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by coldnebo 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Apple seems to be limiting all discussion to in-situ mechanisms of cracking, but no one is talking about external means. For example ICE-level debuggers require sophisticated hardware that is not easily
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by coldnebo 11y ago
If you learn web development and apply for a job as computer scientist, there's a bit of a mismatch. I think the author is assuming that "data scientist" means scientist more than developer. But I agree, there's more tha
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I'll bite. Regarding your assertion: I'm not sure that follows. TCP/IP's primary design point was avoiding centralized network failure in a nuclear war, so you can't strongly claim that it is responsible for heirarc
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I think you have to be careful because there are two things that need to be separated: 1) the human digestive tract is adaptable -- this measures the amount of adaptation the individual is capable of. 2) evolutionary pressure selects indivi
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Easier said than done. For a trivial combination, it's easy. For most real world requirements it becomes a combinatorial explosion of various strategies that are mutually exclusive in many parts. Unless you have some new machine learni
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by coldnebo 11y ago
And how many commercial marketing clients from Fortune 500 are in your portfolio?
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Doing GAs right can be very hard. Like, I've seen cases where GAs hooked up to a certain type of physical simulation learn to exploit the ODE in play and find optima that are based on ODE artifacts, not reality. Eg wind turbine design
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Yes, but in this case compliance is quite difficult. Why would the compliance department go out of its way to develop a new mobile testing infrastructure when that isn't the industry standard? So it seems very plausible in this case th
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by coldnebo 11y ago
This is fantastic news. The marketers have given us an excellent key by which to block ads and distinguish ads from content! Nice!
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by coldnebo 11y ago
“We learnt that we were building the same thing over and over, and realised that the more interesting thing to do was to cut out the wasted effort and cost, and work out how to automate 90 per cent of writing code.” I view that as a failure
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I think that's precisely why this testing insight isn't more commonly used. In reality, it's not about unit vs functional, it seems to be about scope. E.g. If you have behavior that can't be tested without doing a full m
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I totally agree with this!! I've been learning this the hard way and came to similar conslusions about the need to wrap code with functional testing first and then refactor. It solves the chicken/egg problem with unit test/re
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Page crashes chrome and safari on ipad. Fyi
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by coldnebo 11y ago
The rule of composition is an important counterpoint to the rule of diversity. Unix's most important feature is treating everything as a file. That interface allows a lot of freedom in composition, but every process has to conform to e
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by coldnebo 11y ago
"The people entering the workforce today value flexibility and autonomy; they choose location over career and job rotation over promotions." This is so much bs. What chance of career? What chance of promotion? It's not that t
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Or, more simply: by the time you've 'looked' and understood what you are looking at, billions of other particles have already interacted with the experiment output, collapsing the wave function... so no, by the time you actua
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Sure. But either term is usually passive in classical contexts and always destructive in QM contexts. You can't uncollapse a wave function! Consider a twist on Schrödinger's cat experiment: there are two scientists, A and B. The
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by coldnebo 11y ago
I know this article is a bad source, but why do scientists and the press continue to use the provocative explanation of QM: "things don't exist unless you look at them at the quantum level." According to QM, things don't
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by coldnebo 11y ago
It seems more like Scala syntax, which is much cleaner than C++ IMHO. But with Java becoming dynamic (and C++ techniques for same), is the future a smear of shared language features, like Bladerunner's cityspeak, or are these just int
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by coldnebo 11y ago
Does this use the rust ast? Ala llvm? I keep hoping for a new age where editors can simply use the language itself to define structure.
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by coldnebo 12y ago
So I agree that TBL himself did a great job designing HTML for exactly what he concieved: distributed documentation. It was not however a system designed for web applications. Almost immediately after it gained popularity, people wanted to
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Regarding Postscript vs web: I'm only talking about device independence. Specifically in the case of pixel perfect layouts. I am not talking about the layout constraint problem, which is extremely challenging no matter the technology.
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Good points. We might be focusing on different evidence for good design. Certainly a system has to be tested -- the theory is not enough. But areas of TCP that were designed up front were things like being able to carry arbitrary payloads,
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by coldnebo 12y ago
no, it doesn't. Having multiple independent implementations is a PITA, but that's why you have testing & validation labs along with standards. Take windows graphics driver labs... They test for pixel perfect compliance of outp
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Again, sounds nice, but an ME wouldnt be so cocky if he had to smelt his own materials and quality grade them before even starting to build the bridge. ME's get the benefit of a older, more mature industry that surrounds them and enabl
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by coldnebo 12y ago
This sounds like Engineering, but be aware that in mechanical engineering the requirements are well-defined for materials and load. Consider the famous bridge resonance problem and you will see why wind resonance is now a required subject f
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Cool! I'm curious about the traffic patterns -- for example I see them slow down towards areas of complexity and speed up on straights. Is this just an emergent property of the number of control points on your traffic curves, or was it
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Morning people tend to get slower later in the day. Night people actually tend to get faster. (There is some research that backs this up: http://www.personal.psu.edu/afr3/blogs/siowfa12/2012/09/earl.
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by coldnebo 12y ago
Also this! One of the things that makes me fast is something that was a premise that was very slow to start with: "every error means something , no error is random, once you understand the error completely, you usually also understand
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by coldnebo 12y ago
I would also add: get to know your debugging tools really well. I'm constantly surprised how many developers still use print logging to debug issues with data structures. Sometimes it's hard to visualize what's going on in yo

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