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by cscotta 16y ago
I'm not a CPA or lawyer, but am almost absolutely positive that these taxes are applied based on your residential address. Attempting to cheat (get around, avoid, evade, what have you) taxes is almost universally a Bad Idea (speaking as som
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by cscotta 16y ago
About a year ago, I spent a weekend building a letterpress. It's turned into a fun hobby. Printmaking is much more difficult than I'd have expected. One of the biggest challenges is maintaining a clean, inkless field. It's so easy to get in
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by cscotta 16y ago
Right on, thanks Ask! I'm checking out some of this right now and might not be able to get through it all today, but will give it a try. Just shot you a couple messages outside of HN - love to talk when you have a chance!
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by cscotta 16y ago
Hi there, The task benchmarked was from a component of our messaging stack at work that I'd ported. My intention was to offer an example of the end-to-end performance of a real-world task that someone might be writing, rather than a sample
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Octobot - A Low-Latency, Highly Parallel Distributed Task Queue Worker(octobot.taco.cat)
105 points by cscotta 16y ago|35 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
Unfortunately, the iOS platform does not support the Objective C garbage collector available in Mac OS. Instead, memory is controlled using manual allocation and autorelease pools. So, while the TOS would permit this, a technical limit rema
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by cscotta 16y ago
To the good folks at 10Gen, Antirez, the Cassandra project, LinkedIn, Google, Amazon, and everyone working to advance the state of datastores available for increasingly specific applications, your work is undeniably important. The team I wo
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by cscotta 16y ago
It really is a shame that so much of the Android marketing has taken its cue from Verizon's techno-masculine Droid branding. Google was dead on with the Nexus One's "Web Meets Phone" ad. If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching - right a
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by cscotta 16y ago
Apologies for not publishing the EC2 Small number in the original post. It was 120,000 for the pure Java NIO implementation, but I'd like to explain a bit more on that one. We hit 120k clients at the time the process was killed by the kerne
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C500k in Action at Urban Airship(blog.urbanairship.com)
89 points by cscotta 16y ago|21 comments
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North Korea Hops onto Twitter(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
2 points by cscotta 16y ago|0 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
Notice Stallman's revised comment at the head of the article: "Since this article was first published, Sun has relicensed most of its Java platform reference implementation under the GNU General Public License, and there is now a free deve
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by cscotta 16y ago
The biggest issue I see with Oracle's lawsuit is not with Android itself, but the future of Java as an open platform. The claims are pretty serious, and Oracle is going straight for the jugular. It'll be interesting to see how it shakes out
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by cscotta 16y ago
Apologies, Thomas - wasn't attempting to hop on the FUD box, proclaim doom, or voice an opinion about the relative security of one platform to another. I intended the comment to bring a few possibilities to the surface that I've not seen ra
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by cscotta 16y ago
It is good to see some analysis turning up on the exploit front. I was (and still am) surprised that the coverage of this jailbreak has been focused almost exclusively on the jailbreak itself rather than the attack vector and its implicati
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by cscotta 16y ago
Really cool post, Greg - thanks. That's a neat application of Twilio. I'm almost more intrigued by this write-up as a study of advanced planning for multiple triaged failure modes and remote correction. It can be difficult to break out of
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Therac-25 Revisited: Radiation Overdoses and User Error Today(nytimes.com)
6 points by cscotta 16y ago|0 comments
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Strong Feelings(blog.paradoxica.net)
38 points by cscotta 16y ago|7 comments
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FM Radio Enabled on Nexus One (Community Kernel)(androidpolice.com)
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by cscotta 16y ago
Strong second. You would have a very difficult time establishing a proper merchant account as the fraud risks are incredibly high. While many might be willing to discuss it, it is unlikely that the account would be approved by the processo
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by cscotta 16y ago
What surprises me here is the Apple spokewoman's suggestion that "users whose accounts had been misused dispute the charges with their card companies" rather than initiating action against Mr. Nguyen and issuing refunds at his expense. Appl
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by cscotta 16y ago
The speeds we're starting to see on next-gen mobile devices + networks are pretty impressive - more than can be used effectively without draining the battery in a hot second, at least. Now that we've got bandwidth figured out, it's time to
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by cscotta 16y ago
At 140 bytes even, it looks a lot like an SSH RSA public key to me (RSA 1024 bit).
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by cscotta 16y ago
Around page 28-29, you'll find the Court's opinion on Sarbanes-Oxley and its future. In short, it appears they strike down a provision that allows the executive branch to remove a member from the board of directors, leaving the rest of the
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by cscotta 16y ago
Not entirely related, but if you look closely at 0:50, you'll see that Apple's Mac OS X "Clownfish" desktop image appears prominently in the photo gallery. That said, the OS looks much nicer than the previous release - at least, on par or a
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by cscotta 16y ago
Completely agree - Mozilla's scaled-back implementation, which appears to be closer in line with the standards track - is much safer and marks a better approach anyway (several at MS have been openly recommending against using dynamic attri
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by cscotta 16y ago
I've been testing pre-release builds of AIR 2.0 since January and am pleasantly surprised by the improvements over 1.5.x. Their inclusion of the WebKit release that ships with Safari 4.x is enough to grin about (which introduced SquirrelFis
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Adobe Releases AIR 2.0 with Native Processes, WebKit + HTML5, Multitouch, More(blogs.adobe.com)
49 points by cscotta 16y ago|7 comments
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by cscotta 16y ago
Of course, the humor here lies in the fact that IE has had dynamic CSS calculations since IE 5, but is now in the process of removing them – just as they are being standardized in other browsers. For example [1]: <div style="left:expres
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by cscotta 16y ago
The current "app" frenzy leaves me uneasy in that most "apps" (in the iPhone/Android/WebOS sense) are roughly feature-par with what a superset of we'd traditionally call "widgets". That's not to say that a tremendous amount of UX + graphic

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