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by cube13 13y ago
> I suspect that the interest comes from the radical branding. "Ensure" is associated with hospitals and the aging population, whereas "Soylent" is historically associated with dystopia and recently with some ambitiou
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by cube13 13y ago
>2) Top Gear does a show showing it running out of power and being pushed back into the garage at the track and they state that its range is comically low. Comically low on the track, going full out. Which seems to be a pretty reasonabl
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by cube13 13y ago
It's a problem if your app depends on functionality delivered after a certain patch level, though. For example, if my application depends on some feature delivered in 4.2, I need to be aware that my potential market is less than 5% of
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by cube13 13y ago
Except there's no humor, implied, or otherwise, there. Just malice. And honestly, the phrase "nuke it from orbit" is a rather exaggerated phrase. Unless the speaker is Barrack Obama or Vladamir Putin, it's a pretty goo
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by cube13 13y ago
>I actually think that someone who is incapable or even worse, unwilling to learn programming using C, has no business programming anything at all of any import, beyond the most toy-example tiny scripts here and there. I'm a C hacke
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by cube13 13y ago
I fail to see how this is a defense in this context. Given the rest of the tweets, it doesn't seem that Fish was joking in any way, shape, or form.
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by cube13 13y ago
I don't see how either party is excused here. Phil Fish constantly posted caustic, abusive remarks to everyone on his twitter feed. His public persona was one of a complete and utter asshole. Nothing excuses that behavior. While the
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by cube13 13y ago
>Joel Spolsky wrote a great article[1] in 2005 that basically says using a massively high level language like Python or Java as the core of a CS curriculum is damaging because the languages aren't "hard" enough. As curmudg
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by cube13 13y ago
I don't get it. Why not publish the method used the crack it without the codes? That's the important research here, and what should be public to further crypto knowledge. The actual codes are worthless for that.
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by cube13 13y ago
Not if you're making APIs, which is essentially what the entire platform is. The "Move Fast and Break Things" attitude is fine when you're releasing a complete product. Look at Twitter or GMail. Google and Twitter chan
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by cube13 13y ago
There was a time(early 2000's) when lots of fansub groups were experimenting with brand new codecs and package techniques(like mkv). MPC's easily extensible plugin system was a great thing then, because fansub groups could create
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by cube13 13y ago
Thanks. I wasn't aware that the core engine and modules have been re-licensed as LGPL.
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by cube13 13y ago
So how exactly has the licensing issue been resolved? Has the core VLC library been re-licensed or dual licensed under the Mozilla license?
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by cube13 13y ago
I don't think he's trying to make it more secure, just trying to get a minimum level of security where he can open the laptop and input a password. Right now, the OP is unable to do that due to OSX not allowing any applications
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by cube13 13y ago
>California is perhaps the greatest - and most well documented - example of this, both at the state and local level. California's problem is mostly because of their ballot propositions, especially the effects of prop 13, which limit
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by cube13 13y ago
>If you want cheap prices and high quality service, then you have to deregulate the industry, and a deregulated telecom industry will focus on the high-end consumers, just like every company does. Uh, if the industry is focusing on high-
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by cube13 13y ago
>The Wii-U has already had a huge price drop since launch about half a year ago and sales are still anemic, that's not a good sign considering that sales are unlikely to be better 6 months from now when the xbox and playstation next
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by cube13 13y ago
Lame duck president and a VP that, realistically, doesn't stand a change to win? Less of a risk than you'd think.
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by cube13 13y ago
>At the risk of being proven wrong in the (near) future I challenge your statement. I doubt the German government or an intelligence agency would dare to bug an US embassy, the headquarter of one of your parties or whatever comes closest
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by cube13 13y ago
>1. Obama made a huge* back-channel concession to Russia to get them to deny Snowden asylum. He had to do something to get Putin to decide not to shelter Snowden, and it would likely be an extremely painful concession. Most likely someth
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by cube13 13y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying that he's given out the keys to any country. However, I'm not sure that really matters right now. Realistically, the data in there probably isn't all that time-sensitive. It's not like
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by cube13 13y ago
And the fact that Snowden brought everything he had into Russia, and you have to be a complete idiot to believe Putin's line that nobody from the Russian government or intelligence has talked to Snowden about it, or gotten a copy yet.
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by cube13 13y ago
I don't see where this is a new rule. This is the exact same thing the DEA has done with large quantities of money or bank accounts. The US Government's response so far has been pretty good, actually. They're not making new
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by cube13 13y ago
>(With the exception of things like tarsnap). The chain of trust still extends to them. You're trusting that they're actually doing everything they say they're doing. If you don't own the hardware and the building wh
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by cube13 13y ago
And the difference between using an unmanned drone and a manned helicopter is...?
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by cube13 13y ago
>This has come up in the past on HN. As I understand it the newspaper story is bull. Pretty much. The same effect that causes stars to twinkle limits the resolution of space-based spy satellites imagery of the ground. http://
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by cube13 13y ago
The fundamental problem here is that we have allegations that the US Government ordered all these companies to do something bad(tm) and not talk about it. So, if we assume that the allegations are correct, then the companies denying it are
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by cube13 13y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by cube13 13y ago
>With bitcoin you don't show your whole wallet to anyone. You only make a single transaction to a single address. Merchant cannot possibly leak anything that will give someone ability to spend your money. Instead of spreading your ident
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by cube13 13y ago
Or "1000 paying users", which could still be impressive, depending on conversion rates.

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