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by drakaal 13y ago
Would be interesting to know if you can get to https://conference.hitb.org/check-status/ Partly because it is HTTPS and partly because hack only appears in a url on the page. This might answer if it is the result of th
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Nope. We'd fix things and they'd come back.
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Consumer devices also includes patent licenses for consumer devices. MSFT makes money on every Android phone sold because of licenses. Same for other uses of certain versions of FAT on certain device types.
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Sort of, not really. HDMI is a flat $10k a year in licensing. The problem with Displayport is that the chips to render it are more expensive unless you built your monitor for direct drive. That would be great if every display was designed w
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by drakaal 13y ago
Filled with wrong information. First and easiest. Anything that you can display over DVI can be displayed on a display that has implemented DVI over HDMI, so DVI doesn't look better than HDMI for any technical reason. This is how all t
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by drakaal 13y ago
String theory likes this math because it assumes that there is a curve to the sum, it will get smaller eventually. This helps make the "vibration" part of sting theory work. But just because you can prove something with math doesn
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by drakaal 13y ago
Node is becoming a business not a community, and the community is taken by surprise. I saw this coming, but I think many people thought Node was about free love and changing the world. It is down hill from here. You can avoid a lot of polit
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by drakaal 13y ago
If you do a search we have never done you get bing. If you do a popular search, or the same search 30 seconds later you get better results.
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by drakaal 13y ago
We don't track searches,at http://www.plexisearch.com/ And we don't have ads, so there is that too. We want to make search better. Not out of the goodness of our heart, but because we figure if we do a good job so
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If you are giving chances try http://www.plexisearch.com/
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Maybe I don't want food? http://www.plexisearch.com/?q=chinese
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If you voted you don't understand math or programming. Programming is recipes for a computer to follow. In many cases there is Zero math involved. You can write plenty of Data Entry code and never use a single numeric function. Convers
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by drakaal 13y ago
And those features can be rolled in to BTC without breaking existing wallets?
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The value? No. The more data you have about where money flows the less privacy we have and the more control you give law enforcement. Think about all the Friend of Friend wire taps. Suddenly the $20 bill you bought starbucks with gets given
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I challenge you to prove that making movies which are based on public domain content does either. This is rarely a "Science" debate and more often an economics debate. Which is better? Wizard of Oz in the public domain so Disney c
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by drakaal 13y ago
To get more stuff in to the public domain we just need to enact mandatory euthanasia laws.
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Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit(thenextweb.com)
1 points by drakaal 13y ago|0 comments
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by drakaal 13y ago
I suspect that at places like Microsoft, and Google this is not all that uncommon. I once interviewed at an insurance company and remember thinking that I would have outsourced the job I was interviewing for. I think though that instead of
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Outsourced: Employee Sends Own Job To China; Surfs Web(npr.org)
2 points by drakaal 13y ago|1 comments
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Danny Sullivan and Rand Fishkin just don't know how to do any kind of SEO beyond link building. Kelly Clay at Forbes wrote a much better article about how SEO has changed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay&#x2F
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by drakaal 13y ago
Retargeting typically uses Cookies, the scarier ones are Continuous Targeting, where Metadata is used to track you without cookies, or worse yet straight up user data sharing. If you are John Smith of 1313 Mockingbird Lane no cookie is need
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by drakaal 13y ago
Google definitely plays favorites. It is written in to how PageRank works. Some sites are Trusted manually. The distance from those sites is your Page Rank Flow. Now that we have that settled, and you are looking for a new search engine, le
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by drakaal 13y ago
Whatever language I am learning next is clearly better. It can't possibly be my fault the last language was to difficult, or too slow. I was just getting started and didn't know how much that last language sucked. OR Clearly LISP
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by drakaal 13y ago
Great, First Watson smokes us at Jeopardy, now this is going to prove computers are better than humans at one more thing. Our slow walk to being obsolete is hastened by our own efforts. Cool project. Would be interesting to see how much eff
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by drakaal 13y ago
Mensa is one place. But there are others. Cerebrals Society, Intertel, Prometheus Society, The Triple Nines. My role at Microsoft was as Subject Matter Expert. SME's don't write "much code" but we tend to prove problems
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by drakaal 13y ago
This is like saying speaking fluent English doesn't make you a genius, and being a Genius doesn't mean you will speak fluent English. Having a CS degree won't make you a genius, or guarantee you write beautiful code. There ar
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by drakaal 13y ago
"You get used to it. I don’t even see the code anymore, all I see is blonde, redhead, brunette..." -That guy who betrayed Neo for a Juicy Steak.
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Point a camera at the place where the smoke pit would be. Poof! Automation. As to smell, that was a stupid way to do it. We can detect levels of lots of different things. Instead of 1 or 0 over time it would have made a lot more sense to sa
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by drakaal 13y ago
I think the Native Americans did the same thing with smoke. "Smoke" for 1, "no smoke" for zero. And they went way further than across the room.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Managing a startup is different. In a startup you want as many people as possible to be "self managing". In an enterprise often you hire "commodity" workers who should be able to do what you ask, and do it when you ask,

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