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by dsjoerg 12y ago
One part I didnt understand: if the rope is attached to a solid object on the 7th floor, how did s/he retrieve the rope once inside on the 5th floor?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
The word "failure" is used to mean two distinct things: 1) bad outcome, 2) made the wrong choices given the available information at the time. They are not the same. Furthermore if you have no bad outcomes, you may be taking a su
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
On the internet, the native currency is attention. You fight back by refusing to pay them the attention they crave.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
>> Like it or not, law enforcement officers with a valid warrant to search your device are authorized users. It's in the constitution. It's not, of course, literally in the Constitution that you cannot encrypt things and t
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
For me, the remote-wipe ability is a killer app. Currently, when I lose a physical card, I have to go through a painful get-a-new-card procedure that involves going to my major websites and giving them my new card #. With remote wipe, when
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
even more revolutionary than the segway!
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
how long should i expect to wait? i've been waiting >90 minutes already
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
downtown has some good values, you'd be surprised
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Needs a caching algorithm.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
If that's all it was, they would have picked a happy story instead. It's also a serious actual cautionary tale, one that isn't entirely helpful to 23andme.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
In some cases this could be angel investors simply not doing what's in their best financial interest, either short-term or not at all. If one gets the reputation of always giving up one's pro-rata rights, then you might as well no
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
I figured the article would be about how you have to write random data to the buffer to truly "zero" it, otherwise the ghost of the data can still be read using some trick.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Most interesting part of the article: USTelecom would like "public entities [to] bear the same regulatory burdens as private service providers". What's that about? What regulatory burdens are these public providers avoiding,
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
I'm a long-time highcharts user. What are the advantages of this over highcharts?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
A groundbreaking survey of the site has turned up tantalizing new clues to what really went on there.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
I find this article strangely unnecessarily specific without justification. Why not just say All Good Companies Should Open an Office In Every Major City? What is so special about Apple and Seattle that notably that company should open an
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
If taxis weren't so dysfunctional, Uber wouldn't have so many happy users and drivers. For example, it used to be a major hassle trying to get a car to pick me up in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I would call the local car service, who w
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
What are these obvious reasons?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Can you offer a reference for this claim? Here's a counter-claim: "A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a minute. Generally, a lower heart rate at rest implies more efficient heart function and better
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Very cool! Isn't there some kind of copyright or terms-of-service violation involved in publishing this?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Article title is not supported by the article, unless you can honestly count two cranky people as the beginning of a backlash.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Thanks for this. I've been telling people that D3 is not a charting library for over a year, but I get the feeling they don't really believe me!
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Maybe I'm not the only one wondering why I should bother to enable IPv6?
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Summary: investors who focus too much on short-term results are bad for the long-term success of the companies they buy and sell. High-frequency traders are somewhat similar, in that they don't care enough about the long-term health of
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
what was springpad
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Way to stick it to the man... er, well, the man's crony's underlings.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Seriously! I would love to spend one evening in that guy's brain.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Title should be "libCurl is slow" since the article fails to present any alternative other than "make your own", which is unfeasible in many situations.
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by dsjoerg 12y ago
Like being good with makeup can help you be more attractive, learning how to persuade managers that you are valuable is a skill of its own. You don't have to be a manager to have this skill, although it is a subset of the management s

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