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by dspeyer 13y ago
The NSA gives a lot of advice to civilian cryptographers. It used to be tinfoil to assume the advice was deliberately bad. Now we know (some of) it is. The NSA also has been found to give good advice sometimes, so just doing the opposite
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I've often had "break for pizza and similar from 4-5 on fridays and then go back to work" as a pattern (I tend to get in at 11, so I'm not leaving at 5 anyway). Some chaotic interaction with co-workers tends to be a goo
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by dspeyer 13y ago
If you're looking for a replicated controlled study, there's been something close: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The best avoid tangled, excessively-layered code, but often are inclined to use reflection, multi-indirection, or other tools that mediocre programmers may not understand.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The problem with the 3x approximation is that other expenses don't really scale with rent. If you spend $1000/month on food and $2000/month on rent, and then move to a $3000/month apartment, your food cost isn't go
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by dspeyer 13y ago
It's rare that anyone tries to replace 10 ordinary engineers with one 10xer. It's common, however, to try to replace one 10xer with 10 ordinary engineers, and find that they can't cope with the challenges.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
As usual, "afford" means "make roughly three times the rent". Take a look at Outer Mission, which has a monthly rent of $2150 and an affordability of 4.0. 10.24 $/hour * 8 h/workday * 21 wd/month = 17
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by dspeyer 13y ago
It seems paint will fall into disuse in the future, and the color green will be forgotten entirely.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
But testing doesn't eliminate 2 and 3. Testing only checks for bugs you've thought of. You still need to do manual tests of new features to catch bugs you didn't think of.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
IIRC, 1 & 3 are usually the same, and 2 is usually still way too optimistic. And that's from research, not anecdote. It still might be useful. Use 1 to anchor 3 to anchor 2 and then triple it. See also: http://lesswron
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by dspeyer 13y ago
When I saw the headline I tried to think of one and failed. Then I saw the list in the article and recognized most of the names, and could even say a few things about them. And with those as priming, could name a few more. Brains are weir
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by dspeyer 13y ago
So what can we do? As a native English speaker, I freely admit that our spelling is horrible and our grammar has some sharp edges. Furthermore I freely admit that it's unfair that the burden of making communication work lies so heavil
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Are you saying the world doesn't need a common language? Or that there's a better choice than English? Yes it sucks a lot for some people, and no it isn't fair, but that doesn't change it. What would you have us do?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
So Undertown does exist?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> Number of people who died Zero > Number of children who get thyroid cancer Forty so far. These are just what I could find quickly. Couldn't quickly find anything on Deepwater Horizon.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Last I saw, the Fukushima radiation had already dispersed to below the noise level. The more potent chemical toxins pouring into the gulf will likely be killing people for a while, though.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Airtight handwavium that meets the other specs may be hard to come by. I can't think of a precedent. And the original design called for all the space at the ends to avoid needing that (which doesn't work).
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Let's wait to see if the whole system crashes now before we conclude that. Not that we'll ever know.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Do you buy food from a supermarket? Do you test it for salmonella and ecoli using your own bio-lab? Do you fly on commercial (or governmental) airlines? Do you personally preflight the plane? Even if you trust every member of these organi
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Bruce Schneier may be the wrong blogger for you to follow, then. He talks about trust all the time. To quote his recent book: > [T]oday, I passed several strangers on the street without any of them attacking me. I bought food from a gr
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I'd be very interested to see the mechanism. I can't imagine any company had a "pay women less" policy that got revoked. So what happened? Are women being brought into management more? It seems possible that a single
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by dspeyer 13y ago
From the article: > The researchers also found that these effects were strongest at firms with 50 or fewer employees, which they attribute to the fact that CEOs at smaller firms are typically more directly involved in making decisions th
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by dspeyer 13y ago
No libraries. Ordinary web browsers for the client side. A minimal HTTP server that recognizes GET requests, finds the url, throws away everything else, runs the relevant code and returns an HTML document of the results is actually really
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by dspeyer 13y ago
A custom binary protocol? Then I would have to write a client ! And install it everywhere. And keep it updated. And design my gui in wingdi instead of html. That is not a viable option.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
A while back, I wrote a daemon that checked a bunch of network stuff in a loop. I needed a UI for it, so I made it speak http. No library, just raw GET support. It worked. Didn't take long to write, either. I would never have trie
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Google's corporate charter was specifically written to avoid that. And shareholders have no meaningful voting rights, so they can't override it there either.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
There seem to be ways around this. Portal 2 had a completely rigid plotline, but the gameplay didn't suffer much from it. Maybe a few moments.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I'm using Firefox. I do have some ambient light. Maybe if I replaced the curtains in my window with true blackout curtains this would look ok.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
color: rgb(102,102,102) Seriously? Why do so many publishers make their content so hard to read? (Once I fixed that with inspectElement, the article was good.)
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by dspeyer 13y ago
There don't seem to be any direct competitors to kickstarter, so when kickstarter chooses to ban something from their site, they ban it from getting kickstarted. Just because they don't use violence doesn't mean they don&#x2

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