dvogel

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by dvogel 11y ago
I don't think the article was trying to claim that the population there is genetically different. I read the Karelia passage as arguing that people all over the world have developed fantastically aggressive immune systems that will act
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by dvogel 11y ago
Points (1) and (2) are true for ad-supported games in general. What Underground provides is a way for games developers to be able to provide a low-barrier ad-supported version of their game while being completely unconcerned with ads. It es
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by dvogel 11y ago
The complexity of the dependency graph produced by system-analyze is not present in most sysv init systems. That complexity is mostly a reflection of the efforts to make system services boot in parallel. Most sysv init scripts were blocking
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by dvogel 12y ago
What is the name of the company? Guessing it is Bardel? http://bardel.ca/now-hiring/?bd-job=Ruby+on+Rails+Developers...
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by dvogel 12y ago
Though HSA isn't just about CPU-GPU coherence. It includes DSPs, etc. TI makes plenty of DSPs. Not sure about Samsung.
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by dvogel 12y ago
Combining the speaker and the EQ might not work for your use case. That doesn't make it a bad choice by the manufacturer or the consumer. Targeting a particular class of user by combining products that are often used together has been
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by dvogel 13y ago
One of the core complaints about HFT regulation is that the regulators refuse to update their definitions to include HFT activities that follow the letter of the regulation but clearly violate the spirit of the regulation. Therefore arguing
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by dvogel 13y ago
links? As I remember it, most of the issues were around the fixed frame rates that were an attempt to unify PC development with console development. Perhaps I am confusing Doom 3 for another game though.
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by dvogel 13y ago
Ray-tracing works really well for movies because the camera is controlled by the animators rather than the viewer (as is the case with video games).
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by dvogel 13y ago
Pretty sure the word choice was for effect -- like Murphy's Law.
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by dvogel 13y ago
Apples to oranges. Those markets have different dynamics, gatekeepers, legacy costs, etc.
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by dvogel 13y ago
They do pay for their own education. They pay for it through substandard wages for the work they perform. If their department didn't pay for their tuition then there is no way those students would work for the peanuts they currently do
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by dvogel 13y ago
I couldn't make it through 50 pages of Black Swan. I haven't read his newest book. Fooled by Randomness[1] was very good. It's more of a set of cautionary tales, mostly pulled from Wall Street, about how to think about chance
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by dvogel 13y ago
DJB still claims that qmail is exploit-free[1] as well as djbdns[2] and I think those are both 1-man shows. [1] http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html [2] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
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by dvogel 13y ago
Wouldn't the lifetime of the token have to be <30 seconds, according to the claims made in the paper?
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by dvogel 13y ago
If the CSRF token changes with each page view then opening a second page (perhaps an explanation for a form field) in a new tab/window would invalidate the form in the original tab/window.
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by dvogel 14y ago
In the 3rd paragraph of your petition you allude to unlocking your phone for use on multiple carriers: "Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad." If their response only applies to situati
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by dvogel 14y ago
If you were mining bitcoins fast enough to overtake the natural growth of the network and selling them to profit from this activity, you would be creating a tremendous amount of downward pressure on the dollar value of a bitcoin, rendering
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by dvogel 14y ago
It does link to IMDB, which offers such purchasing links.
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by dvogel 14y ago
Amazon is turning a profit, both in terms of earnings and free cash flow.
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by dvogel 15y ago
Currently: MU (+35%), GLW (-10%), NFLX (+30%) Previously: HP (+50%), BBEP (+180%) Prospects: HPQ, MSFT, MKC, DSX I'm 30 years old, so still chasing growth a bit. I've also got a bunch of money in a 403b account that's invested mostly in an
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by dvogel 15y ago
> A small core set of libraries that change _very_ slowly and arent intentionally obsoleted every few months. Think of Windows like slow, stable and supported for a decade. Distribution of apps decoupled from the distribution of the bas
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by dvogel 15y ago
Your regression tests sound very similar to what I call perl tests. The perl community was ahead of it's time by distributing a test suite with packages on CPAN. Tests that come out of bug fixes tend (at least for me) to be complexity tests
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by dvogel 15y ago
Congress can't actually divert revenue from SS. The way that cutting benefits affects the budget is that the SSA uses more of the payroll tax to buy more bonds, rather than paying the revenue out as benefits. The government still has to use
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by dvogel 15y ago
Thus far the risk of investing the SS surpluses into any investments other than US treasuries far out-weighed the risk of the US choosing to make SS forgive the debt incurred by said treasuries. I've often argued that SSA should be allowed
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by dvogel 15y ago
Compliance doesn't require that you provide them with the passphrase. It simply requires that you provide access to the material. Typing your password into the computer to let them copy the material would suffice.
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by dvogel 15y ago
To charge someone for withholding evidence, wouldn't you have to show that they had the evidence? For example, in the case of a deleted file, you would have to show that they deleted the file after being charged. Else deleting any file ever
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by dvogel 15y ago
The 5th amendment was written specifically for criminal proceedings. Why does the judge's request override his right to refuse being a witness against himself?