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by ef4 12y ago
> and he might not have the inclination to accept patches from unvetted strangers. I keep seeing this implication, but it simply doesn't follow at all. Nobody said anything about letting everyone commit changes in a free-for-all.
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by ef4 12y ago
Your prediction is already false. It's extra-silly coming in the same week that Facebook open-sourced a piece of their own infrastructure written in Haskell. And I'm sure the high frequency traders using it would chuckle to hear t
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by ef4 12y ago
They don't accept credit cards, only debit cards. So it has the same properties as a normal ATM. You can't take cash out of an ATM and then issue a chargeback.
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by ef4 12y ago
Any cash purchase (of anything, not gold in particular) over $10,000 requires submitting a form to the treasury. Not that that's easy to reliably enforce.
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by ef4 12y ago
The naming was a bit jarring to me since "Lincoln Lab" is MIT's massive off-campus, DoD-funded research complex.
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by ef4 12y ago
Google has done an end-run around the challenges that make something like the DARPA Challenge difficult. Driving an autonomous vehicle in an unknown environment is still hard. But that's not the problem Google is tackling. They're
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by ef4 12y ago
The first load is consistently failing on Firefox with "Error: WebGL: generateMipmap: Level zero of texture is not defined." Then after hitting reload it works.
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by ef4 12y ago
> Is it a bureaucracy certification with some vintage requirements or is it something that keeps adapting to the changes in the technology environment? That's not really an "or" question. It is a bureaucracy-oriented sta
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by ef4 12y ago
Brett Victor is known for advocating the kind of programming tools that Apple just unveiled in their WWDC keynote. ( http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ , http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction
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by ef4 12y ago
Among other things, Bower lacks the equivalent of Gemfile.lock or npm-shrinkwrap.json. So you can't get reliably repeatable installs.
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by ef4 12y ago
If you're interested in this, you should also check out the UMLS published by the National Institutes of Health. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/ It's a very big semantic database of health termino
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by ef4 12y ago
I've been using engine.io directly in production for quite a while, and it's been stable and reliable. Glad to see this release, having the option of going back to the higher-level socket.io api is welcome.
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by ef4 12y ago
Right, that's what I was assuming. Good. The only part I trying to confirm was that you issue a challenge to the yubikey at save time, not just at decryption time.
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by ef4 12y ago
Thanks, this looks interesting. I'm not clear on how the master seed gets regenerated at every save. Presumably the secret key used to generate the HMAC never leaves the YubiKey? So when you want to change the seed, you need to ask the
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by ef4 12y ago
If those libraries are open source, you can still do it. ;-)
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by ef4 12y ago
> They don’t tell you that a lot of programming skill is about developing a knack for asking the right questions on Google and knowing which code is best to copy-paste. And they don’t let you in on a big secret: that there is no mastery,
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by ef4 12y ago
Also see Peter Norvig's "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years". http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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by ef4 12y ago
This guy still apparently didn't learn his lesson. "...he would set a point of no return and learn more about trail conditions. “And probably take another trail.”" BUZZ, wrong answer. Trail conditions change. People make mist
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by ef4 12y ago
> in a sense that he is talking about a seeded pnrg That little "p" makes all the difference. The post I was replying to was asking about the precise definition of "random", not "pseudorandom". As you allude
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by ef4 12y ago
"Distance of next prime" is not random, it's entirely deterministic. It's a well-defined function. Just because we don't have an analytical solution for it doesn't make it random. As for "high quality&quot
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by ef4 12y ago
There are other modes that are more suitable for random access. For example, TrueCrypt uses XTS mode. Tarsnap uses CTR mode. Either would satisfy the requirement of allowing you to edit one block without rewriting all the blocks that follow
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by ef4 12y ago
> seems to preclude efficient sync with current tech. I disagree. You can deterministically chunk the large file with one of the existing rolling checksum schemes, and then use the chunks as your primitive instead of whole files. The ser
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by ef4 12y ago
> Developers shouldn't have to spend any time walking a user through logging in, helping explain how to import data, etc. I actually find that spending such time is one of the few effective ways to reliably show developers where the
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I did, and it did not inspire confidence. https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350
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by ef4 12y ago
I like seafile too, but after doing some of my own review of the source ( https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350 ) I'm not willing to trust it on the open internet. For now I run seafile inside a pri
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by ef4 12y ago
I think the kernel of legitimate concern here is that we partisans of an enlightenment world view must be careful not to stoop to the level of the ancient worldviews we compete with. Too many people "believe in" science the same e
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by ef4 12y ago
> the actual instructions you're giving to the machine are very far removed from what the computer is doing. Who knows how much code is actually executed, how deep the rabbit hole goes... The same criticism can apply to Java. But it
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by ef4 12y ago
Exactly. In fact it's far easier for a company to justify that kind of spending to its accountants and shareholders than "donations" that appear totally discretionary.
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by ef4 12y ago
> The thing is, I can't think of another way to teach the curriculum. But there's already a rich literature of real-world results for better ways to teach mathematics. See for example Seymour Papert's "Mindstorms&quot
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by ef4 12y ago
Your comparison makes no sense. React isn't really competing with something like Ember -- the more direct comparison would be React vs HTMLBars (the low level view layer library being used in next generation Ember). Even if I choose re

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