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by ef4 11y ago
Having attempted to do exactly that, I have gotten a little wiser about just why the existing software is so bad, and why it's hard to supplant. Writing better software isn't the hard part. As you alluded to, it all comes down to
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by ef4 11y ago
Yes, I know several bands that do decent businesses booking weddings and other events through GigMasters.
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by ef4 11y ago
The argument for blocking outbound SMTP is not primarily about misconfigured servers. It's about malware that wants to send spam.
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by ef4 11y ago
I suspect that if it was easy to accidentally make Grey Goo evolution already would have done it. Or more accurately, evolution already did, and we are the Grey Goo's descendants.
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by ef4 11y ago
I am convinced that people are dramatically underestimating the explosive progress that is going on in basic life science right now. Our ability to understand and manipulate biology is accelerating tremendously. There is always a lag betwee
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by ef4 11y ago
It's all just a question of cost. We know how to write software that comes arbitrary close to perfection. But as defects asymptotically approach zero, cost skyrockets. The interesting question is what technologies can bend that cost&#x
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by ef4 11y ago
Exactly. Even now that they offer official paid servers hosted by Mojang, you're still paying for your own server, and you control who's invited to it. Parent can rest easy knowing that all the penises on their server were definit
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by ef4 11y ago
For the same reason everything eventually gets rewritten in Javascript: sometimes you want to do it in a browser. In my case, I have a Javascript app that stores critical information for offline use, and users want to be able to print that
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by ef4 11y ago
Nice. This is something I have wanted to find time to write and I'm glad somebody else already has. I use pdfkit because I have an offline-capable JS app with fairly rich document printing needs. A friendly layout engine on top can sav
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by ef4 11y ago
Syncthing to synchronize everything between the laptops and two storage servers (one local, one remote). Bup to snapshot the synchronized files every 5 minutes.
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by ef4 11y ago
The author is also the creator of this wonderful very-many-track original composition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4cBOnSU9Q
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by ef4 11y ago
Your information is out of date. Every T-Mobile subscriber with a modern Android device on LTE has a fully-working, native ipv6 address. And somewhere between 30% and 50% of Comcast subscribers already have native dual-stack ipv6.
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by ef4 11y ago
> These candidates that challenge this minor issue end up being more trouble than they're worth in other ways too; it's a red flag. Speaking of red flags: organizations that think people who have basic negotiation skill are too
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by ef4 11y ago
A funny thing about college is that the absolute value of a degree keeps dropping, but the relative gap between "has degree" and "lacks degree" keeps growing. It's analogous to monetary inflation: give almost everyb
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by ef4 11y ago
This is not really a MITM attack. TLS would not have mitigated it. The attackers are just extending the range over which the key and the car can hear each other. The attackers don't need to decrypt or modify any of the traffic.
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by ef4 11y ago
I'm underwhelmed, and not surprised. Typically for the big, slow defense industry players, they're planning a more complicated system that does less and will not be ready until 2019. Meanwhile, SpaceX will be attempting to land th
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by ef4 11y ago
If you want more, I can definitely recommend the video lectures from MIT's linear algebra course by Prof Gilbert Strang: http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/videos.shtml
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by ef4 12y ago
FWIW, Go has no VM, and neither does Rust. They compile real binaries. And Rust gives you fine-grained memory control without sacrificing safety -- unlike the others it has no garbage collector, and instead proves allocation safety at compi
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by ef4 12y ago
"Correctness guarantees" is a whole bucket of things you certainly have heard of, like: bounds checking, integer overflow protection, or statically safe memory allocation. I'm not talking about a whole-program correctness p
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by ef4 12y ago
Agreed, but that's not what they did here. They didn't prove the program is correct, they proved the algorithm is correct. It remains to be seen how closely the program actually implements the algorithm in the paper.
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by ef4 12y ago
I'm excited for the ideas here and have been following Stellar. But I'm hugely disappointed to see that they went with C and C++ for their new core codebase. This is the kind of code that needs strong safety, security, and correct
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by ef4 12y ago
> A college education is like money: It has value because we all agree that it has value. Sticking with the same analogy: if you rapidly increase the amount of money in circulation, its value falls. The people whose wages and prices are
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by ef4 12y ago
The author is only partway through the learning process. There is a circular progression. The total newbie just "learns the framework" and is helpless to debug through leaking abstractions. I agree 100% that you don't want to
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by ef4 12y ago
> for human health in it. In the US, life expectancy is higher for people in urban areas than rural areas. Urban areas have less obesity, lower rates of suicide, lower rates of accidental death, higher quality of life for the elderly, an
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by ef4 12y ago
An awful lot of people pluck down premium-level bucks for iOS, which is even more neutered than ChromeOS. Consumers have spoken, they do not care.
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by ef4 12y ago
It's much more robust to have a dedicated build step that is separate from your deploy step. The build step is where you install deps, do compilation, etc. Then it saves the output. The deploy step can just copy all the files from th
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by ef4 12y ago
It's hard to really guarantee effectively without putting up serious money. The typical large closed-source codebase is full of undocumented things and hidden dependencies on random chunks of proprietary environment. Making it usable a
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by ef4 12y ago
I think unionizing is actually aiming way too low for many workers. Even lower-skill ones. As an example, people have bandied about ideas about whether Uber drivers should unionize. But Uber drivers already own the means of production . So
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by ef4 12y ago
Class of '03. I certainly saw a lot of classmates under unhealthy levels of stress. But to add some counterpoint, it's not universal. I think the biggest source of the pain is not MIT itself, it's the way many high schools
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by ef4 12y ago
> The tone of your messages make you sound a little bit demanding, or difficult to work with. Strongly disagree. OP clearly knew exactly what he was looking for and actually got it. It's the startups that wasted time on interviewing

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