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by elevensies 9y ago
Also http://archive.is/vJa0u [archived copy of the WSJ article.]
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by elevensies 9y ago
I'm not who you asked, but the first thing that comes to my mind is contrib.auth.views, which look for templates at the default locations or the locations you provide (as described here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/e
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by elevensies 9y ago
The tyranny of percentages. If you lose 50%, to get it back you have to gain 100%.
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by elevensies 9y ago
Similarly, I don't doubt that the NSA has the ability to attribute an attack to an attacker. What I doubt is that the NSA has the ability to tell the truth in public.
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by elevensies 9y ago
[keep in mind I'm far from an expert on this] The thing that bothers me personally about these examples is that there are a lot that end in 0x000000 or 0xffffff, i.e. all bits set or all bits unset in many of the trailing bits. If you
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by elevensies 9y ago
If you use it for a hash table, every collision has to be "resolved" in a way that takes time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Collision_resolutio... . So if a hash function has lots of collisions it
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by elevensies 9y ago
I guess what I'd like to know is: at what point is it worth seriously evaluating alternatives to just using cloud services and paying the sticker price -- which means evaluating the labor cost as well as the cost of the service, where
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by elevensies 9y ago
The $30 number comes from the original article -- If I were to make the colo data transfer free and change nothing else, break even point is 100TB/mo. For the employee cost I agree if you just have a couple boxes pumping out data your
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by elevensies 9y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: - assume $100/TB for cloud data transfer - assume one employee full time equivalent to manage colo'd servers ($10,000/mo), plus $30/TB data transfer The break even point for the colo&#x2
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by elevensies 9y ago
Can anyone recommend a book for an introduction level (i.e. tutorial or cookbook style) coverage of Fault Tree Analysis? I've seen it mentioned in article about SpaceX blowups, it is something I'd like to understand better.
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by elevensies 9y ago
China is willing to do it, as well as capital punishment for fraud. IMO this just transfers more power to politicians. There are more laws than anyone could ever read or count, anyone whose affairs are that complicated can be jailed at any
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by elevensies 9y ago
One of the reasons capitalism is so efficient is because of how quickly it deallocates from failure. Abandoning failed areas allows resources and people to be redirected to more profitable areas. Keep in mind the places we are talking about
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by elevensies 9y ago
For various reasons, people want to be able to evaluate students against each other, which requires a total ordering ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order ) For example, I didn't want to go to grad school
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by elevensies 9y ago
reran it: http://archive.is/6klEx
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by elevensies 9y ago
Regarding the mistakes section, the technical side of that is something I've also experienced. When you're working with smartphone derived hardware and platforms you get a pretty sophisticated platform that can do a lot, but it al
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by elevensies 9y ago
I think they need licenses to use the radio spectrum. I believe Iridium set up a system in China so that all calls are routed through Chinese systems, so there is some historical precedent. The government of China also has anti-satellite we
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by elevensies 9y ago
I've been thinking along these lines, some other features I'd like: - ability to have certain sites run site-specific extra processing: i.e. youtube-dl youtube links - ability to have a list of sites to be archived periodically in
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by elevensies 9y ago
Yeah, if the system can't be represented as hyperlinked documents, then you're going to be married to the browser APIs which are in Javascript -- so you can either use Javascript or a tool that outputs Javascript.
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by elevensies 9y ago
One "alternative" is to do the minimum possible in the browser, and do most of the work on the back end. For example, if you inspect this page, you'll see that it has about 150 lines of Javascript. There are two ways to chang
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by elevensies 9y ago
I see Musk as having a Caesar-like role. He commands the army (of execs, engineers, technicians, skilled labor), his job is to decide what to attack. Each of those bullet points probably has 100 to 1000 people actively working on it. I don&
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by elevensies 9y ago
Along the same lines (machining), Clickspring is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA (channel link) Edit: Here is a particular video I liked: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by elevensies 9y ago
Also in Canada, I just assumed they were still doing it -- I don't watch any children-targeted media so I wouldn't see it anyway. I think I saw an ad during the hockey game last night of a kid eating a McMuffin at night. But a qui
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by elevensies 9y ago
What impresses me most about McDonald's is the highly effective and efficient incentive structure. You have the franchise owner who is very committed financially and can make a high income, plus lots of low cost labor following a very
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by elevensies 10y ago
Tenancy has strong and unique protections. If you are a tenant you can call the police to kick out your landlord if they are not within their access rights. Someone has the exclusive right to use the space, but it is not the landlord. I
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by elevensies 10y ago
I think that refusing to leave someone else's private property makes the use of force inevitable. I would expect him to be treated essentially the same if he refused after being asked to leave a bar, a movie theater, someone's hom
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by elevensies 10y ago
I think they handled it poorly, but there is no way that a passenger's wishes will override the pilot or the airline. They probably thought he would come to his senses when the cops showed up, I think that is where they screwed up, IMO
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by elevensies 10y ago
Joel's criteria are intended to be efficient and diagnostic of common problems. I think his choice here is based on seeing teams use ineffective tools because effective tools are "too expensive". Whereas being made to use exp
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by elevensies 10y ago
For example, I would personally mark any article false if it included any statements on the goals and mindset of Vladimir Putin, unless the author was Vladimir Putin. There are people who probably can't even tell why their wife is upse
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by elevensies 10y ago
Most political discussion isn't precise enough to produce a yes/no, and often claims are being made about nebulous stuff like the future, morality, the thoughts and intentions of others. Or, for example, one may display a direct q
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by elevensies 10y ago
The title is a nice pun: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036613/

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