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by ephermata 17y ago
Oh also, if the project happens to have an IRC channel, those can be excellent places to ask these kinds of one-off questions. Depends on the project of course but instant messaging is pretty good for the quick help kind of thing.
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by ephermata 17y ago
Mailing lists are a way to collect high volume discussions on a topic in a way that can be quickly scanned and searched. I can route everything through GMail or other mail client, then use a single set of tools to manage my conversations an
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by ephermata 17y ago
Great post. Thanks for doing the work to get the word out.
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by ephermata 17y ago
Wonder how this compares to skytap (www.skytap.com)?
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by ephermata 17y ago
Running the general number field sieve is not exactly brute forcing. IMHO, understanding and tuning an algorithm as complicated as the GNFS is pretty close to rocket science. Not as close as actually inventing it or writing the code yoursel
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by ephermata 17y ago
Thanks for explaining this. Here is the unshortened link: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/roylevin/osrresea... I will use unshortened links in the future.
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by ephermata 17y ago
(Disclosure: I work at Microsoft Research, since about two weeks ago.) You might enjoy reading this article from Roy Levin, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley: http://bit.ly/1NEc8f I found the axes he laid out at the beginning of the artic
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by ephermata 17y ago
Unfortunately, it now appears that there were other fake ATMs around, these at the Rio. These were not removed promptly. A friend of mine is out $200 and some of his friends are out more. Worse, no one can seem to figure out which law enfor
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by ephermata 17y ago
I'm on WiMAX right now with Clearwire, in Redmond WA. Works like a charm. The box could use a built-in 802.11 AP (or maybe it has one?) but that's easy enough to fix. speedtest.net says 42ms ping, 1.19MB/sec download, 0.19MB/sec upload to t
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HackerDojo lease signed(twitter.com)
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The split screen life (experience with myvu shades + ipod touch)(ephermata.livejournal.com)
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by ephermata 17y ago
When we applied during the last cycle, we made videos for each of the founders individually and edited them together. Didn't take much time at all, but it did lead to an interesting thought process about "how do I come across well in a shor
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by ephermata 17y ago
Do you already have a phone? Sounds like you do, just checking. If you walk into a T-Mobile or an AT&T Wireless store with a phone in hand, the salesperson can work with you. I recently checked this out for a development (unsimlocked) G
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by ephermata 17y ago
Yes, this is funny. The existence of random paper generators for a discipline doesn't say much about the rigor of that discipline. You might be able to make some kind of argument based on how long it takes for someone trained in the discipl
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by ephermata 17y ago
Right. I don't even take my laptop to DEF CON any more. Besides no longer needing to worry about the wifi, it means I spend more time talking with people. These days, though, you also need to keep an eye on your phone...
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by ephermata 17y ago
There are a few places I've seen that try to formally bring in "smart people who didn't get a CS degree." Microsoft has or had an "apprentice program" aimed at smart people who never happened to pick up a CS degree. There's a little bit abo
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by ephermata 17y ago
Worth it for meeting people. The talks are uneven. Sometimes wildly uneven. The main point of DEF CON is for people to get in touch face to face, maybe pick up some new interesting contacts. If you want "training" then this is not really th
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Tracking moving boxes (and your friends) with "Find My iPhone"(ephermata.livejournal.com)
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by ephermata 17y ago
Yes, that's right. In the TechCrunch thread about this, "Valentin" noticed that this is documented in their FAQ as well. The reason given is that the item being sold off may not be available in one of the countries. I (@dmolnar) gave an exa
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by ephermata 17y ago
Yes, they call this "international auctions." If you poke around in their FAQ you'll see this documented.
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Memory Glasses: Subliminally prompting glasses display (from 2003)(media.mit.edu)
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by ephermata 17y ago
Can you give a more specific case study where this would save me from a huge mess?