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by epsylon 12y ago
Dan Boneh's free "Crypto 1" on coursera. A new session will be starting on the 30th of June. I've taken it myself and this is hands down one of the best MOOCs (and class overall) I've ever taken.
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Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (2010) [pdf](daemonology.net)
275 points by epsylon 12y ago|97 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
And Swift would be equally terrible for a high performance 3D game. (It's not because the guy from Apple said it that it's true.) There's a reason why every single AAA studio uses C++ for their engines and titles. And that&
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by epsylon 12y ago
It's funny that people never seem to think about IPython. It has a lot of this kind of stuff.
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by epsylon 12y ago
I must have been following the grugq[1] way too much because all I couldn't help thinking about the massive OPSEC mistakes he did. Fortunately he was apprehended by the German Police, but things would've been way different had too
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by epsylon 12y ago
A bit late on my answer, but this is a well-studied phenomenon: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/12/15-school-... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education&
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by epsylon 12y ago
(Fellow ENSIMAG-er, I presume?)
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by epsylon 12y ago
Bringing up things like poverty or parental education is a red herring. An Asian student from a family earning $0-10k has a higher average SAT math score than a black student from a family earning $70k+. I disagree that this is a red herr
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by epsylon 12y ago
Octane is GPU exclusively and uses CUDA AFAIK.
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The Art of Being Right (A. Schopenhauer)(en.wikisource.org)
2 points by epsylon 12y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
You're probably thinking of AutoCAD, which isn't written in Lisp, but scriptable using Autodesk's variant of Lisp.
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by epsylon 12y ago
It mostly harms the big name producers. There are plenty of niche writers and small-time musicians who are super happy to be published on Amazon and iTunes.
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Why I Hate Your Freedom(raikoth.net)
2 points by epsylon 12y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Computing Playground (WebGL)(qcplayground.withgoogle.com)
5 points by epsylon 12y ago|1 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
I'm curious to know how you consume it. Smoked, vaporized, baked... ?
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by epsylon 12y ago
Being an asshole is a mental problem.
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It’s Now the Canadian Dream(nytimes.com)
4 points by epsylon 12y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
For the curious, Farbrausch have a released a lot of their demos and tools source code on GitHub: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public (Also, take a look at the rest of Fabian's blog, it's extremely good.)
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by epsylon 12y ago
Some of these are awesome: literally.guitars and crap.gift would make awesome e-commerce names !
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by epsylon 12y ago
Ha damn, that's the coolest one I saw :-) Hope you'll do something cool with it!
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by epsylon 12y ago
You should perhaps contact their customer service. I had a good experience with them.
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by epsylon 12y ago
The whole point of this is when you don't remember the command which you are trying to achieve . (See the author's comment[1]: "Betty just grew out of my cheat sheet of commands. I was tired of repeatedly looking up things i
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Some thoughts on security after 10 years of qmail 1.0 (2007)(cr.yp.to)
3 points by epsylon 12y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
See "Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance" http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/01/29/mongo-ft/
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by epsylon 12y ago
> one tab (flash) crashing doesn't take out the entire browser It hasn't been the case for years. Plugins are sandboxed. (plugin-container.exe) The broken mouse gestures on Chrome are the single most important dealbreaker for
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U.S. judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts(reuters.com)
1 points by epsylon 12y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 12y ago
This one is my favorite of this thread by far!
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by epsylon 12y ago
As a French native, I have a minor nitpick on the comparison between Diderot / Voltaire and Confucius / Mencius. Diderot and Voltaire wrote Modern French , which is incredibly similar to the French that is spoken nowadays. I doub
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by epsylon 13y ago
Which language are you using? Text editors like ST usually rely on third party tools like ctags to do the indexing (which is the hard part).
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by epsylon 13y ago
http://hyperpolyglot.org/ ?

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