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by fab13n 12y ago
Honest question: who has a use-case for which a Raspberry wasn't powerful enough, but a Banana would have been? Given that the Banana is about twice as expensive, here's a subsidiary question: who has a use-case for which TWO Rasp
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by fab13n 12y ago
> I suppose I think you're not understanding her point of view, much as she didn't understand the employee's point of view. I think I understand what a workaholic's feelings might be in such a situation, although disp
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by fab13n 12y ago
I think most people from countries other than USA realized it was a 3-months notice. I believe the story remains a caricature, for the following reasons: 1/ she terminated him because she determined there was no more need for his skill
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by fab13n 12y ago
Nice and funny example of Poe's law [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law ]. Failing to realize when you ought to STFU is part of what being a sociopathic boss is about. That her companies seem to revolve ar
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by fab13n 13y ago
Agreed, there's no realistic way to port OpenSSL to a new language. What I'm saying is, I think a clean-up fork of OpenSSL will divide the workforce per project, without dramatically improving security. So it's not "dumb
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by fab13n 13y ago
With close to years of C under my belt, I believe it's a major error, today, to write a critical cryptographic library in C. OK, do the codecs in C if it's the only way to meet performance requirements. But the rest must be writte
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by fab13n 13y ago
> Why is it that [...] so many people intentionally choose to "hate on" science? My impression is that people miss the Devil. You know, the horny guy with the pitchfork: something well identified, to hate personally, almost ant
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by fab13n 13y ago
That makes you a counter example, but the kind of people desired by startups typically have an MSc degree, will have kids, will get a nanny and/or a nurse if they make reasonable money before making babies, etc. And most importantly al
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by fab13n 13y ago
> isn't that the whole point? It isn't. The grand-parent post implied that paying €2 for every euro in the employee's pocket what a terrible disadvantage for French companies. My point was to show that, all things consider
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by fab13n 13y ago
> you'll pay him 70k€ and he'll get 35k€ That's true (although it's a pretty junior salary). However, thanks to the stuff funded by the €35k he didn't receive directly: * he has no student loan; * his kids'
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by fab13n 13y ago
I overall agree, except for one important caveat: one of the main incentives for high-tech investment in France is the "crédit d'impôt recherche", "tax break for research". It's very effective, as it pays ~ 50%
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by fab13n 13y ago
I fear that giving such a significant power based on karma score might create karma whoring behaviors. Then again it can be turned off if experience shows that it has such nasty side effects.
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by fab13n 13y ago
We're in a situation comparable to smartphones pre-iPhone: we know there is value in displaying stuff on your wrist, we know we need some way to send information in response to those received from the screen, but all of this doesn&#x27
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by fab13n 13y ago
The main issue for him today isn't legality; it's being a prime target for extortion, from entities other than governments.
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by fab13n 13y ago
Well, you don't pay for the security associated with state-backed currencies (in fees and regulatory constraints) and you don't get it. That's it. The Gox debacle will teach people to cold-store their wallets themselves, whic
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by fab13n 13y ago
Which is as close to "unregulated" as useful definitions go: once unleashed and bootstrapped, no human nor political organization can directly drive it. It's only self-regulated the way a free market is self-regulated, which
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by fab13n 13y ago
I'm digging further off-topic, but anyway: as a non-japanese speaker and someone who spontaneously thinks in terms of optimization, I'm amazed by the seemingly gratuitously complicated rules of politeness in that language. Does it
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by fab13n 13y ago
Past a certain level of ambition--e.g. when you want to redefine transportation, energy production or interplanetary colonization--you cannot avoid mingling with governments. Doing so on friendly terms, and if possible gathering a bit of ca
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by fab13n 13y ago
The main feature of BTC is that it's unregulated, so indeed, if you don't provide the security usually enforced by governments, there isn't any. Usually, when using online services such as MtGox, you're secured by the fa
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by fab13n 13y ago
Indeed. However, the whole point of crypto-currencies is decentralization: you give up both (some of) the constraints and (most of) the protection that goes with government-backed currencies. Choosing who you trust then becomes your own pro
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by fab13n 13y ago
Very interesting experiment. I'm surprised to be able to read (albeit only when completely focused) at 500 English wpm without being a native speaker. Some observations: * My eyes muscles feel oddly relaxed while reading, whereas in co
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by fab13n 13y ago
A network's value is correlated to the number of (potential) friends reachable through it, and how easily you can. There are many almost-non-technical reasons why Hangout isn't an adequate replacement for Whatsapp: - not intuitive
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by fab13n 13y ago
> it's not obvious that you're trespassing currently, even if you start to wonder. He's admitted that he kept snooping around after he fully realized that the files were online by mistake.
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by fab13n 13y ago
My point wasn't about the theft/piracy distinction. It was that your victim being incompetent at defending themselves is not a valid excuse for committing a crime against them. Besides, counterfeiting one's furniture doesn&#x
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by fab13n 13y ago
Tldr: he's not fined for entering on the website. He's fined because he kept mirroring the site after he realized it was opened by mistake (he unwisely admitted as much to the cops). It's the digital equivalent of figuring ou
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by fab13n 13y ago
In all fairness, I've mixed Android issues with browser issues in my rant.
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by fab13n 13y ago
I'm currently trying to switch from Google Maps for my smartphone, not because maps are more detailed in geek-dense areas (although they are), but because Google seems to have hired a bunch of drunken lemurs as its usability team. I me
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by fab13n 13y ago
Regarding micro payments to fund websites: I wouldn't pay for most sites. Not because their content is worth nothing, but because it is uncomfortable to have a counter ticking, spending more cents for each of my mouse clicks. And of co
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by fab13n 13y ago
I haven't been so creeped out by an ad for quite some time. This looks like a solution desperately looking for a problem; that is, unless your problem is "I want to spy every single step of everyone in my family". And serious
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by fab13n 13y ago
Mining: if we're to believe in free markets, fees will adjust to the amount of available CPU resources. I hope that it won't be profitable enough for people to dedicate farms to mining, but that companies with a lot of CPU power w

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