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by femto113 7y ago
I had first hand experience with this in the early 2000s with CMRC (stock symbol for a company named Commerce One). Friends and I were confident it was overvalued and shorted it, but it continued up at an insane clip and we got margin call
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by femto113 8y ago
In the mid-nineties a company named Avanti stole code from Cadence Design Systems (where I worked at the time, though I had no involvement in the case). This was first discovered by an engineer noticing that error messages in the two syste
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by femto113 8y ago
With AWS, in an emergency you can always use the console to provision access of some sort: SSH bastion with a public IP, second VPN, etc. This definitely implies that explicit 2FA is needed for console access, but I’m pretty comfortable wi
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by femto113 8y ago
Development infrastructure like Jenkins has no business being on the internet, so my preferred "second factor" is a VPN, secured with machine specific certificates that offer only VPN connectivity, but not SSH or anything else. T
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No.
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Just because self driving cars are a game changer doesn't mean that all (or even any) of the benefit accrues to Uber. Who holds pricing power in this scenario? The company that makes the car, the person who owns the car, the agent (U
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by femto113 8y ago
The only config system I've worked on that ever felt even vaguely satisfying was built around the excellent Typesafe (now Lightbend) HOCON implementation. The fact that HOCON is a superset of both JSON and properties formats made adop
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by femto113 8y ago
I can’t tell if you’re joking? Today the drivers buy the cars. A driverless car can’t buy itself, so some entity will have to, and if it is not Uber itself buying the car whoever did buy it will want to get paid just like today’s drivers
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by femto113 8y ago
They will have to pay out and worry about the cars, so this is true only if the cost of buying and maintaining the AV is less than the cost of paying a driver, and I’ve seen no evidence yet that this is or ever will be the case.
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by femto113 8y ago
I'm kinda curious how telecommuting to this job actually works. https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/lab/d/asphalt-laborers/68...
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by femto113 8y ago
I (re)discovered a similar scheme about 7 years ago for encoding numbers based on the observation that 20 consonants + 5 vowels offers essentially the same information density as base 10 numbers. Excluded 'c' because it seemed th
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by femto113 8y ago
Look into VPC Endpoint Services, it may address your use case. "You can create your own application in your VPC and configure it as an AWS PrivateLink-powered service (referred to as an endpoint service). Other AWS principals can creat
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by femto113 8y ago
Or, if we're lucky, we wind up with a "Spotify for Movies" that pays rights holders based on how much/frequently their content is watched. I'm certain we'll get there eventually, but it may take another decade
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by femto113 8y ago
I’d go beyond an “off switch” and argue that any software that’s smart enough to turn itself on without being asked needs to turn itself off if it’s obvious that the pilot is fighting against it. It’s like a classic Bayesian probability pr
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by femto113 8y ago
I gave up on memorizing APIs long ago (like I regularly have to look up how to lower case a string in languages I've used daily for years). This was triggered by regularly moving between multiple languages with confusing levels of sim
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by femto113 8y ago
I remember in the early days of JPG some people claiming that despite the size advantage GIF's image quality was inherently better and should be preferred. One JPG fan wrote something that really stuck with me: "I don't know
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by femto113 8y ago
I was once pitched a startup founded by some ex-amazonians whose big idea was "Apollo for everyone". They were nonplussed by my spit take. For the people saying "I worked there and it wasn't like that" I wonder if
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by femto113 8y ago
Dumping is about selling at a marginal loss. For example if it cost you $7 to make a widget but you sell it at a loss for $5 because you’re trying to drive a competitor who can make a widget for $6 out of the market. Linux (like most soft
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by femto113 8y ago
If like me you're interested in looking at how the code actually works I put a deobfuscated fork here https://gist.github.com/femto113/28f69626acddc70a002ecead0b3... Just expands the macros/typedefs and appli
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by femto113 8y ago
Title would be more descriptive if "Indie Retail Website" was replaced with "Amazon.com". What I find most notable here is that the FTC's settlement is with the manufacturer/seller, and doesn't seem to aff
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by femto113 8y ago
It's possible this isn't a coincidence, the tweet in question seems to have come out just before the last GC left, I wonder if it sparked a conflict.
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by femto113 8y ago
For comparison consider that Tesla is selling about that many cars in a month, or that GM sold over 2,000,000 cars last year, so the Volt was only about 1% of their volume. Little sad though because it had some truly innovative engineerin
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by femto113 8y ago
Intel’s chips don’t run on fairy dust. Seems to me the electric company is the invisible backbone behind this crackdown.
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Impresseive, but with some significant cheats for B, Z and the digits.
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On 2. the consequences can be real, as in the article linked below where people keep accusing a couple of stealing their phones. I believe in that case their house was located at the centroid of a zipcode and whatever tool was used to map
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by femto113 8y ago
If the rationale is privacy this is probably not the algorithm you want to use, especially if it's possible to force the generation of multiple random points (e.g. by refreshing the map). If you're using a circle with a fixed rad
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"[They] run a regression that states more miles driven the less likely an airbag is to deploy. They state this is unexpected but don’t explain what was wrong with their data to cause it" This is covered in the Discussion section,
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If states can force women to get medically unnecessary ultrasounds or listen to non-science-based "counseling" before an abortion it seems like they should also have the power to force parents to view videos of children who were m
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by femto113 8y ago
"there is no way to reverse this process and access addresses of the original devices" That doesn't mean you can't abuse this data! If you know a MAC addresses (say of your ex-spouse's cellphone) and the algorithm
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I would never argue against doing it your case, but implementing an abstraction because multi-vendor support is an actual requirement is quite different from implementing an abstraction on top of a single vendor because you are trying to av

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