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by femto113 12y ago
Perhaps we should invert the law and make it criminal for publicly traded companies to keep material information secret. Having an unexpectedly good or bad quarter? Give us updates every week.
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by femto113 12y ago
I think there's a lot to this. My house has one iPad (an iPad 2) that still works great and gets daily use by everyone in the family. We have about four or five Macs, three of which are working but my laptop is the only one that gets
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by femto113 12y ago
I can accept this rationale for investing in teams over ideas, but when did "pivoting" go from meaning "a modest change in direction" (e.g. switching the target market for your SASS product from consumers to enterprise,
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by femto113 12y ago
Anecdotally this seems to happen mostly from personal experiments, not from development of open source software meant to be consumed by others. Secrets generally are included in projects that are meant to be deployed (like a rails app, or
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by femto113 12y ago
My advice: USE PRIVATE REPOS! At $7/month Github's micro plan with 5 repos is just $1.40/repo-month. This is the cheapest insurance you can get against the nearly inevitable mistake of committing something sensitive.
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by femto113 12y ago
They're proper almost any time that week is the fundamental unit of aggregation. I've commonly used these for naming folders (or more recently AWS S3 buckets) for storing log files or periodic data dumps. For example a structure
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by femto113 12y ago
Very reminiscent of merb (a wycats led divergence from Rails from about 5 years ago). I expect a similar arc for io.js: a couple of distinct technical fetures that lead to a brief period of rising developer mindshare, then in a upcoming ve
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by femto113 12y ago
> Some extra space on the side is more valuable to me than more at the top Serious question: doesn't the landscape mode of rectangular screens sufficiently address this?
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by femto113 12y ago
As many other comments have pointed out almost everyone with a debit card already has a free bill pay option from their bank. Thus the only real market for this is paying by credit card. Spiraling debt? Chargebacks? This is going to end b
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by femto113 12y ago
It's more than a coincidence. The company's original name, SEOMoz, was inspired by projects like DMOZ [1], an "open" web directory that started under the mozilla.org umbrella. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by femto113 12y ago
It's not quite that simple, but essentially "yes". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDoxReEkHe8
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by femto113 12y ago
I believe this is because Apple wants the logical size to correspond (roughly) with physical size. This is particularly important for user interfaces. A button needs to be sized for the human finger that is tapping it and thus should be t
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by femto113 12y ago
Nice. Seems unlikely we could get it down to 2 points as numerals like 3 seem to require two distinct curves, but perhaps someone will try?
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by femto113 12y ago
Seems like open is a requirement, since not all the numerals are closed and I'm not sure how one would morph between open and closed spines. Playing around here ( http://www.victoriakirst.com/beziertool/ anyone kn
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by femto113 12y ago
I propose a new sport: Bezier clock golf, in which we try to construct a readable clock using the fewest number of control points. Current par is 5.
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by femto113 12y ago
18K just means "75% pure gold", it doesn't say what the other 25% is and there are a lot of different alloys. Most commonly it's mostly copper, which ironically is what gives it the standard "gold" tint (white
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by femto113 12y ago
If Personal Audio has already publicly stated they are willing to just walk away why keep this confidential? Only reason I can think of is they've actually offered something of value (such as paying Carolla's attorney fees).
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by femto113 12y ago
I think "full line" isn't an entirely static concept in IAAS, but I'm using it here to suggest there's no other player offering the same breadth of services. I haven't surveyed other providers in detail lately
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by femto113 12y ago
Anyone who makes the blanket assertion that "AWS is not the best product at anything" is failing to grasp the fundamental advantage of AWS--it is the only (and therefore best and cheapest) "full line" IAAS provider. Obv
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by femto113 12y ago
Perhaps as a stopgap Maven Central (or a concerned third party?) could publish all of the SHA1 hashes on a page that is served via HTTPS. This would at least allow tools to detect the sort of attack described in the article.
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by femto113 12y ago
that would be the Freudian Slip of the weak
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by femto113 12y ago
This is a pretty awesome deal when you consider it for a whole family. I go through a couple books a week reading with my daughter (generally in Kindle format on an iPad). We get what we can from the library, but she really likes series,
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by femto113 12y ago
There's a fundamental flaw with the "CA/DNS/HTTPS/web browser UI" infrastructure that conflated the concepts of "encrypted transmission" and "proof of identity". Despite the scary red scree
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by femto113 12y ago
Poppy is this in plastic (plus a lens splitting mirror so you can shoot 3D video as well). http://www.poppy3d.com/
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by femto113 13y ago
I've blogged my extremely lazy solutions for the first 3 rounds. TL;DR is level0 used a hash table, level1 found an existing utility, level2 used a hash table. Grand total of about 15 lines of new code. http://www.codesuck
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by femto113 13y ago
I've been working on such a project for a couple years as a solo/on-the-side thing. It's not available as a turnkey product yet, but the technology is working and can build arbitrary amounts of realistic test data (based eit
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by femto113 13y ago
My alma mater (UC Santa Cruz) does exactly this, all course were pass/fail and if you passed you got a narrative evaluation, which ranged from terse sentences that obviously encoded traditional grades as text ("He did very good on
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by femto113 13y ago
Interesting to see this come up. A couple years ago I started and then mothballed a system for generating realistic fake people (which I called golems) using deterministic and reversible algorithms instead of random numbers (it has a bunch
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by femto113 13y ago
It's about 4 hours worth of Google searches, according to this: http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/
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by femto113 13y ago
I've spent my career roughly half and half consulting and as a full time employee, and while it is possible to earn more as a consultant it requires a lot of extra effort (plus taxes, insurance, etc.), so in the end feels like a wash. As a

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