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by feral 15y ago
"During the 60 days, the PageRank of www.google.com/chrome will also be lowered to reflect the fact that we also won’t trust outgoing links from that page." That was the strangest part, for me. Google clearly can trust outgoing links from
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by feral 15y ago
> 10 Subject == getConfig(Email[Subject]) This is a particularly funny bug to write in pseudo-BASIC; considering that in BASIC a single '=' is used to test for equality, as well as for assignment. I can see why they need all that proces
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by feral 15y ago
Certainly, it is very influential - but is it a book that all programmers (even western ones) should read? I'm not sure - it is very long. Its probably worth reading some subset of, but I'd be more certain about 1984 and even The Prince
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by feral 15y ago
Fair comment: if the geometry is done right, the geometry should be timeless. But whether the particular presentation is worth reading, can change. 150 years ago, every person hoping to do anything vaguely mathematical should probably hav
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by feral 15y ago
I'm not sure that all those people on Stackexchange have read the question properly. The question is "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?" I.e. given the set of books that every programmer should read, whi
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by feral 15y ago
I honestly don't know what to make of this. There are intelligent people involved in it; I've attended talks by some of them. Its not as crazy as the sensationalist article headline makes it out to be; one excerpt from the "Project Outline"
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by feral 15y ago
>I’m really unsure why Path are trying to create a whole new network, when there’s so many great networks out there already. Bigger potential upside? Their features are in the core focus of Facebook, so building on Facebook could be tri
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by feral 15y ago
>The ability of a virus to kill is not a positive for fitness, and over the long run is in fact a negative evolutionary influence. I think the Keynes quote is, for once, appropriate here: "In the long run, we are all dead." Your argumen
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by feral 15y ago
>I would not fear this virus for the same reason that I do not fear Ebola or Marburg virus. Viruses that kill quickly and efficiently do not spread as well as those that cause some disease but allow their host to continue functioning mo
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by feral 15y ago
People are talking here about the evil of patents - I remember the original deal causing similar controversy. Some of Carmacks comments at the time seemed to say that Creative were using their patent to strong arm him into adding support fo
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by feral 15y ago
So, Google could be forced to not gather this information at all. Whether its in the public interest is a tradeoff between the utility provided vs the privacy loss. I think its a net utility gain - I like my phone to resolve quickly, and s
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by feral 15y ago
Whats the major problem with logging the location of a Wifi access point? I understand Google screwed up in this area before, when they captured network traffic. (Even then, it seems they captured that data due to oversight, not some nefar
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by feral 15y ago
I've done some work on this ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524 ) and the phenomenon that coderr describes is very widespread in practice (we can examine this passively, from the transaction history) and its linking identities we can be pretty
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by feral 15y ago
Its difficult to know what the figures on that chart mean, after casual inspection. Is it gross debt? Debt net of assets? How are they calculating the debt? There are more subtle issues, too. Its very hard to know what to count as Irish s
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by feral 15y ago
I'd say its possible, but unlikely; and you'd hope its not a major factor in practice. When you assume that the attackers would have, or could get, at least one account which they know the password for, then if the hashing scheme is somethi
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by feral 15y ago
I think, we've reached this situation, where huge numbers of people, across different professions, need to manipulate data. For the last 10/20 years, the dominant paradigm for data manipulation, was probably the spreadsheet. Spreadsheets g
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by feral 15y ago
Yes, of course they do; they have vast amounts of data; click streams, likes, comment text, etc. But I guess I'm saying that the core metaphor, with which Facebook did much of its early growth, was that two people are 'friends', or are they
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by feral 15y ago
The guy that picks her up at the airport, appears to be a professional driver. He has a black cap, and he nods deferentially, before turning around to apparently open the door or trunk for her. I'd have thought that in a 'Productivity Futur
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by feral 15y ago
Well - those were just quick reactions I had to the video. But, I think if I could now somehow set my own childhood educational curriculum, I don't think long division would be on it. I don't think I know how to do long division, at the mom
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by feral 15y ago
Lots of good, interesting ideas in that post. A few comments: In general, what data you capture, always depends on what you want to do with the data. Any data model is an abstraction, which discards a lot of information. This simplificat
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by feral 15y ago
I just watched the video, and typed my reactions, as I had them; no idea if this will be of interest. * * * People still travel for meetings? By plane? Wait, someone is driving the car? Thats not very productive. There are bellhops? Why are
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by feral 15y ago
Because that way, anyone sniffing or monitoring your traffic doesn't even need to crack the systems to steal the hash, and so you'll be saving everyone some time? Edit: I'm trying to illustrate the general principle, that you shouldn't take
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by feral 15y ago
What people generally say is that the net was designed to be robust against things like a nuclear strike taking out some part of the network. That is very different from saying that it can't be turned off, by a government with the power to
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by feral 15y ago
>Are they going to increase their cut? Doubt it. Why would they? They could increase their cut. But they could also just increase the price per app, by reducing competition (e.g. only allowing 1 app of each sort). They would be incenti
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by feral 15y ago
I find your comment a little naive, with respect to the 'cheap' part. I doubt the apps will be as cheap in a situation where there's a single company monopoly. At the moment, it is in Apple's interest to keep apps cheap, to drive sales of h
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by feral 15y ago
http://coderetreat.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-a-coderetreat... gives an introduction to the format. I hope to attend the next one, in Dublin, Ireland. I'm a little skeptical about the format though. You develop in 45 minute long cycles,
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by feral 15y ago
I was disappointed too, but if you view the page source, you can see the URL of the actual stream. For example: mms://proedvid.stanford.edu/videocontent/knuth/cs209/871002/871002-cs209-500.wmv (just grep for: mms:// ) VLC seems to be able t
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by feral 15y ago
Seems pretty straightforward. The 'wavefront-expansion' algorithm does a breadth-first expansion from the goal node, to every other node. As this is done, the distance from each node examined, to the goal, is stored. Afterwards, in order to
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by feral 15y ago
Couldn't they just get your mobile number, from one of your friends iPhones? Even if you had a fake name on your profile, I would assume its still fairly straightforward to identify you purely from the network structure. I've no idea if th
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by feral 15y ago
Quality sleep is very important for long term productivity. Anecdotally, lot of people need to 'wind down' after finishing work, so that they get a good sleep; hence the sleep-work-personal ordering. On a related point, is it bad to set out

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