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   by fintler 13y ago

   Many of these organizations may be testing the response they get from creating a Github account. This project is a way they can receive feedback instead of dying in obscurity. It's a chicken and egg problem. Edit: Longer explanation at
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   US National Laboratories Prepare to Shut Down(blogs.nature.com)

   1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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   by fintler 13y ago

   They're using rolling admission -- so if they come across 100 qualifying applications before they encounter yours, it doesn't matter how good you are (they bump you to a future semester).
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   by fintler 13y ago

   The links and prices you've posted are for a different program.
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   by fintler 13y ago

   I would add on about $1000 for additional fees. Most places are saying that the cost would be "just under $7000".
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   by fintler 13y ago

   I wouldn't expect anyone to know object oriented PHP. However, if they have Stanford credentials, I would expect them to be able to learn it in a very short timeframe. Also, a computer science degree does not make someone a software en
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   CADD Stat - Statistic tests for your daily tasks(caddstat.eyesopen.com)

   1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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   The smallest positive integer not definable in under eleven words.(en.wikipedia.org)

   2 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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   by fintler 13y ago

   Yay! I got my application in before someone posted it to Hacker News. I might actually have a chance now.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Odd. I can uncheck/check the SublimeVideo option and reload the page and it will either show the video as a static image or give me a play button. I'm on Mac Chrome 29.0.1547.76. Maybe my corporate firewall is messing with it some
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Just FYI, it looks like an interaction between SublimeVideo and HTTPS Everywhere appears to prevent the video from playing -- unchecking SublimeVideo in the HTTPS Everywhere options seems to fix the problem.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Same deal with < http://www.nist.gov/> . Folks were having fun with jokes on the nist-hash mailing list regarding the shutdown being a conspiracy by the NSA to compromise SHA-3.
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    The Screen Savers - Dark Tip: Van Eck Phreaking (2004)(youtube.com)

    3 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I really have no idea, but here's my current guess. From the page at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton_Mowbray_pork_pie#Melton... Protection was granted on 4 April 2008, with the result that only pies made wi
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    by fintler 13y ago

    This appears to be a sample of one of their newspaper announcements from 1922 (today was the first time I noticed that Google has replaced the ritual of asking a librarian for microfiche rolls). http://news.google.com/newspa
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Although I'm not sure if that's the mentioned publication, you might want to take a look at https://uima.apache.org/ . More info on how Watson is using UIMA: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation&#x2F
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    by fintler 13y ago

    We're using a modified Perceus tied into cfengine.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I think the one thing that I got from this article is that GPG is basically unusable by anyone who doesn't have cryptography as a hobby.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    We commonly reboot entire clusters at once (around 10,000 servers in larger clusters -- each running a full Linux OS) over PXE without a problem. We have a configuration management machine that creates an image, then we push that down to a
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I'm also in the club of people building one of these things (mine is on top of LevelDB and written in ANSI C with a lock-free design). My most recent blog post is on getting the thing to bootstrap: http://www.bringhurst.org&
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    Consensus Bootstrapping 101(bringhurst.org)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Thanks for the link -- I'm working through it now.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    I posted this question on StackOverflow regarding TrueTime (used by Spanner) a few days ago and haven't received any responses: < http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18384883/why-is-googles-t... However, I t
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    Why is Google's TrueTime API hard to duplicate?(stackoverflow.com)

    2 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    A basic sanity test of Java's AES key length.(gist.github.com)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    by fintler 13y ago

    It loaded the article right away for me. Chrome Mac 28.0.1500.95 here with Ghostery and Adblock running.
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    by fintler 13y ago

    Stanford's CS229 was also on Coursera. https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview
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    by fintler 13y ago

    It doesn't seem to work with my extremely common email address of: "me@example.com"@example.com Complete fail. /s Seriously tho, I like the design. It's refreshing to see someone avoiding another ugly perl-style reg
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    Microsoft restores root certificates that users distrust and remove (2007)(proper.com)

    3 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments
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    Would likely be a Chicago pile moment [for a warp drive](en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by fintler 13y ago|0 comments