flashman

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by flashman 11y ago
What are you hosting Telescope on? Meteor, Heroku, self-hosted?
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by flashman 11y ago
Let me guess, your mission went up on Atlantis instead? Being the newest in the fleet I'd expect it to have a different layout from Columbia. Also from your other comments in the thread, sounds like you worked on a Hubble servicing mis
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by flashman 11y ago
"We're not losing money AND we get to shoot things into space" sounds like a winning business model to me.
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by flashman 11y ago
> why not simply snipe the drone out of the air Once this anti-drone laser is civilianized, that will be possible: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-navy-debuts-anti-drone-laser-wea...
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by flashman 11y ago
Not saying I disagree, but model aircraft don't require tail numbers or transponders - in fact the FAA "may not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding a model aircraft"[1] that meets certain criteria - so what makes dron
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by flashman 11y ago
My password manager loves to fill those in, for some reason.
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by flashman 11y ago
> 4. The status quo is pretty terrible. I can agree with you here. One thing businesses are constantly telling me: "We are flooded by unsuitable candidates, because recruiters are playing the numbers game. Their strategy is submitti
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by flashman 11y ago
More like, "Nobody is going to stop you saying what you want... but they're going to hold you responsible for the consequences." That's all any of us wants.
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by flashman 11y ago
The only time I'll pre-order a game is when the game won't get made otherwise (like Kickstarter or Early Access), and I have loads of faith in the developer. Luckily I haven't been burned yet (though I consider Star Citizen a
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by flashman 11y ago
Here's the text of the bill (under Schedule 1): http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w... Basically "the primary purpose of the online location [must be] to infringe, or to fac
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by flashman 11y ago
That is the sound of a very smart man who is very out of his depth and has not been properly backgrounded in a fairly technical policy.
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by flashman 11y ago
Here in Australia, where data caps have been the norm for, oh, forever, it's pretty sustainable (for now). Music streaming is notionally the same cost as reading an image-heavy website: negligible, in the scheme of things. Video stream
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by flashman 11y ago
Parenting is like having your code reviewed constantly: people will judge every decision you make, and you will judge yourself based on things you read and other people's children. On top of that, many of these judgements are entirely
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by flashman 11y ago
This just confirms to me what a big deal Taylor Swift is. Can anyone remember a time Apple reversed a business decision, or promised to fix some kind of technical issue, this quickly? (Critical security flaws notwithstanding.) Certainly not
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by flashman 11y ago
Thanks to John Foreman's book "Data Smart" I now regularly test small-scale machine learning problems in Excel. Sure, a developer will translate the end result to scikit-learn or AzureML, but this is stuff that's easily
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by flashman 11y ago
This is a really ugly, selfish attitude. It's like opposing literacy because it will put pressure on jobs for those who can read and write. It's circling the wagons around people who had the privilege and opportunity to learn thes
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by flashman 11y ago
How would I go about building an IMSI catcher? Preferably supporting LTE.
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by flashman 11y ago
Where's the option for "Conferences should allow whomever they wish to speak, but don't come crying to me when it all ends in tears, as it will if you court controversy by focusing on technical merit over personal behaviour.&
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by flashman 11y ago
Depends on your threat model. I'm more worried about something nasty in one of the many pieces of random software I download from the internet than my AV being compromised.
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by flashman 11y ago
The impression I get is the Chinese feel they are a singular nation: the world's largest, one of its richest, and its fastest-developing (the "sleeping dragon" finally awakening). And then they hear the Western world criticis
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by flashman 11y ago
Ha, now when you Google "flight status for LH3396" the fourth result is your StackOverflow link.
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by flashman 11y ago
This is a really nice thing to offer people, but with places like DigitalOcean offering one-click Mumble deployment for $5/mo[1], Guildbit might be a service looking for a niche. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/communi
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by flashman 11y ago
It will take nothing less than a few years of technocratic rule so its supporters can see that politics makes politicians the way they are, not vice versa. A tech CEO as president is a lovely fantasy about somebody smart, from outside tradi
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by flashman 11y ago
So it would be very cheap to buy your way to the top of the charts, but once there you'd make very little money?
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by flashman 11y ago
The (often unquestioned) assumption driving online learning is that it can be as good as face-to-face learning (or good enough not to matter). Online education's backers must make this assumption because, as Upton Sinclair said, &#x2
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by flashman 11y ago
I think people who aren't afraid of the Google panopticon won't care, and people who are afraid of it won't be reassured.
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by flashman 11y ago
Discussion of this story from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177063
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by flashman 11y ago
> We need to develop one universal graphic and data visualization library <xkcd>There are now 38 different libraries</xkcd>
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by flashman 11y ago
Just so I'm not misunderstanding: we just have to take it on trust that the developer isn't holding onto the data we upload, right?
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by flashman 11y ago
Thanks for your comment, that's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for :)

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