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721.
by fleitz 12y ago
This is why I LOVE reading what Linus has to say, it's all very practical, and pretty much ignores theory, because he has actual evidence to support his claims.
722.
by fleitz 12y ago
Umm... isn't the US a country of immigrants? aka. the people who cut bait on their country to join a better one? The US is literally founded on the idea of cutting bait and running to another country (that's better).
723.
by fleitz 12y ago
You mean like people write notes on paper and they don't mysteriously disappear when you buy a new pen? It's pretty standard to warn people of destructive actions.
724.
by fleitz 12y ago
When you use the word regime you already know what actions you should take. Leave now, while you still can, don't debate the wording of acts, especially when the regime starts to pass legislation increasing barriers to entry for leavin
725.
by fleitz 12y ago
Whether your coding is up to par is for your employer to decide, you don't need to worry about it. Find a remote programming gig, or just do a few hours on elance. I had similar feelings when I was working tech support, now 13 years la
726.
by fleitz 12y ago
Sure, just put magnet URIs in your transactions. That said, I'm not quite sure why this needs a blockchain... A URI is either in the system or not in the system... Why would one need a consensus algorithm to store URLs? Blockchains are
727.
by fleitz 12y ago
What would his position be on using the Skype software to make a PSTN phone call? What if your phone uses proprietary software?
728.
by fleitz 12y ago
RMS is the first politician that codes. Once you understand that most of what he rants about actually makes some sort of sense. He's appealing to his base by making political statements that make little sense to anyone who isn't a
729.
by fleitz 12y ago
Click fraud works like this: 1) Make shitty blog 2) Put some ads on it 3) Buy some traffic 4) Buy some click fraud traffic 5) Profit. eg. If buzzfeed wants to make a little extra rev this month all they have to do is buy some click fraud tr
730.
by fleitz 12y ago
Yup, and also, it's oh so difficult to fake a referrer.
731.
by fleitz 12y ago
Not really, many people price bids according to CPA, with a well managed campaign a click fraud site would receive a bid X% lower.
732.
by fleitz 12y ago
Exactly, lets not judge people on their bad results, but their good intentions.
733.
by fleitz 12y ago
In 40 years you'll find the same thing, that whatever is happening 'now' was deplorable, and that whatever is happening 40 years from now is 'freedom'.
734.
by fleitz 12y ago
For most systems, open /dev/urandom and read from it. For pure C, use a secure hash function such as SHA-256. For a simpler approach, just fail to initialize the variable for which you want random data, especially if you frequentl
735.
by fleitz 12y ago
So in C# (on the .NET VM) when you allocate a string that's more than 65K when does it get freed? I wouldn't call that 'working'.
736.
by fleitz 12y ago
>> It's just 95% of the programmers using those languages are not very skilled. High level languages just make it easier for crappy programmers to approximate a working solution.
737.
by fleitz 12y ago
ObjC is about as homegrown as it gets. There are few major uses of ObjC outside of Apple/NextSteps's ecosystem.
738.
by fleitz 12y ago
I'm not sure why he thinks this is a new thing, most widely popular languages came out of big giant monopolies, like AT&T and C, not to mention UNIX.
739.
by fleitz 12y ago
Peak temperature lags peak solar by several hours, most energy intensive industries run 24/7, so the peak is caused often by home AC/heating which lags peak output by several hours.
740.
by fleitz 12y ago
Yup, however whether that's the future really depends on where you live, as they say the future is not even distributed. In BC, 85% of our generating capacity already does both. We can match generation to load, or continue to store the
741.
by fleitz 12y ago
It's a moot point because negative electricity prices reflect producing more than is necessary, the reason why it's negatively priced is because it's being generated at the wrong time (which is the stupidity of solar, it work
742.
by fleitz 12y ago
Luckily most of the growth opportunities are outside of the US.
743.
by fleitz 12y ago
Put a small import tax on to pay for the court system & a reasonable amount of police / military. Then fold the rest of the business up.
744.
by fleitz 12y ago
Sabre metrics.
745.
by fleitz 12y ago
Exactly, what's the liquidity preference for the salary you're leaving on the table? Oh that's right about -10X
746.
by fleitz 12y ago
It's not taboo, most people just think it is, especially in industries where there is a lineup of qualified applicants. I pick salary every time, the equity is fuck all in most cases. There isn't a mission, it's a job, in exc
747.
by fleitz 12y ago
Well... then you're more interested in cool stuff, foosball tables and free lunch than cold hard cash, but again, for highly skilled people there are many companies willing to offer boatloads of cash for those that can figure out how t
748.
by fleitz 12y ago
For highly skilled people you generally have lots of options, it's very difficult for a company to require 50 hour weeks without paying a salary higher than a company that requires 40 hour weeks.
749.
by fleitz 12y ago
I misread the title, I thought they hired some farmer who builds a rocket in his barn, similar to the movie The Astronaut Farmer. Turns out it's a regular farmer... growing rocket fuel? Actually... if the new rocket is using methane co
750.
by fleitz 12y ago
LOL, I spend all day next to java programmers trying to get GUIs to work in a performant manner. Just pickup any Android device and you can see the lag, ever wonder why all the java phones have 4 GB of memory and a quad core processor just

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