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by flurpitude 11y ago
9,945 people have taken the test according to the stats at the bottom, and the site's painfully slow. Definitely needs some performance tweaking.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Just putting a paywall warning in the link text would suffice. Let people decide whether they want to pay.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
When my company hires, we look for programmers who show curiosity, interest and creativity. This, I suppose, is what some PR person somewhere decided would be called "passion". But we're not looking for some crazy evangelist
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by flurpitude 12y ago
For my kids, Scratch from MIT was the thing that finally got them programming. It gives immediate rewards and every program can be shared on the site and modified ("remixed") by other users. So all the kids are building on each ot
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Kaspersky uncovers NSA's 'operating system'-like malware platform(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Same here in Canada. Apple do that better.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Only 128GB of storage? Just not enough.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Revenge. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/americas-spies-want-edw...
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What NSA Director Mike Rogers Doesn’t Get About Encryption(cato.org)
3 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Maybe you've overdone it a bit and lost track of what originally got you into all of this. If you scatter yourself and chase every shiny thing your core motivation gets kind of burnt out but you don't notice it for a while because
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by flurpitude 12y ago
It would bring me great relief to replace the verb "leverage" with "use". Unfortunately the noun "leverage" is legit and this extension wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Lesson #3: Don't order computer hardware or software isntallation disks by mail. Walk into a shop without warning them you're coming.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Why? Is Haiku just an exercise in nostalgia or are there reasons why one might actually choose it over other OSs for practical use?
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Seems to me the more problematic part is clause b: The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice, for anyone that makes any claim (including by filing any lawsuit, assertion or other action) alleging ... (b
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by flurpitude 12y ago
"Would Britons be required to avoid software from creators that fall outside of the UK’s jurisdiction? Would visitors to the UK be expected to replace the software on their laptops, and have all messages to and from the UK be scrutini
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by flurpitude 12y ago
NSA right now holds cards over CIA, keep that in mind as well. Can you elaborate a bit or suggest some reading on that point?
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by flurpitude 12y ago
"Our ability to “raise the level of the debate” or to “help policy-makers make the best decisions possible” or to “speak truth to power”—however one defines the mission—rests on one thing and one thing only: our reputations for analyt
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Odd that it provides links to the sites that hosted malicious content. That seems like a poor design decision.
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David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown(theguardian.com)
1 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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Video gives astronaut's-eye view inside NASA’s Orion spacecraft during re-entry(nasa.gov)
1 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 12y ago
"As of press time the aerostats are intended to stay in the air 24/7, and to be taken down only for a monthly maintenance cycle and during extreme weather events such as hurricanes." To any potential attackers, read that stat
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The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win(wired.com)
3 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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A Behind-The-Scenes Tour of No Man's Sky's Technology(youtube.com)
2 points by flurpitude 12y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Well, it seems that vendors have decided web advertising is not valuable even among user demographics that don't block ads. AdBlock may not be making all that much difference if the basic problem is that people ignore ads even when the
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Chlamydia. No wonder they rebranded as Mode Media. Still never heard of them though. Maybe they do bacterial marketing.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Yahoo the most popular, AOL 5th and Glam Media 7th in 2013? There's something fishy about these rankings.
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by flurpitude 12y ago
And every time you make a cup of coffee you throw away a little plastic container. It's inefficient, expensive and wasteful, and it supports DRM. Putting some grounds into a filter and then composting them afterwards should not be a hu
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Windows 8 Kernel Memory Protections Bypass(labs.mwrinfosecurity.com)
77 points by flurpitude 12y ago|12 comments
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by flurpitude 12y ago
"Last week in my email to you I synthesized our strategic direction as a productivity and platform company..." Good old corporatespeak. Anaesthetize them with tedious bullshit so you never have to say "You're fired.&quot
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by flurpitude 12y ago
Are you familiar with http://pcpartpicker.com ?

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