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SpaceX says helium loading issue caused accident, seeks 2016 return to flight(arstechnica.com)
66 points by gvb 10y ago|22 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
Ending in a killer cliffhanger!
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by gvb 10y ago
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justice#F
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Impact of app size on installs and usage(recode.net)
1 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
To the accounting department it is perfectly rational. In the accounting department everybody is an identical square in the spreadsheet. In the spreadsheet, if square "A23" takes n hours to accomplish a task, the spreadsheet tel
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by gvb 10y ago
There are no windows in a SCIF.
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by gvb 10y ago
In his early weeks, Powell recalled, he’d “received several security briefings that restricted his ability to communicate.” He’d questioned the NSA and CIA on “why PDAs were anymore of a risk than the television remote controls.” He never
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by gvb 10y ago
I've been programming for nearly 40 years. Based on my interactions with others, programming is an intrinsic ability. People that don't have that intrinsic ability can cut'n'paste their way through simple programs, but r
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'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real(recode.net)
189 points by gvb 10y ago|169 comments
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7 things a large stinkbug on the back porch can teach startup founders(blog.asmartbear.com)
1 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
Efficiency. The black box surface and vanes maximize the conversion of light into heat. The construction with the airflow traps and chimney effect maximize the transfer of the heat into the building while minimizing the heat transfer out
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Homebrew router faces better tests, tougher competition(arstechnica.com)
90 points by gvb 10y ago|23 comments
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The Router rumble: Ars DIY build faces better tests, tougher competition(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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Tech Debt Isn’t What You Think It Is(spin.atomicobject.com)
3 points by gvb 10y ago|1 comments
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Daniel Stenberg's First 20 Years of HTTP(daniel.haxx.se)
3 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
They tried and failed at least three times: Intel i960 Intel i860 Itanium https://www.quora.com/Why-didnt-Intel-move-from-CISC-archite... Added: Intel created a huge moat and wall around their x86 architecture
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by gvb 10y ago
The number of components in rockets and IC transistors are probably roughly comparable. ICs have the advantage that they are making a huge number of only a couple of different things (e.g. transistors, resistors, capacitors). Rockets are co
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IoT’s killer app is not home security(techcrunch.com)
101 points by gvb 10y ago|95 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
An large amount of very sensitive information from a huge number of people is stored "in the cloud" making it a big target for hackers[1]. In addition, the attack surface of a company providing tax services on the internet is huge
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by gvb 10y ago
> VM with Win 10 just to do the taxes. That's what I've been doing for quite a few years now (WinXP, then Win7) and it works well. Catching up on Windows updates once a year takes almost as long as doing my taxes. :-O The other
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by gvb 10y ago
That is how Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
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by gvb 10y ago
For a very literal definition of close. The following is from 2014... it would be interesting to know how much progress they have made in how much detail their cars need to be successful. http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog
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Removing the Powershell Curl Alias?(daniel.haxx.se)
3 points by gvb 10y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 10y ago
My take on the CISC/RISC "fight" is that the RISC was based on the assumption that the CPU clock was the limiting factor, so making a simpler CPU (RISC) would allow the CPU to be clocked faster than CISC and thus it would run
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by gvb 10y ago
The 16 bit "thumb" instructions are still all fixed size - 16 bits. They do this by limiting the available options in the instructions. For instance, the register selection field will be 3 bits so only 8 registers can be directly
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by gvb 10y ago
They already have two products for SMS: Messenger and Hangouts, and they have deprecated SMS in Hangouts. Now they have two products for video chat. The linear line through the data points says Hangouts are going away. Ref: http:/&#x2
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by gvb 10y ago
Have they announced when Hangouts will be discontinued? First they deprecated SMS on Hangouts. Now they have replicated the video and voice portion. The next shoe to drop will be discontinuing Hangouts. Ref: http://arstechnica.
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by gvb 10y ago
Classic: -2000 Lines Of Code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... "Bill Atkinson, the author of Quickdraw and the main user interface designer, who was by far the most important Lisa implemen
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by gvb 10y ago
"Corgibytes often introduces new clients to Docker, making it much easier and faster to set up new developer environments. " (emphasis mine) She isn't advocating using Docker for the target environment, she is advocating usi
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by gvb 10y ago
If it is an I/O heavy workload (and it is), then his statement "All 101 threads run 99.9% of the time and we get an almost 100× speed-up." cannot be true. The processing portion probably runs n times faster, where n = the

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