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by gwillen 14y ago
Those have become less popular in the US with rising fire-safety awareness, I think. (They are likely to trap inhabitants in the event of a fire.) Given that the device claims to work with almost any deadbolt, and therefore can't be too pic
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by gwillen 14y ago
I worry about Persona, for exactly the same reason OpenID chose the design it did: It's a serious mistake to permanently tie email to identity. It's still possible within the framework of Persona to fix this -- the browser / identity provid
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by gwillen 14y ago
Hm, _does_ work on my GN, stock 4.0.4.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I doubt it -- the range of NFC seems to be very bad. Unless the malware can turn up the gain, you have to hold the phones back-to-back within about a centimeter of each other.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Do you consider distros that rm -rf /tmp on startup to be broken? If not, why not?
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by gwillen 14y ago
Warning: This article is mangled by the flattening of all the superscripts in it. Given that it's about powers, the math is all but unreadable. You have been warned. :-)
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by gwillen 14y ago
I think I previously had all the pieces required to do this, but only just figured out that it worked: Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ exec 3<> /dev/tcp/<website>/80 Glenn-Willens-MacBook-Pro:~ gwillen$ echo "GET
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by gwillen 14y ago
> "Two hundred three" I'd be curious to hear you elaborate on this one. In American school, I learned that 'two hundred three' is the only acceptable version, but in casual speech people invariably say 'two hundred and three', which sou
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by gwillen 14y ago
No, they are high but not as high as SF. Honestly the quoted price sounds low to me for a single-family home in SF.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Yes. Duh. Now, if wishes were horses...
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by gwillen 14y ago
Wow, that's cool. The two systems are very similar, and I wouldn't be shocked if ARM was the inspiration for Dapper.
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by gwillen 14y ago
Yeah, I don't think he can reasonably declare this to be his own fault. He's doing that to avoid criticism, but realistically, there's no conceivable reason that moving the local endpoint of the sync on one machine should cause the other ma
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by gwillen 14y ago
Does anybody else get a severe visual illusion of motion when looking at the Venus image?
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by gwillen 14y ago
I don't think it's the labels that are the problem for the 'conservatives'. As I said on the other post, I fully expected that the 'liberals' like myself would say 'oh, what an interesting distinction', where the conservatives would say 'th
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by gwillen 14y ago
The comments yield more or less the response I expected, to wit: The 'liberals' agree that this is a useful distinction, and the 'conservatives' complain that the distinction is bullshit, and serves only to try to justify the misguided beli
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by gwillen 14y ago
This may be a bit out of scope for this post, but at Google I used to get a lot of mileage out of a system I worked on called Dapper: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust... It uses thread-local storage and RPC lib
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by gwillen 14y ago
Presumably the authors that got lendink taken down are the same ones that hate libraries and used bookstores, and complain about lost sales. It's unfortunate that there are such authors, but what can you do?
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by gwillen 14y ago
You can buy a handset through an electronics retailer. But: - Every cell carrier in the US has its own frequencies, so you generally have to buy a handset specific to a particular carrier. (The GSM carriers, T-mobile and AT&T, share the
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by gwillen 14y ago
Are CID publishers subject to claims from other CID publishers when they both wrongly claim the same video (like the rover landing?) Or are there first and second class citizens on Youtube, with the first class citizens not subject to such
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by gwillen 14y ago
Market segmentation. Prepaid plans offer lower-quality handsets, are less flexible, and tend to gouge you if you have high usage. Ultimately they're deliberately not designed for people who get a lot of use out of their phones, because the
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by gwillen 14y ago
I recently discovered a handy use for Chrome's task manager. Sometimes I want Chrome to stop wasting my RAM and CPU temporarily, because I need them for something. But it's annoying to close Chrome, because when it restarts it will try to r
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by gwillen 14y ago
I think it works better at destroying competition than it does at acquiring talent.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I'm a strong supporter of bitcoin, and I have a bunch of it, so don't get me wrong. But I suspect we may well be seeing a second big bubble here. Only time will tell.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I worked at Google for four years, so I think I can speak with a bit more authority than the 'matter of month'ers you criticize, when I say: Yes, some of the criticisms, especially those by outsiders with clear agendas, are overblown. That
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by gwillen 14y ago
Sorry, what's your claimed difference between padmapper and housingmaps? As far as I can tell by looking at housingmaps, it's identical to padmapper, which tells me it's going to be shut down soon.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I don't know about you, but I don't dread interview coding questions at all -- I love them. What I dread are the squishy / soft questions. "Where do you see your career going in 5 years?" "What do you want to get out of this job?" "What is
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by gwillen 14y ago
> Hopefully, the various platforms (Coursera, edX, Udacity) play nice together, i.e., it's only a small amount of work to setup the same course content on a new platform. As Google SREs say: Hope is not a strategy. (Especially when you'
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by gwillen 14y ago
No, it's exactly the same down here in the US. Parent poster is just clueless.
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by gwillen 14y ago
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/buying-guide-subscri...
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by gwillen 14y ago
If I think you are inclined to accept a talent acquisition if offered, I _will not use your product_. Why would I? It's insane for me to trust my data to someone who's going to throw it away to make a buck. If you accept a talent acquisitio

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