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by illumen 13y ago
Good idea. However, there are lots more investors in the LA-SF region. This proposal is also a hack around government rules. This 'bid' is 9% the cost of the train bid, and there is already a government budget for it. The comp
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by illumen 13y ago
Another problem with simplecrypt is the password is exposed in plain text to any other process. http://www.gnupg.org/faq/GnuPG-FAQ.html#why-do-i-get-gpg_war... Also the source code looks like encrypted text. I can&#x2
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by illumen 13y ago
Crypto is hard - we should teach it better. This book helps with teaching crypto and python at the same time... http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/
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by illumen 13y ago
Someone on the internet is wrong!!! (ps. it's you). You can pay Google for services as an end user.
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by illumen 13y ago
Linux is better. In comparison, Plan 9 is like primordial soup, whereas Linux is an advanced alien life from from the future. There are so many parts of Linux that are far better than Plan 9, and polished for production work loads. Real li
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by illumen 13y ago
It's fast and stable. Canonical write core parts of their OS in C. All my experience with their software indicates it will be fast. Even some of their ubuntu one storage engineers know graphics programming well enough to win game pro
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by illumen 13y ago
Definitely think about it before just doing it though... Disabling compression can break some apps. Especially when they rely on huge compression ratios for text (5-10 times ratio is common for with much json for example). So that is not
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by illumen 13y ago
American banks perhaps... in Europe, UK, and in Oceania/Asia they've been using 2 factor auth, one time pads, and such for a while. Even quantum encryption.
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by illumen 13y ago
Both came from game dev backgrounds. Carmack announced he was getting into rockets a couple of years before Musk sold paypay... and then got into rockets :) I wouldn't be surprised if Carmack heavily inspired Musk. If not just with s
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by illumen 13y ago
I can't see an architecture doc, or other docs describing the build toolchain. Since pypy doesn't use commonly used build tools (or does it?) porting is going to be harder than something that uses a well know build toolchain like
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by illumen 13y ago
Places that produce creative work are often plain. It makes the work stand out more. Also, I think if the work is boring you'd want a more creative space. However, these just seem wacky and zany. Often tech people have really bad ta
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by illumen 13y ago
Lol. One of the oldest and largest UK newspapers was forced to close by the government, and it's editor has been arrested. Along with the editor a number of journalists were arrested. Yes, the UK does lock up journalists. During the 2
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by illumen 13y ago
tbray works for Google as "Developer Advocate". Which means he markets to developers. This is a marketing fluff piece from Google. "I still haven't written 1000 lines of Go." Why do we care what this guy says then
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by illumen 13y ago
I found a bunch of radio head CDs in a pile of rubbish.
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by illumen 13y ago
Good point. Most projects do it this way, and I think it's kind of good to have a high level summary like this. However, I've also seen projects that also link to specific related issues -- or even better blog pages, or document
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by illumen 13y ago
Companies that want money talk a lot. Companies that don't... don't. This means you have probably heard more of companies raising money. I know one giant company that does not have a website, or even an official logo. They don&
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by illumen 13y ago
The government already locked up one editor, and a bunch of journalists, and also closed a newspaper down. They are scared.
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'Brit brother' taps Germany-US data cable(thelocal.de)
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by illumen 13y ago
Indeed. But at least there is no proof so far that they are doing it. However, France also monitors internet/com equipment, so it is indeed possible they will be required to put in a backdoor. Still, FOSS solutions are indeed better
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by illumen 13y ago
Their SSL certificate is fucked for their security page... oh dear. https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Security_Issue/en Hope everyone has fun with their identity theft cleanups. They ask people for ID scans. Bank details are compromised.
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by illumen 13y ago
Old trick. This is taught as a way to get people to leave by themselves. Often followed by contracts not being renewed, and people moved into hours they don't like or into roles they don't like. Those people leave by themselves, then the
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by illumen 13y ago
The benchmarks are a little bit misleading for some types of code. They do not measure single run code well. In these cases pypy doesn't do as well as when the JIT has warmed up. The interpreter is slower than the CPython one. For code w
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by illumen 13y ago
Bad optimization is bad. Of course.
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by illumen 13y ago
No need to waste a week weeding through bids, when the whole job could be done by then. Outsourcing is supposed to save you time, bidding wastes your valuable time.
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by illumen 14y ago
Find a good internet connection?
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by illumen 14y ago
Yeah. It depends on the hardware and problem. A 50x speed up with optimised routines(memory optimized, branch reduced, using SIMD etc) multiplied by 8 cores gives you a total of 400 times speed up. This is what I've seen in real life cod
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by illumen 14y ago
Great bug report :) Hopefully someone from Canonical will see this, and can send it to the appropriate people!
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by illumen 14y ago
There is a python DNS server running on pypy that seems to get a pretty big speedup over CPython. Here is the benchmark result: http://speed.pypy.org/timeline/#/?exe=3,6,1,5&base=2+472... 0.002 for pypy VS 0.015 for CPython, which is
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by illumen 14y ago
Android is linux.
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by illumen 14y ago
Linux/ARM is bigger than iphone, apple, and dell combined. Android. It's sitting on a desk near you.

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