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by inetsee 13y ago
I believe that lying to federal officials is the serious problem. There was a recent story (sorry don't have the link handy) which can be summed up by saying don't speak to any federal officials, even if they say it's just an "interview" an
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by inetsee 13y ago
Algol was the first programming language I learned in college. I also used Ada professionally for years. I believe that Ada is not at all like Algol, even though Ada was nominally based on the Algol family of languages (including Pascal). I
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by inetsee 13y ago
ASM.js is inherently cross-platform and its performance is becoming quite impressive.
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by inetsee 13y ago
Could it be that he's busy helping other entrepreneurs get their startups going?
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by inetsee 13y ago
I continue to wonder why more companies being threatened by patent trolls don't band together to share legal expenses of a defense. Is there something in the legal rules and procedures that prevents a shared defense?
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by inetsee 13y ago
You have the right to remain silent if you are arrested. You aren't under arrest; the FBI just wants to "interview" you. However, the law against lying to a federal agent is always in effect. Even if you don't say anything incriminating, if
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by inetsee 14y ago
I use the Evernote Clearly extension on web pages like this. It does a great job of improving the readability. It also removes a lot of the non-content stuff around the edges.
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by inetsee 14y ago
It seems to me that the fundamental problem is not that they got hacked (although it seems that storing a decryption key in the same directory as the encrypted data is over the top careless), but their response to the disclosure that they g
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by inetsee 14y ago
I opened up two, identical browsers (Chromium version 25) on my 27 inch IPS monitor. I opened up the redesign in one browser, and the regular Hacker News in the other. The redesign has visually, noticeably smaller fonts.
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by inetsee 14y ago
One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
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by inetsee 14y ago
A somewhat more readable copy can be found at " http://www.alanturing.net/intelligent_machinery/ .
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by inetsee 14y ago
Yes.
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by inetsee 14y ago
This sounds like a discussion of Deliberate Practice by someone who's never heard of Deliberate Practice. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Deli...
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by inetsee 14y ago
This is another argument for using cloud storage as much as is feasible, with the files stored in the cloud themselves being encrypted by encryption software you trust (no relying on the cloud provider to do your encryption for you). They c
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by inetsee 14y ago
I believe the best way of dealing with the starvation problem in Africa (or anywhere else) is to provide the workers with the skills to compete in the high technology employment marketplace. Smartphones are a good way to provide low cost ac
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by inetsee 14y ago
In the best of all possible worlds, this could affect Carmen Ortiz's career going forward, which could affect her finances. Of course, it's been a long time since I've thought that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
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by inetsee 14y ago
I noticed that ITWire has also come up with a new twist on interstitial ads (the ones you have to close before you can read the content). Their interstitial ad is a floating box and on my browser (Chrome) it floats to the top of the screen.
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by inetsee 14y ago
I'm going to swim against the tide here and suggest that you might want to go back and play with Pascal some more. Pascal was the third programming language I learned (after machine language and Algol) and after all these years (including d
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by inetsee 14y ago
I believe the "b" in bcrypt stands for Blowfish, which is the underlying encryption algorithm used in this open-source, cross-platform file encryption utility to which I was referring. I hadn't known about the bcrypt used for password hashi
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by inetsee 14y ago
I remain convinced that the best security of all is to encrypt your files yourself, on your own computer, using trusted encryption software (I use bcrypt), with a strong password, before uploading the files to any cloud based storage servic
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by inetsee 14y ago
I was fairly impressed by this article until I noticed that the author was using Python 2.6. Isn't Python 2.7 the version usually used by those who aren't ready to make the leap to Python 3? Then I noticed that there was no mention at all o
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by inetsee 14y ago
"Item #8: Larger Fonts". Please, please, please!
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by inetsee 14y ago
For those of you who would like to skip directly to the web site " http://www.scaruffi.com/ .
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by inetsee 14y ago
I believe that most tasks can be characterized by three attributes: importance, size and urgency. Unfortunately, most people want immediate gratification, so they will tend to focus on small, urgent tasks so that they can get that immediate
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by inetsee 14y ago
It seems to me that Google's Authorship Markup process requires providing Google with a lot of information, including links to all your other social networking identities, a photo (the requirements for the photo sound like the requirements
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by inetsee 14y ago
One thing that I would add is that Chibi Scheme is trying to be compatible with the R7RS-Small specification (for those of you interested in working on the bleeding edge).
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by inetsee 14y ago
It seems to me that this Assistant DA was trying to coerce this guy into breaking international law. I would think that some of these foreign countries have laws about hacking (installing back doors, secretly extracting user information, et
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by inetsee 14y ago
I just watched "Les Miserables" and I thought it was great. I'm usually mostly a Sci-fi and action adventure fan, and I didn't have high expectations, but it was one of the best movies I've seen this year. I think it deserves to win several
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by inetsee 14y ago
I read Daniel Suarez's new book, "Kill Decision". I was expecting it to be a continuation of "Demon" and "Freedom", but it was a completely new storyline. I liked "Kill Decision" a lot, and I can highly recommend it.

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