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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The article explicitly states that this project started in 2010.
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Could have been worse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(The_Velvet_Undergroun...
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The Kaspersky report[1] states that GRAYFISH (which contains the HDD firmware reprogramming code) works on Windows NT 4.0, 2k, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, in both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. One can't help but to be impressed. [1
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
If you found this article interesting check out the Born Yesterday episode [1] about the history of Monopoly, it's far more interesting that it has rights to be. [1] http://bornyesterdaypodcast.com/#episode17
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
I know that they were trying to find the average wavelengths of visible light, and I loathe pedantry, but shouldn't the answer be "black"?
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
I was under the impression that SF's electricity came from Hetch Hetchy and that PG&E was just a backup. Is that not the case?
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Boobs. Seriously. You'll likely need to freeze some milk, which will end up in plastic bags, but for the most part just breast feed. It's free, it's good for the kid, and it's good for the mom. When your kid is old enoug
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
How am I supposed to steal this model?
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Cloud9 and Hydra are now displaying seizure notices as well.
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The paper states that the strategy was simulated with live data and makes no mention of slippage. I've never traded bitcoin so I'm not sure how difficult it is to get fills, but that along with spreads are non-trivial components o
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Wouldn't you just be able to fork it and continue as a hobby project of your own? Who knows, maybe you find other enthusiasts and it becomes a real project again. Mozilla licenses are (I believe and could be wrong), quite lenient about
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
That managed to completely lock up Firefox for me. Nicely done! Think it was a combination of the scrolling page title and right-click handler that did it. Or it was fighting Pentadactyl.
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
I've been taking this tack more and more as well and while the syntax is never elegant, one at least grows used to it. I also try to explicitly name which variables I'm capturing (within reason) as it makes it obvious at a glance
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The pyramids were not built by slaves, but by hired workers. The workforce generally consisted of farmers during Inundation periods when their farmland was underwater. Edit: I swear I wasn't trying to be pedantic Internet one-up guy. I
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
If you think about wearables there's a more compelling case. If I walk past a car I like I can look at it and get specs, price, who has it for sale, etc. Or if I'm at the grocery store and wow, those tomatoes look amazing, I see r
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The code always struck me as a cryptographer who knew how to program rather than a developer who understood cryptography.
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Tail call optimization is necessary as well (or at least extremely beneficial). I don't know enough about D compilers to say whether or not they do this, but this discussion gives a strong "perhaps?": http://forum.
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Got it, thanks! I was confused as you couldn't unkeep after selecting a bunch of keeps at once. No one should ever design UX around me, as I'm weird, but something to perhaps keep in mind.
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Sorry to use HN for this, but how in the hell does one delete a "Keep"? I've been trying for 5 minutes to delete the samples and can't figure it out.
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The author calls it "a startup school", but if you read the Times article it's actually YC. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/us/silicon-valley-roused-b...
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
The math and crypto are fairly straight-forward, dunno why you're telling people they can't understand it. I'm curious about implementation, though. Most derivatives have a cost of carry built-in and this doesn't. It als
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
Given your background it's surprising you don't realize how many file formats are Turing-complete and thus capable of mischief.
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
With all due respect, I don't know that TLS/SSL implementation problems will be largely solved by changing programming languages.
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
It's complicated: http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
The cool thing about the Internet is that if you're curious about some data you can analyze it on your own. Perhaps you would show us what you've found? And what impact that's had on how you conduct business?
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
Providing support to the extra 1800 customers, however, can be much more difficult.
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
Are you disturbed that he was a Republican? Because if you'd read the very next section of the Wikipedia article you'd have seen that it said: "Shortly after his enrollment as a freshman at Claremont Men's College, Kraft
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
It may be that coming in contact with many people you don't know builds a different outlook than dealing mainly with people you do.
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
> I have a theory that cocaine, and later crack cocaine, were really the downfall of the United States from the late 70's to late 80's. Ok, then do science and report findings. Or find studies that back up your theories.
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by jacobwcarlson 13y ago
The replacement of BIND is quite the landmark.

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