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by jacquesgt 13y ago
People aren't complaining about the mistake itself, but about the US government requiring Ibrahim to spent 8 years and $3.5 million dollars to correct the mistake. They could have done a review when the lawsuit was filed, and they coul
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by jacquesgt 13y ago
In Italian, the third person feminine is formal. The first person plural is also formal, but (I believe) it's archaic. So, when speaking formally, one would say "can she help me?" to mean "can you help me?"
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by jacquesgt 13y ago
The issue here is that the order of function argument evaluation is undefined. If the commas weren't inside of a function call, they would result in sequence points. So, this would be well defined: int a = 0, b, c; b = a++, c =
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by jacquesgt 13y ago
That’s not how public key cryptography works. You don’t go and buy an SSL certificate from a CA. You pay for them to /sign/ your public key, presumably after verifying your identity. You generate the public/private key pair,
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by jacquesgt 13y ago
The founders have a post on Medium with more details: https://medium.com/p/6c2600e7bc38
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Potluck - social link sharing app from the creators of Branch(potluck.it)
2 points by jacquesgt 13y ago|1 comments
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by jacquesgt 13y ago
I created a new account and didn't use the option to sign in with my Google account. The importer didn't ask me to sign in with my Google account, but is happily waiting for feeds to import from Google Reader. Surely it isn't able to do tha
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
But, with the higher tax rate, someone else might decide it's worth it to increase their labor by 40% so as to increase their post-tax income by 20%, whereas they only would have increased their labor by 20% without the tax effect. So, it r
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
There's a large block of memory that's easy to slice up on your own. It's called the BSS section, which is where global and static variables without an initial value are stored. BSS gets zeroed before main() is called. This isn't possible i
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Marissa Mayer's Email Promising To Make Yahoo 'The Absolute Best Place To Work'(sfgate.com)
45 points by jacquesgt 14y ago|48 comments
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
Yep, you're right.
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
In response to the last paragraph, there's a tension between two different visions for the C language. One of the visions is what's sometimes called "high-level assembly language". In that case, undefined behavior lets implementors choose t
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
That is the entire reason. Because the representation of signed numbers could vary from implementation to implementation, making INT_MAX + 1 (or any signed integer overflow) undefined allows for more efficient generated code. If it were def
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
On the example platforms described at the top of the quiz, CHAR_MAX (char max) is 127, which SCHAR_MAX (signed char max) is also 127. This is because chars are signed by default on those platforms. The point being made is that the default s
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
Here's a much deeper and more technical presentation Ralph Langner gave on Stuxnet. http://vimeopro.com/s42012/s4-2012/video/35806770
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
When you're driving someone else's car, their collision/comprehensive insurance covers damage to their car (although there's a chance their insurance company will decline to pay or decide to sue you depending on the circumstances). Your lia
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by jacquesgt 14y ago
That actually is how car insurance works. There's a property insurance component ("collision" and "comprehensive") that insures you against loss or damage to your property. Then there's a more expensive liability insurance component that in
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
A first order filter will attenuate at a rate of 20 dB per decade away from its cutoff frequency. For example, at a frequency 1000 times higher than its cutoff frequency, a first order filter will attenuate by 60 dB. An n-th order filter wi
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Fremont's LED startup says price point is right(sfgate.com)
2 points by jacquesgt 15y ago|0 comments
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Combine the adaptability of fountain codes with feedback, and you can vary the transmission rate as the channel quality changes. With applications like cellular radios, this lets you use just enough power to transmit messages intact, optimi
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Reed-Solomon and similar codes correct for bit errors in a particular block by transmitting extra bits in each block. Fountain codes correct for missing blocks by transmitting extra blocks. If you just used RS, the only way to overcome real
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Why Best Buy is Going out of Business...Gradually(forbes.com)
17 points by jacquesgt 15y ago|3 comments
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Is there a way to export data from Parse? If not, how do you address developer concers about getting locked in to the platform?
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Errr, right. MAC addresses are sent in the clear, so filtering is pointless.
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
See my response below. I think they're trying to protect against potential weaknesses in the HMAC by requiring both sides to prove they know part of the PIN before sending information derived from the second part of the PIN. If a weakness i
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Neither. This doesn't affect WPA2 in any mode, as long as WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) is turned off. WPA has known vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to cause a router to leak data over its WAN Ethernet port, so it should be considered
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
There's a detailed description of the weakness in the WPS protocol here: http://sviehb.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/viehboeck_wps.pdf It looks time there are two issues here. The first is that the pin is confirmed in two stages, each of wh
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Why "gamification" sucks(inessential.com)
7 points by jacquesgt 15y ago|2 comments
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Opportunity cost means exactly what he thinks it means. The idea is that it might look cheaper to develop technology in-house, but if it takes longer to build than buy, the company is losing out on sales during the time it's building. It al
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Which metrics are you using to figure out how many visitors see the link at the bottom of the page, understand what it means, and decide "no, I prefer the Onswipe version of this page"?

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