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by jasonjei 11y ago
I understand there has to be some price to be paid. My question is the length. Is the term deterministic or is it arbitrary? I have never really understood why some non-violent crimes are sentenced with 10 years in prison versus 200 years i
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>You don't think someone like Madoff deserves the worst punishment we have available for current non-violent offenders? No, no--I am merely asking and want to know the purpose of these long terms. I don't believe I mentioned Ma
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My question is why do we still punish people with computer or financial or corruption crimes in prison for long terms? Yes, I understand some price should be paid, but extremely long prison terms for non-violent crimes such as hacking comp
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Exactly. OpenJDK and Oracle JDK for the most part are interoperable. In fact, the open-source version of the JRE is the reference standard. You'd be able to run a web application almost out of the box with Java. It wouldn't be so
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That's exactly the point I was trying to raise--without an integrated framework (like JRE), it's hard to consider Mono and .NET as a cross-platform toolkit. In fact, .NET and Mono have entirely different APIs to do UI, while Java
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Love the analogy. Not to leave course of the original comment re:ObjC, but I think to a certain extent you don't see C# really being used outside the Microsoft ecosystem, as Mono does exist. An integrated framework is probably the prog
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Hardware could still make users vulnerable. Intel, I think, was involved in controversy relating to backdoors and encryption [0]. [0] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-inte...
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Question: couldn't you use OS fibers to do "coroutines" without being resource intensive? I know all major OS kernels have supported fibers for some time...
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I wonder if China would respond favorably to the code 451 (which would be ironic) or if they would take offense at it. If something is to be censored, wouldn't the censor want to deny its existence? Imagine trying to watch a movie crit
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If I understand NSL correctly, its existence cannot be published without a government waiver? So in the case a repo needs to be taken down due to a NSL, what does GH do? 404? 401? 451? Returning 451 in response to a NSL would definitely vio
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I agree. I think it's cool that somebody is trying to create a JS API runtime for Win32, but the same criticism for using RubyMotion to build iOS apps applies. It ends up feeling too unnatural and stressful to use, with an extra depend
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Is there any potential for Facebook to get into the cloud services market? It seems like Facebook has the experience for high-performance, reliable cloud platform. Using something like Kubernetes could make it easy for customers to try out
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Isn't it kind of interesting that Google is pushing the lead for these projects? It reminds me when IBM took on the gusto of developing Chess AI when they had strong technical superiority. It's almost as if Google is taking the ma
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``Google Cloud CTO Urs Hölzle has said publicly that `One day, this could be bigger than ads. Certainly, in terms of market potential, it is.' Diane Greene now leads the division that includes GCP---from our perspective it’s nice to kn
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I wonder if the UI management tools will be web-based like GCloud/AWS/Azure, or if they will be OS-specific. Still, it's very impressive that Microsoft is moving outside its own OS.
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If they indeed used a legit code signing certificate, what is the fix? It seems very difficult to just blindly trust signed binaries anymore. Short of setting up a registry of vetted code signing certificates, it seems that signed code is j
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In a way, your point about authorities and highway patrol being alerted is actually a good thing. These trailers can go in lockdown and wait for authorities to arrive. Even if a human were on board, a silent alarm could be triggered without
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by jasonjei 11y ago
Zuck is very articulate in this piece. He describes FB ops in a pithy sentence, and gives pointed answers to questions on Berlin's tech scene. I thought it showed his acumen quite well.
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by jasonjei 11y ago
Amazon ECS/Elastic Beanstalk was painful to use. Their Docker Image Registry requires you to have rotating keys. You try to setup Docker registry authentication with their container service, only to find out they ignore the authentica
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by jasonjei 11y ago
What of Yahoo when they allowed Chinese authorities to access an email account? While we might believe in the integrity of the US government, my faith in a backdoor being made available to the Chinese government used responsibly is low.
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by jasonjei 11y ago
Some part of me believes that the old Apple that Steve Jobs was in control would have stood his ground with "Error 53." The Tim Cook Apple is a lot more compassionate with respect to these sort of things.
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by jasonjei 11y ago
Geographically, that may be the case. But because it's lumped in with a clique of SV startups, I don't think being in Seattle detracts from what's going on in SV is also affecting software companies in the rest of America. (T
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It's been a rough year already for SV software companies. Tableau, the poster child for big data, had their market cap drop almost by half this week.
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Overall, I've found a lot of the AWS documentation to be missing essential information or examples, or vital bits scattered across the AWS web properties. For example, setting up multi-instance Docker containers was not trivial; essent
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Ubuntu does this, don't they? They charge you a license for a year of support...
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Exactly. The way I see it is these patent trolls are sandbox bullies. Newegg's suing back is a genius move. It basically sends the message that if you're going to make a frivolous claim and decide to abandon it, we'll file su
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by jasonjei 11y ago
batiste, I think what you are describing is that the culture around Ruby doesn't put a smile on your face, rather than just Rails. Ruby's philosophy is quite a bit different from Python, Smalltalk, Perl, Java, and PHP. Ruby is rou
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I think Minecraft will be a great digital lego for those right-brained youngsters. I remember when I was a kid, I would spend those rainy days in the computer lab with Kid Pix.
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That's the problem AirBnb has right now, according to a friend. Using Ruby has scaled AirBnb's business to great heights. However, it has heaped to performance and code separation of concerns and structure debt. Of course, AirBnb
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You've just reminded me of how much I hate iTunes and the CPU/memory hog it is... And the other app I'm forced to use, Xcode...

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