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by jballanc 9y ago
Try asking Teddy Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Trust_busti...
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by jballanc 9y ago
Question: would more widespread use of Unikernels (as opposed to virtualization and/or containers) mitigate the attack surface for this class of attacks?
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by jballanc 9y ago
I enjoy hating on Uber as much as the next person, but this honestly just sounds like shrewd focusing of effort in light of recent events on Uber's part. Their permit was expiring, and there was going to be a load of paperwork along wi
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by jballanc 9y ago
There's a much simpler plan for a moon-based telescope: ship a big vat of mercury to the moon and spin it. The centrifugal force would curve the mercury perfectly and elemental mercury is a really good mirror on its own.
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by jballanc 9y ago
Not sure if this is still the case, but back when I was at Apple the program that triggered when you pressed a button on an Apple remote pointed at a Macintosh was just a giant AppleScript file that, at the top level, was a giant `if...else
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by jballanc 9y ago
My favorite of these sorts of names is the "Bloop": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
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by jballanc 9y ago
> Clojure Alex Miller and Stuart Halloway immediately jump to mind as lieutenants that could jump in and take over without too much disruption. > Erlang Well, there's also Roberts and Mike (reference, for those not familiar: htt
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by jballanc 9y ago
> That said, it’s common to find many Julia packages that are only half-maintained and don’t really work anymore. On this specific point, it's worth noting that up until now there's been a single massive repository of every Jul
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Anti-Gun, Pro-Second Amendment(medium.com)
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by jballanc 9y ago
If by "recently" you mean 1946, then yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_conjugation Unless you mean across species, in which case there are new and interesting ways that bacteria can swap genetic e
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by jballanc 9y ago
Most of the world, yes. Silicon Valley? Not so much.
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by jballanc 9y ago
> It is hard to imagine one could get penalty of bankruptcy instead of going into Jail for this. IANAL, but I believe for a charge of grand larceny you'd have to show intent to steal, and the "Low-Level" employee seems to
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by jballanc 9y ago
When I worked at Apple, the culture of secrecy was enforced primarily by fear of MarCom (Marketing and Communications) and Legal. It might sound ominous, but I always felt it was quite the opposite. Instead of being treated like children, w
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by jballanc 9y ago
IIRC, the engines in the Falcon 9 are pretty well separated from each other, such that even a catastrophic failure of one engine is survivable by the rest. Indeed, that seems to be what happened the one time an engine did fail (albeit on a
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by jballanc 9y ago
I'd be inclined to give more weight to your argument, but you've conveniently left off the part where Apple has used debt to buy back shares primarily because so much of their cash horde is held overseas due to the US's wonde
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by jballanc 9y ago
Any article that speculates on Apple's future viability in the market would be remiss not to mention Apple's unprecedented cash hoard. Currently, Apple is sitting on $126B in net tangible assets. With 100,000 full-time equivalent
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by jballanc 9y ago
The issue, IIRC, for JWST is that it's IR optics need to be cryogenically cooled, and even in the vacuum of space that coolant will gradually boil away. Hence why JWST will have a shorter lifetime than Hubble (L2 orbit, station keeping
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by jballanc 9y ago
While not a huge deal in that both satellites seem to have reached an orbit (even if not exactly the desired orbit), it's worth noting that NASA picked the Ariane 5 as the launch platform for the JWST at least partially because of
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by jballanc 9y ago
You over-estimate the degree to which the other engineering fields you mentioned have solved safety and reliability. Just to name a few: - Tacoma Narrows bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge -
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by jballanc 9y ago
It was awfully cold in Florida for the week or so before launch...rockets don't seem to like cold. This has got to be really tough for SpaceX, especially given how accustomed the become to being as open and forthright with their past f
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by jballanc 9y ago
When you view the moon landings as a technological advance, it seems a bit sad that we've not progressed (for some value of "progressed") further in these original pioneers' lifetimes. However if you view the moon landin
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by jballanc 9y ago
> Their programming features a clear and unmistakeable liberal* bias, and the fact that you seem to be unaware of this probably just means that you share this worldview. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." All joking aside
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by jballanc 9y ago
At least in the US, libertarians typically consider themselves "right" of the Republican party. It's confusing, because right/left in politics exists on multiple dimensions. One of those is religion/social morality,
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by jballanc 9y ago
In other words: NPR/PBS. Every news organization will have bias because every person has bias, and news organizations are made up of people. So the real choice one has to make is: what sort of bias do I want in my news? The easiest way
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by jballanc 9y ago
> Which ones have that been, and when? Personally, I find Zurich and Munich do a great job of isolating the slog of security from the rest of the airport experience. Yes, you still have to deal with much of the same security theater as i
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by jballanc 9y ago
I, too, have noticed the decline in airports. Both status and comfort are severely lacking from even the 1980s when, as a child, my family and I spent many a flight delay waiting for my father to return from a business trip. But something t
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by jballanc 9y ago
Because the U.K. is not self-sufficient. Actually, I'm fairly certain that no country in today's world is self-sufficient. That means that for people to get by, day-to-day, the U.K. will need to import "stuff". If they
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by jballanc 9y ago
Not just Elon Musk, that's a fairly common "euphemism" in the world of rocketry.
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by jballanc 9y ago
> But all of Rich's ideas/"features" can be applied in your language of choice. Not just can , but have been and are . Clojure is one of those languages (like SmallTalk) where, even if it's not the most &quot
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by jballanc 9y ago
You don't need money to publish on PLoS, strictly speaking. If you are not currently funded to do the research you are seeking to publish, you can request a waiver of the author page charges.

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