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A Map of Every Building in America(nytimes.com)
135 points by jf 8y ago|19 comments
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by jf 8y ago
I'm very optimistic about Nix. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest starting with this article: https://www.infoq.com/articles/configuration-management-with... I also gave a talk about why I'm excited a
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by jf 8y ago
I'm reminded of an anecdote I heard once: When interviewing an accountant, the founder showed the accountant some financial and asked the accountant "What story do these numbers tell?" to which the accountant replied "Wh
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Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing(tylerneylon.com)
3 points by jf 8y ago|0 comments
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by jf 8y ago
you can't touch it without burning yourself That's why I wore shoes or rode a bike when I played in the streets. I grew up in places with small yards and no parks nearby. The street is where we'd ride our bikes, have water
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by jf 8y ago
"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay
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by jf 8y ago
Using AI to manipulate what you see is already happening - especially if you browse the web without an adblocker.
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by jf 8y ago
As I recall, for some consumer facing applications, the concern isn't about targeted attacks, but more about automated attacks that try to re-use passwords. In a scenario like that SMS is to slow down automated attacks. Keep in mind th
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by jf 8y ago
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that Okta holds ourselves to a security standard that is lower than my own. What I was trying to say is that the reality is that some organizations do not need (or want!) a high level of security.
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by jf 8y ago
(Disclaimer: I work at Okta) One thing I've learned at a visceral level is how different threat models are from one organization to the next. And while I agree that the things you brought up don't meet my personal standards for se
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by jf 8y ago
This is one of the best reviews I've ever read. Not only does it capture the essence of the game well, I'm not sure I would have enjoyed Shenzhen I/O as much as I do if I hadn't read the review first. If I could only use
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Lessons Learned from Shenzhen I/O(probablydance.com)
2 points by jf 8y ago|1 comments
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by jf 8y ago
> The people who work with me at Cisco know that when I say I'll help, I do. The same can be said for people who know David outside of Cisco too. I know David from SHDH, EveryDNS, & OpenDNS. He's a man of his word.
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by jf 8y ago
My assumption here is that aantix is referring the more passive "watching" that happens in these sorts of environments, meaning "keeps the children in mind while going about other business" and not the strict interpretat
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by jf 8y ago
> The cynic in me says they counted in the first place because it helped everyone's ego (and wallet) I don't think you're being cynical. They counted in the first place because it helped their _metrics_ – Twitter is in the
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by jf 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning the code and comments. This is art.
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by jf 8y ago
The README and the code always stay in sync. An update in once place changes both the code and the documentation.
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by jf 8y ago
I'd love to see your org files, do you have any online that you can share?
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by jf 8y ago
This is a fantastic article. I've been wanting to write an article like this and Justin Worthe did a better job at describing org-mode and Literate Programming than I could have. For my part, I've written at least 3 "non triv
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by jf 8y ago
I'd love to hear your thoughts after trying both! When I got started with Literate Programming, what I thought I wanted was the built-in literate programming support that Haskell has (.lhs files) – what I've come to realize is tha
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by jf 8y ago
> It is literally explaining the program. In full. Precisely. Here are real world examples of this: A program that implements on-the-fly encoding of images into SSTV audio files (3620 words): https://github.com/jpf/d
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by jf 8y ago
> large programs that won't change heavily benefit from the literate style. This has been my experience. Returning to code I wrote as a literate document is a joy.
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Thoughts after 6 months of literate programming(gist.github.com)
2 points by jf 8y ago|0 comments
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by jf 8y ago
It's been years since I wrote this code. As I recall the main constraints that went into picking Martin M2 were: what was supported by the SSTV decoders that were available at the time, what was supported by Python libraries, and the t
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by jf 8y ago
If you press "8" at the prompt, you'll be served a fresh image from The Cat API that is rendered on-the-fly: https://github.com/jpf/dial-a-cat/blob/master/app.py#L107-L1... To get this to
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Sending Cat Pictures Over The Phone (2015)(github.com)
95 points by jf 8y ago|10 comments
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by jf 8y ago
Computers in the 50's and 60's used core memory, which was persistent. I was surprised to learn that it was common practice to "pause" computations over the weekend by writing a few bytes to the "boot sector" s
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Xbox Adaptive Controller(xbox.com)
2 points by jf 8y ago|0 comments
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Japanese startup looks to create artificial meteor showers (2016)(forbes.com)
1 points by jf 8y ago|0 comments
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by jf 8y ago
> Does Siri understand you well, or do you have any cases where you have to scribble, send typos, etc? Siri works pretty well in most situations. It doesn't work great when I'm in locations with spotty WiFi and LTE. Siri also d

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