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by jfb 13y ago
I use different randomly generated passwords and randomly generated answers to those stupid security questions for every identity I have, which is a lot. I was willing to trade money and time to use a third party tool to manage these, becau
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by jfb 13y ago
I initially read this as "Michael Arrington, Oculus Chief Scientist". That was an amusing double take.
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by jfb 13y ago
This is flat-out fascinating. Thanks.
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by jfb 13y ago
I would like it very much if alternative to '70s era operating systems were to flourish on newer hardware platforms. If Mill hardware backs up the performance claims, it would open an interesting door that's been shut to non Multi
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by jfb 13y ago
"Whistling past the graveyard". There's good stuff in John McPhee's Assembling California [1] about the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake, and about earthquakes in general. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/book
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by jfb 13y ago
Think about when Microsoft got into gaming and created Xbox. Now imagine if they didn't. We might have gotten a non-crappy Myth III .
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by jfb 13y ago
San Francisco has terrific weather, but you have to seek it out.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's more that it's in California, which means easy, quick access to fresh produce all year round.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, a restaurant style mat is pretty much all you need.
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by jfb 13y ago
And people disparage them for it, which is nuts. Google had a problem that they determined could best be solved by creating Go. So they did it, and presumably, they've solved their problem. That seems like a perfectly good use of incre
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by jfb 13y ago
Oh, I'm not arguing in favor of the rent-seeking of car dealerships -- I just think it's important to remember that not every legal regime is the natural end result of corruption. The car dealerships have this cozy arrangement bec
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by jfb 13y ago
See also: how much money in local taxes do car dealerships pay vs. Tesla? They are very big players in local economies.
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by jfb 13y ago
Scala doesn't use HM. To one way of thinking, this is a demerit.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think of it not as a stand-alone language, but rather as a strong statement of position in the Java-the-language arguments about future direction. It's a way for the Jetbrains people to influence the way the language will evolve.
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by jfb 13y ago
The latter is a gentler way of saying, "no, I want your solution to this trivial problem". The former is a question about your work process; for instance, if they say, "ok, so build Twitter" and you respond rationally
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by jfb 13y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. You don't have a single resume; you have a collection of data points that you coalesce into specific resumes for specific positions. The "vomit everything" resume is invariably a sign of: 1. a
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by jfb 13y ago
I'm wondering how to answer that? Ask the interviewer. One of the things that I find most difficult about interviewing is when the candidate doesn't ask me any questions during the technical parts of an interview. If you aren&
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Largest Redit cluster ever(xdata.me)
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Unnamed MLB Team Purchases Supercomputer(extramustard.si.com)
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by jfb 13y ago
BMW has legendarily terrible cup holders, by the way.
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by jfb 13y ago
Personally, the cavalier attitude towards data integrity displayed by the MySQL folks circa the last time I used it in anger (~1998?) made Postgres a simple choice for me. The specific problems I had then are undoubtably fixed, but the init
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by jfb 13y ago
If there's an impedance mismatch between Basecamp née 37 Signals and "startup culture", perhaps the problem is with "startup culture", whatever the hell this blogpost thinks that is.
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by jfb 13y ago
Apropos of the A-10 [1] discussion earlier, there are a few Thunderbolts scattered around. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354214
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by jfb 13y ago
One of the interesting points made in that long Vanity Fair piece about the F-35 [1] is that drone operators just don't have sufficient field of vision to make assessments that a human pilot loitering over a battlefield can. I don&#x27
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by jfb 13y ago
Sure. Drones are the future of air power, anyway, but the question is what do we use for CAS until the drones are ready? If the A-10 is mothballed, it's nothing but unsuitable fixed-wing aircraft until the drones are Good Enough. And i
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, possibly. What is indisputable is that the mooted replacement (the F-35) is as useless as tits on a boar for close ground support.
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by jfb 13y ago
Creeping semi-booleans make me very uncomfortable. But what's the alternative? A-values and I-values? A "μ" for questions unanswerable in the type system? Just punt and let Javascriptisms take over the world?
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by jfb 13y ago
This is why bandwidth isn't really a gating concern -- it's a mastered, offline format, so you don't need to squeeze all the possible bits out of the final package.
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by jfb 13y ago
Interesting. I had known about the mosquito noise problem (as cjensen notes (and I was joking about gziping 10-bit 422)), but I didn't realize the progressive decoding was a part of the standard. I spent some time in the guts of the DC
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by jfb 13y ago
It's a really weird place to use JP2K -- they're functionally not space limited, or compute limited, so what's the advantage of wavelets? You could just gzip V210 or something.

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