jmartinpetersen

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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
The blog posting includes a link to their whitepaper, which has a couple of pages with "indicators of compromise".
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
This reminds me of Computer Modern (the companion default font for TeX) and what is wrong with it. It's even a reasonable explanation of why it is that way - new technology.
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
I'm sorry for my coworkers and whoever else around me - I will now shout "NEW FEATURE" constantly.
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
That was for 10.0, this is someone thinking that 10.1 being available on FTP is interesting enough that we should all look at the ISO files. The release notes will probably be https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R&#x2F
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
Probably because it hasn't been announced yet. Which begs the question why it was linked at all. There's not much to discuss or see.
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
The real gem, for me, was the final quote from one of the children. Any math teacher than can achieve this mindset in the students, is worthy of great praise.
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
A lot of pension funds in Europe are trying to convert people to market rate products, where the size of the future payouts are entirely dependent on the market. Most usually claim it is because they can give the retirees more, when the fun
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
It is probably noteworthy here because Hacker News is itself written in Arc.
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand. Exactly what part of the world does your helmet block you from seeing? I can't see mine at all when it's on properly. Considering that a lot of people use in-ear headphones or casually check their t
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
It is now. Out of curiosity, what was it before?
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by jmartinpetersen 12y ago
Lots of SUV's are bound to the concrete jungle, I doubt it is an american phenomenon. I see loads of SUV's incapable of going off-road here in Denmark, and I doubt the more southern parts of Europe are different.
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by jmartinpetersen 13y ago
Microsoft has a large client base that does not move fast. Even if all the consumers goes the way of the interwebs, Microsoft is making huge amounts of money from enterprises that have no easy migration paths. I certainly can't imagine
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by jmartinpetersen 13y ago
Usually people who worry about how long others live (mainly those who issue life insurance policies) use the "extended" Gompertz-Makeham Law (which is, basically, the Gompertz Law extended with an age-independent component - the l
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by jmartinpetersen 13y ago
I don't know how your private sector works, but it is perfectly natural for private pension funds in other parts of the world to offer those kinds of plans. You can exchange cash now for an insurance against living longer than you can
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by jmartinpetersen 14y ago
This would, however, totally miss the point that a penny actually isn't the smallest meaningful unit of money used in systems tracking actual money. Assuming that the order of magnitude is fixed, this is of course doable, but according to m
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by jmartinpetersen 14y ago
It seemed really exciting until I realized that it is only available for non-commercial purposes.
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by jmartinpetersen 15y ago
There's a tech talk with Simon Peyton Jones giving an introduction to type classes in Haskell as well as discussing how it relates to OO at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Classes-Jim-but...