joshuak

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by joshuak 8y ago
I, like everyone, hate telephone support. I don't like it mostly because of it's lack of effectiveness, and the very strong impression it leaves that the company doesn't care at all. I'm also one of the people that finds
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by joshuak 8y ago
Adding a salt to the password before its hashed is the way to handle this type of attack. In general I'd say that most organizations need to get less fancy about password security not more. Most mechanisms that companies employ to ma
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by joshuak 8y ago
This was a big barrier to learning for me for a decade or more. As books and papers related to algorithms I needed to implement seem to always preoccupy themselves with proving to me that what they are saying is true, or illustrating the de
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by joshuak 8y ago
Wow, that is iconic. I hope that gets published somewhere.
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by joshuak 8y ago
This. Exactly this. It's the intangibles. Comparing price / sq ft is like comparing the performance of Mac and Pc. I have a single private office at WeWrok in downtown LA for $650. Is that a good deal or bad deal? Do you feel like
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by joshuak 9y ago
Human attention vs low probably events is a known and solved problem. I've heard the TSA does this. You simply introduce fake events into the system at a frequency judged to cause human operators to stay alert, and responsive.
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by joshuak 9y ago
I've had renewed interest in C recently, having been away from it for nearly 10 years. This renewed interest comes from working with golang for the last few years, and has caused me to find this book[0] which discusses ways to implemen
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by joshuak 9y ago
That's pretty much exactly how hash array mapped tries work. Take the first 5 bits of a 32 bit hash, use it to set a flag in the bitfield, a populated field indicates a populated child array element, find out which one using popcnt. W
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by joshuak 9y ago
Man have I really enjoyed CoreOS/Container Linux, etcd and generally all the work the CoreOS guys have done, and boy have I hated Red Hat's business practices. I moved away from Red Hat back when they split the OS into Enterprise
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by joshuak 9y ago
Great work, and I'm looking forward to getting involved if I can. I'm just learning about this project, and am very interested as I'm doing a project with similar performance goals for filesystem navigation. It even has a CR
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by joshuak 9y ago
Any chance you can remember which paper?
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by joshuak 9y ago
It's 4 5-bit values, not 5 4-bit values. 5-bits is enough to enumerate each bit in a 32-bit bitfield. This means for any application that might set 4 or fewer flags out of a possible 32 need only use a 16-bit bitfield. As I said in ano
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by joshuak 9y ago
Many common data structures fail to preserve order. Maps (aka dictionaries) based on hash tables come to mind. Slightly adrift of the topic... I have a HAMT (hash array map trie) implementation that uses a 32-bit unsigned int as a bitfield
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by joshuak 9y ago
Hmm, it's interesting to me that order would be expected. I nearly always think of storage and ordering as entirely separate problems.
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by joshuak 9y ago
I think the work the gRPC contributors are doing is great, including all the features. But I can't emphasize enough how important it is for projects like this that take great ideas to a new level by prioritizing simplicity. It's l
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by joshuak 9y ago
Yeah I like it. How about just rejection in general. Manuscripts, jobs, medical diagnoses. Receiving regular rejections for dates, might have a chance to reduce poor handling of real rejections, perhaps even reduce violence towards women. E
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by joshuak 9y ago
They may be marketing pixels "more is better", but they are selling content. Customers come, and remain because of content. Bad content at 4k is still bad content. It's true good image quality does help, but my point is they
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by joshuak 9y ago
Good point. And I suppose I didn't do a good job making my point clear. It isn't a matter of which camera is better, but that the camera is a part of the creative process of filmmaking and is not strictly tied to the quality of d
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by joshuak 9y ago
No. This is exactly not how to layout specs. Specs should limit themselves in scope to the deliverables not the mechanisms that produced those deliverables. It is reasonable to say you want a painting that is 4 x 8 and fits on your wall.
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by joshuak 9y ago
Yes, and not the camera I'm referring to.
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by joshuak 9y ago
This is really tragic to watch. I like Netflix in many respects but this is just incompetent. Not one Academy Award Winning film for best picture would qualify for these specs. Not one. I expect very few if any nominees either. The Arri A
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by joshuak 9y ago
> My company could also claim $0 worth of assets. Why? If the company buys assets and sells or transfer's them to you, the fact they are not assets to you doesn't really change the facts for the company do they? However, if you
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by joshuak 9y ago
I do not believe that mechanism of delivery is a relevant feature of any of these laws. The copyright of a book is not contingent on its delivery via a binding of paper. One could argue a subscription is different than a purchase (of anythi
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by joshuak 9y ago
That sounds a little better than the ridiculous Autodesk decision, however it sounds trivial to circumvent by simply putting a 'term of license' clause in the EULA. I'd go so far as to say I don't think EULAs should be c
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by joshuak 9y ago
Good, but the tip of the issue is licensing. Autodesk[1] has set precedence that all an organization must do to limit the resale of anything is institute a EULA. Simply by asserting that an offer is for a license not the thing being licens
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by joshuak 9y ago
That's reasonable in this case, but I agree with CalChris that the more general case must also fallow. The conviction of a human being must be the bar. At some point in time someone arguing for the state was able to successfully introd
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by joshuak 10y ago
Why can't we just agree to do away with popup windows/overlays altogether? Then this kind of thing would be harder, and hacking a workaround would be more obviously bad practice. Software interfaces are becoming common even in car
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by joshuak 10y ago
Perhaps an example will help clarify the difference between mutex locking and CAS (lock-free) operations. Check out Sled[0]. Sled is an implementation of a 'ctrie'[1] data structure in go. Sled is a lock free key value store. Bec
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by joshuak 10y ago
In the most common usage "be yourself" means "don't be fake", or "don't try to be like someone you think you're supposed to be." This phrase is more complement than advice. The intent of the pers

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