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by jwatte 10y ago
Trying to save privacy is like trying to save horses for transportation, or bows and arrows for warfare. We should figure out how to build a society that thrives on transparency instead!
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by jwatte 10y ago
What's wrong with defense contractors? Sends like a good match to the island pace of life?
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by jwatte 10y ago
"Shapes on the surface of this lens are smaller than the wavelength of light involved: a thousandth of a millimetre." A micron is 1000 nm and visible light is about 900 nm and down. Close but no cigar.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Aren't the robots already doing that, and that's what the number tens are telling us?
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by jwatte 10y ago
If you manage people, and report to a VP, that means your title should be "director," at least by valley standards. Hopefully your VP can serve as an internal mentor and coach? An easy way to get started is to ask for advice on so
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by jwatte 10y ago
You pay for the location, not construction. And the US is infamous for being cost driven, not quality driven. Cheapest possible way to get at the given location means cheapest possible construction.
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by jwatte 10y ago
IMVU, Redwood City, CA. Our front end is WebGL and reactive JavaScript with a real time push model. Our back end is Haskell, Erlang, C++/GPU, and PHP. We power the animated emojis of Kim Kardashian Wests Kimoji app, as well as a profit
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by jwatte 10y ago
A face, or a fingerprint, or a social security number, is like a username, not like a password. Separately, simple facial recognition cameras can be fooled with printed photographs. Will 3d printing in elastomers let us fool whatever counte
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by jwatte 10y ago
Abandon rate is generally a /negative/ metric in reporting. They tell you how long it will be, because that actually make you more likely to stay the full time.
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by jwatte 10y ago
You assume too much malice from people, and too little problems with enterprise integrations. My guess is that the spec said to use the real number, and when the team couldn't deliver that, after six failed months of repeated attempts
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by jwatte 10y ago
Hard, yes. Harder than curing resistant infections?
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by jwatte 10y ago
It is absolutely conscious. Mainly conscious by politicians and lobbyists, who are high powered but generally fail a science literacy test. And our population, we, are the ones electing them.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Right. In the best of worlds, your tests just apply the production schema update on start, and similarly you apply checked in schemas ASAP to production after passing tests!
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by jwatte 10y ago
This has worked well for many years. Most of the intermittently failing tests are older, from before we had robust dependency injection, and they get incrementally improved this way. False positives are also super costly for us, as everyone
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by jwatte 10y ago
With snapshots, it should be instant.
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by jwatte 10y ago
If we can't kill these infections after they happen: Can we develop vaccines against them to prevent occurrence?
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by jwatte 10y ago
Why does your test infrastructure allow a schema that doesn't match production? Seems like low hanging fruit there!
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by jwatte 10y ago
Or run your database on a RAM disk with snapshots (LVM, FS, block device, or virtual host based)
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by jwatte 10y ago
What we do when we detect a failure is freeze the test runner instance, and allocate the same failed test to another runner. If the second runner succeeds, we okay the build, but we put the test and the frozen runner in a queue for investig
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by jwatte 10y ago
You could try nilfs for that.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Have you tried putting all logic into a service, and only using fragments and activities foot display?
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by jwatte 10y ago
I worked with Dianne fifteen years ago, and she was good. However, hearing from others who were involved in early Android, and then left in disgust, the designers who set out the initial form did boot have extensive application framework&#x
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by jwatte 10y ago
She may say it's not a big deal, but it is. An employee who doesn't understand "no" is a liability, now and in the future. That being said, details matter, and you should deal with this using your HR and legal counsel. H
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by jwatte 10y ago
It is an extremely inefficient jobs program, an extremely inefficient research program, and an extremely inefficient aircraft. As he said: do one thing, and do it well. It /is/ a pretty good wealth distribution program, though. If
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by jwatte 10y ago
The biggest strides are always taken early in the luge of a discipline. The point is that the art of mechanical engineering, mathematics, woodworking, classical mechanics, and many other endeavours had their large early strides taken long a
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by jwatte 10y ago
Why do you think logic is taught as part of the philosophy department in US universities, not the math or comp sci department? Personally, I think the means of abstraction and logical reasoning we take for granted today are the direct resul
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by jwatte 11y ago
Yes, let's make the web more secure! This doesn't do that. Instead, let's solve zero day advertising payloads. Let's fund a cure for email spam and phishing. Let's find a cure for site spoofing. Let's find a cu
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by jwatte 11y ago
fdatasync() followed by fsync() "should" do it although on very recently created/mounted directories you'll want to use sync() as well. Luckily sync() is synchronous on Linux (sanity!) even though traditional Unix doesn&
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by jwatte 11y ago
Unfortunately, most of these web security standards don't work for real sites. When my app server serves a page that uses services from another subdomain, this breaks. When I use a CDN to cache contents, this breaks. When I terminate H
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by jwatte 11y ago
Maybe if the Republicans weren't in the pockets of anti science right wing religious nuts and climate change deniers, the well educated would be more willing to consider them?

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