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by kevinchen 11y ago
This is an option for large firms with resources to throw around, but at a startup, everyone needs to pull their own weight. There are already enough things eating into your resources -- don't need to pay a second designer to train you
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can design silicon in kicad.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I understand that making chips is hard, but this thinking reminds me of the Palm CEO's quote "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in." Just look at how far Apple and TSMC have come si
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by kevinchen 11y ago
GCC includes a Java frontend too, but do any serious Java shops use it? It's not just about having a feature, it's about implementing that feature well and making it easy for others to contribute their improvements.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
A choice quote from that thread: > Between 2000 and 2004, [g95 fortran] front-end was coupled to the rest of the infrastructure of the GNU Compiler Collection. This was not trivial (just as it will not be trivial to couple the PGI front-
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How Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist came to question its beliefs(newyorker.com)
14 points by kevinchen 11y ago|4 comments
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SVG Mask Artwork of the Intel 4004(4004.com)
126 points by kevinchen 11y ago|47 comments
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FastMail: Shutting down our XMPP chat service(blog.fastmail.com)
186 points by kevinchen 11y ago|122 comments
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Uh no, matching a few compiled regexes is very cheap compared to requesting additional images over a cellular connection and and then having the browser lay out the additional text/images.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
This misses the point entirely. Nobody is saying that security researchers shouldn't find vulnerabilities. The problem is that rather than publishing or filing a bug, the researchers helped the government exploit it for $1M. Effectivel
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Not a biologist, but I would guess that adding oil-digesting bacteria beyond the carrying capacity is very inefficient. The bacteria would clean up oil for one generation and die. However, increasing the carrying capacity (e.g. by adding ni
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by kevinchen 11y ago
…except Gmail doesn't support plain-text email well either. They've been converting plaintext quotes to literal '>' characters for at least 3 years and counting: https://groups.google.com/a/google
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by kevinchen 11y ago
To do that reliably, I think both vehicles would need to know their absolute positions with high resolution (spatial and time). Could be a separate research project given how small their planes are.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I believe RemObjects[1] has already implemented a 3rd party Swift compiler. So technically, they have compiled Swift using a non-LLVM backend. 1: http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/default.aspx
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Scrolling through the two PDFs linked from the post, looks like we would have to stop trusting Symantec, Thawte, VeriSign, GeoTrust, and probably a few others. Is that right?
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Perhaps "low-cost" is a better adjective. Wi-Fi hardware and knowledge are ubiquitous — the article says the buying Wi-Fi hardware is cheaper than rolling your own. Also, I'd imagine if the people setting up the network leave
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I think it's meant as a rate measurement, not volume. They want readers to visualize spraying the reactor with 10 garden hoses as the rate of cooling needed in an emergency.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
> the excuse of scientific knowledge of the moon was used for recording Soviet Russia signals through moon reflection. In case anyone else is curious about that bit: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Now that the cost of publishing has gone to nothing, you trust that someone who knows what they're talking about (e.g. Asphalt & Rubber) will eventually see a popular but incorrect story and write a correction. https://s
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Since each HSM has a unique key, wouldn't you have to decap one chip for each phone to recover the keys? I think that is sufficient protection to make decrypting phones unfeasibly expensive for most cases.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
From my understanding - important files are encrypted, and the ability to decrypt is lost when the user sleeps their phone. So iOS needs the user to enter a passcode before the data can be read again.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Here's Linode's notice: http://status.linode.com/incidents/ltchxw3jmx0s They're rebooting Xen instances October 19 - October 27.
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8 embargoed Xen Security Advisory to be released on 2015-10-29(xenbits.xen.org)
6 points by kevinchen 11y ago|3 comments
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Care to clarify why not?
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by kevinchen 11y ago
> People are putting up housing to sell/rent at newer, higher prices Every high-income tech worker living in an expensive new apartment someone who's not competing for existing housing and driving their prices up. It doesn&#x27
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I don't want to speak for ksenzee, but a friend of mine with prosopagnosia uses body language (e.g. gait) and clothing to recognize people.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Skimmed through the article and I think it's similar to this - see the section "Making Things Stick" https://css-tricks.com/gooey-effect/
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Sure, maybe not _any_ clerk, but there are certainly more people that have deep knowledge of Word than LaTeX, mediawiki, etc
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Actually, I'd counter that it is sustainable -- for Facebook. They have so much user data and so much ad revenue that they can afford to throw engineers and money at the problem. Big companies can work hard and make things work, smalle
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I think that sounds like a good idea, but in practice it's not a product you'd want. Motorola used to be at the cutting edge of phones (e.g. Razr) but when Apple slapped their software onto a Motorola phone, it was a terrible prod

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