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by kmasters 13y ago
I believe if I remember correctly, LAPD had a stand down on high speed chases years ago due to the property damage and personal injuries of innocent bystanders. The police have a job to do, but in some areas, the level of aggression with wh
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by kmasters 13y ago
There are a lot of issues around bitcoin and seeking to build a pretty interface to it addresses none of them. One of my objections to bitcoin is the suggestion that I use Tor to mask my IP to keep my actual IP from occurring in the blockch
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What language do you use to write apps for Android?
3 points by kmasters 13y ago|4 comments
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by kmasters 13y ago
lol I didnt say to actually DO THAT. It was to make a point that we all adopt things that bite us, many things. "Nobody expects the Inquisition"
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by kmasters 13y ago
If I have too much money in the bank, I will not get out of bed. So being poor would help. Once I hit a certain savings threshold, I quit my job because I know the whole (my bank account) is greater than the sum of its parts (putting up wi
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by kmasters 13y ago
Before getting religiously high and mighty it might be instructive to run a security scan on the whole of the Internet and see how many SQL injection vulnerabilities exist on the websites of major US companies and small time startups. The f
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by kmasters 13y ago
Give Opera Next a chance. I have been using it since it came out and although it has a couple rough edges it feels more user focused than Chrome.
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by kmasters 13y ago
A bit of a frustrating read. What exactly is a "performance swing"? Does that mean performance increased or decreased? I find the writing does not match the precision required to cover a highly technical topic.
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by kmasters 13y ago
Im OK with that, I think that libre office is open source as much as chrome is and opera launched it this week. So anyone could repackage open source office software in Java. We need to ask bigger questions. As someone who has made a car
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by kmasters 13y ago
You are correct, No Nexus device from the time it was released to today has sold as much as the iPad or iPhone sells in one day. Google has never had a successful launch of a hardware product, not even once.
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by kmasters 13y ago
There's a problem with glass. As far as I can tell. What Google is hoping for is to tease us into wanting something, that no one has asked for. Google is not alone in this historically. Let's step back a decade, when we were all told that M
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by kmasters 13y ago
Maybe here's the anatomy of the addictive aspect Let's say you have a web idea, its so "simple". So you code it and do a "proof of concept". Then you start coding, you think you have it nailed, you predict you can do this thing in a few tho
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by kmasters 13y ago
Programming for me since I was 12 has been addictive. Im 45. I don't regret that. I was a professional musician for almost 20 years before I went back to software. As a musician I practiced 4-8 hours a day for 15 years. As a software engin
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by kmasters 13y ago
I think its important to remember that this is a WSJ interview meant to not to befriend industry leaders but to grill them on investors behalf. If you watch previous ATD interviews with Steve Jobs even, you see some of the same attitude fr
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by kmasters 13y ago
Nice to see a company that cares about users up its game. Opera is now at the forefront along with google, and unlike google, will actually make features people want. Never having to use the chrome bookmark manager again (or firefoxes or s
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by kmasters 13y ago
I fail to see why referrer is part of any spec. Referrer is a 90's concoction when we were all so naive of future uses. I'm sure it's made a lot of porn sites some money, but affiliate marketing is not the purpose of web standards. As far
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by kmasters 13y ago
Although this may be a little blunt, I don't see how a company that caters to media theft is going to compete with Dropbox. Although Dropbox intentionally lets people register many accounts to they can do more or less the same thing. (Ever
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by kmasters 13y ago
You can guarantee that? I dont think so, Im not a sysop but if I was, you would need to explain why ICMP needs to be open. Whether Im in Norcal or not. Most sane organizations are going to turn off ping, its not a cultural thing and it doe
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by kmasters 13y ago
Your experience doesnt really apply to how production systems are managed. And 30 packages is enough and is useful. Production systems dont update themselves just because theres a new package in the repo, thats what people regular users d
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by kmasters 13y ago
Javascript, is a legacy technology, with browser folks pushing the envelope into backend and front end solutions. It should be clear to anybody working with whatever.js that this is not technology that is here to stay. This is still a brows
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by kmasters 13y ago
Isn't there a better question to be asked here? Federation is supposed to enable, well, federation. Google is not preventing XMPP federation in any way. Google is not "shutting down" XMPP or killing it. Why is Google the company importan
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by kmasters 13y ago
The terminal window seems to abide by the principles quite well. I know Im looking forward to it.
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by kmasters 13y ago
Look, there is simply no chance that Apple is going with flat UI and color coded icons. The changes wont be extreme, Apple is not going to fire their graphics department so they can implement flat squares. Yes they will get rid of the kit
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by kmasters 13y ago
OK, sounds good but, Im getting the feeling that serializing database work across distributed parallel transactions queues is the solution. I think there is a little sunny optimism here about rollback frequency. Deterministic parallelism i
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by kmasters 13y ago
Given the sublet abuse where there are people subletting apartments with 50 year old rent controlled apartments (500 dollars a month for 4 bedroom apartments) on West End Ave, I think NYC should take a quick look at itself, since WWII ended
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There is no technology without art
4 points by kmasters 13y ago|2 comments
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by kmasters 13y ago
One thing to note re engine failure vs battery failures. In the 787 the electrical power generation for hydraulic systems has been replaced by electrical systems powered by these batteries. If an engine fails, you can still land the plane.
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by kmasters 13y ago
AWS, is simply amazing infrastructure automation. Learning how to use it, even if your not a sysadmin, is going to be a part of your job as an engineer at some point in the future. How many times has your boss or your organization said "we