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by kyaghmour 8y ago
If I may offer a contrarian viewpoint, I very much disliked Norman's book. I'm no UX professional, but I was looking for a pragmatic guide to understanding design and instead I was put off by his condescending tone and typecasting
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by kyaghmour 8y ago
Indeed: "Finally, chips implementing other widespread protocols (e.g., 4G/LTE, RFID) need to be inspected to determine whether they are vulnerable to screaming channel attacks."
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by kyaghmour 8y ago
This article misses the fact that the "startup ecosystem" is different on the east coast vs. the west coast. And it's especially brutal when you compare the funding sources available to Canadian startups vs. US startups. See
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by kyaghmour 9y ago
The price difference is so staggering that it'll just be cheaper to buy a plane ticket to the countries where the cheap one is available and take it there; especially since some countries (Egypt for instance) don't necessarily re
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by kyaghmour 9y ago
Indeed. There's probably some sort of Greek tragedy to be written about the story of tracing and Linux. Or maybe we can just go for a beer at the next LPC and laugh this one out ;)
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by kyaghmour 9y ago
Great. But that begs for more questions. Money is a unit of trade between humans for getting something from the other human in exchange for your money. If an entire class of humans is no longer needed, how will they receive money to pay for
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by kyaghmour 9y ago
I was wondering what "RT America" was -- i.e. the video in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network) "RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international television network funded by t
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by kyaghmour 9y ago
This is a fallacy within technical circles: that the world will somehow immediately recognize the intrinsic value of a feature/addition as soon as it becomes public and that it'll therefore spread on its own merits. It's good
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The Canadian Liberal Government's Proposed Tax Changes(karimyaghmour.com)
2 points by kyaghmour 9y ago|0 comments
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by kyaghmour 10y ago
I saw a few comparisons to Slack and Google Wave. But, seriously, this is likely more like Microsoft Groove (originally from Groove Networks) brought to the web. This idea has been around for a very long time.
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by kyaghmour 10y ago
Just checked Alibaba for "Fidget Cube". Several offerings already available even though Kickstarter campaign is yet to close. Several listings even use marketing from the campaign. Serious food for thought.
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by kyaghmour 11y ago
The vast majority of humans on this planet do not get to choose where they spend their time; surely Paul realizes this. Instead, children making clay bricks and parents sending their children off away to work as maids (or worse) do so becau
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Android 6.0 Marshmallow Xref and Changelog
2 points by kyaghmour 11y ago|0 comments
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by kyaghmour 11y ago
Not sure that there's any paradox here. The rise of a freely-accessible network connecting all humans (i.e. the Internet) has just made it such that hundreds of years of cleverly and carefully assembled middle-middlemen that were requi
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Tool for understanding Binder relationships in Android(opersys.com)
1 points by kyaghmour 11y ago|0 comments
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by kyaghmour 13y ago
In case you're curious, this is how ltrace (strace's library equivalent) works: http://www.opersys.com/blog/ltrace-internals-140120
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Ltrace internals(opersys.com)
1 points by kyaghmour 13y ago|0 comments
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Extending Android's HAL(opersys.com)
3 points by kyaghmour 14y ago|0 comments
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by kyaghmour 15y ago
Note that there can be other explanations than "willingness to pick up and leave your comfort zone completely". Immigrants may have a much higher "need"/want to: show their worth, climb to another social class, escape from the confines/limi