lesterbuck

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by lesterbuck 12y ago
Because the "neutral" Swiss company Crypto AG was backdoored by the NSA long, long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Back-doored_machines
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
I like that idea. Whenever there is a form that asks for my social security number, and it's not some "under perjury" government statement, I always flip a bit somewhere in my number. With any luck, I have poisoned a lot of
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
The FTC held an all day summit on robocalls in 2012, and ran a contest to find the best proposal to handle the problem. The problem is hard to solve, and the winning proposal does not seem to be spreading much: http://www.ftc.go
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
>Aereo is providing the service of establishing a remote receiver for the public to pick up OTA broadcasts outside the transmission area. I was in the Aereo beta in Houston (I didn't keep it, found it kind of boring, fuzzy and laggy
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
IBM Watson can do most of that today, in specific fields like medicine, and is growing into a general purpose learning and deep Q&A system.
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
This is actually a serious problem, and really solving it would be very, very profitable. For an example of the issues involved, listen to the Mixergy interview by the founders of TouchFire, and iPad keyboard. They describe the baroque me
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
My understanding is that the MOOC companies are barely scraping buy on their current revenue model, which is pushing a certificate for $50-$100+. If there was a way for the companies themselves to monetize discussion groups, they would be
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
You will love watching the old BBC series Connections, which is exactly about the thread of inspiration behind many inventions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
At least one developer dumped his MacBook and switched to an iPad + Linode server for at least a year: http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-...
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
This sounds similar to the BBC Mastercrafts series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qvrcj/episodes/guide It came highly recommended to me, and the six episodes are sitting on my disk, but I haven't go
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by lesterbuck 12y ago
url2png is nice enough to point people looking for a free plan to a list of competitors, with some copy explaining their advantages. A very nice touch: http://url2png.com/alternatives/
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
"warning: eroticism unused in function main"
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She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not in C(cise.ufl.edu)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|1 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Jerk is also a limit in how fast a subway can move between stations. There is a clear limit to how much jerk average standing passengers can survive before they fall down.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
If currently deployed military radars cannot distinguish between one and two 777s, we have a lot more to worry about than what happened to MH370.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
An earlier NYT diagram showed the plane crossing into Thai airspace. Where are the Thai military radar data?
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Paper Generators Harvesting Energy from Touching, Rubbing and Sliding (youtube.com)
2 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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Don’t be a technical masochist(johndcook.com)
4 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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Sam’s guide to hiring developers on Odesk(thelatenightbootstrappedshow.com)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
My guess is that the first car was doing something odd, some tiny instability that caused the second car to change, say momentarily lifting their foot from the accelerator, etc. Your higher brain functions were doing an executive analysis
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Does Test-Driven Development Really Improve Software Design Quality? (2008)(digitalcommons.calpoly.edu)
3 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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Ways to Remove Those Pesky console.log Statements(elijahmanor.com)
2 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine." in Civil Disobedience , by Henry David Thoreau, 1849
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Stephen Hawking's 10 Best Science Jokes(bigthink.com)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Oh, please, then you should broaden your thought process. Sure, "very" is overused/misused. But there are all sorts of places where it is the perfect word, especially when playing like you are talking to a child: "And
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Bitcoin: It’s the platform, not the currency, stupid(thenextweb.com)
2 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
There are all sorts of valid reasons for skipping a grade. They can even be social! After fourth grade in the Virginia suburbs of DC, my father was high on stock options from Litton and Teledyne (not quite FU money) and got a wild hair to
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Can't someone write a browser extension that tracks what you like/have liked, and then builds your own Facebook experience, putting back the content you are missing? Running the entire Facebook data system is daunting, but runnin
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
When I was considering switching from very slow DSL to Comcast in 2010, I looked at the Comcast business class contract for my home office. OMG that is a bad contract. You can get free or reduced installation charges for longer contract t
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
"Comcast's IPv6 deployment continues to expand, over 25% of our customers are actively provisioned with native dual stack broadband! The following areas of the Comcast broadband footprint are now fully IPv6 enabled - Colorado, Ne

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