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llimllib
16y ago
I tried to submit this excellent podcast: http://castroller.com/podcasts/BigIdeas/2085839-Craig%20Kapl... And it failed. What exactly do I need to submit?
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llimllib
16y ago
> I assume there's more to be skimmed than just credit card numbers As usual, Le Wik to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card#Financial_... Looks like a skimmer will get you account number, name, expiration dat
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llimllib
16y ago
That's irrelevant to what Paul said; he didn't say that Baltimore's murder rate wasn't outrageously high. What he said is: > unless you are actively involved in [drug] trades or unfortunate enough to be caught up in it by proximity, it
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llimllib
16y ago
Bethesda Software too.
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Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator
(bmoremedia.com)
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llimllib
16y ago
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llimllib
16y ago
it's currently free? I pay $15 a month for it.
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llimllib
16y ago
1-4: python.org (good, though one result is for version 2.3) 5: java2s.com (terrible. no content, huge ads. Thank you, flashblock) 6: tutorialspoint.com (w3schools-like. Borderline content farm) 7: stackoverflow.com (pretty relevant, good r
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llimllib
16y ago
What does b&m stand for? edit: brick and mortar, the googles say
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llimllib
16y ago
I'm certain (non-sarcastically) that fraud is a Hard Problem. But it's not so Hard that Paypal doesn't make money; why do you claim it isn't possible for somebody to solve the same Hard problem but have non-atrocious customer service?
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llimllib
16y ago
http://www.gapminder.org/data/
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llimllib
16y ago
NP completeness is a strawman here. It's perfectly plausible to have an efficient market where the problem of accurate pricing is NP complete. Furthermore, the paper you reference (while an excellent and fascinating paper) does not directly
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llimllib
16y ago
I meant that you rock for pointing it out :) I have the Broadcom as well, so holler with your results. The dropping out only happens to me at home, not at work, so I'll give it a try in 8 or so hours.
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llimllib
16y ago
If this works, you rock.
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Social News Eats a Blog Post
(corte.si)
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16y ago
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llimllib
16y ago
> This is a problem because Python treats methods and functions differently. You can pass functions to other functions. But you can’t pass instance methods. I should also mention that this is false: >>> x = 'a' 
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llimllib
16y ago
> All I ask is this. Try going without caffeine for a month. And when you have, then write to me and tell me if it did or didn't work. Didn't. I do it for about a month every year, and for me it doesn't make any difference.
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llimllib
16y ago
Pretty sure he was joking there?
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llimllib
16y ago
Keep reading Greenwald, he's been superb on this issue and agrees with you.
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llimllib
16y ago
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&safe=...
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llimllib
16y ago
cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&safe=...
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llimllib
16y ago
also available as "brew install tree" on mac. I use it all the time.
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16y ago
I would add Shannon's paper from 11 years later than his thesis, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication": http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd... .
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llimllib
16y ago
Not to mention that when you look, most of the spam originated from Google Groups.
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llimllib
16y ago
If they don't fix the spam problem, all the redesigns in the world won't help them. edit: here's a page of a google group I used to read, with all the spam highlighted: http://img.skitch.com/20101209-8rkh5ar3miuhgp3qeh2pj3x9tn.jp...
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16y ago
They had all day to prepare for this and they failed? edit: up for me, at least.
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llimllib
16y ago
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nobokov. Superb meta-literature.
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llimllib
16y ago
My boss crossed off that section of his contract when he worked for Booz Allen, and nobody made a peep.
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llimllib
16y ago
my bad. Nope, I went to reading the abstract and skipped the author's name. Stupid.
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llimllib
16y ago
All of the links to the paper in the comments are bitrotted; here's one that works http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/~chm/papers/derivative-tr200910.pdf . Screw the ACM for paywalling this and many, many other papers.
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llimllib
16y ago
I did as well, and he was on the front page. http://img.skitch.com/20101128-f4iwgixrk3wi3pyxudw73r53xe.me...
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