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by lucifer 17y ago
"I have thrown my life into Divvyshot for the last year. I've personally invested close to $100,000 into the company. I would probably give anything I have to see it succeed. Other than a happy and fulfilling relationship with my girlfriend
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by lucifer 17y ago
And I guess the business lesson here is to learn to spot dissonance in your business strategy. Sun engaged the consumer market with propaganda. That was the extent of their engagement. (Remember all those Sun ads during the dotcom bubble?
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by lucifer 17y ago
Apple counterpoint is right on the "money". Apple was having quite a lot of problems before wunderkind returned. This is obviously hindsight, but imagine: It is early 90s, you are the company that goes by the motto "the network is the comp
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by lucifer 17y ago
Joel is a sharp cookie. Perhaps he has come to realize that there is a point of diminishing returns in excessive software punditry. "Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt".
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by lucifer 17y ago
Use of violence to further political agenda is hardly a new phenomena. The straw man argument puts forward the "terrorist" as a new kind of threat to society which, alas, forces the good people hired by the internationals to represent the
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by lucifer 17y ago
We're in agreement. However I'm not sure if you see this as an 'organic' phenomena (i.e. most people prefer to be mindless cattle that is educated only to the minimal extent necessary to be functional production units) or (as I do) as a sy
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by lucifer 17y ago
> "I wonder how long it will be before more people realize this." It is not in the interest of the ruling elite for this fact to become apparent. They control education and media, and have mastered the art of dividing society along var
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by lucifer 17y ago
"[W]hen you get prostate cancer and the oncologist puts you into the IMRT machine to zap an area close to your gonads with a dozen different beams of radiation, you’ll probably find yourself hopeful that a professional wrote the controller’
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by lucifer 17y ago
And at this late stage the realization comes that reciting poetry in interviews was the silent assassin of my career! Just the other day I was asked to explain a concurrent design and I just couldn't help but recite the immortal words of H
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Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic CDOs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by lucifer 17y ago|0 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
"Asynchronious message passing is old and great idea. Instead of synchronizing objects and dealing with deadlocks we try to isolate objects and let them exchange messages. Erlang proved it to be extremly powerful tool applicable to wide ran
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by lucifer 17y ago
The decision to read the piece ironically implicitly sheds light on the fact the OP attempts to dismiss.
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by lucifer 17y ago
> You're arguing among other things that the US and U.K. can't be bailed out, right? There seems to be a disconnect between actual economic prowess and the notional value of fiat currencies that perhaps you will excuse my layman's final
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by lucifer 17y ago
It is a good idea & there is definitely a potential migration path to a market place for software development. It won't be trivial but having an automated classifier to unify similar/duplicate wishes would be very nice.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Don't you wish there was an app that reviewed "review my app" submissions and posted what it did on HN?
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by lucifer 17y ago
That's the eternal question. According to the western religions, an entity (a certain Satan that should not be confused with yours truly :) rebelled against God precisely because he did not believe in the whole story and sought the "thro
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by lucifer 17y ago
From cryptome.org: "To: ukcrypto[at]chiark.greenend.org.uk Subject: New paper, and a Newsnight story tonight - Chip and PIN is Broken Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:12:27 +0000 From: Ross Anderson <Ross.Anderson[at]cl.cam.ac.uk> There sh
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by lucifer 17y ago
Thanks, didn't see that.
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"Chip and PIN is broken"(cl.cam.ac.uk)
20 points by lucifer 17y ago|8 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
Would you have believed in 1999 that Patriot Act, etc. would come to pass in the U.S.? I'm sure they'll roll out the analog to the underwear bomber in time (long before hell freezes over).
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by lucifer 17y ago
When you have HN readers complaining about this issue, then we can be fairly certain that the average user of Google's products will have a very difficult time finding their way to the "privacy features" controls, and in effect Google has a
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by lucifer 17y ago
There are other considersions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indium says that Indium is "rare". (Let us all pray that is not found only in the Middle East .. ;)
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by lucifer 17y ago
When you define a class, say "Foo", instances of Foo are Foo objects. "Foo", itself, is an instance of a class named "Class" which is a direct descendent of the class "Object". In Java's type system, classes are 'first class objects': htt
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by lucifer 17y ago
> In this case isn't someClassObject just a literal that's resolved at compile-time and erased into a simple identifier symbol? No. Its a variable assigned in runtime. public void yesYouCan (Object foo, Class<?> someClassO
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by lucifer 17y ago
It is not possible. Look at the interfaces exposed by any general public machine/gadget outside of computing, and the layers of abstraction that the consumer needs to grasp. Automobiles are one of the rare gadgets that expose an internal sy
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by lucifer 17y ago
// unseen? if (foo.getClass() instanceof someClassObject) ...
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by lucifer 17y ago
> I think one of the reasons Buzz has garnered so much back lash is because it really feels like this sudden intrusion. The NSFW factor was also a surprise. Who knew some of the people I had exchange an email with had a proclivity for
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by lucifer 17y ago
> So I try to just be extra cognizant of the fact that most people just don't _get it_ like we do. Your experience actually strikes a hopeful note. The latest generation is born into an information society (unlike yours and mine). As l
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by lucifer 17y ago
We (geeks) are immersed in technology and have no idea of the disconnect between our perception of the interface and the "farmville" population. Once in a while, specially when I get flustered at family members who can't tell the difference
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by lucifer 17y ago
All that time for 9 lines of F#?

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