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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think part of it is just the nature of what gets posted here. One could make the argument that articles favor sensationalism for the purpose of link-bait (or a less cynical argument might be that they subconsciously favor sensationalism t
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by m0nastic 16y ago
As he's now working for Google ( http://achrissmith.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-month-in.html ) I wonder if he's still involved with F# (Google employees not being able to use Windows and all). update: To answer my own question, I asked him,
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Before my company got bought we spent years lamenting that we didn't have the budget to purchase licenses for WI. As soon as were acquired, we were stoked to suddenly have the budget to get tools. In pure "cursed-monkey's-paw" fashion, we q
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Yeah, I was terrible at math in college. To be honest, I was terrible at everything, but math especially. It wasn't until a few years ago that I started to take an interest and go back and learn the things that I struggled with then. Ten ye
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm listening to the first episode right now. So far I dig it. edit: I just realized neither of us posted the link to the podcast. It's at: http://www.mathforprimates.com
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I've watched a bunch of Kickstarter videos the past few days for various projects, and I think their model is fantastic. I think the idea of a Punk Math book is pretty interesting, but honestly, I think he should do a lecture series (I thin
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm curious if other shops are deploying Membase, as it being the backend behind Farmville attaches more negative connotation than positive for me. My girlfriend has a ludicrous Farmville addiction, and I don't think she's gone more than a
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm hoping some day that he goes into more detail about the system he uses to catalog conversations. I'm actually trying to work on a project similar to that. Wil Shipley talked about it upon meeting him at Ted in this blog entry: http://
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Am I alone in thinking this was written in the style of the introductory text for chapters in Accelerando?
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Oddly enough, GTE Cybertrust doesn't actually seem to be the same Cybertrust that Verizon Business bought in 2007 (as information on "GTE Cybertrust" predates the incorporation of "Cybertrust" by a good ten years). It looks like GTE Cybertr
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by m0nastic 16y ago
That's correct. My company will have already executed an NDA most likely when signing the Professional Services contract; it's just awkward when I show up on site and they expect us to sign another one for ourselves. It usually works itself
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The only thing I can add is that I find myself presently in a situation as a consultant where we're actually not allowed to sign NDA's (or any customer documents for that matter). We actually have to complete training (terrible, flash-based
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Wow, you sound like Tim May reincarnated (although I guess technically he isn't dead).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'll admit to not being super familiar with administering my Google Apps for Domain settings, but after adding it via the Google Apps Marketplace, and having it now added to my dashboard; it doesn't seem to be working. I realize this isn't
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by m0nastic 16y ago
The thing that made me the saddest about what SCO has become was that during the time I lived in Santa Cruz, I had the opportunity to become friends with a bunch of ex-Sco guys who were among the smartest people I'd ever met. They all left
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I just spent about 15 minutes messing around with this. Very neat. I then made the unfortunate decision to show it to my girlfriend, who is now angry at me that it said she writes like Dan Brown. I'd be curious to know how large the pool of
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by m0nastic 16y ago
When NTFS added in support for ADS (alternate data streams) I was doing forensics for corporate customers out in California. In 10 years I never did encounter a case where someone was using ADS to hide data, but I was always hoping to.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Last week I rented a room for a week through airbnb.com at a place that is basically running a commercial hotel operation (as an aside, the place was great) while apartment hunting in NYC. While there, my girlfriend dug up a bunch of storie
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by m0nastic 16y ago
That's less true of "perishable" items like munitions. Generally, the US Government has a set stockpile (which may increase or decrease based on policy changes, but is usually static). This company made guided missiles (very expensive, medi
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I don't know exactly what the poster meant by "these people", but my own experience having worked at a defense contractor was that the facility I was at (which designed and made missles), all of the managers were upset that there wasn't pre
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'll throw my vote for Worcester Polytechnic Institute ( http://www.wpi.edu ) as a school that has a diverse undergrad CS program. It also has a wealth of other engineering students (chemical, electrical, mechanical, and industrial) who are
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I agree with your sentiments. TOR is designed for anonymity, not privacy; which is something I think is lost on many people who use it. If you're transmitting information that is personally identifiable, TOR isn't the means to do it. The is
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by m0nastic 16y ago
By "cash cow", I was referring to the Windows and Office business units as defined by how Microsoft releases their breakdown of finances. I'll cop to forgetting about the Server business unit, not because I'm not familiar, but because I gen
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I find this promising. Although, I can't honestly think of a Microsoft product with less of a need for radical new ideas than Office (Unless replacing PowerPoint is on the agenda). Looking at the site you mentioned it definitely seems like
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I'm not sure how much of Natal is patentable by Microsoft, as the tech isn't theirs (at least according to Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal#cite_note-MsPress... ). I'd also be willing to bet that the sales won't
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I honestly don't know what they were thinking with the Zune. What's amusing is that by all accounts it's a really nice portable media player. Microsoft basically finally made a nice portable media player just after the point where growth
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I just read this article and checked to see if someone had submitted it. I think shaking the death-rattle for Microsoft is a bit premature, but I find it interesting that at some point in a company's growth, making a truck-load of revenue e
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I fail to see a connection. He stated that musicians making money from recording albums is an aberration in the history or recorded music. It could be argued that the situation with the Verve backs up that point. I'd also not equate his per
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I suppose that's true, but I can't really think of a way to respond to his comment without mentioning that "large" is a relative term. The logical thing would have been to not reply, I guess; but I thought it was worth responding to.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
really? I'd think that "some measure larger or smaller" could apply to companies from several thousand employees to a million.

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