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by m0nastic 12y ago
Off the top of my head-- Services: Fastmail.fm (for personal email), Office365 (for more legitimate email), Evernote (had a paid account for a few years, although I never use it), 500px (for non-professional photos), DigitalOcean for VPS, N
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by m0nastic 12y ago
They link to their Github page which has their software in it: https://github.com/satellogic I agree though that just having the software isn't of much use to anyone. I just think it's very interesting. Also, I do
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Startup that is trying to build an open-source satellite network(satellogic.com)
60 points by m0nastic 12y ago|16 comments
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by m0nastic 12y ago
It seems reasonable that people would adopt schizophrenic hallucinations that are in line with their demographics. As an anecdotal counterpoint, my girlfriend is schizophrenic, and is mostly afflicted with auditory hallucinations (she hears
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I don't drink very often anymore (maybe a few times a year). I've never liked the taste of most alcohol, so when I drink, it's generally just a lot of shots to get it down easiest. When I went out more, I drank more (the incr
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Well that didn't take long. It'll be interesting to see if the increased friction/reduced purchases is more than made up for by the extra 30% they'll be getting.
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by m0nastic 12y ago
No, it's useful for both. Here's a presentation they gave in 2012 about Cryptol that does a pretty good job explaining it: http://2012.sharcs.org/slides/hurd.pdf
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I wonder if we're going to eventually wind up with policies similar to commercial aircraft crews. Like, for every N weeks of work you are required to take Y time off. It seems like the logical endgame (even though I hate vacations, and
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I love the fact that I live in a world where Larry Ellison is a real person, even if it's only to serve as a cautionary tale.
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Breaking crypto systems isn't the same as breaking "into" systems. The history of cryptography can basically be described as a series of assumptions which turn out to be invalid. This is either because they were never valid t
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by m0nastic 13y ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the job of the NSA is, with this most recent Heartbleed incident being the most recent example. The NSA's primary function is performing signals intelligence. To perform that function, th
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It's important to distinguish that the places offering the <10k rubber stamps aren't really offering the same service (even if you concede that it's only for compliance). Places like that are just running a scanner against
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Here's the comments from last time this article was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368858 (I'm not saying it shouldn't be posted again, I just thought people might want to see the prior discuss
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It might be more "specialty-related" than geographically-related. I work in the same field as Thomas (security), am from Boston, and have had largely the same experience as him about degrees. I've also built security practice
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I think type theory is supremely interesting, and I'm curious to see how far you can take it. I worry a little that at some point your type system needs its own type system, and then we've just moved the argument about typing one
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I think people's negative reaction to "hipness" is just human nature, and while I completely agree it's a terrible reason to make decisions about things, I'm not certain it's able to be overcome completely. I t
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It seems weird to think that there exists any language currently which will wind up being the one-true-language. As an industry (and a research area) there still doesn't seem to be any real consensus around "what's best"
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Warp is written in D, by the guy who created the language. It doesn't seem weird that Andrei would want to talk about that (especially considering the fact that I assume he's very much interested in seeing D in use in more places)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I reject categorically the idea that you should let other people control your time and attention. What you chose to spend your time on is among the most important decisions that you can make. If you find reading other people's comments
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Yeah, I pre-ordered your book, I look forward to reading it. When I originally looked at using Yesod, it seemed fairly complicated for what I needed (which is basically just the crud-iest of crud apps). I'd only been using Haskell for
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Sorry, I should have been more specific; but I was referring to the libraries available on Planet. It looks like the new Planet that you guys just shipped doesn't have all the legacy mzscheme packages that used to seem to be the majori
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I'm using different languages for different parts of the system. While I could probably do everything in one language, I'm not sold on the idea that that's actually a good idea (aside from developer convenience, which conside
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I wasn't (although that admittedly is one of the best benefits of Clojure). Also, that's not a listing of the total number of libraries; it's ranked based on the number of useful ones (where "useful" is a completely
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by m0nastic 13y ago
We're using it in production at my job. (In a decent-sized polyglot system also made up of Haskell and Clojure). There aren't as many libraries available compared to more popular languages, but I haven't yet had too much trou
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by m0nastic 13y ago
How will Microsoft not be able to develop Mobile Office for Android? By most reporting[1], the office team has already had versions of office for iOS (and presumably Android) ready for quite some time. Their lack of release has been an in
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NY Times Taps Prof. Wiggins as Chief Data Scientist(engineering.columbia.edu)
1 points by m0nastic 13y ago|0 comments
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Aside from any security implications for EC, there's also a lot of practical benefits around the reduced sizes necessary. We made a Suite B implementation for TPM's (where smaller key sizes are very very important).
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Despite the huge delta in what they paid for Motorola, vs what they're reported to be selling it for, other people have pointed out that the way the deal was structured may not actually wind up making it a huge financial loss for Googl
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by m0nastic 13y ago
> If a person know database/sql, then "math" is not necessary here SQL? Like in relational databases? Like in relational algebra? I think this demonstrates the point someone made upthread that people don't consider a
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by m0nastic 13y ago
I imagine getting a bunch of people to sit around and project a cookbook recipe up on a screen.

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