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by mariorz 17y ago
Allegedly because you'd get access to iTunes customers. Many of whom already have their credit card on the account, which probably makes things easier for the customer and for you. Also because your competition will be there. In any case, I
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by mariorz 17y ago
But that's not a package manager. Think macports with a pretty UI and servers in Cupertino. And yes, apple would surely be happy with the sales commissions and tightening developer control.
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by mariorz 17y ago
Funny no mention of an app store for desktop apps. It seems obvious this would be the next strategic step for iTunes. As it is, OSX is in dire need of a package manager.
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by mariorz 17y ago
why is 1/ω=ε ? would it not tend to 0. perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, I don't really grok set theory.
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A Century of Controversy Over the Foundations of Mathematics (cs.auckland.ac.nz)
55 points by mariorz 17y ago|22 comments
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Exploring RANDOMNESS(cs.auckland.ac.nz)
1 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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Verifying Zipf's power-distribution law for cities(blog.revolution-computing.com)
2 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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Using SketchFlow to Create Better Prototypes(infoq.com)
2 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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by mariorz 17y ago
Well obviously, but you couldn't do a brute force attack like this to a specific account.
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by mariorz 17y ago
My mistake. So you can get a valid login, but you can't know whom you'll be login in as, that is without doing some social engineering like with the irc example. Impressive hack.
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by mariorz 17y ago
>"Nonetheless, online brute force would still be manageable. If each page view produces an average of 50 candidates, and one in every thousand page views is a login (this might be slightly optimistic), that's 50,000 attempts necessary
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by mariorz 17y ago
The problem with this is it's somewhat public. Assuming your system was outstandingly good, could it not raise dangerous suspicions? I like your plan for dealing with academia.
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by mariorz 17y ago
I've edited out "almost", I meant to use it as qualifying the "stumbled upon" part, not the algorithm. In any case by fast polynomial solution I meant one with a low degree. Let's assume this algorithm is as fast as existing approximate one
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Ask HN: P=NP, what do you do?
54 points by mariorz 17y ago|65 comments
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A dive into Google Wave(intertwingly.net)
18 points by mariorz 17y ago|2 comments
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Mozilla Labs Jetpack(jetpack.mozillalabs.com)
9 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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Wolfram Alpha and Screen Scraping(negatendo.net)
1 points by mariorz 17y ago|1 comments
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by mariorz 17y ago
it would be very odd if he went around saying he's hoping that google and msft will start a bidding war for his company.
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by mariorz 17y ago
and since working conditions will be extremely hazardous, maybe we would send convicts and otherwise "unwanted" citizens to the mines. we would of course need to send some form of authority, like a warden, just to keep the convicts (loonies
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Peer-to-peer lending in China(economist.com)
2 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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The antitrust thing that won't blow over(economist.com)
1 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity(stevepavlina.com)
1 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments
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by mariorz 17y ago
I didn't read anything saying his day started at 9. how on earth can i trust someone writing such a lengthy complaint when he can't even get the simple facts right :)
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by mariorz 17y ago
really not a fan of these 'rails is like a ferrari, django is like an aston martin' type of similes, they mean nothing to me. the article itself is pretty light on content; not much here except a baitish title.
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The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov(multivax.com)
74 points by mariorz 17y ago|24 comments
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Follow The Money: Bookies Favor Apple For A Twitter Buyout(techcrunch.com)
10 points by mariorz 17y ago|1 comments
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by mariorz 17y ago
this sounds quite logical but I'm curious if anyone here has done some A/B tests on it and would want to share
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The Psychological Aversion to Extremes(lbrandy.com)
14 points by mariorz 17y ago|3 comments
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Getting Buzz: From 0 to (maybe) Forbes in under a week(kyro.posterous.com)
81 points by mariorz 17y ago|41 comments
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RIP: A Remix Manifesto(ripremix.com)
1 points by mariorz 17y ago|0 comments

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