maxk42

79 ms·

871.
by maxk42 13y ago
Unlawful imprisonment.
872.
by maxk42 13y ago
How can I be the first one to notice how fucked this math is? > Blockchain.info estimates the energy usage of Bitcoin miners to be 74,204.76 megawatt hours for a period of 24 hours. Now 74.2 / 24 = 3.1, so this corresponds to a powe
873.
by maxk42 13y ago
Well it's no wonder: they only use it for suspicious activities.
874.
by maxk42 13y ago
Secure is good, but SSL is not the right protocol.
875.
by maxk42 13y ago
> By design Of course -- all the telecoms have been in bed with the NSA for decades. That's how you play ball in the US.
876.
by maxk42 13y ago
Regulating the software industry will set us all back 100 years. Innovation blossoms where people are free to innovate.
877.
by maxk42 13y ago
Fuck Uncle Bob.
878.
by maxk42 13y ago
Why doesn't it cover the eyes?
879.
by maxk42 13y ago
That may be so, but this is the sort of mentality that was responsible for IE6 being maintained after the release of IE8. In the long run, switching to python3 will be better.
880.
by maxk42 13y ago
If someone managed to compromise something like the PHP binaries they could cause a lot of damage.
881.
by maxk42 13y ago
Programming is futuristic. It's just that we can always imagine a better future -- and that's what makes programming so awesome. It enables us to build that future. But if you compare Ruby or Clojure to Forth or COBOL, there&#x2
882.
by maxk42 13y ago
Yes. And anyone. The whole point of darknets is that no one person is in control of them.
883.
by maxk42 13y ago
No -- it's freeest when NOBODY controls it. Support darknets.
884.
by maxk42 13y ago
What's wrong with FOSS?
885.
by maxk42 13y ago
I'd be fine with this as long as it was opt-in rather than opt-out. Bad move, Google.
886.
by maxk42 13y ago
I use Google. Does that count?
887.
by maxk42 13y ago
When I was in primary school they sent the kids home with a questionnaire to let the students' parents vote on some rule changes. They options were "Yes", "No" and "I choose to have my vote count with the majo
888.
by maxk42 13y ago
Or from the FBI
889.
by maxk42 13y ago
We can and should let them die.
890.
by maxk42 13y ago
Let them. I'll build my own browser and it won't respect this shit in the slightest. We'll make a new W3C. One that can't be bought so easily.
891.
by maxk42 13y ago
Fantastic -- that might pull the mean up, but it still wouldn't affect the median.
892.
by maxk42 13y ago
Where I live there are groups of old men who come to the coffee shops in the evenings and buy one cup of coffee, then sit around bullshitting and playing cards for hours. If this business is facing a similar problem, then raising the price
893.
by maxk42 13y ago
That is some sexy javascript.
894.
by maxk42 13y ago
Well now that Github actually supports 3D files, I'm sure that will change.
895.
by maxk42 13y ago
Please stop linking nytimes.com. I understand it's simple to subvert the paywall, but they shouldn't be encouraged regardless.
896.
by maxk42 13y ago
Plus, Minecraft teaches basic circuit design and gate logic. http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_circuit
897.
by maxk42 13y ago
Fork the kernel.
898.
by maxk42 13y ago
Amen.
899.
by maxk42 13y ago
We're talking about programming fonts here, though. Serifs have been proven easier to read than sans-serif fonts in usability studies. Also, there are multiple advantages to using monospaced fonts in programming applications.
900.
by maxk42 13y ago
Agreed. One advantage the NSA has is it can pay some of the best mathematicians to be full-time pure mathematicians. There are very few mathematicians that have the opportunity to do something like that -- even professors have to teach a

More ›