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by mcbits 10y ago
In blog spammer terminology, the AP is a shallow content farm that subscribers can either copy verbatim or spin into new articles to avoid duplicate content filters, as long as they provide credit/backlinks.
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by mcbits 10y ago
That's a design patent, an entirely different class of patents.
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by mcbits 10y ago
There is this page suggesting it's mostly BSD, but the License link is a 404: http://shenlanguage.org/ethics.html
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by mcbits 10y ago
Probably easier to find an existing employee with financial problems and offer a duffel bag of cash to plug in a USB stick for 30 seconds.
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by mcbits 10y ago
IDEs turn textual languages into quasi graphical languages. E.g. a porthole showing a symbol's references across the project, where you can seamlessly edit the code in some distant file somewhere. Or when a bulky Java object is collaps
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by mcbits 10y ago
I haven't used F# in a while, but it seemed pretty clean for OOP with a couple of caveats. You have to explicitly implement interfaces and do a lot of casts to use interface members, which is ugly compared to the rest of F#. It's
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by mcbits 10y ago
Being able to communicate via whiteboard is a useful skill. I'm not good at it, but I appreciate those who are. That seems to be what this author is advocating: jotting down ideas, designs, diagrams, temporary notes. If the team depend
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by mcbits 10y ago
The long tail very often has to "ride on fumes" until payday. Unless the tolls are literally cheaper than the fuel cost of idling in traffic, the result will be to punish those uppity poor for imagining they could afford a car (wh
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by mcbits 10y ago
It's too bad this was written in a way to alienate half the country. The need for decentralized, robust preservation of knowledge and data is non-partisan.
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Activists rush to save government science data – if they can find it(nytimes.com)
1 points by mcbits 10y ago|1 comments
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The way the system is now, if you gather evidence by "torture" (remembering it's just an analogy) and fail to come up with a convincing cover story for how you gathered the evidence, then the case is dismissed and everyone go
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by mcbits 10y ago
It seems like Kansas ought to be a much bigger tech-hub for startups (along with other central-US states) because everything is cheaper and you can get reasonable latency to both coasts without having a presence on both coasts. What's
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by mcbits 10y ago
Where does one cloud end and the next cloud begin? The boundaries and distinctive traits of clouds only exist in our minds. We can build mathematical objects that look something like clouds according to the observable characteristics deemed
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by mcbits 10y ago
I'd rather do 2-3 hours of technical interviews than 2-3 hours of "revive your most traumatic memory and tell me about it."
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by mcbits 10y ago
Of all the people commenting about legal topics on the Internet, the probability P(Lawyer) is so low that it would take an especially unreasonable person to honestly believe the discussion creates an attorney-client relationship. But once s
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by mcbits 10y ago
I liked the overall idea of the N93 and wish Nokia (or someone) would use it as inspiration for a new design. Having the camera on the side with a swivel screen, there's no need for a lower quality front-facing camera.
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by mcbits 10y ago
This is the first I've heard of this annotation initiative, so maybe I'm misunderstanding... Annotations are tied to a particular location within the content but maintained independently of the content and publisher? What happens
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by mcbits 10y ago
The claim was that peer review in climate science is comparable to any other science. Ignoring the semantics of "engineering" vs "science", if your experience with peer review in another field is not positive, then it&#x
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by mcbits 10y ago
Yes, it's strange how motorists perceive the cyclist limiting their speed to 15-20 mph for a whole city block when most of the city is crawling at 5-10 mph due to all the cars .
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by mcbits 10y ago
Having >64GB is far from necessary to edit any kind of multimedia, but it would be helpful to have. If your goal is to capture high-quality imagery on a $2,500 budget, the camera is more import than the RAM. It's just that you might
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by mcbits 10y ago
You haven't presented any truth - just angst and a couple of projects using different methods to study different things.
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by mcbits 10y ago
That still doesn't follow. Having a certain amount of money doesn't imply that you have even more money, nor that you want to spend more than is truly necessary.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Just because someone can afford to rent a $30,000 camera doesn't necessarily mean they have unlimited cash to burn on other things.
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Giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain(nature.com)
83 points by mcbits 10y ago|37 comments
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I get different numbers. First, it was 6,500 CPU core-years comparable to a relatively recent Xeon that uses about 10.5 watts per core. So, 57 million cores, 600 megawatts, and about 11,000 racks (if you can fit 128 * 42 equivalent cores pe
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by mcbits 10y ago
IP addresses of visitors? Depending on the site or visitor, that could be theoretically a compromise. But the parent comment is untrue. Cloudflare will have unencrypted data in memory at some point, even if it's encrypted coming and go
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by mcbits 10y ago
Sure. I just searched for "ddos stresser" on three different search engines. The first 1-3 results were ads for Cloudflare and similar services, followed by organic results for several of the sites mentioned above. One could make
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by mcbits 10y ago
In 20 years, the $100,000 attack will be a $100 attack (or perhaps a $1 attack), but programmers of the day will be overwhelmed with fixing all the 32-bit timestamps that everyone ignored for 50 years because the clearly forecast problem ha
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by mcbits 10y ago
By the same logic, the search engine you used to find those sites is also a "protection racket".
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To be fair, I just tried a few of those sites and they're not as slow as the one I had in mind. But I wasn't exaggerating about that particular site. Each page view was taking at least 10 seconds to show the first pixel of content

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