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United States of Secrets (Frontline)(pbs.org)
7 points by mckoss 12y ago|1 comments
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by mckoss 12y ago
Henry Petroski's excellent book The Pencil[1] uses the same subject to explore the history of the pencil's development into the common artifact we know today. [1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Pencil-History-Design-Circ
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by mckoss 13y ago
Why not use the existing convention for names of infix operators like __mmul__ but allow then to be infix as well.. So, we could write A __mmul__ B. I think this is more clear than @ and is already familiar to programmers that deal with ope
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Notch makes a game from scratch in 48 hours (using Dart)(twitch.tv)
61 points by mckoss 13y ago|12 comments
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by mckoss 13y ago
Why is the IPython and scientific package installation always such a nightmare?
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by mckoss 13y ago
I think you could argue that including a 3d printing api in the os is premature at this point. It could do more harm than good to get in between applications and their target devices when 3d modeling file formats are not yet mature.
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by mckoss 13y ago
"GitHub.com is currently unavailable for emergency maintenance ." Oxymoron?
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by mckoss 13y ago
Spec not Found? ;-)
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by mckoss 13y ago
In addition to making plug-ins "click to play" (in Chrome: Settings => Show Advanced Settings => Privacy => Content Settings => Plug-ins => Click to play) be sure to look at your Manage Exceptions. I had a number o
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EFF Explains: How The NSA Deploys Malware(eff.org)
9 points by mckoss 13y ago|2 comments
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by mckoss 13y ago
I think the point of the comment is that Science's study is purely self-serving, since they did not also send their sting paper to the more traditional journals to test their peer review rejection rate of this bogus paper.
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by mckoss 13y ago
Do you really need a submersible to lay cable? Could be they have on an espionage mission to tap someone else's cable?
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Coronal Mass Ejection from August 20 to hit Earth (Video)(plus.google.com)
1 points by mckoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by mckoss 13y ago
Ironically, the roughly 7% increase in MSFT share price due to his retirement announcement, has added nearly $1B to Balmer's net worth.
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NSA Dragnet Surveillance Explainer (ACLU)(aclu.org)
3 points by mckoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by mckoss 13y ago
New claim that NSA regularly "hacks" into network routers to get access to traffic without the permission of the router owners.
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Eight Questions We Deserve to have Answered (PRISM/NSA)(plus.google.com)
2 points by mckoss 13y ago|0 comments
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by mckoss 13y ago
There are two different questions here: - Why can't we build software as fast as we think? - Why can't we build software as fast as we think we can? The author probably meant the latter (which is more associated with estimation and predicti
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by mckoss 13y ago
I was about to lament how reckless the police were to be in a high-speed pursuit, but it's hard to fault them when this began with a fatal shooting of an officer at the beginning of the encounter. Just a really sad turn of events.
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by mckoss 13y ago
I really have the embedded XML in javascript code. I'm much more interested in the Angular or Dart approaches to building web applications.
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by mckoss 13y ago
Why isn't this tax evasion? About two-thirds of Apple’s cash — about $102 billion — sits overseas in lower-tax jurisdictions. If it returned some of that cash to the United States to reward its investors, the company could have significant
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by mckoss 13y ago
Thanks for the reminder - just uninstalled Path.
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by mckoss 13y ago
In 8 years (by 2021) 90% of Bitcoins will have been issued. Strictly speaking, the supply is inflating continuously, though it is unlikely to ever be growing faster than future demand (we seem to have past that point within the last year).
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by mckoss 13y ago
Bitcoin provides for secure transmission and storage of value independent of a trusted 3rd party (and backed by the largest distributed super-computer in the world). Isn't that enough?
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by mckoss 13y ago
I disagree that 1M coins could not be sold very quickly on MtGox. Yes, the price would go way down, but there are plenty of interested buyers who would be happy to "cash Satoshi out" to take some profits; he would certainly get serveral m
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Hacktivists as Gadflies(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by mckoss 14y ago|0 comments
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by mckoss 14y ago
They implied they might take some servers down to add more to their cluster.
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by mckoss 14y ago
In case your account is not yet enabled for inactivity... What should happen to your photos, emails and documents when you stop using your account? Google puts you in control. You might want your data to be shared with a trusted friend o
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Control Your Google Account From the Grave(google.com)
5 points by mckoss 14y ago|2 comments
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by mckoss 14y ago
Something bad is happening at MtGox - they quote a price of $156 for the last trade - yet my order at $200 was not filled and is still marked as "pending".

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