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by mcphilip 13y ago
Same here. I was 8 or 9 years old and couldn't understand how chips worked. They were just sort of magic to me, so I wired all my solutions without chips. It required a massive mess of logic gates to solve things like the Ventilatio
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by mcphilip 13y ago
This reminds me of the early days of parental web control products like Net Nanny. I remember being frustrated that www.titanicmovie.com was blocked and asking my brother why. And then I learned what tits referred to :)
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Basically your comment boils down to "I skimmed the article and it seemed hateful and inaccurate". And then something strange about spotting exponential growth being left to the big boys. On the contrary, I read the entire article
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Even pg noted that top comments are largely awful. I find just skipping the first one makes reading HN a much more interesting experience.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
From the linked article: >One thing I’ll be doing more of is writing about my experience. Partially because it’s therapeutic, but also because if there’s a silver lining in all of this (and there is), it’s that I can help educate others
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by mcphilip 13y ago
With all due respect, aren't the hypothetical abuses of Snowden files ultimately just FUD at this point? Snowden's public statements have given the impression that he cares deeply about the U.S., giving me the impression that he
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I have a brother high up in a quant lab that accounts for up to 5% of the daily volume on the NYSE. The short answer, from our experience, is definitely a no. The biggest differentiator that we've seen is that "quants" ofte
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Maybe I'm just unlucky but I've never worked at a startup where pressure relents on engineering after the initial push. I feel on call 24/7 now that we're in production with paying customers.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I read HN daily and this is my first encounter with Freshdesk. >FD seem to be scrappy, they're growing quickly, their product looks good, they give discounts to startups, and they just happen to be based in India - what's not t
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by mcphilip 13y ago
And now for the dog and pony show wherein politicians will compete to "always make use of a good crisis", jockeying for position to see who wins the most political capital by creating the harshest sounding reprimand of the NSA wit
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by mcphilip 13y ago
From IsaacSchlueter's HN profile: >I don't look at this site much, because it turns people into jerks. Contact me somewhere else. It's like he's throwing stones in a glass house and then complaining of all the vandals
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by mcphilip 13y ago
In the spirit of the article: TL;DR write all the words! much slang makes doge happy. disregard old farts' style. acquire upvotes, much happiness achieved! ---------------- I, for one, love good longform journalism (e.g longform.org) a
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I too wish there was an easier way to distinguish this. One of my weekend projects involved stripping actor, genre, and director information from IMDB for the AFI Top 100 movies. The prototype was simplistic but still gave some interesting
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I know who tptacek is, I've read some of his papers, I've applied to the crypto challenges, I've disagreed with him in the past about the importance of BSAFE to the industry. It still comes across as petty to launch into a m
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Your reaction to this story was wondering if it can be used to demonstrate another member of HN being wrong in the past? Petty
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Assuming that the preference of which algorithm is used in an encryption standard can be influenced by $10 million, then I I'd say you read the article correctly. Very alarming...
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Thanks for the info. The narrator of the Vice Guide episode claims that the paper version was appropriated into the electronic version so I got the impression that these experiments where related to book mentioned in the guardian article.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Innocent until proven guilty applies, of course, but there's an irony in the dismissal of a notion as crazy when juxtaposed with all the other Snowden revelations.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
>Oh, and might I add, The Anarchist Cookbook isn't flawed so much in that it presents violence as a means to an end, but rather that actually following the recipes will likely get you killed or maimed. Hopefully people reading the b
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by mcphilip 13y ago
In theory this sounds great, and I try to live by that principle now, but that doesn't mean I'm comfortable having all my instances of viewing adult material, for instance, in my past attached to my public image.
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It serves the useful function of alerting the community of early adopters that coinbase is (probably) not (yet) ready to be trusted to competently handle one's cash. Also, YC is a backer of coinbase so there's a high likelihood t
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The inability to comprehend why a mashup of nouns into a long class name might be useful is one of the most annoying memes on HN. Is it just that programmers are slow typist or something? Surely any competent programmer should be able to
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I still play Doom and Doom 2, I even list it as an interest in my HN profile. It's the perfect FPS, to me. There's still a reasonably active community making custom WADs. It's amazing what some people have come up with for
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by mcphilip 13y ago
This is absurd. It's hard to imagine a scenario where a major terrorist plot is uncovered by agents infiltrating an MMO. Are all international communications channels not already subverted by the spooks assumed to be potential breedi
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by mcphilip 13y ago
My cynical prediction is that the government will symbolically cave on bulk surveillance whilst doing a massive knowledge and expertise transfer to an ally with a populace not so troubled by surveillance. The process for searching through
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The "wildly speculative" Felix Salmon piece [1] referenced in the contently post takes a look at some of the actual data that Abelson collected. Of note is the chart showing how relatively accurate predictions can be made about h
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It was brave of you to post this comment and I'm happy you're having success with treatment. I come from a family with a history of bipolar symptoms. The only thing that keeps me hopeful about a certain sibling is the possibilit
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by mcphilip 13y ago
For those interested, there's a great Bill Moyers Journal segment with David Simon as the guest. It uses themes brought up in The Wire as a launching point for discussion of topics related to this speech. In particular, Simon explain
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by mcphilip 13y ago
For interactive neo4j examples see: http://blog.neo4j.org/2013/10/the-first-graphgist-challenge-...
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Dropped from $800 to ~$700 in the last 15 minutes: http://bitcointicker.co/

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