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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
A factor of 1000 isn't that important. Really. First, stare at this chart from the Ars Technica article: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/expone... This graph shows, roughly, th
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Read the Ars Technica article. The hole in your logic is: there is no point in guarding against the case where, if two users share the same password, cracking one will crack the other, because the only time that two users share a password i
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
It doesn't matter how much traffic you get if none of those clicks are from people who are ready to buy your product. The Kindle format is a killer for me: I see it and I want to click away and never come back. Let me guess a few reaso
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
It was a shock to me to discover that the livelihood and happiness of so many people depends on a dubiously-reliable unofficial API that was hacked into Dragon years ago and that has been lovingly preserved ever since, just below the radar.
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
"Spelt", in my dialect, is incorrectly spelled, and is a noun referring to a variety of wheat. Now, was the "correction" I just offered you effective and useful, or was it merely irrelevant, provincial, chauvinistic, uni
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Nice people also judge those who try to shame people (not all of whom are native speakers of English) into silence on health-related forum threads by picking on irrelevancies.
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
It is a limitation, but when your other choice is "not working at all, pain, depression, despair" having to work at home is the least of your problems. I have a grimmer point to make: Working out of crappy half-assed "startup
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
A few months ago I had an RSI problem so bad - able to type only a minute at a time, even sitting with hands on keyboard hurt - that I started down this route. This video was, literally, a life-altering motivator for me, and I was quite obs
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I'll let the actual expats weigh in, but you really do need to talk to an accountant. You will be told what your options are. Then you will know, and can stop freaking out. This is 2013, so you can consult US-based accountants over the
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I typed "zero day .NET" into Google as a proxy for actual research and got back results from 2010, early 2011, and late 2011. All seemed to be publicizing critical .NET patches, which is what you want to see. Presumably this barel
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
This is the first impression you want to make on your candidates? You're the busywork company? These are the kind of candidates you want? The ones who are willing to have their introduction to a future employer be an annotated answer
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
You're correct about the forums, of course, but obviously the real problem is this: their lack of support for encrypted password transmission for their mail server Unacceptable. Get the heck out of there before you lose something vit
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
There appears to be a (badly titled) menu item that takes you to the company site, but it's hidden beneath the "hamburger" icon, which inexplicably appears even when the web page is full-screen on my laptop but is replaced by
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Survivorship = (1 - churn) With this definition, a churn of 0.75 is a survivorship of 0.25. You're perhaps being misled by the offhand phrase "the survivorship is the inverse of the churn"; in that sentence "inverse&quot
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Justin Schuh had a nice capsule summary of some available techniques for compromising logins: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6166731 - dump all your session cookies - grab your history - install malicious extension to
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
In the general population, older people are less technically savvy than younger people (on average). [Citation needed.]
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Can we be successful without doing the hard sales thing? If your definition of "success" doesn't include selling software, then sure, you can be a success without selling software. But BoS is a conference about the business
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
The niche-ness of the conference could be part of the media strategy. If you want to portray your critics as part of a fringe, you find a place on the fringe and get yourself photographed there, dodging thrown beer bottles.
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
A. Nobody cares about your degree. B. If you ever find yourself in a position where A is not true, you can go back and get the masters degree. Schools will very happily sell you degrees at any point in your life, never fear. (Interestingly,
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
You're thinking along the right lines. I'd only emphasize that one should be on the lookout for things with a personalized component. Rings and bracelets that fit absolutely perfectly. Eyeglasses that are 95% standard parts off
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
They probably don't need to be open-source appliances, though firms that insist on suing people who post open CAD drawings of their machine's parts will incur a competitive disadvantage. What will happen is that groups of hobbyist
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Nothing cures cancer in the sense that people mean when they speak of "curing cancer" as some sort of saintly alternative to "living your life." Many thousands of people are treated for cancer every day. Some of them sur
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Jack Handey: Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have. Let's explore this topic for three minutes, with Jack as our guide
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I'm afraid it didn't quite read as satire to me. If the ending was trying to be over-the-top, it undershot the target. Oh, if only the idea of an SG writing something so obnoxious on his personal blog were obviously satire. The
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Open-source licenses aren't some kind of restraint that lawyers use to chain down free software. They're the carefully-crafted wings that enable a free-software ecosystem to fly at all. Without the licenses free software doesn&#x2
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
She didn't understand physics. Yeah, her and nearly every other teenage physicist I ever knew, certainly including myself. ;) My experience of physics is that it takes time on the order of a decade to learn, mostly because you have t
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I suspect Mozart would have been helped by the fact that he grew up in the heart of the classical era and the concert music of the day was quite formalized. There were certain things that always happened in a piece of concert music, and cer
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I simply cannot, for the life of me, understand why people think that it's their RIGHT to copy the works of others. I don't think it's that hard to understand. The key is to realize that logic doesn't drive behavior. R
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
Wordpress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/youtube/ http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/ If you have better things to do than figure that out yourself, hire a Wordpress freelance
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by mechanical_fish 13y ago
I've read occasional copies of Cooks Illustrated and know only enough about balsamic vinegar to realize that I've probably never tasted the real thing. I might be part of your target market! Unfortunately, what I, clueless aspir

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