mehrdada

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by mehrdada 12y ago
The guy who built the company with the largest market cap in the US and the phone I am using today and is still my favorite gadget, yes. Who he is is of little relevance here, by the way. I am not appealing to his authority. I'm simp
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by mehrdada 12y ago
Good for everyone, ...except Google shareholders maybe? (Maybe not though; it might earn more for them in marketing value, as Satya Nadella pointed out.)
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by mehrdada 12y ago
This is a solution desperately searching for a problem. Exactly what Steve Jobs warned against in developing technology. I personally can't care less about modularity in a phone. Would rather have a 1mm thinner phone over any sort of m
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by mehrdada 12y ago
The problem with the new motto is that it is uncontroversial. As Zuck himself once mentioned at Startup School, corporate mottos are valuable only if they are controversial, that is, "be honest" is not a valuable motto, because i
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Security of Symmetric Encryption Against Mass Surveillance [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
7 points by mehrdada 12y ago|0 comments
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by mehrdada 12y ago
"as long as there's no control over what public keys we encrypt the message with, the statement that Apple or the NSA can't read the messages is a half-truth at best." This. That said, it is reasonable to believe the way
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> We have seen Apple obsess over Google's competition in mobile as they were rising this time How so? I'm actually surprised how little they seem to have reacted to the competitive pressure of Android than pursuing their agenda
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by mehrdada 12y ago
You get the definition of "symmetric" wrong. Symmetric encryption refers to using the same key for encryption and decryption, as opposed to asymmetric, aka public-key encryption. By no means AESEncrypt and AESDecrypt are the same
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by mehrdada 12y ago
I am well aware of the quality of the schools in Iran and can directly compare it US schools, having gone to school in both countries. That Newsweek article is not surprising to me, but in some areas it is inaccurate in my opinion. You do s
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by mehrdada 12y ago
It's important to note that successful Iranians generally become successful _despite_ the country they grow up in, not because of it. In my opinion, and having first-hand experience with that environment, the credit for this incredibl
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by mehrdada 12y ago
This guy seems to have a big inventory of them for $120: http://sacramento.craigslist.org/syd/4584307735.html
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by mehrdada 12y ago
Yes. You can oversubscribe your friends to your kidneys. You just have to be willing to give them, but that does not need to actually happen. You'll be fine as long as you pick your friends wisely.
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet. Definitely wrong. If there's a lingua-franca of the internet, it's JavaScript.
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> In 2010, the company spun off Stack Exchange Inc. This is not what actually happened. As far as I remember, Stack Overflow had nothing to do with Fog Creek per se, except for Joel begin a founder of both. Stack Exchange Inc. grew from
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Google buys music service Songza to take on Apple and Beats(theverge.com)
15 points by mehrdada 12y ago|1 comments
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Finding Compiler Bugs by Removing Dead Code(blog.regehr.org)
141 points by mehrdada 12y ago|19 comments
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by mehrdada 12y ago
I remember that earning call very clearly and I believe Tim is being misquoted: He said "if you only want me to make...". The word "only" can be critical here from an investor's perspective. Update: The following
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by mehrdada 12y ago
We have not, so far. It's a bit difficult to package up as it mostly consists of a bunch of (potentially environment dependent) shell scripts with a transformation program. Shouldn't be too hard to replicate, as the total LOC is p
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by mehrdada 12y ago
Over a year, I'd say. We'd run the test infrastructure for ~11 months on a couple machines when we submitted the paper. That's not indicative of much though, as the actual timelines for writing papers can be driven by confere
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by mehrdada 12y ago
(Shameless plug:) It would be great if someone would leverage the pretty successful technique (i.e. found a couple hundred bugs in GCC and Clang) we recently devised to detect miscompilations, Compiler Validation via Equivalence Modulo Inp
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by mehrdada 12y ago
I don't. This book recommends, say, MAC-then-Encrypt and tries to justify it in 2010 by perpetuating FUD about provable crypto (proofs are only valid if your primitives are ideal, therefore you should worry about--one set of--risks tha
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> One of the reasons I like iPhone is the idea that the security system and drive encryption is not hopelessly broken. Where can you get the source of that?
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by mehrdada 12y ago
I have a hard time parsing your argument in the context of the original post. FSF is not against all forms of copyright. FSF is against all forms of software patents, and believes copyright should be more limited and sharing in particular
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by mehrdada 12y ago
As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted. I guess that's how robot apocalypse is gonna look like.
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by mehrdada 12y ago
Having done research on finding miscompilations in production compilers just recently[1], hunting a couple hundred bugs in GCC and LLVM, I feel much more skeptical these days about this matter. Modern compilers are big, complex, systems, an
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> The primary reason I won't work for Google is because I'm nowhere near smart enough I think plenty of people tend to vastly overestimate Google's (or Facebook's, ...) hiring bar. I know quite a few people who would
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by mehrdada 12y ago
> From a technical perspective nothing they do is particularly innovative. Could not disagree more. While it might look like that on paper if you decompose an Apple product to its parts, there is clear value they are adding as the system
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by mehrdada 12y ago
It is interesting that they have misspelled 'jl's last name twice, especially since one instance of it is in an email they quote from her.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
> no new content would show up on PT This does not logically follow from your argument.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
The copyright holders can later on relicense the work under something else. Licensing a work under some non-exclusive license does not restrict you from licensing it again in the future under other terms.

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