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by mishmash 16y ago
I see your point, but subscription-based music services had been around for five+ years before the Zune came out - and even so, all iTunes evidence pointed to a trend that users wanted to own their music. And the beaming feature may have be
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by mishmash 16y ago
> Microsoft did in fact 'get' the iPod, and outdid it in a lot of ways. Microsoft was over 5 years (1848 days) later than Apple to "get" what an MP3 player was. During that five years, Microsoft had a total R&D budget of over $25
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by mishmash 16y ago
No doubt, I'm sure there's something quite damaging to war effort or administration in that archive. My interest in the NSA angle was only due to the technical side.
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by mishmash 16y ago
Yeah you're right. According to this CNET article from 2007, it has been decided at least to the Federal District level, that investigators are unable to compel encryption keys at this time. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9834495-38.htm
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by mishmash 16y ago
Oh good point. Would it then be 95 printable ASCII characters by 32 (for the effective key size in bytes)? If so, that gives a laughably large number: 1937114844585011541643853683619338993862294591963291168212890625 Another question, and I'
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by mishmash 16y ago
According to Schneier[1] n should be closer to ~2600000000000000000000000000000000000000. For each single available core, m would be smaller, say 20 wouldn't it? On the other side, consider 8 or more cores a box for the NSA by 500,000 boxes
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by mishmash 16y ago
A conspiracy in a thread about conspiracies - I'm hooked. ;)
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by mishmash 16y ago
Hmm posted this earlier and it got no love. :( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1562651
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by mishmash 16y ago
Also, the geek in me wants to download this file, but I don't very much want flagged in some government DB, which leads to the question: If a file contains illegal content, is it also illegal to possess that content in encrypted form?
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WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious 'Insurance' File
10 points by mishmash 16y ago|6 comments
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by mishmash 16y ago
Zed doesn't get things done. See, people can too say it. ;)
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by mishmash 16y ago
Recently had a local politician use this beauty, right after he asked my rates: "Well I have this guy who will do it pro bono, but he's got a pretty busy family..." Like a) the rest of don't have families and b) it's going to make me want t
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by mishmash 16y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted.. your statement, although not true for most theory pieces, does hold true for any kind of reference or API text.
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by mishmash 16y ago
Bought the PDF and was really happy with it as a reference. Used it to write YARCAL (yet another Ruby Couch adapter lib). Although that was for 0.10.x and I didn't follow Couch much after that - no idea what kind of changes have occurred
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by mishmash 16y ago
Bill Gates?
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by mishmash 16y ago
My only recommendation wrt Safari Books is that you use the download tokens in a timely manner. A while back I lost something like 20-30 of them because the subscription lapsed, and unless they've changed it, once you lose them, they're gon
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by mishmash 16y ago
Been waiting for this release to (re)jump back into Perl development. Congrats to everyone involved!
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by mishmash 16y ago
Strange, I'm on HN and Twitter daily and still don't recognize half the list.
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by mishmash 16y ago
> so many tools, so much software that would only need a small tweek. I'm not sure about that. ISA is an implementation detail, a popup in your IDE. Any existing Windows or Mac app that needs to go mobile will in the least need an inter
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by mishmash 16y ago
> 12-20 hours a week working on two of my own projects. > on monetizing my own projects > find myself a bit disappointed at how much progress I am making Something easy to struggle with is knowing when to let go, as counterintui
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by mishmash 16y ago
What kind of traffic have you gotten in the last hour?
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by mishmash 16y ago
Thanks, I have this and it's great, but it'd be a bit nicer to have something a little more fleshed-out. Looking forward to Learning Perl 6 when it starts to come along.
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by mishmash 16y ago
Some Perl 6 eBooks.
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by mishmash 16y ago
Cool, hope your journey goes well.
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by mishmash 16y ago
Have you noticed any desire to program more since you started coming here?
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by mishmash 16y ago
Love that quote and this one too, from your link: "He is also often asked why he writes such terrifying stories and he answers with another question "Why do you assume I have a choice?"" Many of us probably feel the same way about programmi
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by mishmash 16y ago
Our almost three year old son was born with a severe "expressive language disorder" which means his IQ and motor skills are normal, but he can't really talk. And yet he tries so hard to communicate with us, but even after several years, it'
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by mishmash 16y ago
Not seeing the problem with IB here. I use it extensively for generic UI elements, with custom views and windows, use it to target the FirstResponder, use it to hook up actions, connect controllers, and to bind objects together - all of thi
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by mishmash 16y ago
Oh man been waiting for this since WWDC. IB integration took way too long. I do have a question for the compiler geeks, though: how was LLVM able to so quickly surpass GCC in both compiling source and binary performance, considering gcc had
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by mishmash 16y ago
True. I guess built-in functions shouldn't count.

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