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by msimpson 10y ago
Waits patiently for the mail client.
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by msimpson 10y ago
I have this argument almost every day. Thanks for writing it down.
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by msimpson 10y ago
The problem I have with this entire situation rests in the following timeline of events. June 2012 at NSA Hawaii: Snowden receives a quick rebuke for roping in a deputy head of NSA's technical services directorate on an email conversat
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by msimpson 10y ago
"Renting also equals freedom." Only if you plan to relocate often. "...you may also end up losing a lot of money or being bound to a property if market changes and prices drop." Which is why making good investments and l
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by msimpson 10y ago
First of all, housing in America is a dual income trap. So unless you are comfortable with roommates, have a significant other, or can attain a lucrative salary, you have limited options. Second, renting is for chumps; as you will simply th
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by msimpson 10y ago
"I’d argue that this is probably the single most important tech acquisition of all time." However, it was not Apple's first choice. They first attempted to acquire Be Inc. (BeOS) but Jean-Louis Gassée held out for $275 millio
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by msimpson 10y ago
Well, given her partner, we can be sure none of their products use React.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Thomas Fuchs is a troll. He has posted before on the alleged complexities of React. Yet, he has never posted a coherent argument against the view framework. Even this attempt was thwarted by Blake Newman: https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by msimpson 10y ago
This seems to be just an argument for the Ensemble interpretation of this experiment in opposition to the more commonly held Copenhagen interpretation. In the Copenhagen interpretation, a system stops being a superposition of states and bec
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by msimpson 10y ago
It's kind of ironic that this is the most apt way to train pets, as well.
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by msimpson 10y ago
First, it's important to realize that biometric identifiers are not constitutionally protected in the United States under the fifth amendment given current legal precedents: "A Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled Tuesday that polic
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by msimpson 10y ago
This article came a bit late. The Queen has already signed the Investigatory Powers Act as of this morning. Wikipedia has a decent summary of its provisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
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by msimpson 10y ago
So who's starting the fundraiser to decide what to put in the tremendous hole?
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by msimpson 10y ago
The whole of the article rests on a single claim that, "Several trusted sources say that later today, likely at Supercomputing 16, the company will announce they have pulled in Purley aka Skylake-EP Xeons, to this year and will sell th
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by msimpson 10y ago
Wired is so sensationalist.
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by msimpson 10y ago
"Stephen Hawking has figured out exactly how much time humans have left on earth" -- Techly "Humanity only has around 1,000 years left on Earth, Stephen Hawking predicts" -- Science Alert "Stephen Hawking: We might
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by msimpson 10y ago
Yeah. Those sort of nuances can often be the hardest to discover and/or debug.
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by msimpson 10y ago
"...the thought of Ember making all these decisions for us — enforcing a convention over configuration — was very alluring" Alluring, yes. Good? You shall see. When you embark on using an opinionated framework development can, at
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by msimpson 10y ago
This attack can be mitigated in Windows using group policy: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731387(WS.10)....
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by msimpson 10y ago
Even on a GTX 670 these examples crawl. They seriously need to optimize.
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by msimpson 10y ago
We are aware of this bias as our positions and projects often require such skills. I simply cannot hire someone who is unable to comprehend array sorting, vector math, etc.
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by msimpson 10y ago
We use a similar system which involves: 1. A phone interview to validate the applicants resume. 2. An in-person interview where the applicant is given an hour to complete level 10 of Blockly Maze ( https://blockly-games.appspot.co
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by msimpson 10y ago
This article is much more clear on what the image actually represents: http://www.livescience.com/50019-image-light-wave-particle.h... "A clever technique and an ultrafast electron microscope have caught an image of li
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by msimpson 10y ago
Great work minxomat, and under 200 LOC as well.
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by msimpson 10y ago
Yep. Also, I'm completely in favor of smoking, or chewing, or whatever you want as long as you aren't hurting anyone else.
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by msimpson 10y ago
"As a smoker I have special interest. There is no archaeological evidence of cancer among aboriginal nations of Americas which cultures had a lasting tradition of smoking tobacco." Well, as a past smoker I too have special interes
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by msimpson 10y ago
"Regardless of etymological technical "truths", can you really say with intellectual honesty that there's no masculine connotation inherent in "guys"?" I'm sure there is to certain people. But to me,
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by msimpson 10y ago
Last time I checked "guys" was a plural for "guy", which literally comes from the British, meaning, "a person of grotesque appearance" in relation to an effigy Guy Fawkes or those who dress to resemble him on N
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by msimpson 10y ago
I've heard this argument before. The claim that "clean" tobacco smoke is not carcinogenic and only the additives are to blame. Well, hate to burst your bubble, but when you burn tobacco--additives or not--you are creating hyd
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by msimpson 10y ago
First of all, since when did "guys" uniquely refer to the male gender? Second, how was this even worth the time it took to create?

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