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by noamsml 13y ago
That's not a fair assertion. Hyperloop has the potential to change the world far more than tesla and spaceX
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by noamsml 13y ago
Playback is cloud-to-device, not device-to-device.
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by noamsml 13y ago
Compare with Seattle, by the way, which just has a Sound Transit stop right on the Microsoft campus, easily accessible from Belltown and Cap Hill. If there's one thing that frustrated me moving from Microsoft to Google, it's the s
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by noamsml 13y ago
Takedown notice in...
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by noamsml 13y ago
This annoys me greatly. Whether or not the book itself was bad, an open platform shouldn't have to apologize for not immediately censoring its users on public outrage. To the contrary, I would have expected an apology if, given the fir
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by noamsml 13y ago
I care exactly zero about who Edward Snowden is. As far as I'm concerned, he could be a dick who loves kicking puppies and taking candy from children. What I do care about is, you know, the NSA spying on my phone calls and emails.
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by noamsml 13y ago
Yes. Standards should be designed by committee, ensuring as many cooks are helping the broth as possible. Much like UNIX and C came out of large standards consortia composed of many industry leaders, and like the HTML5 standards evolved inc
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by noamsml 13y ago
Whoops, my bad.
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by noamsml 13y ago
That's what he's saying. If this is the NSA telling us what the s-boxes for DSA are, what's the equivalent to the DSA understanding differential cryptanalysis when designing the s-boxes?
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by noamsml 13y ago
It depends. In algorithm classes, there are often many right answers, including ones you haven't thought of before. Same goes for most college math.
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by noamsml 13y ago
I don't get why people like rebasing as an alternative to merging. It works kind of OK for small histories, but if you do something slightly complex or your history is not meticulous, rebasing becomes extremly tedious. The worse example is
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by noamsml 13y ago
I fundamentally disagree with the idea that consuming cultural artifacts that happen to correlate with liking engineering has anything to do with liking engineering. If you think liking Star Wars is necessary for being an engineer, you're p
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by noamsml 14y ago
I think overall the big difference I see between interesting startups and boring ones is that interesting startups try to expand into a wider platform rather than just solve the small problem they were designated to solve.
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by noamsml 14y ago
I might, actually. A huge part of the reason I own a VPS is precisely because I don't own a desktop, and having a persistent networked machine comes in handy often.
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by noamsml 14y ago
IMO neither of these is true. Vine can't replace YouTube in any meaningful capacity, but it will change the way we think about video on the internet on a very fundamental level.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Yep, password is common enough to unhash pretty easily. People need to learn to salt their hashes for fuck's sake.
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by noamsml 14y ago
... and, of course, there's the fact that Facebook owns Instagram.
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by noamsml 14y ago
They used to have a big honking announcement on the top of the google shopping page explaining this...
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by noamsml 14y ago
Not that the FB privacy disclaimer deals specifically with the copyright on deleted content. Specifically, you do rescind your license to FB by deleting content, but only if no references to it exist (i.e. it has not been reshared or all re
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by noamsml 14y ago
When you agree with it, it's an honest opinion. When you disagree with it, it's propaganda?
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by noamsml 14y ago
I have a buddy who has an international Galaxy Note II, and for what it's worth, I think the screen looks magnificent compared to the screen of the Nexus 7, which isn't half bad (my phone is a Nexus S 4G, so the comparison is moot).
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by noamsml 14y ago
Pretty sure with Sinofsky's salary that's not a huge deal.
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by noamsml 14y ago
The sky is falling! Quick, run like a chicken with your head cut off!
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by noamsml 14y ago
IIRC, wasn't this leak made by the group AntiSec? IIRC, they consider themselves separate from Anonymous and have their own very odd manifesto having to do with exploit disclosure.
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by noamsml 14y ago
When I'm travelling about, I might not have easy access to a printer. This penalizes low-income and high-mobility travelers.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Moore's law as commonly understood (single-threaded computing power doubles every X amount of time) is already false. Moore's law as originally stated (number of transistors per chip doubles every X amount of time) is probably only true for
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by noamsml 14y ago
Using five technical searches I might actually make on a day by day basis, I chose Google 4 times and a draw once, though the results were close almost every time (once I chose Google because I searched for an organization name and wanted t
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by noamsml 14y ago
IIRC I looked that up, and Google's revenue is about half of MS's for 1/3 the employees, making it about 3/2 the revenue per employee. Not sure about Apple/Samsung.
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by noamsml 14y ago
The discussion on the pull request is interesting, and illustrates the trouble with DNT being "default" -- ignore it, and users who opted into actual DNT are now harmed.
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by noamsml 14y ago
Honestly, the whole mantra of "differentiation" is a bit tired. Most android "differentiation" is terrible, and I'd rather have vanilla Android over "differentiated" bullshit any day.

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