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by o_nate 11y ago
"JavaScript has the better object model" - hard to take anything else he says seriously after reading this, but it was funny.
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by o_nate 11y ago
I think the more pertinent question is: Why don't the poor vote? Voting rates in the US are highly correlated with income levels. Apart from blocking obvious attempts to disenfranchise the poor (such as unnecessary voter ID requireme
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by o_nate 11y ago
Firing people.
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by o_nate 11y ago
I agree. $70 seems steep for a text editor, no matter how good it is. I use Textpad, which I got my company to pay for years ago, but it's much cheaper. Maybe it's not as good as Sublime, but it's good enough. Since I know
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by o_nate 11y ago
Um, no it's not. It's a physical model. Read the PDF they link to.
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by o_nate 11y ago
I was thinking of more than the UI/API, although I agree that should be simple as well. I think the internals of the code should be simple, in the sense of being constructed out of simple parts with each part being simply connected to
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by o_nate 11y ago
Or in other words: code should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. I guess you could call it organization or readability or just good design. It requires deeply understanding what you're trying to accomplish and structuring you
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by o_nate 11y ago
Not to mention that about 3 months after the IPO the share price was down about 50% from the price it traded on the first day.
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by o_nate 11y ago
Hope this ruling will also apply to the ridiculous Justin Carter case.
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Leaving New York and Also Technology(theawl.com)
2 points by o_nate 11y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 11y ago
I don't really get what encrypting has to do with anything in this context. In any case, I'm less interested in the specific facts of this case than in other similar but less publicized cases where companies have gone after people
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by o_nate 11y ago
OK, you guys got me. I'm not a lawyer. So the legal definition of theft does depend to some degree on intent. I've learned something today. In that case, allow me to reframe my argument. I'll be generous and replace the
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by o_nate 11y ago
Don't know why this is being downvoted. This is a very valid point. Stealing code seems to be like pornography, i.e, you know it when you see it. Except there are lots of grey areas. What if instead of downloading the code on his l
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by o_nate 11y ago
Sure, so multiply above example by the relevant number of sub-specializations within programming. Same principle holds.
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by o_nate 11y ago
It seems plausible to me that the distribution of innate programming ability is a bell curve, but the distribution of programming effectiveness is bimodal. The missing ingredient of course is experience and education. It's similar to
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Lessons from the “Flash Crash” regulatory fiasco(financial-math.org)
2 points by o_nate 11y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 12y ago
I'm not sure that a good rule of interviewing is that you should only ask questions that put the candidate at ease. It's a job interview, not some soft-ball celebrity talk show interview. I don't think it's a bad idea
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by o_nate 12y ago
Good interview question.
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by o_nate 12y ago
The Fed stopped buying Treasuries in November of last year and since that time long-term rates (both real and nominal) have fallen.
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by o_nate 12y ago
That's an interesting scientific study. It confirmed that soaking can dissolve the complex sugars which contribute to flatulence. True it doesn't do anything about the fiber, but perhaps fiber has much less flatulence-causing ef
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by o_nate 12y ago
I don't think the article disproved it. In my experience, soaking does definitely reduce the flatulence effects.
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by o_nate 12y ago
I do agree that unsoaked beans are more flavorful, but I disagree with the assertion that "soaking does absolutely nothing to reduce the gas-producing properties of beans". I've eaten them both ways for years, and in my expe
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You can’t stop Ebola without staff, stuff, space and systems(lrb.co.uk)
4 points by o_nate 12y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 12y ago
Most likely he was logged in remotely to work from home and they monitored his activity. They make it sound nefarious, but it sounds pretty much like a standard day working from home, except that he looked at some code he wasn't direc
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by o_nate 13y ago
It's also great PR for Google.
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by o_nate 13y ago
I didn't mean that to come off as hand-waving. I think this is a very serious issue that is going to require a complete rethinking of security practices. Perhaps it won't ever be solved satisfactorily, but I wouldn't rule ou
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by o_nate 13y ago
Perhaps any online Bitcoin service is going to have to expect a certain loss rate due to hacking and budget accordingly. Just as credit card issuers expect to charge off some percentage due to fraud. The trick is to keep that loss rate ma
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by o_nate 13y ago
Best case speculation: they really are being acquired by a more competent exchange, or consortium of competent exchanges, who decided to step in to prevent further harm to Bitcoin's reputation. Hence the hidden message in the html, th
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by o_nate 13y ago
On the other thread there was some information suggesting this might be an internal account used by another exchange.
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by o_nate 13y ago
If I was going to steal 782,000 BTC over a period of two years why would I steal them all from the same address? Doesn't pass the sniff test.

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