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by oconnore 10y ago
> maximum salaries they can afford. > bank Uh, you would refuse to do mainframe programming for $1m/year? Seriously?
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by oconnore 10y ago
I wouldn't take an apple. If a website put up an "ad-wall" (click to view!), I would not try to bypass it. Instead, they want the experience to be friction-less, subtle, (or, alternatively, overwhelming and surprising) so I d
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by oconnore 10y ago
1) They don't ask for my consent, I'm not going to worry about theirs. 2) I find that ad supported content tends to be not worth paying for. I do pay for subscriptions to magazines and sites that are worthwhile (a paywall is a ver
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by oconnore 10y ago
I subscribe to Netflix for that reason. Online ads are not uniquely malicious, although they are more pervasive (even reading a magazine, the page I am actively reading will not have an ad in between paragraphs, though the next page might)
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by oconnore 10y ago
Yes, ads are annoying, a security risk, and obstruct content, but: they also are a deliberate attempt to subconsciously influence my decision making. Saying, "here is this product you may not have known about, here is what it does&quot
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by oconnore 10y ago
Stacks of $100 bills are actually pretty effective at wiping away guilt and plebeian sympathies.
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by oconnore 10y ago
You can't prove intent. However, you can consider the formal specification of your intent (the type), to be an example of fully declarative programming. Since you write your type without any care about how it might be executed -- the h
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by oconnore 10y ago
If the question is "could a human be trained to use this?" then, yes, you can imagine a human reacting appropriately to the AF447 scenario. But that's the wrong question. The right question is: does the system incorporate the
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by oconnore 10y ago
When he talks of humans being richly involved in the environment, not sleeping in the trunk, I imagine an interface with several levels. Example: you are driving down a highway that has full monitoring by overhead cameras. No obstacles are
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by oconnore 10y ago
I lent out my copy, but one particularly relevant section compares results from the aviation industry's use of pure-autopilot and HUD-augmented landings. Pilots maintain their flying skills, and get better overall results by staying in
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by oconnore 10y ago
Because this sort of auto->manual transition of control does not work [1]. 1: https://www.amazon.com/Our-Robots-Ourselves-Robotics-Autonom...
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by oconnore 10y ago
Why would you use batteries? Fuel gets lighter as you use it, and the density is already there. Automate maintenance so you can use turbines.
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by oconnore 10y ago
http://i.imgur.com/hMqpkev.png
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by oconnore 10y ago
I'm developing a twitch whenever I see the word "modern" in a software description. It doesn't actually say anything about what you're doing.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Small as in value->0 as t->years++? Sounds correct!
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by oconnore 10y ago
You don't need a clock to tell you it's ok to go to bed later.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Not sarcastic: aws is not a tool, it's a service. You're exchanging dollars for SLA. The SLA is built in: you're sometimes (rarely) down, and someone else gets called about it.
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by oconnore 10y ago
Isn't the whole point of AWS that you can blame AWS engineers for downtime instead of your own (in this case) code deployment thingy?
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by oconnore 10y ago
> All of the dependencies of the application are bundled with the container which means no need to build on the fly on every server during deployment. This results in much faster deployments and rollbacks. ... Not having to pull from git
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by oconnore 10y ago
Have you heard of this sweet version control provider called Github? I hear they might provide a solution for this sort of thing, for free.
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by oconnore 10y ago
The most important part of the decision is granting the FCC authority to consider internet providers as a utility -- and therefore regulate their activities in the interest of the consumer. The actual "net neutrality" win is nice,
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by oconnore 10y ago
> it's already hard to get good Java developer try{ Well, obviously, you're making them write Java . }catch(CheekyJokeException e){ // todo }
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by oconnore 10y ago
I've been working without highlighting for ~6 months, and I've gotten faster at scanning, not slower. Feel free to keep doing what you're doing, but making assumptions about workflows that you're unwilling to try is not
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by oconnore 10y ago
The critique you are responding to has nothing to do with computing power, or really any sort of linear extrapolation from where we are, yet you frame it as a question of frame rates and "minimal technology package"? I'm not
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by oconnore 10y ago
> If you decide to add the cert manually, you can inspect the key and see who has signed it, and decide your level of trust. No one has signed it, because the mythical web of trust does not exist. What now?
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by oconnore 10y ago
Working with Lisp images: it's horrible when you lose track of what runtime change allows your code to continue working. You typically keep a working compilation between code and your intended environment, and use the run time to exper
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by oconnore 10y ago
Where is the web of trust that lets me cryptographically verify that my install.sh file was published by some PhD student in the Netherlands? And unless I trust the https server, how do I know which PhD student in the Netherlands I'm s
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by oconnore 10y ago
No [1]. If you are installing software from scratch, you must trust the https server that serves it to you. They could publish sha256 check sums to https://nixos.org/hashes , but you would have to trust the https server. T
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by oconnore 10y ago
My point is not that you shouldn't verify OpenSSL code. My point is that you shouldn't pretend that you don't implicitly trust Intel/AMD (or Yubikey).
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by oconnore 10y ago
Were you going to put the microprocessor under an electron microscope? No? Then nothing has changed. I also think open hardware would be pretty neat, but software people who get really upset about layers they can't verify implemented o

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