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by pkinsky 13y ago
>We worry because worrying is part of being human. Worry isn't a binary state. Not being able to pay for your child's health care is more anxiety-inducing than not being able to pay for your gerbil's health care, for the v
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Botnets require remote management. This means adding hidden backdoors, with the assumption that they will remain hidden. If such a backdoor becomes known to bad actors, they will exploit it. Unless you're asserting that adding back doo
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Antigua is still authorized by the WTO to suspend US copyright. I wonder if an american startup could get away with running a hosted Popcorn Time service out of an Antiguan data center. They'd need to register an Antiguan LLC, of cours
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by pkinsky 13y ago
How does it perform this search? I can't imagine running all functions with a matching type signature scaling to more complex examples.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Tens of thousands of people are about to transcend on Austin today I think you mean descend :)
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>under the Patriot Act the lines are no longer clear cut and dry like you imply. This is incredibly creepy to see under two deleted posts.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
This is great advice, I took a similar path out of $BIG_JAVA_CO about a year back. For me it was Functional Programming in Scala Coursera courses and books instead of SICP, but what matters is that you find it interesting. With your backgro
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>This isn't very difficult to do. >Take 100K. Are you serious?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I draw the line at illegality. Activists filming distasteful but legal processes are sketchy. Activists filming animal abuse in cases where the government turns a blind eye should be encouraged. Ideally the government would perform this fun
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by pkinsky 13y ago
A twitter clone with a fully nonblocking Play framework/Redis backend and a angularjs frontend that communicate (almost) exclusively by websocket. It's nothing that hasn't been done before, but it's a chance to play arou
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!
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by pkinsky 13y ago
What does this mean for the Structure Sensor's integration with OpenNI? ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/occipital/structure-sen... )
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Oh, cool! I've seen examples of the Reader monad in Scala, but we use the Cake pattern for dependency injection (self types and multiple inheritance) http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/2011/12/19&#x2F
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by pkinsky 13y ago
They weren't villains. Accelerando portrayed the rise of autonomous corporations as something akin to the Great Oxygenation Event, with human society (and humanity) playing the part of the previous anaerobic ecosystem.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Can you link to an example? I've never heard of this technique and I'd like to learn more.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
With some engineering, you could have dual-use climbers that double as habitat segments.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Yes, but the smart ones learned to minimize their exposure.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
It makes sense. The payoffs are going to show up on Coinbase's balance sheet in USD, and they don't want to commit to buying $X BTC if the market changes. On the flip side, if BTC crashes, this is good for participants.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
"they laughed at einstein they laughed at galileo but they also laughed at bozo the clown"
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>What bothers me more is the blanket sarcasm and disregard in your comment. An incredible team spent years working on this, sweating every detail. I'm calling bullshit. What makes the team incredible, aside from their product being
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I'm waiting for contact lenses with displays and gaze tracking.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I work for a Forex (have USD? Want JPY?) service provider that runs a 24-5 service (At any time of day during a weekday an exchange will be open somewhere, on some continent. They all close on weekends) We exclusively push code on Fridays.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
But what metric can track might-have-beens?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
To continue the metaphor, I believe both immune systems mentioned perform necessary functions. As a side note, the parts of said immune system responsible for investigating pollution and white collar crime could do with some strengthening.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I assume there's something in Gett's terms of service prohibiting what Uber was doing. If so, they're liable under the CFAA.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Which brings us to a very important point for all the young programmer dudes: when you all crowd into the same tiny city and bid up the rents into the stratosphere, your available dating pool shrinks to a puddle (yet another consequence
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Yes, why would officials in the government take actions that advance their agenda but harm the long-term strategic goals of the US?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I find it interesting that you apply the auto-immune disease metaphor to privacy advocates and not the post-9/11 security state itself.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Someone should have given him a laser cutter. I can't imagine hand-cutting all those pieces. A 3d printer would struggle with the voids, and would still need to print each piece individually.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Interesting, but I'm not sure about investing $150 for the first round of three classes.

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