pmjordan

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by pmjordan 17y ago
Can't imagine that actually happening You've been leading a sheltered life. The majority of CVs we received via a recruitment agency at Kuju (game developer) had been changed by the agency, and I'm not just talking about removing the cont
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by pmjordan 17y ago
How would you do a full text search on the server if the server only holds an encrypted version of the data? To my knowledge, no homomorphic encryption algorithms exist that can be used for practical applications such as full-text search. T
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Yeah, I'd love a "Tarsnap for email". GMail is good, but I do worry about it. But encrypting everything as soon as it arrives would push the burden of searching and filtering back out to the client. Haven't figured out an optimal solution.
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by pmjordan 17y ago
I initially had a similar reaction, but now I'm not sure that's quite fair. I think the innovations aren't so much technological, they're more like business model innovations. They have the potential to generate value for customers regardle
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Would You Pay a Girl to Play Halo With You?(au.xboxlive.ign.com)
10 points by pmjordan 17y ago|10 comments
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by pmjordan 17y ago
I'm hoping that the new features (GPU!) can be used in place of the existing systems rather than adding yet more cruft to the existing graphics system that has accumulated so much cruft going from GBA to DS to DSi. Probably wishful thinking
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Nintendo Announces New Nintendo 3DS Portable System(gamasutra.com)
39 points by pmjordan 17y ago|23 comments
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by pmjordan 17y ago
When I was at Apple, I wrote a lot of software to make it easier for Apple employees to read code that other people in the company had written. This idea of improving the reading/understanding experience with software is something I've ti
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by pmjordan 17y ago
From the Wikipedia page on USB: Additional USB hubs may be included in the tiers, allowing branching into a tree structure with up to five tier levels. So by "infinite" they mean "five", unless the connectors can make use of a non-standar
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Google Will Redirect China Users to Uncensored Site(nytimes.com)
1 points by pmjordan 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmjordan 17y ago
But surely the CDATA tag is vulnerable to the string "]]>" appearing embedded somewhere in the code?
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Is it really so much more expensive to hire someone than to find a contractor, though? In theory, you don't have the risk - if they don't deliver, you don't pay - but in practice money isn't the only resource you're wasting with a bad hire,
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by pmjordan 17y ago
The problem from the opposite perspective: I found myself outgrowing jobs faster than would look good on my C.V. (I hear job hoppers aren't popular as employees). I ended up going down the contractor/consultant route; for some reason, nobod
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Those lakes are almost certainly not natural, but created by dams. The dams in that part of the world tend to be quite simple and need frequent maintenance. It's easily conceivable that they fell into disrepair and drained.
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Unix-inspired systems have traditionally often had the letter X in their name, e.g.: UNIX itself (ex Unics), Irix, AIX, Minix, NeXTStep, Xenix, HP/UX, Linux, Mac OS X in no particular order. Of course not all do, e.g. Free/Open/NetBSD (thou
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Skype publishes SILK audio codec source code(h-online.com)
18 points by pmjordan 17y ago|10 comments
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Google Chrome to do away with unique IDs(h-online.com)
1 points by pmjordan 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Eep. I had mine set to #00bbdd until 10 seconds ago...
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by pmjordan 17y ago
I guess that's social proof at work. I've also noticed I get a lot less hassle about my hourly rate with potential customers when I tell them up front that I'm already pretty booked up and can't promise when I'll be able to fit them in. Thi
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Luckily it's one of the ones that doesn't affect readability too much. This may just be me, but the your/you're thing trips me up like crazy. I usually have to re-read the sentence 2 or 3 times.
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why she moved there. The "hip" reputation maybe. Certainly not the weather. ;)
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by pmjordan 17y ago
True; at the same time, though, implementing a simple firewall on a router with equivalent security to NAT is actually simpler than implementing NAT itself: block incoming connection initiation packets by default, e.g. SYN packets in TCP, U
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by pmjordan 17y ago
As far as I can tell, it applies to graphic designers [1], architects, animators, etc. as well. As a programmer I've got more people throwing money at me than I have time for, so it definitely depends on what it is you do. I also think the
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by pmjordan 17y ago
This seems to be one rule where the employee is more protected in the US than the EU. Unpaid internships are common here. Common to the extent that some graduates end up working for free for years before finally being promoted to a paid pos
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by pmjordan 17y ago
In fairness, the DS' CPU runs at only 67MHz (DSi: 133) and has access to only 4MB RAM (DSi: 16MB); the GPU pales in comparison to the iPhone's. We're talking around an order of magnitude difference; the physical dimensions are also larger t
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Yeah, the audio thing is weird. ALSA actually has drivers for the vast majority of hardware out there, but somehow this doesn't translate into an acceptable userspace experience. I've never used Hulu (yay, geolocation blacklisting!), but I
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by pmjordan 17y ago
Unfortunately, realtime 3D graphics programming on Linux is something of a sisyphean task. Even the best drivers (the proprietary nvidia ones) are somewhat buggy; the intel ones and both the open source and the proprietary AMD ones are even
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by pmjordan 17y ago
I think you're overreacting. The course is free and seems to be online, so the potential audience is pretty large. I don't see why upvoting this would be such an audacious thing to do.
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Team Europe Ventures starts €6m fund for early stage Internet/mobile startups(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by pmjordan 17y ago|0 comments
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by pmjordan 17y ago
They specifically do not stand up in court in Germany. I don't have information on other countries.

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