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by pyvek 13y ago
Another thing to note is that they don't want their users to delete stuff or do any action that may suggest abandoning the platform. I thought that I deleted my profile 1.5 years ago but I tried logging in last week (after seeing a sim
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by pyvek 13y ago
SEEKING WORK: REMOTE Fairly new in the field, looking to get more experience and willing to work for dirt cheap. I'm fluent in Python and can work with HTML, CSS, Javascript and C. Currently learning Obj-C/Cocoa. If you are lookin
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by pyvek 13y ago
I opened http://dev1.codelathe.com/ui/core/index.html (URL in your screenshot) in Chrome (latest) but I'm not getting any phishing warning.
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by pyvek 13y ago
No, governments have and will do whatever is possible to commit act of wars against any country to serve its own interest. But the issue is that in this digital era, the power that governments exercise is exponentially larger than in the pa
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by pyvek 13y ago
Even if you don't encrypt your communications, can you be sure that NSA will not store your data indefinitely? Sure, they can pass the raw unencrypted data through their system, parse out the important bits, save them in a database wit
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by pyvek 13y ago
No, its not. I have a 13" MBP 2011 and I swapped out the 4GB RAM with 8GB and noticed a huge difference. Earlier it used to beachball all the time but its much better now. Right now, Chrome alone is using 3.5GB+ memory.
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by pyvek 13y ago
I realize that its not the same thing but I'm raising the other issue because both of them concern the subject of animal treatments. And why not an iPhone app? Hackers don't need a reason do something new. A simple reason I can th
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by pyvek 13y ago
I'm surprised to see that so many people are concerned about ethics of controlling a cockroach. I would like to hear what your opinions are on animal farming and killing in the food industry. Or even killing a cockroach vs controlling
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by pyvek 13y ago
Also, _Functional Programming Principles in Scala_ course on Coursera by Martin Odersky (Scala's designer) is very good. https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
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by pyvek 13y ago
Dan Boneh's crypto course is starting in 5 days on Coursera. Syllabus is not same as the OP's course but is very good and useful nonetheless. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
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by pyvek 13y ago
First the people need to be made aware about how serious this is and why their privacy matters. Then, people will have to get on the streets for demonstrations and overwhelm their representatives with emails and phone calls asking to do som
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by pyvek 13y ago
``He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because
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by pyvek 13y ago
At the least, I'm going to take my data away from Dropbox and switch to a self hosted alternative. And also change email and chat providers (currently gmail and gtalk).
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by pyvek 13y ago
Though not the same ones but here are the lectures from University of New South Wales - http://academicearth.org/courses/cs2-data-structures-and-alg... ;
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Told You So: If You've Been Using Centralized Comms Service, You Were Wiretapped(falkvinge.net)
5 points by pyvek 13y ago|0 comments
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by pyvek 13y ago
Ah, the old `if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear` fallacy. I'll leave you with this - http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/19/debunking-the-dangerous-noth... ;
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by pyvek 13y ago
You just see some pretty statistics but you don't know (and possibly can't) what happens behind the scenes.
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by pyvek 13y ago
Launch infographic - http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/31/Press_Releases/Am... More - http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=footer_press?ie=UTF8&node=159...
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by pyvek 13y ago
Aaron's words on the same topic - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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by pyvek 13y ago
Here you go - http://pastebin.com/MARe4Ca5
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Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?(componentowl.com)
1 points by pyvek 13y ago|0 comments
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by pyvek 13y ago
From the paper - "Recommend that Congress and the administration impose a tariff on all Chinese-origin imports, designed to raise 150% of all U.S. losses from Chinese IP theft in the previous year, as estimated by the secretary of commerc
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by pyvek 13y ago
Either complete silence or trance without any vocals.
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by pyvek 13y ago
That is true. Good content triumphs in the long run. But still, other people with crappy content and links can rank above you and take away the traffic that you deserved.
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by pyvek 13y ago
And it will also cut down on the amount of link and content spam generated (under the hood of SEO) making things better for everyone. But this is what happens with open systems. Some people start gaming the system, others suffer as a result
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by pyvek 13y ago
You might want to optimize those images (startup logos). Many of them are like 175 KB each.
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by pyvek 13y ago
I do not mean to flame or anything but why is ARS's article upvoted to front page when we already have one [1] on the same topic with 250+ comments? It doesn't even provide any additional information. I have seen a similar trend with a lot
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by pyvek 13y ago
I'm so very happy about this. But I'm still wondering why they decided to launch a masters course as opposed to bachelor? And I hope they provide an option for people without bachelor degree take this course (perhaps with entrance test of s
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by pyvek 13y ago
Whoa. Didn't really expect Google to respond to this and that too so quickly!
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by pyvek 13y ago
I guess the situation is a lot similar to YC's rejections (see http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html ). I recently got into programming and wanted to apply for HS but living for 3 months in NYC isn't affordable for me. I'll be applying for ne

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