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by rayval 13y ago
I have a fond memory of Mike, with his cheery wicked smile, on a sunny afternoon riding in an open convertible, charging through traffic-clogged streets in Boston, heading over to the Bitstream offices, blasting powerful classical music (un
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TrakDot device locates your luggage without GPS(trakdot.com)
2 points by rayval 13y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 13y ago
Yes, it is also an indicator to me that if I am a RackSpace customer, and other issues come up (could be patents, could be government surveillance, or something else) that will affect me as a developer, Rackspace is more likely to be on my
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Crooks Net Millions in Coordinated ATM Heists(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by rayval 14y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 14y ago
Looks like that got fixed by sysop gods. Thanks!
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by rayval 14y ago
Edited title for length, because original title got truncated in a confusing fashion. Original title: "25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours"
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25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours(arstechnica.com)
113 points by rayval 14y ago|70 comments
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by rayval 14y ago
Yes, it's possible that a simulation would use a non-uniform lattice-like data structure. Maybe something like a quad-tree (with appropriate dimensionality) where the granularity of the structure varies according to the local density of dat
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by rayval 14y ago
Agree. The link title is not the same as the original article title, so why not add a date as well?
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by rayval 14y ago
I think he is using quotemarks to highlight the revised wording, and that these are not intended for final consumption.
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by rayval 14y ago
Yammer is Microsoft's Instagram, and not just because of the same price tag. As did Facebook, Microsoft is buying market traction, user engagement, brand equity, UX chops, and vision.
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by rayval 14y ago
Pragmatically speaking, the new gGTLDs are likely to fail. So why not avoid that expensive bullet? Aside: Has anyone ever run across a real functioning site that uses the .travel suffix? That is a precursor gTLD that went live in 2006. Pres
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by rayval 14y ago
"Plan to throw one away." That was Fred Brooks, not Richard Brooks. In one of the best books of all time on the subject of software: The Mythical Man-Month.
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by rayval 14y ago
I agree the presentation is ineffective. On my read, anyway. There is a logical sequence to the pitch but that is not reflected in the visual structure. The top horizontal menu keeps the "Problem" disjoint from the "Solution". The precursor
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by rayval 14y ago
Regarding Google my understanding is that Java is only used in a few areas, and is far from the majority of their portfolio. Most their production systems are C++, while a lot of offline processing is Python. There is even a smattering of .
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Soc.cl: Social search from Microsoft Labs debuts(so.cl)
5 points by rayval 14y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 14y ago
That's why I said it was a pocket of low-priced housing.
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by rayval 14y ago
This has nothing to do with rent control. San Francisco is just one part of the Bay Area, and the Bay Area is just one part of California. The entire state has high real estate prices, despite pockets of low-priced housing (Stockton, for ex
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The Legal Fight Over Karaoke is Getting Loud(hollywoodreporter.com)
1 points by rayval 15y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 15y ago
Urban Airship
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Deep in the Heart of Stuxnet(strategypage.com)
1 points by rayval 15y ago|0 comments
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by rayval 15y ago
For us old-school types, here's the 60-second version in C: int main(int argc, char ** argv) { int i; for (i=0; i< 100; i++) { if( (i%3==0)&&(i%5==0)) printf("FizzBuzz"); else if(i%3==0)
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by rayval 15y ago
Here's my version in C: int main(int argc, char ** argv) { long *n1,*n2; int row,i; row=0; N1[0]=1L; print_row(row,N1); while(row++ < MAX_ROWS) { for(i=0, n1 = N1, n2=N2; i<MAX_BUF &&
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by rayval 15y ago
Function should return n rather than p.
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by rayval 15y ago
> But have you tried doing anything graphically complex in HTML5? ... Things that Flash used to laugh at will bring Chrome to its knees. Agree. An example is graph visualization. Fire up your CPU monitor and go to http://arborjs.org/at
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by rayval 15y ago
The title should make clear the link is to a piece written in January 2011, when the real Steve took a medical leave of absence. For a more recent item by Dan Lyons, see his rambling but powerful eulogy: http://www.fakesteve.net/2011/10/on
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by rayval 15y ago
Yes. Plus, anyone who wants something else can simply click "More" at the bottom of the page.
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by rayval 15y ago
Yes, I think this is also the practice at game companies like Mattel and Hasbro. See the following excerpt from Mattel Website TOS at http://service.mattel.com/us/tandc.asp : As the world's largest toy company, Mattel employs a large staff
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by rayval 15y ago
"Not everything worth doing, is worth doing well" -- _Soul_of_a_new_machine_
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by rayval 15y ago
Also, the switch statement is easy to add incrementally and change. Every so often, he'll go back to it and add some new values and a couple of lines of code.

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