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by reeses 13y ago
If I tell you the combination on my laptop case is 1-2-3-4 so you can get me my power adapter and you then try 1-2-3-4 on my luggage and successfully steal my collection of Kylie Minogue's undergarments (I never travel without them), while
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by reeses 13y ago
OK that is cool. I would have gone with Google Voice or some other proxy, but dual SIMs is awesome. Can you manage do-not-disturb and ringtones/notifications per SIM?
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by reeses 13y ago
Charles Simonyi would commute to the MS campus via helicopter and we all know about Paul Allen's yachts. I think it's more about it being similar to buying a second home or a nice car to normal people. I.e., you may or may not notice the
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by reeses 13y ago
If you spend all your time inside emacs[1], you know that you can change anything you consider less-than-ideal. If you can't, or don't feel enough pain to make it worthwhile, the original rule 34 (which is really just rule #1, in the way t
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by reeses 13y ago
I like Adobe Lightroom because it's transparent at the filesystem level. It keeps a separate catalog, but you can point it at any directory for photos.
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by reeses 13y ago
This is painfully embarrassing. I love Ted Nelson but it's much, much easier to find out who 'Satoshi' is than those tortured comparisons.
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by reeses 13y ago
OKCupid was great for this in the early and middle days. They'd present a lot of analysis that showed some particular group of insights based on their data. This was before 'big data' was on the CEO's radar and, even with the presentation
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by reeses 13y ago
Common Lisp has a robust and comprehensive numerics facility. Poking around the CLHS and reading about ratios, fixnums, bignums, etc., will lead you to the conclusion that you can get your numeric work done (albeit in many cases much more
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by reeses 13y ago
In environments with exhaustive partitions and automatic 'promotion' (i.e., Common Lisp but probably not Ruby, etc.), your overflow would result in a correctly calculated bignum.
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by reeses 13y ago
Integers, BCD, rationals, or other arbitrary precision representations are preferable as well. IBM keeps BCD alive and fast for COBOL and other 'legacy' systems.
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by reeses 13y ago
A huge number of ecommerce sites do. (Such as almost every site based on ATG/Oracle Commerce) Most banking systems predate standardized FP and use fixed decimal representations.
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by reeses 13y ago
Whew. By volume, most of my big data work is in awk. I hope my secret remains safe.
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by reeses 13y ago
Our first VC meetings were practice runs and a source of free high-value consulting. The very first one couldn't understand our product, so we knew we needed to edit. The second was excited but said we were in a great position to bootstrap
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by reeses 13y ago
Interestingly, the only people (OK, two) who died on "death march" projects were offshore team members from India and China who came to the US specifically for the final 18-24h/day push to hit a launch date. This is out of maybe 90 people w
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by reeses 13y ago
There's a beauty to that, especially as Ogilvy used the quote often enough for it to be strongly associated with him.
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by reeses 13y ago
If you're missing lambdas based on Python's neutered implementation, you're not really missing anything with go.
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by reeses 13y ago
No one expects an Erlang infestation. Are you going to be at the Erlang User Conference next month? I will enjoy putting messages in your inbox while you fail fast attempting to walk and drink at the same time. http://www.erlang-factory.c
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by reeses 13y ago
You're extrapolating things I haven't said. It is well known that signal interception (and communications interception in general) has been a tool used by the military and the government for as long as any of the above have existed.[1] "of
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by reeses 13y ago
That's a problem you only have to solve once.
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by reeses 13y ago
It's not blacked out. It's subtly and near-undetectably changed. Who says the soldier is tech-savvy enough to know to talk on an alternate secure backchannel because s/he can't trust the same Internet that has fantasy football and funny v
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by reeses 13y ago
It depends on whether you want someone to grant you rights, in which case, they're privileges.
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by reeses 13y ago
Bingo. Or you send documents that are traceable to a small group of people, including you, and everyone else has protection and/or an alibi. General, General, Colonel, Colonel, Short Bird, Corporal...wait a second.
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by reeses 13y ago
Let's take a simple example. A soldier deployed overseas sees this link, sets up Tor, and sends some confidential information that includes evidence that the US government is up to some shenanigans. After Manning and some other fun, the mi
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by reeses 13y ago
bookmark...others...offline. Be more paranoid.
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by reeses 13y ago
That's not what I mean. On that page ( http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/ , no SSL, no hashing, etc.) is an onion link. I see it as http://tnysbtbxsf356hiy.onion . An adversary with sufficient access (whether to the server, or to the net
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by reeses 13y ago
whoosh.
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by reeses 13y ago
I've had that exact experience. If you want to bump the contract, you can give a "bonus" that's not part of the base services.[1] This keeps your agreement clean and emphasizes that you are rewarding behavior above expectations. I often
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by reeses 13y ago
Don't forget the vouchers for traditional currencies that could be exchanged without any conversion into bitcoin. Those were often leveraged to get around the banking latency, but would just as easily been used as a (slow) way of paying fo
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by reeses 13y ago
Wait, don't you remember Steve's original announcement about the great development opportunities on iPhone, where you could use HTML and Javascript? You won't be able to use undocumented APIs because you won't be able to get to them.
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by reeses 13y ago
But that's not an exit node. Yes, any .onion address that you don't personally verify[1] could be something other than it seems. In fact, with sufficient resources, that onion link could be rewritten in transit once it hits the backbone

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