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by rfonseca 8y ago
Interestingly, a paper not 10, but 9 years ago, not by the same authors, but by the same group (systems folks at Berkeley), was proclaiming the cloud as an idea whose time had finally come. No mourning there. https://www2.eecs.be
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by rfonseca 10y ago
I was about to make that connection, this is similar to Brazil's boletos. The difference is that in Brazil it is a standardized system that spans all banks: anyone with a bank account that wants to receive money can have their bank iss
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by rfonseca 11y ago
Kinderlab Robotics' Kibo Robot ( http://kinderlabrobotics.com/kibo/ ) also features a tangible, screen-free programming language where the instructions are wooden blocks that kids put together in a sequence. They ar
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by rfonseca 11y ago
This is fantastic, especially the part about what sensors could be if reimagined. "But we're still doing that today, after decades of digital camera technology, and it really makes no sense anymore: why are we still lump-sum recor
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by rfonseca 12y ago
Other comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411283
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by rfonseca 12y ago
Other comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8410586
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by rfonseca 12y ago
The problem is much bigger than the specific process used or the findings in the verification. If you look at what they found in the code in the short inspection, you would shiver. For example, vote secrecy was protected by storing votes in
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Xkcd-style plots in gnuplot(rfonseca.github.com)
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