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by rw 18y ago
Do not conflate orthogonal issues. Pixel count increases, all else being equal, are good. Any visual artifacts caused by that increase are the result of other factors. The author's real problem is with the design of individual sensors, no
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by rw 18y ago
And unpleasantly reactionary.
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by rw 18y ago
GIVE US POLYWELL
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by rw 18y ago
Your comment made me realize that the phrase direct observation sounds so much better than anecdotal evidence.
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by rw 18y ago
For entrepreneurs: Do guaranteed-safe data storage right and you will have a killer app. How do you really plan to last for 100 or 1,000 years? We all have lots of value tied up in our data. Think of long-term storage as time-shifting tha
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by rw 18y ago
It's fine to learn by copying. However, during that process you can try to not copy, and instead reason out some problems on your own. By not copying, you learn more. If your short-term goal is not education, however, copy away.
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by rw 18y ago
What we need is a more diverse population of developers.
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by rw 18y ago
My interpretation: Either make a great oven, or make a specialty cake-baking device. Don't straddle the middle ground of generality, the place filled with myriad edge cases and awkward attempts at abstraction.
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by rw 18y ago
Key quote: 'There was one thing Maximin said to us that has always stayed with me. Someone asked him, what is creativity? And he replied, "Creativity is not copying". So simple and so obvious, I suppose, yet that was a key moment for me. Be
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by rw 18y ago
The takeaway: You are not actually that different from other people. Build something for yourself and you'll find that if you love it, others will love it, too.
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by rw 18y ago
No shit.
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by rw 18y ago
As a hacker, I support this. As an entrepreneur, it scares me. In practice, how deep down the software stack does this go?
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by rw 18y ago
1) Why do I need to enable Javascript to use even the most basic functionality of your website? 2) Why would anyone use this? The security implications are obvious and severe. Congrats on building it, though. Certainly a useful exercise.
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by rw 18y ago
Don't forget the (often drastic) tax incentives for foreign industry in the developing world.
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by rw 18y ago
All I had to do was create a blank text file, copy and paste the URLs of any Web sites that I wanted to attack, specify how many times these sites should be pinged, and copy and paste a few lines of code from the original instructions. ..
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by rw 18y ago
Thank you, ars technica, for paraphrasing a press release.
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by rw 18y ago
Anti-union violence in Latin America.
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by rw 18y ago
Coca-Cola is also one of the finest examples of the "Be Evil, Don't Care" philosophy. And it could work for you, too, if you're willing to sell your conscience.
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by rw 18y ago
"Online backups for the truly paranoid" is something I've been wanting for a while now. Good luck!
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by rw 18y ago
Build it and they will comprehend.
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by rw 18y ago
Use the same technique as in statistics: call it the error term.
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by rw 18y ago
This, sadistically, has nothing to do with lazy evaluation.
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by rw 18y ago
Too speciesist.
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by rw 18y ago
The people of Zimbabwe are not a buffer zone.
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by rw 18y ago
One shouldn't be looking for a job "in C++ or Java." You should be looking for a job in which your task is to solve problems. The choice of language comes second (unless you are an elite hacker and can dictate your terms).
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by rw 18y ago
I haven't had a Google interview, but looking at their past and current problems for the Google Code Jam would certainly get you some practice.
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by rw 18y ago
I predict that Twitter is going to face very serious competition. As useful as their service is, it boils down to just being a centralized way to send size-limited messages. An open Twitter could be like the internet, but with restricted pa
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by rw 18y ago
There's something about Atwood's writing that makes me mad he earns any income from that site.
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by rw 18y ago
Reclaim the word "hacker"!
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by rw 18y ago
This could lead to phishing/Trojans. All one would have to do is use the script and point it towards a modified binary. Just the other day, someone I know searched Yahoo for "firefox" and ended up clicking on the seemingly-first result - an

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