ryanmolden

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Microsoft suggests customer donate extra X-Box they sent him.(consumerist.com)
139 points by ryanmolden 15y ago|27 comments
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
I agree, great service. I use it to monitor posts to the support forum for the product I work on. People at work think I am constantly monitoring the forums to respond so quickly for questions I can answer, but no, I just follow links from
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Orang-utans love iPads.(blogs.discovery.com)
2 points by ryanmolden 15y ago|0 comments
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Reconstructing video images via fMRI(sites.google.com)
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2011 Best Illusion of the Year Contest Entries(illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com)
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
I think he is skewering games that smell very much like manipulative scams. A "game" that targets children, is initially free and then asks them to pay $100 (by clicking a button in game) for some virtual fish? What?
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>still I have a hard time believe a 30,000 employee company would not use many more languages internally in some capacity. There are likely uses of other languages internally for small projects or one-off kind of things, but large compa
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Surface of Revolution with Constant Negative Curvature - Hiroshi Sugimoto(lastsummerdown.tumblr.com)
1 points by ryanmolden 15y ago|0 comments
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The discovery of Artemisinin [pdf](laskerfoundation.org)
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3DES protected smartcard cracked with side channel analysis.(aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de)
28 points by ryanmolden 15y ago|11 comments
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
For all new to or planning on coming to Seattle there is a Hacker News meetup that recent started ( http://www.meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattleMeetup/events/2752013... ), I haven't been as I live up north and driving into Seattle is something I
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>Practically all languages convert their programs to assembly because assembly is close to what the hardware understands It has been a long time since I did any sort of dabbling/reading in the area but is that even true? Afaik very few
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
Ahh okay, that makes sense. Modifying the actual page the instructions live on in memory would force it to be marked as dirty and thus if paged out it would actually need to hit the page file instead of just being able to discard it and wh
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>Does that handle double detours, where two different programs each patch the same function? I believe Detours patches the import table inside a single process, it does not patch the call on a system wide basis, so there really is no 't
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
My apologies as well, in re-reading my post some of it was douchey, sorry about that :) As for your specific points >I don't know how "uncaught and untraceable" had an ambiguous meaning. Obviously I don't work at Microsoft and can't ju
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>Whatever. I've lost interest in participating in this thread. That's unfortunate. >If I'm so incapable of reproducing issues and "demons in a machine" is so laughable, why exactly does the "Unhandled ExecutionEngineException" exist
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>VS required them to attach debuggers to processes I don't believe this is entirely true. VS will sometimes claim you need to be an admin and offer to restart as an admin, but you can click ignore in that dialog and debugging will work
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
>Again, it's purely anecdotal, but I've had more than one topic go without any reply, and one result in a Microsoft employee asking me to email logs. One of which was over 600MB in size, just from loading VS Yes, sometimes to trace down
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
There was an interesting article in this last weeks New Scientist magazine entitled "Befriending the Body Snatchers" which talks about parasitic organisms that take over their host's brains. I can't find an online posting of it, but it tal
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by ryanmolden 15y ago
Feel free to contact me if you need any help / info on VS integration, mail in profile. I don't work on the editor team, which is probably where the bulk of your work will be, but I know some people there so I can point in the general dire
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by ryanmolden 16y ago
>Buying content within a window is essentially like an auction. The highest bidder wins. It's possible to enter the market, but to do so you actually need a lot of capital to bid and win content. I think Amazon has sufficient capital to
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by ryanmolden 16y ago
They seem to have survived pre-NetFlix, and there are Netflix alternatives...so I would say 'pretty valuable'.
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by ryanmolden 16y ago
Pretty sure the studios, once Netflix is all/mostly streaming will simply change the licensing costs to pilfer most of the profit, why wouldn't they? Without their content Netflix has nothing. Before they were insulated from this via the Fi