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by seldo 13y ago
...what the hell are all these 10-and-under kids doing here?
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Professional gamers can now get US work visas(qz.com)
1 points by seldo 13y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 13y ago
This is a really, really, really great idea that I've been thinking should be practical for a couple of months now. I wish these guys the best of luck. I even started work on a (not yet even vaguely functional) prototype of an open-sou
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by seldo 13y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure speed was the metric I needed improved when it comes to domain search, though it's a nice demo project.
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by seldo 13y ago
My biggest problem with 2FA that relies on a phone is that I can lose my phone. If I do, the system can then do one of two things: a) it locks me out forever. I'm screwed. b) it has a way to reset my auth. Meaning an attacker doesn&#x2
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Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse and much else, has died(gigaom.com)
6 points by seldo 13y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 13y ago
None of the online-only sources are yet at a level of quality where I, wearing my hiring-manager hat, would take them seriously enough to justify the money spent. They'll get there eventually, but they're not there now. Is there a
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by seldo 13y ago
Though by no means essential for a career in computing, a computer science degree is incredibly useful. At the very least, at the end of your course the skills you have now will have been given a stamp of authenticity by the accreditation,
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German stock exchange to allow trade in cloud computing capacity(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by seldo 13y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 13y ago
I think the most important point here is that you should hire engineers from your domain , but not necessarily your exact technology stack -- in their case it's simple because almost no engineers know Erlang well, so they have to hire
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by seldo 13y ago
I just read his selected bibliography on wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_(author)#Publicat... ) and I somehow never realized that all these foundational works of computer science were written by
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by seldo 13y ago
That is super useful! Thanks!
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by seldo 13y ago
I didn't say I don't use RSS ; I just don't use it for news (or any kind of reading). I plumb it into automation quite often, though.
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by seldo 13y ago
Almost nobody uses feed readers, which is why Google shut down Reader in the first place. You guys are a small but INCREDIBLY vocal minority.
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by seldo 13y ago
I appreciate his position but I have trouble taking advice on UI from somebody whose blog is eye-burning neon green text on a black background and has been since 1995. We know you're l33t, Jamie, you are a living legend. Can I get a
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by seldo 13y ago
Remember kids, if you work hard, sacrifice, and have parents with a spare house in Tahoe they can lend you rent-free indefinitely, you too can make it as a programmer.
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by seldo 13y ago
This is good as far as it goes -- nice to see further corroboration that EBS is not always the best solution. What I'd really like to see is details of how the traffic monitoring works, how you calculate how much extra capacity to spin
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by seldo 13y ago
I thought Facebook did daily/continuous pushes? Or did that end?
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A very brief history of US government Internet surveillance programs(seldo.com)
15 points by seldo 13y ago|0 comments
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by seldo 13y ago
"Some PS4 viral team made them all "U TOOK R DISCS" and they hiveminded." I'm not sure how delusional you have to be to believe that the reason your customers hate your DRM is because your competitors had a "vi
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by seldo 13y ago
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help." This seems fallacious. Computer-based face recognition
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by seldo 13y ago
My two big takeaways from this are: 1. Amazon sells every Kindle ebook at a loss of $3 -- they pay $13 wholesale and sell it for $9.99. I thought this was a typo, but then Jobs repeated the figure (though he said $12.50). It was my impressi
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by seldo 13y ago
This isn't really answering your question, but what's your motivation for wanting to "freelance until [you] find a job"? Are you expecting it will take you time to find the job you really like, or are you just trying to get more experience
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by seldo 13y ago
That's fair enough! Perhaps a sentence at the beginning to establish your goal would prevent comments from confused clueless people like myself.
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by seldo 13y ago
They chose a deliberately over-simplified example in order to demonstrate the core concepts; I don't begrudge them that (nobody needs a program that prints out "Hello World!"). The audience level of this piece is confusing -- it looks lik
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by seldo 13y ago
I reluctantly confess that, knowing nothing about Haskell, I was lost by the 4th diagram. Presumably if you know Haskell, the line "data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a" makes sense, but I can't parse it.
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by seldo 13y ago
Tumblr is ad inventory for Yahoo. Specifically, mobile ad inventory -- most of Tumblr's revenue comes from mobile ads. Mobile is a huge area of growth that Yahoo is anxious to stay on top of. They don't need Tumblr's audience to go anywhere
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by seldo 13y ago
I don't see why Yahoo would make any visible changes to Tumblr[1]. They care about the ad inventory; if they are smart they will leave the actual form of the site up to the people who invented it. [1] although, as with Flickr, any changes t
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by seldo 13y ago
This would be a really great idea for Yahoo. Their business model is selling ads on content, and the growth of mobile is leaving them behind. Tumblr generates enormous volumes of content and is making the majority of its revenue off mobile
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by seldo 13y ago
I have been a subscriber to the Economist for, woah, 11 years now. Simply by virtue of its weekly format, it does a good job of ignoring a lot of the interesting-but-transient stuff that wastes your time if you read regular news online. It

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