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by shaddi 16y ago
Yup. To be fair the intended payment model for the Clipper is to link it to a credit card and do autoload whenever your balance crosses below a threshold. Kind of silly in some ways but it works just fine after you get it set up.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Seriously. This article was published a year before Maps existed. Less than a month after the Gmail beta started. Facebook was less than six months old. This was all seven years ago! How times have changed.
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The right way to ask a developer to help you with your startup(sha.ddih.org)
2 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Same here in Berkeley.
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by shaddi 16y ago
I've always wanted to try TDD, but for the stuff that I am working on these days -- wireless kernel drivers -- it isn't clear to me exactly how to do this. Does anyone have experience doing TDD at the kernel level?
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by shaddi 16y ago
Seconded. I wrote a little python script [1] that I use for this that additionally disables my network adapters during work time. This is going to sound incredibly lazy, but I've found that a good way to keep myself off the internet during
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by shaddi 16y ago
Damn, really? I've been craving a good bagel shop since I moved out here.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Science calls for repeatable results... I would be happy to volunteer for your future studies.
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by shaddi 16y ago
It sounds like he was making a voluntary donation to the state. Kind of like how I make a voluntary donation to the FreeBSD Foundation to "repay" them for giving me that operating system.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Exactly. Code is for expressing how things are done.* Comments are for expressing why. * Or if you're not into the whole imperative languages bit, what things are done.
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by shaddi 16y ago
I generally agree with you -- I avoided stating that CS is more similar to math than the physical sciences for the sake of conciseness, and to highlight the science vs. engineering aspect. That said, I find CS has some elements of what we g
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by shaddi 16y ago
I wonder how many people here consider themselves scientists versus engineers. I think computer science is in a pretty unique position because people in our field solve both scientific and engineering problems. Indeed, the heritage of our f
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by shaddi 16y ago
No clue, I don't know her personally. But speculating from what she writes about on her website regarding her interest in teaching, I would assume she is interested in a faculty position at some point in the future. I really can't blame her
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by shaddi 16y ago
It was a little off-putting to me when I was watching the press conference, but it's pretty understandable given where she is in her career. If you look at her CV, she just finished her post-doc work last year. This is most likely her first
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by shaddi 16y ago
What happened to everything else that Wikileaks used to host? I remember when it first went live it was an actual Mediawiki site that had a lot of other whistleblower documents. Since this "War Logs" stuff went up I can't seem to find any o
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by shaddi 16y ago
Firmware would not necessarily be modified in an attack like this, and this method would detect any persistent changes you make that are written back to NVRAM. Definitely wise to prevent remote login from outside your LAN though. Also you c
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Woz calls Android the winner in smartphone race(venturebeat.com)
1 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
Maybe I'm just cynical but I'd imagine the answer would be something like, "The scanner. The devices are safe and we feel their use is important for ensuring the safety of US citizens. Next question?"
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by shaddi 16y ago
I'm having a hard time believing these are all actually Google Maps shots. Would have been nice if they had included a link to the image on Maps.
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by shaddi 16y ago
Main issue is one of scalability: they get a few conscripts covering their one airport and they're done. Given some of the crap I've seen/faced going through various Israeli checkpoints though, it's just not a system I would want to see imp
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by shaddi 16y ago
I mean, in reality TCP congestion control just isn't designed for today's Internet. We live in a world of huge bandwidth-delay products and short connections, the opposite of what was the case when Van Jacobsen proposed it almost 30 years a
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by shaddi 16y ago
network latency rather than bandwidth had a greater affect on the speed of browsing This has been well-known for a while. I present to you the TCP throughput equation: http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3448.html#sec-3.1 The fundam
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Can technology end poverty?(bostonreview.net)
2 points by shaddi 16y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 16y ago
This comment on the article particularly struck me: There was a time in the U.S. history could have launched a dozen or so satellites in its sleep. “Need another GPS communication satellite? It’s on order. We’ll build it by
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by shaddi 16y ago
iPhone too, uses FreeBSD at its lowest level ... Wait, what? Is this just a reference to OSX's BSD heritage or something that I've missed all this time?
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by shaddi 16y ago
At least one other is also replicating it; she seems to be doing a more thorough job as well, as she's explicitly varying the amount of moisture between her samples.. http://sparkasynapse.blogspot.com
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by shaddi 16y ago
First, I made a mistake: 1 in 6 women will be victims of sexual assault in their lifetime. [1] My apologies; despite the mistaken figure it's still a large number. This figure represents the number of women who will claim they have been a v
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by shaddi 16y ago
You seem to not understand why people would call this violence, nor why serious harm could come from it. It might behoove you to take time to learn about why others might hold a different position. Not to sound sarcastic, but given that a s
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by shaddi 16y ago
I should have made more clear I think we're generally in agreement as well. My point was the respond to the implication that sexual assault is just a fact of life for women: it doesn't have to be. It's something we can change, and in that s
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by shaddi 16y ago
She said no, he groped her. What do you propose she should have done to be a "steward of her personal safety"? Live as though every male could attempt to sexually assault her? Is that how you want your wife/girlfriend/daughter going through

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