shawn-furyan

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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Good note, thanks for the warning. My quote is the patent applicant's summary of its invention and so worth taking with a large side of salt. I'm far from an expert but my interest has been piqued. Reviewing the document after thi
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
tl;dr: "This configuration is the most advantageous for molding and for shipping in cereal packages." The patent is on the specific packaging efficient design, not on the general idea.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Yes, it seems that most companies misrepresent their requirements in job postings. It also seems that most candidates misrepresent their skills in responding to those job postings. There's a certain symmetry there. Employer: First job
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I think venomsnake was onto something a little more than you're giving credit for. I would rephrase it a little: Diversity and plentifulness of nutrition, social/sexual opportunity, and economic opportunity are strong attractions
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I'm not sure it's exactly missing so much as not explicitly stated in that way. The author does partially attribute the misunderstanding to the mostly uninhabited northern territory of Canada. The author also says that Canada popu
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Exactly. Short passwords/longish pins suffice for short durations if they are random (i.e. not guessable), particularly if the device requires external hardware to brute force due to attempt duration scaling. I currently use a generate
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Historically library usage has been surveilled, so I would say that making passive surveillance of your users more difficult is a 'valid reason' for going through the trouble. You don't need logins/user accounts for your
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> Do you really think anyone's trying to keep frail old people alive just to count off more days? I think that's a pretty good description of what's going on in the last decade of a lot of people's lives. There's
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
This is an insufficient explanation. Canada's debt to GDP ratio is in the 60-70% range where that of the US is in the 90% range. Yet the situation in Vancouver is significantly more acute than those of New York and San Francisco.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Well, one of the sub-themes of the article was that Chinese investors are underpinning this situation. So you've got a lot of players in the market with no interest in actually living in the city. I think the effect you mention is prob
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I think that this issue is potentially moot if you've transitioned to immutable deploys. Under such a system, arbitrage steps would tend to change from the standard have an SA/Dev ssh in and muck around until the issue is found. I
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I find the scenario believable, but I think the mechanism by which the 'good' politician is getting sacked is more complex. I think s/he is getting sacked because s/he spent a lot of political capitol on a difficult unde
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
In my reading, the description of the process running in this manner is an allegation, not an established fact. So it's not really clear that Yahoo has anything to answer for on this point.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
You are still misreading what I've written? I said "relatively rare". That does not mean "rare". It means less common than the scenario being compared with. If lone commuting is 51% of driving, and multi-passenger i
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
I have a child, that's beside the point. I also live in an Austin, TX suburb, so am pretty driving dependent. My comment is not naive due to inexperience with the occasional necessity of having to move multiple people around. Objective
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> So now I'd have to carry my gun and ammo (or my sport gear, or ...) Of course there are all kinds of little assumptions in our daily lives that would suddenly change and have to be addressed. In this case though, do you really nee
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Connect-Disconnect cycle performance doesn't have much to do with a cable's "rugged"-ness, i.e. robustness to normal stressors encountered during normal use. I've destroyed a million percent more Micro-USB cables th
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> If a country like the United States, where the majority people are actually a lot more conscientious, moral, and patriotic[4] than most countries yikes...
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
High pressure sales techniques are awful, and they exist because they work. I don't think having to say "no" 50 times is reasonable, and it makes you feel like an asshole just for not being an easy mark that can be pressured
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Meta, Response to sub-comments[meta enough yet?]: Ah, that makes way more sense. Sorry for labelling the parent a troll. This was clearly my mistaken interpretation. It was weird. As I tried to check out the math on the parent's assert
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
It's not unreadable, but is designed to make it difficult to realize that typical usage might result in very significant costs. 'Use Amazon Glacier, it costs about a cent!' is the essential pitch.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
The goal posts are continually moved with AI because AI never seems to look quite like human intelligence (though why should it?). AI and ML coupled with robots that are relatively simpler than Rosie from the Jetsons are cheaply out-competi
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
It's not surprising that compensation and perks of non-profits converge with those of for-profits in the same industry. They are hiring from the same talent pool. Also, at the margins, I tend to think that perks allow organizations to
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
If you are bothering the user with a modal, popup, post-install screen, etc., then why not ask your customers TO promote the product providing Email and Social sharing options? Then you can measure how many people ACTUALLY promoted your pro
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Good note. The line would be more accurate if it read: >DRM /often/ uses cryptographic methods [...] Too late to edit though.
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
That's a better example. Thanks for the addition. At first blush (having just looked at their contribution system for the first time, and not having actually followed through with a contribution), I would say that open stack has built
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> Doesn't help when you have to share data with companies and governments, and the information ends up on someone else's disk. FDE was an example among a vast array of encryption products. Attacking an non-comprehensive example
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
DRM should not be confused with cryptography. DRM uses cryptographic methods, but I've never heard of a use case where a user chose a DRM product rather than a more straight forward cryptographic product to protect themselves. Full dis
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
> 1. While the situation improved tremendously in certain areas the way to participate in Open Source is still very much fragmented. Most of the major open source projects (like Linux, Mozilla, Apache and nginx, to name a few) still have
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by shawn-furyan 11y ago
Indeed. People who specialize in shorting stocks, bonds, etc. live on the cycle of finding dirt through thorough private research, shorting the stock, and then publicizing the dirt. This is actually one of the mechanisms that Efficient Mark

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