shin_lao

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by shin_lao 13y ago
Riak is extremely slow, perhaps zBase delivers better performance?
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Depends on your status. When you have elite status they pay the tax for you.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Only notes were accepted.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Nicotine and alcohol are less expensive and easier to come by. That's certainly a factor. Also drug addicts are generally addicted to more than one substance.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Have you found something wrong in the article? This would be a more constructive comment.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
If Google, Facebook and Twitter would all disappear tomorrow the world would continue to revolve and productivity in general would likely be up. Google is really a useful tool and productivity would probably drop if it disappeared. How ma
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Twitter’s seven-year journey from idea to IPO(venturebeat.com)
1 points by shin_lao 13y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 13y ago
It could be summed up as is: either you have a test that shows that rdrand has got problematic behavior or you shut up. Backdooring rdrand is of little to no interest given how PRNGs are built.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
500 k is nothing for a Fortune 500 company. When they work with a small company they know it might be write off (ie the small company cannot deliver and the money spent is wasted). So they won't sue but they have internal processes tha
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On the importance of automated benchmarks(blogea.bureau14.fr)
1 points by shin_lao 13y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 13y ago
The backdoor can be anywhere between the two computers (most likely at the extremities though). I agree with you in the sense that software should be made as secure as possible, my comment is just a remainder that one should be realistic ab
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by shin_lao 13y ago
The only solution is to read source code and look for anything suspicious. Linus's Law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow Well. It's probably easier to break into your home, put an eavesdropping device
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by shin_lao 13y ago
I know, I live in France and I lived and worked in Germany. :) But it's generous nonetheless, let's not forget it.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
At first I thought unlimited vacation would be a good idea. After all, it was in Netflix’s famed “Culture Deck,” and it seemed to work well for them. However, this seemed to put more pressure on employees — the good ones might worry that t
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Pax Syriana(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by shin_lao 13y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Windows has got a Hardware Abstraction Layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_abstraction#Microsoft_... Until Windows 4, even the graphic part wasn't in the kernel, eventually they had to compromise for perf
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by shin_lao 13y ago
The BIOS provides the programmer with basic I/O routines, but let's say performance wise it's far from being very efficient... And access from protected mode is quite tricky (but possible if you don't care about performa
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by shin_lao 13y ago
It's the job of the OS to provide the hardware abstraction layer...
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Certainly the fact that the NSA is pushing elliptic-curve cryptography is some indication that it can break them more easily. There are valid and sane reasons to dismiss RSA. Keys are becoming larger and larger for example. What Bruce doe
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by shin_lao 13y ago
It doesn't make me read any faster and I have the feeling I pay less attention to the content. Am I the only one?
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by shin_lao 13y ago
People will visit the web page because it's funny. It features a lot of pictures of Kit Kat. Geeks love junk food and might serve themselves a treat, a why not, a Kit Kat just after watching this. This process is called advertisement.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
If you wrongly entrust your partner, you might be cheated. If you wrongly entrust another country, millions of persons might die. Different consequences, different rules.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Being angry is a normal reaction, but that doesn't mean spying on "friends" isn't the thing to do. It's not black and white. You don't just have "friends" on one side and "enemies" on the ot
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by shin_lao 13y ago
This will raise the price of everything I think, because nobody will want to do the chores and we cannot (yet) automate everything. In the end people with the Basic Income will be poor and we'll be back to square one.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Probably better: bool found_it = !!strstr(haystack, needle);
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Does dropbox run as root?
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Münchhausen trilemma(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by shin_lao 13y ago|0 comments
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by shin_lao 13y ago
Not one single company in the financial sector in the UK wants their kit anywhere near the US or in any datacentres with US ownership any more simply because of the PATRIOT act and PRISM etc. It's odd because it seems that the Britis
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by shin_lao 13y ago
For us Europeans knowing servers are hosted in an European country has got everything to do with latency and nothing to do with some sort of anti-americanism.
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by shin_lao 13y ago
I was referring to his original rant on C++: http://250bpm.com/blog:4 and http://250bpm.com/blog:8 . They are pretty misinformed. He claims in C++ the erasing solution is O(n) where it is O(1) in C. This doe

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