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by shubb 13y ago
Well, I guess if you consider his other interests, like the GNU Userland (which is most of what users recognise as linux), the GPL licsense (and generally 'Free Software'), and his part in the opening up of the software/hardw
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by shubb 13y ago
I came up with a hack to do this. Basically I streamed my screen into a file, and then served that file with a DNLA server (which transcoded it into something the TV would eat). The result was pretty because source -> youtube -> my sc
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by shubb 13y ago
You can see the outlines of the camps on google maps. They are fairly huge. Surrounding them is a strip of short grass between two fences, which is very visible on satellite photos. You can see similar strips in the west around secure areas
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by shubb 13y ago
Well, what would happen would be, any sane bushiness would take out insurance, and the insurance companies would mandate / audit security best practices. If a shop wants to insure it's stock, the insurance company tell them what t
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by shubb 13y ago
Shares and currencies... In theory, analysts and professional traders incorperate everything they know into bids for shares, so that the current share price 'prices in' everything publicly known about a share at the current time.
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by shubb 13y ago
But Bitcoin is a gamble not an investment - its value may be 1000% or 1% of its current value next year, and neither of us can really predict that. Sure I own some (I made like 100% so far), but its a lottery ticket. I'd say that inves
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by shubb 13y ago
Also... what languages do they know? Not much good pairing with an SQL guru if you are doing embedded stuff.
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by shubb 13y ago
IBM / Gartner call Watson type tech 'Smart Machines'. They extend that definition out to things like HP Autonomy, Google, and other systems that integrate huge amounts of data in order to make decisions that seem almost intel
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by shubb 13y ago
Additionally, you need some hardware to run the client on. Unlike cloud service hosting, the ability to explode performance is not frequent need. So what does it give you? Imagine you alone are administrating 50-100 non-technical users comp
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by shubb 13y ago
This is pretty cool. Will you do any kind of personal variant for gmail refugees?
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by shubb 13y ago
You mention family a bunch, and I think that's important. If you are 20 and single, and staying late in the office means pizza and a bit of XBox with your team later on, it is genuinely much nicer than going back to your empty little a
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by shubb 13y ago
I think you just argued that first world tech workers should not act like they are entitled to downtime because of warcrimes. I'm not saying they should feel entitled, but that isn't very rational.
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by shubb 13y ago
Working with a technically competent people manager can be awkward, but I think it's over all a positive. The fact is, only the people actually implementing a project can know what the reality is. There are times when a technical trade
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by shubb 13y ago
Ha, why not. I'll send you an email.
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by shubb 13y ago
And at a stroke, programming across the world ground to a halt.. It's interesting how we only mitigate risk of failure of services we actually pay for.
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by shubb 13y ago
I'm writing from the UK, where living on the road is hard due to legals and climate. But if I lived in a high rent area of the US, I'd definitely look into getting a nice RV. In a city, this would at first seem impractical. But if
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by shubb 13y ago
Government being responsible for social security is a pretty new idea. The charity driven system he describes was the main way of doing things through the 1900s. Churches, professions (benevolent funds), and clubs (as in masons) looked firs
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by shubb 13y ago
They do run a sort of virus checker against applications, but those have never been effective against new, unique applications with undesirable behaviors.
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by shubb 13y ago
People can ignore these things when they really want to do something. For example, most people won't check for emails while watching an interesting movie. Similarly, if I'm working up awesome code that needs to be ready for tomorr
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by shubb 13y ago
I understand the (very successful) www.gov.uk site was largely done by direct government employees, working for the various departments the website covers. On the other hand, a number of huge, subcontracted efforts (NHS system, tax IT conso
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by shubb 13y ago
Surely a lot of this comes down to the screen? Battery life varies greatly between e.g. Google Chromebook systems, running the same software (and between windows systems for that matter). Some of this is to do with the power usage of the CP
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by shubb 13y ago
The LCD in your monitor is a filter, that controls what colors from the white back-light reach your eyes. It is not completely effective - when the LCD is set to block all colors, there is some white-ish leakage as you say. A completely red
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by shubb 13y ago
If this takes off, it will be interesting to see what the shells are used for. Could they become a fuel, building material, or fertilizer? Food production is pretty good at avoiding waste.
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by shubb 13y ago
Using template heavy code can cause really slow compilation. If get really liberal with nice things from Boost, a simple looking file can take a couple minutes. On the other hand, by modularizing the code down into libraries, and generally
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by shubb 13y ago
Baidu[1] is a giant search engine like Google, with a market cap of 50bn, so it's not like this is a pump and dump. I suspect the poster is just a bit 'like that'. They probably put citations in their comments. Take a look at
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by shubb 13y ago
I'd like something that is based on looking at what jobs people from a particular degree actually do - A lot of people that I graduated electronics with now work in Finance (as quants or non-IT) because the money is better and banks lo
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by shubb 13y ago
That's kinda irrational. Your employer is expecting a certain return on your wages, and your job is to make that return. Anything past that is a bonus from their perspective, and might get a reward. If you are making an adequate return
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by shubb 13y ago
Well, the finger is pointing at the NSL recipients. They are supposed to be the only people that know about the order, so they carry the can if it gets leaked.
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by shubb 13y ago
So this is interesting - unable to compete on price, because a low price products are not trusted to be safe, they compete on free products (as a proxy for a discount). Doesn't this make any agreement to stop offering giveaways akin to
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by shubb 13y ago
This is a bit confused. The US needs to pay about 0.5 trillion interest a year, or 1/5th of tax revenue. They borrow about 0.5 extra per year (which is why the budget ceiling needs to go up). If the US wanted to instantly achieve a bal

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