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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I'd be interested to see the exact phrasing of each question.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Is there a domain where this is applicable outside of high performance trading? I'm trying to think of another use case that would legitimately generate 1M queries/sec.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Disregard, then fight it later if you grow big enough to matter. That said, it can seriously screw you over if you get unlucky: http://www.k9ventures.com/blog/2011/04/27/modista/
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
How do you watch a YouTube or Vimeo video at 2x speed? Is there a browser extension or something? I've often wanted to do that.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Well, the problem is that these bindings don't usually implement the corner case Vim functionality I've come to rely on over the years. Can it record macros perfectly? Does :%s/foo/bar/ work? How about selecting, th
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Could it have been by accident? I.e. Randall just happened to draw something that happened to roughly correspond to year ~13300? How unlikely is it? Really interesting!
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Serious. Super serious. No, really, Mathematica is great. It can do some amazing things and it's really easy to write reusable code for.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Mathematica, on the other hand, is brilliant. It's a wonderful language with wonderful libraries and functionality, and it's quite clear how to write robust code in it.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Well, you work in SF / SV. There's a whole Earth outside of those places. And those places are largely prejudiced against people who don't have degrees. I've experienced it firsthand. "Well, move!" Except i
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but unfortunately employers read articles like these and use them as justification to solidify their notion that self-taught programmers are less knowledgeable or less reliable than their peers wi
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Well, whether we like it or not, self-taught programmers are held to a higher standard. It doesn't help us to further the stereotype that self-taught programmers are afraid of the basics, haven't attained a general education in c
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
This sort of contributes to giving self-taught programmers a rather bad name. The writeup is good, but the idea that Big O is "scary" is just absurd. It's an elementary concept that every working programmer should be famili
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Yes. Let's not forget that it's Russia. Still, Snowden can't afford to trust the US, so that leaves Russia as an alternative. But that's just a special case for this particular situation.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
It's a government. Their natural desire is to govern lives.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I don't think so. It seems like software controls whether that little green light is on. Unless the green light is on whenever the webcam is powered.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
It's incredible how much people are willfully ignoring Linode's gross incompetence in this matter.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Here's the full text PDF: http://freepdfhosting.com/bb20a253a5.pdf
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Sorry, I miscommunicated. I was saying that the person you responded to was being an idiot by calling the general public drunken fools (true or not) and that it's a bad thing to lower to that level of discourse by retaliating in such a
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
That is actually an incredible idea.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
That analogy is completely invalid. It was a trading platform. How do you propose they trade bitcoins without those bitcoins being accessible by the server?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Not the point. Idiots will be idiots. It's better to hold yourself to a higher standard.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
It was a bitcoin trading platform. Many bitcoins had to be accessible by a sever. It wasn't the platform's fault that they lost the bitcoins. Linode's admin interface was the attack vector. This is roughly equivalent to gett
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
If you don't feel like putting in a serious effort into presenting your argument, then I see no reason why anyone should take it seriously.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Counterpoint: Linode is incompetent at security. $228,000 worth of bitcoins were stolen because Linode's admin interface was compromised by an attacker. The reason you probably haven't heard about it is because Linode never public
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
With all the outcoming gov scandals, with government forcing you to vaccine your kids... All other points aside for a moment: the government should force each and every parent to vaccinate their children. Herd immunity is a key factor in
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Your comment leaves much to be desired.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Vivtek's point was that most people don't care about this, and consider the Paula Deen incident far more noteworthy.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
He's already been reelected, so he doesn't care what the general public thinks of him.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
The human eye is more sensitive to intensity ("average RGB") than to color. You can drop most of the color info from a picture without significantly degrading its viewing quality. One way to do that is to transform from (r,g,b) t
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Unfortunately, there is risk that people may use alternative medicine as a replacement for real medicine and cause themselves unnecessary harm. Of course. That's how Steve Jobs died. The scientific method requires someone to check t

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