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by smokinn 17y ago
To those I'd add: The Orphanage series (starting in 2004) and The Old Man's War series (starting in 2005)
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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't believe that profit margins represent market efficiencies. In a perfect market, profit margins represent value perceived. If your product will save me 10$ but costs you 2$ to produce, charging 5$ is beneficial to both of us. The pro
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by smokinn 17y ago
I submitted this article because there are lots of issues pointed out that I feel very strongly in favor of. (For example, the patent system being, sum total, a net harm). The only problem with it that I have is that it feels kind of half b
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How to fix capitalism(pietersz.co.uk)
17 points by smokinn 17y ago|20 comments
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by smokinn 17y ago
Oh please, this is just Gameloft whining and hoping others drop out so that they have less competition. They've successfully run in the extremely fragmented cell phone game market long before the iPhone came out. Android is, at worst, the s
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by smokinn 17y ago
Also, since Matt Knox will be there, this would fit well in a there's interesting problems even in the "evil" side of programming theme.
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by smokinn 17y ago
The room will indeed be quite general. You'll have anything from some (though probably few) 1st year students all the way to some (few again) professionals and masters/phd students. Most will be in between, skewing heavily to last/before la
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by smokinn 17y ago
That problem cuts both ways though. You have the experienced people who are stubborn and want to do things their way because in their experience that works best but you also have the experienced people who know that the best way to do thing
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by smokinn 17y ago
Speaking of, I think I'm speaking at CUSEC this year I sure hope you're speaking given that they just today announced it on the website http://2010.cusec.net/11-20/thomas-ptacek-security-researche... =) All the advice I can give you is
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by smokinn 17y ago
I don't plan on applying but I'm curious as to why you would hire a great developer without security experience over someone who knows app security. Is it because you offer a lot of training or simply because you figure he'll pick up what h
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by smokinn 17y ago
Agreed. Redis to Memcached to Tokyo Tyrant to MySQL is pretty much apples to oranges to crab apples to pears.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Sounds like they had good operations people but sacked them.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Obviously you don't live in Canada. Over here, all the major ISPs do DPI to throttle torrents and about 6 months back the only way to not be throttled was to go with a smaller DSL ISP that leased lines from Bell. Then, one day, Bell turned
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by smokinn 17y ago
It would be nice to shunt all the blame off on MBAs but programmers have much of the responsibility to shoulder themselves. How many times a month does news.yc have a thread where people debate whether you need any education whatsoever to d
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by smokinn 17y ago
Nice cherry picking. I can cherry pick: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... too: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all... My favourite chart is still this one though: http://shootout.a
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by smokinn 17y ago
That only works if you can check what the other person's work is like. When the app is distributed as a binary on a locked system that can only run one app at once you have don't know whether it's phoning home or what it's sending. If it's
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by smokinn 17y ago
While I agree that it unnecessarily belittles any specific IE6 user that visits the site, I don't think his message itself is unnecessary. We need the whole range of messages before IT departments get a clue. We need the very small, one tim
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by smokinn 17y ago
So far it's exactly what I do in gmail. Whenever I sign up to a new mailing list I simply click filter messages from this mailing list when the confirmation arrives, select skip inbox and archive and apply a label of the mailing list name.
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by smokinn 17y ago
This is a really important question because the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 that's rumored to be announced in November with a January releases uses the Snapdragon. If it is indeed faster I think the real "iPhone killer" might be the X10, not t
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by smokinn 17y ago
Unless you can hide the full screen book cover display at the bottom I think that'll be very distracting.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Here's another suggestion: wireless electricity. There's the new Sony wireless tv but it's an idea that should've picked up way more than it has, especially for stuff like cell phones.
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by smokinn 17y ago
Mostly he just comes off as jealous. As his italicized bio notes, he's been doing HR for 15+ years. Then out of nowhere these new guys come in and beat the pants off what he's been doing his entire career and now he's tired of being reminde
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by smokinn 17y ago
One of the things that makes Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns. Instead, they pass them on to us and we talk about whether they pass the giggle-test. This one doesn't. So, instead of respon
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by smokinn 17y ago
On the other hand, punting on any hard problems just makes it that much easier for your competitors.
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by smokinn 17y ago
How is that an experiment? Unless you have controlled groups, the experiment is useless. You have no idea how many people are going to see your domain and the title and figure it's a repost and never click through because of that.
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by smokinn 17y ago
You should check out Readability then: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by smokinn 17y ago
That's what I say too unless I'm in a techie environment in which case I qualify it with "web programmer". Anything more usually sounds pretentious and at the end of the day your title really only matters when you're talking to management a
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by smokinn 17y ago
My brothers got that harsh realization with Pokemon. They got some very rare card (don't remember which, never got into it myself) that was supposedly worth 65$ the Pokemon book said. The guy at the shop wouldn't give them anything more tha
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by smokinn 17y ago
While I agree that in the common case entensibility will often be used for evil, it can also drive progress and innovation. To play Devil's Advocate though, there are many examples that can be brought out in favor of extensibility. For one,
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by smokinn 17y ago
I want a tablet so that I can read a pdf on the metro on my way to work. Often there are enough seats for everyone in the morning so I suppose a netbook would work then but in the evening I'm usually standing so keeping something on my lap

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