spectre256

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by spectre256 9y ago
I have a similar story for a college course also titled "Software Engineering". Essentially, it was a course on how to properly execute the waterfall model of design. We were assigned teams of four, wrote hundreds of pages of requ
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by spectre256 9y ago
Agreed. While the quote has a certain elegance to it, and certainly some truth, I suspect many people who have statues were on committees of some sort. For all their flaws committees are a primary way in which people pool their collective e
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by spectre256 9y ago
As soon as I started reading your article I actually started thinking of Jimmy and how he's been a part of a real government entity (the national park service) sending data directly into OSM.
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by spectre256 9y ago
In that sense, perhaps the linux distro model actually makes more sense than centralizing power into one entity? Ubuntu, Redhat, and many others produce their own polished, supported products, sell it, and then give back to the central part
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by spectre256 9y ago
True, at least for the moment, although that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. One nice thing about open data is it can outlast. What do you think will survive and be readily accessible on the internet longer, Wikipedia or Quora? My
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by spectre256 9y ago
Ultimately it comes down to the resources to create such a thing, right? There have been some successes with crowdsourced validations such as Facebook's translation efforts (although I think in that case it was merely a component of th
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by spectre256 9y ago
Alternatively, it might show something about people (mainly Europeans) who have driven huge numbers of Africans into terrible poverty for generations where they have no option but to perform jobs poorly, steal, etc. Likewise, assuming all p
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by spectre256 10y ago
Absolutely they considered programming to be not as serious. There's a great book called Digital Apollo by David Mindell[1] that talks about the creation of the Apollo Guidance Computer. One of the stories is of a male manager who, aft
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by spectre256 11y ago
But then you don't get invited to Ivy League donor parties
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by spectre256 11y ago
It's easy to think of much of modern web design as tiny, frivolous details that just wastes a ton of time to create, but click through all of these and tell me when you get to the last one that the lack of animation isn't jarring.
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by spectre256 11y ago
Sounds like some software that belongs in the internet archive, if it's possible!
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by spectre256 11y ago
I hate to say it, but as a pilot myself, I'm glad the FAA is doing this. Unregulated ride sharing in general aviation is not a good idea. There's just too many ways expectations can be mismanaged or things can go wrong.
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by spectre256 11y ago
"Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government’s General Schedule pay scales for grades GS-11 through GS-14" From http://www.federaljobs.net/salarybase.htm#SALARY_TABLE_2015-... it
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by spectre256 11y ago
1.) Filtering by polygon would be difficult at the moment, although we are actually talking about creating a separate point-in-polygon service (no promises as to when yet :P), since we use it during the process of importing all our data, bu
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by spectre256 11y ago
Hi! I work on the Mapzen Search team. Glad to hear you like most of what you've seen so far. Your feedback is super useful and I think at least some of it we'll be able to address relatively soon. 1.) We do have a focus point opti
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by spectre256 11y ago
That's disappointing. I actually didn't even check that they used HTTPS, I figured it was safe to assume they do. Guess not.
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by spectre256 11y ago
This feels like a data set that might already be on the amazing https://enigma.io
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by spectre256 11y ago
A lot of women, when asked what they're looking for in a male partner say they really desire someone who is funny. Obviously, it's generally more enjoyable to be around a funny person than a boring one, but could it also be that f
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by spectre256 11y ago
Since the other commenters have mentioned a ton of great tools, programming languages, SDKs, and the like, I'll make some suggestions of a different type. You said you'll be helping your nephew, but consider this as well: find a l
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by spectre256 11y ago
This is hard won advice. I've worked at places where we managed lots of systems, and we weren't quite organized enough to jot down when known issues would crop up far in the future and remember them. SSL certs specifically bit us
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by spectre256 11y ago
That 3x to do it yourself time seems excessive, but we once did exactly the same thing at a previous company. We chose problems we knew, worked with tools we knew, in a comfortable environment. Even if you aren't intentionally trying t
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by spectre256 11y ago
Pilot here. Induced drag dominates at low airspeeds (i.e. takeoff and landing). At higher speeds parasite drag does dominate, so for most of the flight its what matters the most.
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by spectre256 11y ago
I totally did not realize this until hours after reading the post. It would be nice if it were changed :P
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Server on Kickstarter is a scam(gist.github.com)
19 points by spectre256 11y ago|5 comments
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by spectre256 12y ago
I was thinking Ruby actually, although Haskell could probably be close too. In any case is sounds like the suggestion is to move away from imperative, procedural programming, which has been talked about a lot in various ways.
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by spectre256 12y ago
Having worked at a video game company, I've probably seen about some of the worst that the tech community has to offer (and, granted, some of the best). At the time, I didn't care about most of it: I could just concentrate on writ
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by spectre256 12y ago
I might be wrong,, but it seems like trust and encryption are fundamentally linked. For example, in the case of self-signed certificates, the browser knows it is encrypting a message to the holder of the self-signed certificate, but there&#
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by spectre256 12y ago
You're right, I noticed that in the article. I'll reorder them. They still desperately need to fix their security though. edit: woops, looks like I cant edit it any more. bummer
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by spectre256 12y ago
Yeah. Worse, if RC4 being enabled was the only problem, it would be bad, but somewhat reasonable, as RC4 only recently became known to be weak. But POODLE? FREAK? TSL1.0? All the other crap? Absolutely incredible.
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by spectre256 12y ago
It's dangerously close to a passive-agressive pitchfork mob, but I propose that many people start tweeting to greek banks regarding their SSL configurations. The National Greek Bank, for example, scores an F on the SSL Labs Test becaus

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