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by sspencer 15y ago
Just be glad you don't work on high-frequency trading systems if "tenths of a second" seems like a frustratingly small gain. Our office erupts into cheers when we shave a microsecond or even 500 nanoseconds off our loop times. :)
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by sspencer 15y ago
The whole company still fits in one conference room, so we all eat together. Unless something is broken, in which case people tend to scurry back to their desks after the food shows up.
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by sspencer 15y ago
This is exactly what it's like where I work. It's fun to grab lunch when you want/need it at the same time as others, but it's ultra-low-pressure and in no way mandatory. Best of all possible worlds, in my opinion, and a huge perk for any
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by sspencer 15y ago
Number 9 seems to directly contradict number 8. By your own rationale, you should speak freely about/to your boss. Alternatively you might try finding a job where you don't hate your boss.
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by sspencer 16y ago
I wonder if one could crack it even faster with more than 4 phones sniffing. Maybe 8 or 16 phones? You could easily fit those in a backpack, along with a 2TB external HDD. Assuming the sampling rate is the bottleneck, you could maybe get
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by sspencer 16y ago
Wonderful essay. I especially love this: I remember a conversation we had a year or so before his death, walking in the hills above Pasadena. We were exploring an unfamiliar trail and Richard, recovering from a major operation for the can
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by sspencer 16y ago
Don DeLillo - "Underworld" Kind of slow to get going, but absolutely fascinating and real characters. Next up: Murakami - "Norwegian Wood"
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by sspencer 16y ago
Worlds collide! I bought some Magpul magazines from you a year or so ago. Your outfit was great to deal with; highly recommend it to anyone else on here. And in case you are tracking your marketing effectiveness, I first heard about you o
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by sspencer 16y ago
The now-defunct Northern Alliance were nationalists, led by Massoud. The Taliban (and I suspect most of the other insurgent groups) are Islamists.
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by sspencer 16y ago
"It was not clear if Liu himself had been told about the Nobel." This has to be one of the first, if not the first case of someone winning a Nobel Peace Prize and not being immediately allowed to know they'd won. The article mentions t
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by sspencer 16y ago
I recently subscribed to their development mailing list, and then rapidly unsubscribed. It was mostly an echo chamber of people (rightly) bashing the code written with no thought to "security as design principle" mixed with people (rightly
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by sspencer 16y ago
This and the battery performance while sleeping are, in my opinion, some of the main attractions of macs today.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Any MIT people know if this is open to the public? Might be worth leaving work a bit early to listen to that talk.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Psychological experiment referenced in article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
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by sspencer 16y ago
Agreed, kind of depressing that neither appears to have anything better to do.
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by sspencer 16y ago
I've thought a lot about this exact problem. My ideas involved webcams and some scaling/modeling algorithms. This seems more...baroque, but probably more accurate than my ideas. Fascinating stuff.
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Fits.me raises €1.3 million, lets you try on clothes before you buy – on the Web(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by sspencer 16y ago|1 comments
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by sspencer 16y ago
100 percent agree. Never mind where you went, it's about where you are GOING.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Lot of illegal consumables innovation in NYC these days as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/nyregion/21nutcracker.html... With only two texts I could have a delicious grilled cheese and a nice styrofoam cup of Nutcracker!
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by sspencer 16y ago
Same setup here (a very small shop) - everyone usually just plugs in a 24" monitor to their MBP. Can't remember the last time I used a desktop tower. Notebooks, monitors, and servers are the offices of the future.
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by sspencer 16y ago
The whole idea behind Haystack (hide illicit traffic amongst many innocuous http requests) made no sense to me when I read about it a few weeks ago, but I assumed it was being incompetently summarized. Interesting reminder of the need for p
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by sspencer 16y ago
Disclaimer: I have never seen a single episode of The Wire. Am I alone in thinking that this is a complete waste of time? Why would I go to Harvard to hear learned commentary on a TV show? Granted, this is a critically acclaimed TV show,
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by sspencer 16y ago
He's not the only one. Every time I see that it morphs in my head to Und so weiter.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Invest some of that ad money into actual editors, Techcrunch. My old state is spelled with a "p"! In response to the content, I used to live in Nashua. It's a fairly sleepy little town without much crime in general, though some areas are
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by sspencer 16y ago
I really don't see the value. Adding to a knowledge base with learned contributors is all well and good, but it seems impossible to scale past a certain point. He seems to shrug off the question as unimportant in the interview, along with
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by sspencer 16y ago
A lot of revolutionary technology is unbelievable until it happens. Maybe try to organize a private demo?
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by sspencer 16y ago
I agree! He's one of my favorite "light" writers on financial matters. His article about Iceland ( http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland2... ) is a classic.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Paraphrased, not paragraphed. And while it would be nice if it were cited, it's not plagiarism as I understand it. You don't have a leg to stand on.
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by sspencer 16y ago
Tales like this are exactly the reasons I haven't even CONSIDERED developing for FB. I'd always heard their support was atrocious. This is very enlightening as to WHY people I know were completely ignored -- they weren't YC Alumni. I'll b
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by sspencer 16y ago
Things like this are why Android is so unappealing to me. I really detest the amount of influence Verizon and other companies have over the use of Android.

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