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by toddh 8y ago
You're describing how websites work, but that's not how embedded systems work, especially those were lives are it risk. If this happened then it can only be because good practices were not followed.
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by toddh 8y ago
At the very least you would expect these images to be signed. There's no way code should be injectable on the floor. The boot loader would simply not accept it. And you would expect any signed images to be code reviewed, regression tes
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by toddh 8y ago
Not git? That's so off trend.
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by toddh 8y ago
I couldn't tell what data is leaking to the service provider. Are they gathering data on all these sessions?
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by toddh 8y ago
Not Programs With Attitude?
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by toddh 9y ago
If you want people to be supportive and care about your work, this is not the way to go about it.
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by toddh 9y ago
Your CORBA experience depended on how you used it. If you used the IDL and messaging and plugged in your own backend it could work quite well. People are still reinventing new IDLs to this day.
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by toddh 9y ago
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick has a good over 40 part series on What causes heart disease? https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2016/01/18/what-causes-heart-d... . It may be of interest.
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by toddh 9y ago
I'm more in your camp, but I bought my dad an ipad for xmas and Siri has made all the difference with him. He's very smart but not computer literate, so the typing, tapping, apps, settings, app store—all that just confused him. Be
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by toddh 9y ago
Advertising supported technology blogs, magazines, websites, etc.
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by toddh 9y ago
Crap, you're right. I thought I covered it earlier in the book, but I really don't. I do expand the acronym earlier, but that's way too early to be relevant here. I'll fix that. Thanks!
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by toddh 9y ago
I did try to tell a story, but I don't think I succeeded as well as I would have liked. It definitely does jump around more than it should. It's hard to cover the important bits and link them seamlessly together. I'm just not
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by toddh 9y ago
Thanks, much appreciated!
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by toddh 9y ago
Hi Jeremy, I'm very sorry if I've misquoted you or quoted you out of context. I'd certainly correct them instantly if contacted. I've searched my email and I don't see any corrections, so I'm not sure how I can
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Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?(highscalability.com)
25 points by toddh 9y ago|0 comments
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by toddh 9y ago
The interpreter is the law. That's the only code that matters. If someone else owns the interpreter there is no other contract that matters.
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by toddh 9y ago
It's not really about complexity. The restriction is the ability of humans to sit on their butt in a room and determine every possible requirement. This doesn't work. As soon as you start development you learn. As soon as you inte
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What Will Programming Look Like in the Future?(highscalability.com)
12 points by toddh 9y ago|2 comments
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by toddh 9y ago
Of course their unrealized gains are not included in income... that's not what income is. The online reason this works is because the tax code specifically preferences investment & the gains thereon vs interest & wages/Sel
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by toddh 9y ago
Would it be possible to make these into skyscrapers to house people and businesses? That would handle the financing part of it.
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The Next Scalability Hurdle: Massively Multiplayer Mobile AR(highscalability.com)
2 points by toddh 9y ago|0 comments
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by toddh 10y ago
Accounting isn't about the ledger, it's about the myriad of laws at every level. That takes a well funded organization to track the constant stream of changes.
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by toddh 10y ago
How about ASN.1? It's a syntax that was meant to have different encodings. Doesn't seem like we've improved on ASN.1.
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Making a Chat Bot on Messenger, Slack, and the Web(highscalability.com)
2 points by toddh 10y ago|0 comments
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by toddh 10y ago
They are published every friday. No subscription needed.
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by toddh 10y ago
Feedly is awesome. Give it a shot.
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by toddh 10y ago
They also had specialized code books for different industries so that increased compression quite a bit.
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by toddh 10y ago
Which doesn't seem to mean much as people in the US are in effect locked into class: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america... In 1971 a child from the poorest fifth had an 8.4% chance o
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How Facebook Has Tunrned Each of Us into a Walled Garden(highscalability.com)
11 points by toddh 10y ago|3 comments
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by toddh 10y ago
It's a pain to setup, as most of these things are, but it works well after that. You can trigger lambda functions to read email stored in S3, which is quite convenient. And with a library parsing the email is easy as pie.

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