turbojerry

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by turbojerry 13y ago
Zero Hedge is the HN of finance, from high level macro to Nanex graphs of HFT, also see the Zero Hedge Reads on the left hand side for other sites - http://www.zerohedge.com/ Market Ticker, Karl also has a show on Blog Tal
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by turbojerry 13y ago
This is what I term "Professional Paranoia" and as long as you can be unemotional about it, it can be an exceptionally useful mindset. I have internalized the Moscow Rules[1] and I constantly remind myself of what Bruce Lee said,
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Or they'd just buy Google outright.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=5784565&whence=ite...
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by turbojerry 13y ago
2 problems, 1 solution (parking + programming) Gamify parking practice with Google Glass or other augmented reality, score based on distance from other cars, smoothness of execution i.e. lose points for stopping, number of times you change
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Sociopaths in positions of power. While serial killers get most of the attention, socio-/psycho-paths in positions of power in societies cause huge problems, wars, financial fraud leading to financial collapses etc etc. So the task would be
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I forgot something. 8. Assume the Moscow Rules are true, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Rules and if you are particularly worried, learn some tradecraft, http://www.paladin-press.com/category/Espionage_and_Investig... .
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Sorry about rgw formating, hope this is better. Some suggestions- 1. Tormail rather than hushmail. 2. Get on the cypherpunks mailing list, you'll get lots of input from lots of smart people http://www.cypherpunks.to/list/ 3. Use Tor for e
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Some suggestions- 1. Tormail rather than hushmail. 2. Get on the cypherpunks mailing list, you'll get lots of input from lots of smart people http://www.cypherpunks.to/list/ 3. Use Tor for everything that pertains to your project. 4. Find
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by turbojerry 14y ago
I have to mention We Are Legion, a documentary about Anonymous. Website http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/ Watch on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_541KmGxGs
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by turbojerry 14y ago
There is no evidence for the existence of God(s), nor any evidence for the continuation of consciousness beyond death. There is a large body of testable evidence of organisms that are unsafe for human consumption. We cannot prove whether or
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by turbojerry 14y ago
Hacker is to cracker as John Galt is to Ragnar Danneskjöld
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by turbojerry 14y ago
And if you want to add more CPUs to your 2, 4 or 8 socket motherboard?
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by turbojerry 14y ago
Apple has been held by many hedge funds, it is known in investment industry terms as a "Hedge Fund hotel" see- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-19/september-30-hedge-... Reggie Middleton has done some good analysis of Apple- http://
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by turbojerry 14y ago
A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age by Jeffrey Tucker
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by turbojerry 14y ago
Turing's Cathedral Darwin Among the Machines Technomanifestos Possiplex What Technology Wants A couple of not computer related, but quite interesting books- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
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by turbojerry 14y ago
For fast development I'd suggest Python and PySide or wxPython if there are some numerical parts that need to be fast use NumPy, SciPy and the PyPy interpreter instead of the regular Python interpreter.
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Users will use Tor to get around this, so is the order a joke or will BT have to shut down all its internet business (most broadband internet in the UK is just rebranded BT ADSL)?
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Take a look at Parrot http://www.parrot.org/
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by turbojerry 15y ago
While it is true that understanding your customers and making things easier to use is important it does not mean that engineering is dead. He makes many mistakes in the article, for example Apple is less about the customer than it is about
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Well the Holy Grail of automating software development has been supposedly coming for a long time and still isn't here, check out The Last One from 1981- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29
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by turbojerry 15y ago
They definitely have things wrong here, for example LulzSec is way on the Simple side where as Gary McKinnon is on the Innovative side, Gary looked for blank passwords whereas LulzSec did much more complex cracks. So while the IEEE do lots
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by turbojerry 15y ago
You do not have to move, all you need to do is split the company into different parts and setup those parts in different countries that give you the protection you seek. For example you could have a US company that does the development and
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Why didn't you invest the money via a loan to an offshore company that then invested the money? That way you'd only pay tax when you paid yourself out of that company.
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by turbojerry 15y ago
The problem is not culture, the problem is criminality. When banks sold MBS and CDOs with AAA ratings claiming they were solid investments which they knew were not and in some cases they were shorting them, that was fraud. When rating agenc
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Redefining GDP and deficit are likely, they are already looking at redefining CPI see- http://www.zerohedge.com/article/aarp-screams-blood-murder-w... Orwell was an optimist.
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by turbojerry 15y ago
The article is from 2007, much has happened since then and so it does not cover important topics like poll / epoll / kqueue / IOCP performance let alone networking libraries like libevent and libev. If anyone is interested in more modern hi
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by turbojerry 15y ago
I would say the most important thing is to stimulate your thinking in different ways, here are a few books that might help in that regard- Technomanifestos: Visions from the Information Revolutionaries by Adam Brate Godel, Escher, Bach: An
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by turbojerry 15y ago
Yes something similar has happened in Argentina as you mention, however perhaps you are not aware of the negative side, I would recommend you read FerFals blog- http://ferfal.blogspot.com/ You'll note the current entry, 4th July 2011 is "
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by turbojerry 15y ago
I wonder where this will end? Claiming all packets that go through the US are in its jurisdiction? All packets that go through routers supplied by American companies who provide finance for the router? All packets that go through routers ow

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