wladimir

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by wladimir 15y ago
Exactly. And that applies to any company not just "evil" ones. It is a bit naive to trust something as abstract as an organization. Trust applies to individual people, and a company is bound to be a very diverse group of people with differe
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by wladimir 15y ago
Having practical experience working at a company that has a large number of developers trying their stab at C, I'm bound to agree. It's clear that you can make great code in C, if you're a good programmer and get enough time to plan things
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by wladimir 15y ago
Good, at least this clears up the confusion around whether they're killing it or not. And the new interface is pretty nice IMO. Much easier on the eyes than the old one.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm really happy with Google Authenticator at the moment. Like SMS this falls into the "soft keyfob" category, so it's less secure than a dedicated keyfob, but it wins in convenience not having to lug around a separate keyfob for every ser
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by wladimir 15y ago
matplotlib is very flexible and has a wide array of plot types. It's great for quickly making plots of some data in Python. But IMO the output is not really nice to look at, it takes a lot of customization to make the plots publication-qual
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by wladimir 15y ago
Free energy appeals to the dream to keep up the historic trend of human expansion, using more and more energy. It could prevent a lot of struggles in this century. However I somehow feel it isn't going to be this easy.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Good point. Many low-level jobs are already driven by tight bureaucratic rules enforced by based computer statistics and ubiquitous surveillance. Computers empowered the bureaucracy to such a point that it (figuratively spoken) took a life
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by wladimir 15y ago
Many religious rituals can look like a fraternity/student joke to the untrained observer. Still they do take their rituals and conventions very serious. These kind of secret societies were more common back then, I wouldn't be surprised if t
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right... Whatever you call yourself, someone is already working on a way to get you fired. The less expenses a corporation has on personnel the better. I don't think fancy job titles are going to save anyone from automation. I hate the arro
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by wladimir 15y ago
Crazy stuff happens to women, I'm don't think that is anything specific to the tech field. My girlfriend and most of my ex-girlfriends (non-hackers) have been harassed in one way or another at some time in their lives, yes even in the batsh
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by wladimir 15y ago
I suppose it's primarily useful for people that develop cross-platform applications and want to test/develop on a Mac as well. Sure, if the Mac is your primary platform then it makes little sense not to buy one.
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by wladimir 15y ago
The problem is that in many cases you have to choose between assorted office/home background noises or music. In which case music (at least, known and predictable music) probably hinders concentration least.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Crazy things like overdraft fees don't exist at all where I live (The Netherlands), you simply pay interest on the amount that you get below 0. So I doubt it is a symptom of anything. It's just another way in which the USA's predatory capit
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by wladimir 15y ago
Good point which would be worth an article in itself. Also comparing the various string interpolation methods that Python has (% versus format).
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by wladimir 15y ago
The articles fit exactly. Most investments these days (even from the govt) are in short-term quick-to-realize projects. If this continues, we'll have endless electronic social playtoys, living as grown-up children in walled gardens, but the
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by wladimir 15y ago
Interesting story, with a very good speedup. Though I personally wouldn't be this patient, and would write a simple function like this in cython or even the C API directly (especially as the Python code drifts further from idiomatic with ea
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by wladimir 15y ago
I'm sure that there are many, many folks that haven't realized the true power of "code is data" yet as of now. It is just not that easy to fit in your head especially if you come from a static language.
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by wladimir 15y ago
Open journals can just as well be peer-reviewed and filtered as closed ones. The reviewers generally do not receive money for reviewing, so behind a paywall or not does not make a difference for the filtering mechanism.
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by wladimir 15y ago
I think editing text is a solved problem. Apart from that there are so many different text editors, that there is a perfect match for everyone. It's like hammers. But how many times are you really editing text? Instead of some data structur
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by wladimir 15y ago
You raise some valid points, which I've also wondered about. However I personally don't think the scary thing is the people that don't want to understand . That's their own choice. It does mean that people that do understand that area (eve
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by wladimir 15y ago
They can track how many cars are in the parking lot and even what makes/models are showing up to indicate the rate the company is hiring or laying off workers These days, you can also find that out using LinkedIn. No need to go out in the
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by wladimir 15y ago
Right. People tend to forget that bitcoin is just the base layer, the first step. Like the kernel would be to an OS. Its goal is to support sending value from A to B reliably. All kinds of functionality needed to run a full-fledged economy
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by wladimir 15y ago
That's a weird reasoning of them. If the app-secret is ever sent over the network directly (either HTTP or HTTPS) there are plenty of ways to intercept it without having to dig into executables. I quickly skimmed over the OAuth code and tha
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by wladimir 15y ago
With very old code bases, you need to start removing things, otherwise it becomes unmaintainable. Sure, you need good testing and code coverage to make sure you did it properly, but that applies to any change. It doesn't mean that the peopl
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by wladimir 15y ago
It requires a different kind of (more formal) communication skills though. Of course you need to be able to report your progress, your obstacles, work out requirements, and discuss who is going to do what. This could be through IRC or throu
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by wladimir 15y ago
He does mention port 65535 and calls it a "restricted port". Anyone have an idea why? Is it used/reserved for anything special? I have googled and that turns up only some trojans using the port...
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by wladimir 15y ago
Exactly. Hardware (CPU/GPU) performance of current phones is on par with "desktop PCs" of only a few years back, so I would even count that one out. It's fast enough, and they're catching up.
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by wladimir 15y ago
+1 The truth of the statement in the OP depends on the vague definition of a 'personal computer' used. There is only an artificial difference: what kind of input/output is used. But what if you connect a monitor and a bluetooth keyboard to
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by wladimir 15y ago
FWIW, I think mankind will survive. The interesting thing is IMO not whether it will survive, but in what form, and for how long. I mean, the human race could survive very, very long under primitive conditions, no big feat. Many animals h
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by wladimir 15y ago
If it's not necessary to be human visable/readble, you could also embed RFID tags in walls / the street.

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