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by wooster 16y ago
At web scale, this won't work very well (although it's a good start). For example, I found this one the last time I was doing encoding detection work: http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2007/03/31/microsoft-web
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by wooster 16y ago
I spent a few years at Apple writing internal tools. IMHO, this is the way to have an effect on a company completely disproportionate to any other activity I know of. The tools I wrote at Apple have enabled projects which, AFAIK, are comple
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by wooster 16y ago
Hah :-)
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by wooster 16y ago
There are a few pretty decent streaming JSON parsers out there. I use yajl for exactly that.
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by wooster 16y ago
+1 for a well-put argument. However, I admit to asking a lot of trivia questions when interviewing candidates at Apple, partly as a culture fit, and partly because I could use them to segue into a chain of questions that dealt with the cons
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by wooster 16y ago
That whole “Google cares about GPA even for people years out of college” thing? I supposed I can’t speak for every hiring committee, but I never remember my hiring committee discussing the GPA of a professional candidate.
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by wooster 16y ago
I can't find any evidence that guelo, or his consulting company, was in any way involved in the site.
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by wooster 16y ago
I think you'll be surprised how quickly you can eat up 4 days. If you were staying longer, I'd recommend Yosemite. The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is a great place to go with family.
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by wooster 16y ago
FWIW, the "Apple Gestapo" article is almost entirely fabricated nonsense.
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by wooster 16y ago
Specific versions of Linux provided by commercial vendors have been EAL4 certified. Ditto for EAL2. The bill doesn't require Common Criteria certified software, but it allows for that requirement to be made.
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by wooster 16y ago
I presume it's a reference to the Common Criteria certification requirements. So: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products/
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by wooster 16y ago
The bill makes no mention of proprietary software or hardware. The bill references Common Criteria certification procedures for the software running the network. This potentially could be used to exclude the use of custom operating
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by wooster 16y ago
Surprise? An internal FBI FOIA tracker could solve this problem, but the project to develop it would probably cost $3 billion and take 5 years.
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by wooster 16y ago
What I did would be best classified as adventure travel. The two people I was talking about in the quote you took out of context, however, were serious explorers and mountaineers. One had a few dozen first ascents under his belt, and the ot
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by wooster 16y ago
s/Cho Oyu/Baruntse/ Oops.
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It's just the way some people are wired, and sometimes peoples' wiring changes. They may decide they're not comfortable with the idea of someone else being able to do something they can't. They may have always wanted to climb the highest mo
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by wooster 16y ago
Let's just say night insertions are stupid and be done with it.
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by wooster 16y ago
Oof, I don't think the fatality rate on SEALs is public, but trust me, it's not good.
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by wooster 16y ago
This points to the necessity of a data storage solution which doesn't involve waiting for hours upon hours for the caches to warm in order for your service to be reliable.
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by wooster 16y ago
I'm not sure why everyone is down-modding you. Pooping in an 8" hole and climbing to 19,850 feet seems like a pretty good summary of the experience. Edit: I might actually use that as my short summary of the trip.
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by wooster 16y ago
Have you read Blind Descent? One of the things that most struck me was that cave diving is more dangerous, fatality-rate-wise, than space exploration.
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by wooster 16y ago
I recently got back (almost exactly a month ago) from a month long climbing trip in Nepal with some friends. We had three guides, all three of whom have climbed Everest multiple times. One of our guides, who has summited 5 times, described
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by wooster 16y ago
That doesn't mean you have to build them a racetrack and give them a jet car.
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FCC Proposes Rules of the Road for Internet(blog.openinternet.gov)
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by wooster 16y ago
whose inky waters are death to mortals And yet you can swim in the lake. Snorkeling there is supposed to be quite the experience. If you want a really scary lake, try Lake Karachay: According to a report by the Washington, D.C
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by wooster 16y ago
That's a refreshingly honest and frank assessment. It's nice to see someone in his position speaking to reality.
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by wooster 16y ago
Yeah, it's pretty clearly a dead man switch.
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No. NASA has started using these press conferences for what would be considered minor discoveries by most astronomy departments worldwide. They're doing this because they're afraid of losing funding and relevance, and think that by hyping t
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by wooster 16y ago
Niche? Apple is the second largest company in the world. It's long past being 'niche'. For perspective: when I started there, the market cap was less than the amount of cash we had in the bank.
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Because at least at the startup you have the possibility, however remote, of getting FU money and never having to answer to anybody you don't like, ever again. And besides, if you're that good, you don't really have any worries about gettin

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