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by wtracy 14y ago
This isn't a "backdoor" inside the brain. (It's more equivalent to, say, gaining read access to /etc/shadow and being able to brute-force the passwords inside.) That quibble aside, this is an interesting article on a rather disturbing poten
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by wtracy 14y ago
I would hope that the roadways would be less clogged if people didn't have to commute ten miles.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Just browsing through the first Google hit for "one bedroom mountain view" got me this: http://www.apartments.com/California/Mountain-View/Avalon-at... One bedroom for "$1565-1725". I don't know if that apartment is actually available a
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by wtracy 14y ago
I'm curious, where are you having trouble finding one-room apartments for under $3000/month? Throughout the South Bay, I'm seeing prices between $1000 and $2000/month for one-bedroom apartments (not one-room apartments!). Even that gets a b
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by wtracy 14y ago
Very cool. I remember hearing that the disallowal of pointer aliasing was the main reason that it was possible for a Fortran compiler to produce code that could outperform code from a C compiler: It allows the compiler to perform a new clas
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by wtracy 14y ago
Will people please stop saying that in this context? Merchant-side fraud prevention schemes are not security. They are heuristics for reducing the number of bad transactions that the vendor has to handle. Algorithms should be air-tight. Y
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by wtracy 14y ago
I believe this was referring to the Android kernel patches, not the Java-based userland.
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by wtracy 14y ago
The jpg format supports all kinds of textual metadata, so "write on the back of my photo" is theoretically a solved problem. I'm surprised to hear that there aren't mobile apps that make editing that metadata easy.
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by wtracy 14y ago
"Even in 2013, the atrocities committed by the US government are worse than those of nearly any criminal gang in the world." I think you are greatly underestimating the criminal organizations of this world. Look into the Zetas cartel in Mex
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by wtracy 14y ago
> Nothing is more frustrating than discovering that you need to install a new component or build system just to build a specific component. If you're talking about a FOSS component that random people will have to rebuild: Yes, absolutel
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by wtracy 14y ago
I have never been able to figure out how to cross-compile a project that uses CMake. GNU Make lets you just set some environment flags and drop in a different compiler.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Maybe things are different in Europe, but if they installed street lamps like this in major urban areas in the US, someone would smash the glass within days.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Is that a reference that I'm not familiar with?
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by wtracy 14y ago
I find the parallels between this and the recent HN outage to be interesting: Both times, the people responsible assumed that a recent software upgrade was the root cause, when the actual cause was something mundane and basically unrelated.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Oh, man. At my last job, we had a MySQL instance that kept falling over. It turns out that someone was dividing a table up with tons of partitions, and MySQL creates a new data file for each partition. The MySQL instance created several hun
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by wtracy 14y ago
Because that would cost more? I don't really know what the benefit of cloud hosting would be in this case.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Does anyone know of any of these charts at locations accessible to the public? They appear interesting to look at.
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What Console Game Development is Like(reddit.com)
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by wtracy 14y ago
The Valve New Employee Handbook: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
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by wtracy 14y ago
I don't know what's normal across the game industry, but I know that Valve uses a stack-ranking system: Every year, the least-productive 10-20% of the company gets fired.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Google used to have this implemented for PDFs when you used their "quick view" functionality. It seems to have been disabled, though.
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by wtracy 14y ago
Well, the "branch-free" paradigm requires pushing a stack frame and making a jump to the passed function (requiring a pointer lookup) and a jump back to the calling function. In the branching paradigm, only one execution path requires a jum
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by wtracy 14y ago
Computer animation is just about the only thing I've used calculus for outside of school. So yeah, I hear you. :-)
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by wtracy 14y ago
If you're mathematically inclined, look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_matrix For a less technical description: The pixel values in the transformed image are generated as a function of the pixel values in the input image.
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by wtracy 14y ago
The only advantages this seems to have over IRC is the ability to embed images and videos. Am I missing something?
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by wtracy 14y ago
"Fukushima was an inside job." Bravo.
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by wtracy 14y ago
> It's been well over a decade since systems switched to PCI. I keep getting the two reversed in my head. >_< I somehow completely missed that the Raspberry and the Parallella featured GPIO pins (and I sank a lot of money into
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by wtracy 14y ago
The only examples I can think of are projects run by the FSF and some corporations (the projects run by Oracle, for example). You can contribute to the Linux kernel, Apache, the BSDs, Ruby, and really most FOSS projects without signing away
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by wtracy 14y ago
If I may hijack this thread: The only computer systems I can find that offer easy-to-access input and output pins are low-power single-board computers like the Arduino. Are there any options for people who need desktop-equivalent computer p
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by wtracy 14y ago
On number two, if the project uses a BSD-style license, it's possible for some corporation to create a proprietary derivative. For projects with GPL-style licenses, the only way to do this is to get all the copyright holders (basically all

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