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by xlayn 11y ago
Somewhere here on HN I read that fingerprints are not passwords but user ids. So your fingerprint authenticates you to provide your password. Right now implementations are for fingerprints as passwords.
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by xlayn 11y ago
I did read it. Probably wording didn't help. I see it as the "Newton's method" for finding roots that is know to have the problem of local maximum; you can see different initial values for finding root as R&D.
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by xlayn 11y ago
TL;DR: Incremental approach could prevent disruption benefits.
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by xlayn 11y ago
I would question the above statement under the following premises: -Disruption is about taking a different path than the historic "proven" one... example future based on the past bad product: motorcycle front suspension
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by xlayn 11y ago
Audiophile world it's an expensive and I would risk to say hard-to-justify/define one. I do like to hear music and after buying several more and more expensive earphones/headphones you come to see it's just about certain
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by xlayn 11y ago
I believe big corporations like Google or Apple serve a balance role with the Government; under that assumption serving a position on both sides would represent a conflict of interests.
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by xlayn 11y ago
>Maybe if you were a head in a jar living a life of quiet dignity like in Futurama People like comfort, a friend of mine says that we come to earth to fight against pain (or discomfort). There are practical scenarios that you would like
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by xlayn 11y ago
Out of the Neurosis joke area and in line with your hobbyist radio operator comment, probably the person who most know about how to perform radio transmissions using a component by re-purposing them are those who work shielding sensible co
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by xlayn 11y ago
I had a related issue with this kind of security measures: I can't remember them after... is your favorite book "ABC" or "A B C"? first car Nissan Fairlady or 350Z? So what I do is that you take the question, put it
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by xlayn 11y ago
Interesting resume from a comment on the article >There are basically two types of polling on the block side. One takes care of interrupt mitigation, so that we can reduce the IRQ load in high IOPS scenarios. That is governed by block&#x
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by xlayn 11y ago
I wonder if deployed around the world there is a network of radios sync by GPS to receive time encoded encrypted communications signals of every electrical powered devices configured to transmit according to the same principle and all the t
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by xlayn 11y ago
I stand corrected, I erronously implied that the fact DDG uses its results implied the same policy about privacy which does not. " 2.3. Data collected by or transmitted to Yandex, the Company or Partners, in the course of accessing, in
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by xlayn 11y ago
It's always interesting to see the reasons behind food and the relation to the status classes. I remember reading how in the Renaissance Madonnas had a high BMI (sorry for the use of BMI, I'm not sure if "little fat" it&
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by xlayn 11y ago
Those search engines exist, among them -https://search.disconnect.me -Duck Duck Go Look at it this way: they would try to create a competitive advantage, as they are also behind Wikipedia they could better use it, in the
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by xlayn 11y ago
If she has a software patent, it could mean she understands how the system works, you wouldn't hire a lawyer who doesn't have a title, on the other hand, one that has written a law would appear more knowledgeable. What I suspect i
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by xlayn 11y ago
I can mention one reason why it could happen and would: Price Taking your IT out of SF and SV means you could spend the money you save on offices and increase developers salary. On the other side for developers it could mean better e
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by xlayn 11y ago
>it may be hard to find information about Karen that's up to the standards of Wikipedia sources that's a fair reason but I suspect your second point is more relevant >and it might be more practical from an information-organi
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by xlayn 11y ago
I have always wondered how the systems evolved. Why Karen and her far cousin can't have their own Wikipedia pages? It's not like it's going to be printed and more Pokemon is less about the chemical elements, so what if half W
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by xlayn 11y ago
>Letting devs continuously push their shitty commits Do you mind explaining/disclosing your position to dev teams? I hope this is not your point of view of a dev in general. Last please keep it constructive, this doesn't addres
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by xlayn 11y ago
I would risk to say it works based on assigning information weight to words, number of non repeating and the way they are related and then filter top down. I did try it with a link I particularly like http://multivax.com/las
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by xlayn 11y ago
"It's not a solution, it's an excuse for lazy testing." How do you test absolutely everything? in all the environments? with every possible user? On the other hand it can be also used as you mention and here I think abou
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by xlayn 11y ago
It goes to show that the poster idea >Agile ideologues -> just doesn't lead to working software it's a flawed idea; if you want to take agile core values all of them are focused on actually trying to reduce errors and impro
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by xlayn 11y ago
There is no way of guaranteeing doing it right the first time. Most of the methodologies of software development take the iterative process as a measure of caution, prevention or risk avoidance similar processes. In fact CMMi mentions the i
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by xlayn 11y ago
First than nothing, traveling around space following a comet and landing... it's a marvel of engineering. On the other hand a technical discussion on the "nuclear vs solar" powering of Philae would be interesting.
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by xlayn 11y ago
>"Remember when software didn't need updates almost every day? It seems like we've regressed in terms of quality and the general principle of doing it right the first time" Keep in mind that the new environments for a
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by xlayn 11y ago
>"Being free of single points of failure should be a basic requirement for any new software distribution mechanisms deployed today." As in write error-free software?
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by xlayn 11y ago
Well, the article mentions that; but the main point is update mechanisms are a single point of failure, because it's by design a way of delivering a change that will be applied an run as a root. On the other hand it does also lacks a r
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by xlayn 11y ago
When you see the suspense/terror movie the Babadook... you could as well be seeing a documentary from the perspective of someone who is sleep deprived. I remember the words of a psychiatrist... whenever someone comes with any problem t
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by xlayn 11y ago
Parallel ideas: -The thing you know the most define the things you laugh about -Arguments can be won on an abuse of dragging the topic to an area of your knowledge And last but not least: "I know that I know nothing&quot
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by xlayn 11y ago
I see this as a strategy of expanding horizontally (broaden your menu) vs following the trend of healthy. -You can see it as a move to keep doing what they can do and they are good at while expanding the options they can offer -

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