xroche

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by xroche 9y ago
> Don’t bank with HSBC. Unless you are a drug cartel, of course.
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by xroche 9y ago
> ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a business for its locked in customers, gut it to squeeze max money out of it until last customer is gone. Rinse, repeat. Yup. Precisely what happened t
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by xroche 9y ago
> but what had happened since Oracle bought them has been nothing but depressing Oracle is nothing but a cancer. Everything they touch turn into goo. This is not the first company to be killed by Oracle acquisition. And not the last. And
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by xroche 9y ago
> “We can produce the wine at lower cost because salaries are less,” And also in many cases, because illegal immigrants, who work in these vineyards, are treated in such poor conditions, close to slavery, that salaries can not be matched
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by xroche 9y ago
This. "No designated desks" is even more retarded than open plan offices. I want my dual-screen setup. I want my mechanical keyboard. I want my optical mouse with high precision. I want my Herman-Miller chair. I want my tea pot a
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by xroche 9y ago
> The problem is that a lot of people aren't capable of working remotely and/or treat work from home as a day off. My guess: these people aren't very productive or useful when stuck 8 hours in an office either. Be micro-ma
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by xroche 9y ago
> And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving a clear hard though to their continued use of the github platform. This. This is the main topic here. The wide use of centralized
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by xroche 9y ago
And using a dozen of IPs most of the time (Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc.)
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by xroche 9y ago
> the voting machine is running the exact same source code? Or the processor is trustworthy ? Many voting machines are using old processors, such as 68000, and it would not be too hard to emulate a a rogue processor that will have a diff
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by xroche 9y ago
> I would hesitate to call something Secure unless some major pen test effort were engaged to try to break it. Precisely. On another domain: "My crypto algorithm has never been broken, it is secure". No it is not, it's jus
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by xroche 9y ago
The other reason is that people are lazy, and soon, you will have thousands of warnings, and as a logical result, people will simply ignore them all.
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by xroche 9y ago
> You know what one of the absolute defenses against libel is? Will truth prevent Konami from using mobster methods to intimidate employees and other companies ? I really doubt it.
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by xroche 9y ago
Does it mean that technology companies should pay their taxes, to serve humanity, rather than playing tax optimization tricks ?
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by xroche 9y ago
Allowing + in an email/password field, but failing to properly encode/decode it, is even more infuriating.
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by xroche 9y ago
> If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it. Maybe he'll take some measures to protect himslef more now. The people behind wannacry targeted Russi
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by xroche 9y ago
As a rule of thumb, you have: * Decent software companies terrible at making hardware * Decent hardware companies terrible at making software I yet have to see one that does both correctly. Hardware manufacturers are known to produ
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by xroche 9y ago
> You can figure out what %CPU really means by using additional metrics, including instructions per cycle (IPC) Correct me if I am wrong, but this won't work for spinlocks in busy loops: you do have a lot of instructions being execu
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by xroche 9y ago
> This is why hate speech laws are dangerous. You are mixing apples and oranges. Hate speech laws are perfectly fine, they intent to protect people from being harassed and attacked for what they are (philosophically, religiously, skin co
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by xroche 9y ago
> will mean that everyone gets to use the newest and greatest algorithms There are no such newest and greatest algorithms that are private and covered by patents. This is an illusion.
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by xroche 9y ago
> So you don't believe in software patents ? There are two fundamental discussion schemes about software patents: (1) can we patent something that can be described as a mathematical concept and stuff. and (2) why would you want to p
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by xroche 9y ago
> As far as I know, it's clearly stated that software is not applicable to patent This is the beauty of intellectual property experts: they can reverse a very root concept, by changing few commas, and over-interpreting. TL;DR: Softw
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by xroche 9y ago
> It takes a special kind of entitled to destroy people's things and to then blame others (the manufacturers) for it. If you put a dangerous, unsecure device, live on the Internet, that can be used to attack other machines, you dese
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by xroche 9y ago
* Non-innovative, existing technology, presented as a breakthroughc by Apple * Stupid patent, demonstrating once again the insanely broken to death patent system * Proprietary technology used for an animated GIF * Top on hacker news
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by xroche 9y ago
The main problem is per se not the hoax call, it is the grotesque accumulation of incompetence from the authorities, and the inability to handle a situation from the SWAT team, due ot a probable lack of proper training. And, also, the impun
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by xroche 10y ago
> Germany they were replaced by renewables This is unfortunately inaccurate ( http://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/report... ), and Germany is one of the country where coal is the deadliest
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by xroche 10y ago
Closing nuclear power plants and replacing them with coal power plants is simply criminal. In Europe, coal pollution kills ~20,000 people each year ( ), nuclear never killed a single person, and no study could ever provide any mortality inc
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by xroche 10y ago
> In the GPU space it is impossible to not infringe on the IP of other vendors. It's high time to reform the corrupted and broken patent system. Yes, I know, like having non-corrupted politicians, this is not going to happen.
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by xroche 10y ago
This is why most patents should be eradicated. They only allow established companies to stay in business despite lack of innovation and price competition. The whole patent system is abused by parasites.
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by xroche 10y ago
Patents are actually proven harmful in certain domain, including software. More than half of the R&D costs are now patent legal bullshit related & stuff, which is insane.
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by xroche 10y ago
> But only after enabling a warning that is not on by default. -Wall and -Werror should be the default. This, a hundred times. Building without proper warnings (and without proper tests, review) is just bad engineering, and mediocre codi

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