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by gatehouse 12y ago
I'm not aware of anything really in-depth. There is one paper I like about operational issues in general: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/... . It lists a lot of cr
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Similar to what Steve Yegge said in his unintentionally published platforms rant: - monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine"
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by gatehouse 12y ago
1. If I'm going to be spending 2000+ plus hours a year in a single physical location it needs to have some privacy and comfort, at an absolute minimum. 2. I'm not willing to be scrutinized by others for exactly how I spend my time
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by gatehouse 12y ago
yeah, this machine seems to be able to do it: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/GoldXpert-SDD-Portable-Countertop-XRF...
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Yeah this looks viable. This would make the best fake bar. I don't think the metal even need to be alloyed, you can just pour in one first, then the other.
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by gatehouse 12y ago
At least one of the metals in the alloy would need to be higher density than gold. There are a few but I don't think any of them are easy to get: http://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e98... EDI
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Gold density is 19.30 g/cm3, Tungsten is 19.25. Given two gold bars, one adulterated with Tungsten, and one not, either the weight will differ or the volume will differ. So, given equal weights (i.e. standard 400oz bars), you can check
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by gatehouse 12y ago
My guess is that they are using human operators, and they probably have a retrieval squad on standby in case they lose contact. The regulatory issues I couldn't begin to guess. The goal at this stage would be to validate the business m
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by gatehouse 12y ago
I really liked all of them, but episode 2 was probably my favourite of season 1. It is over the top compared to other parts of the series, but not compared to other experimental far future or alternate universe scifi. For example: Dark City
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by gatehouse 12y ago
It isn't all that crazy, it has already been done to printers: http://www.pcworld.com/article/229647/counterfeit_money_on_c... https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
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by gatehouse 12y ago
You won't know in advance who is going to rob you, in this case it was the FBI but for this attack it could be anyone, even a reasonably organized group of 13 year olds could probably pull this off. For example the situation could be t
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Not at all.
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Up to now I had never considered the need for protection against a mid-keystroke attack. Ideally it would have to involve no unusual hardware or software, or you might as well just slap a "I'm a criminal" sticker on your fore
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by gatehouse 12y ago
I've been considering running all my mobile data through a VPN for better security, and saving all of it so I can analyze anything after the fact. Anyone doing anything like this?
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by gatehouse 12y ago
On letting the user switch between register and login at any time, there is one small thing that tumblr does that I like. If you go to tumblr.com it displays the registration page with email/password/username. If you just type in
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by gatehouse 12y ago
A lot of companies are giant faceless MBAocracies, and all their front line staff are designed to be minimum cost minimum fuss drones, which selects for checked out losers. The purpose of tipping is to bypass institutional apathy so you can
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Cameras are cheap, networking is cheap and processing is cheap. The government is just the first mover, but there are many other parties that have the ability to build this kind of thing even just based on current technology. Imagine if UPS
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Price
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by gatehouse 12y ago
For an example of this, ask yourself: What is the world population? The longer it has been since you checked, the further off the number will be. https://www.google.com/search?q=world+population
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by gatehouse 12y ago
"/exit" There is also a way to force your ssh client to disconnect: http://askubuntu.com/questions/29942/how-can-i-break-out-of-... Edit, although now I can't seem to reconnect.
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Is 90% efficiency really feasible for electrical -> mechanical -> electrical?
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Here are the last few words of the 1934 Securities Analysis: More satisfactory results are to be obtained, in our opinion, by confining the positive conclusions of the analyst to the following fields of endeavor: 1. The selection of standa
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by gatehouse 12y ago
That makes sense to me, interview problems are highly synthetic and most people will probably need to prep specifically for the common tech interview process. If you don't have access to people who are interviewing regularly then it wo
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Seems like the Kindle link on that page is to a different version, this looks to me like the correct Kindle version: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Modern-Lib...
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by gatehouse 12y ago
Gigabyte makes a mini system with i7-4770R, which is 4 core, Iris pro 5200 graphics, similar size to the mac mini: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4888#... It is a bit noisy thought, I'm not
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by gatehouse 12y ago
I've heard this (or similar tests) also referred to as "fire drills". The first one I like to do is to restore the entire infrastructure from the off-site backup. When I know this is good I can sleep soundly.
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by gatehouse 12y ago
The enthusiastic and energetic manipulation of the stock market is well documented and is the reason for the formation of the SEC in 1933. One difference between pre-SEC stock manipulation and bitcoin is that the "controllers" of
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by gatehouse 12y ago
One big thing that helped me get started was following this workflow: http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ If you have co-workers whose workflow you can copy then I don't think it is needed
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by gatehouse 12y ago
They are just quantifying the terms rare and very rare. Rare is 1 in 100, very rare is 1 in 10000.
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by gatehouse 12y ago
NASA said it would pay SpaceX >>its<< largest single contract ever the "its" here refers SpaceX, so largest contract of SpaceX, not largest contract of NASA. could be considered a vague pronoun reference: http:/&

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