mantraxC

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by mantraxC 12y ago
Hmm, given how compilers & hardware can introduce incorrectness and security vulnerabilities in otherwise valid code, it makes you wonder if anyone can really claim "end-to-end proof of correctness" unless they include the spe
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I'm not talking about the challenge, but those supposed commercial JS libraries with DRM that you're advising "should take notice". There are no mainstream examples of such libraries. You're likely confusing minifie
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Those home automation products are marketed to the people who have the money to buy such fancy home automation widgets. Those people also typically want to "save the environment", but I doubt they want to save it so much, that sha
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Oh, Jesus, this looks like the unfortunate result of a Windows Phone and an Android phone in a teleporter accident. Many here are cheering as if this is good somehow, because Microsoft is open and what not. But look at it. It looks like Win
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by mantraxC 12y ago
It'll be interesting to see how they plan to market this to people, because I have to tell you... "your thermostat integrates with your car, washer and jawbone bracelet" is damn confusing to me as a value proposition. Yeah I
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I think you're confusing JS minification with obfuscation. Minified code looks obfuscated, sure, but it's not done to deter "hacking", just to make the code smaller.
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by mantraxC 12y ago
> "At some point, the 'bad actor' has to access 'legitimate' banking institutions to exchange the Bitcoins to fiat and that is the weakest link." And on the contrary they can do the exchange in, say, Nigeria
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by mantraxC 12y ago
They say that, but there's one giant missing ", because..." in that paragraph. They never explain why they render in 10 sizes (why don't they know which sizes they need), and why is loading one of those sizes on a mobile
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by mantraxC 12y ago
At scale, processing thousands of highly granular items (images) in any way is an embarrassingly parallel task even in its most crude and naive implementation. So claiming "fast", ok, but claiming "scalable" feels like a
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by mantraxC 12y ago
So how many people's lives were saved by this coverage and condemnation, that's the real question. I don't think some country's ruler gives a damn about coverage and condemnation, as long as it stops there.
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Who needs prank calls when we can troll the comments sections of news websites. Wubba lubba dub dub! Plus... honestly: "underappreciated prank calls". You gonna talk about some ancient childish nuisance behavior as if it's a
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I posted this because I found it of particular interest that the blackmailers ask for payment in Bitcoin. It makes you think if Bitcoin is turning into a giant example of "be careful what you wish for". We have exchange after exch
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Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
36 points by mantraxC 12y ago|42 comments
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Nice, we're evolving the same mechanisms for quick herd notification that animals have. This is why humans and animals scream when we're in danger (not because screaming is a very effective danger mitigator), and this is why some
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by mantraxC 12y ago
People who need Erlang, know about Erlang and don't need "onramps". Dumbing it down hasn't been necessary for Amazon and Facebook to adopt it, among many. Not every bicycle is intended to be driven by toddlers, so not ev
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by mantraxC 12y ago
No, it's still an important distinction, because there's a lot less to JIT in Python, compared to Java, which is why I specifically mentioned that bit. And to prove my point just bench PyPy against Java on any given machine of y
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I get your point, but housing isn't like ice-cream. You can't just decide you don't want ice-cream because it's too expensive. The alternative is living on the street, which brings with itself inability to maintain emplo
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by mantraxC 12y ago
> He was dispelling the common misconception is that Python is an "interpreted language" and Java is a "compiled language," when the reality is that (in their most common implementations) both of these languages are c
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by mantraxC 12y ago
This is a scam. By creating false associations between the product, and donating to give clean water via a massive marketing campaign (which includes a sophisticated web site and posting to HackerNews), I feel compelled to donate to give cl
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Economy is a fuzzy topic. You can't quite model it right, you can't experiment by eliminating all the variables but the ones you test and so on. It's not an exact science. So people who thrive in such fields are people who ca
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I remember when for some reason people started writing SVG and HTML engines for Flash. Because, I don't know. They wanted to put a browser in your browser, so you can browse while you browse. The engines worked, but where are they now?
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by mantraxC 12y ago
If you want to avoid the moral hazard of tenants subletting their apartment, and the owners being screwed, you need a mechanism for the contract (which disallows subletting) to be enforced. So how do you effectively enforce that? Should the
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Even worse, TheVerge is so full of markup and effects, that the responsiveness is s--t. I used to read TheVerge all the time, but it feels like walking in molasses. I rarely visit it these days. I find the issue isn't grids, but whethe
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by mantraxC 12y ago
I had a serious tl;dr problem with that post. I agree with the overall theme, but always remember what Mark Twain said: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." It looks like the author was
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by mantraxC 12y ago
> "With all due apologies to Soderbergh his title seems perfect for our discussion. There may be no sex, but there is plenty of sizzle surrounding quantum computation." Right, the title "sex, lies and videotape" is pe
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Think of the power of confirmation bias next time you loudly proclaim there's scientific proof about something. Usually it takes hundreds and thousands of experiments to really prove something conclusively, because science is affected
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by mantraxC 12y ago
You logic is fascinating there. If the reader knows this is old news, then they wouldn't have expectations to be tempered, because it's old news to them . But if the reader didn't know about it, and finds the news exciting,
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by mantraxC 12y ago
Quick! Give those students one million dollars in VC funding! Just think about it. We have more and more flash-in-the-pan shoddily written apps in mobile. And because they're flash-in-the-pan, for a time, they're popular. And beca
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by mantraxC 12y ago
No, that's like saying you need a completely different set of algorithms because you changed the overall speed of your computer components up or down. Algorithms are not designed with absolute speeds in mind. It's relative. The se
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Mt. Gox CEO Returns to Twitter, Infuriates Burned Investors(wired.com)
1 points by mantraxC 12y ago|0 comments

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