mikesname

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The Techno-Optimist's Fallacy(slowboring.com)
5 points by mikesname 3y ago|0 comments
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HM Treasury Head of Cyber Security: £57k/Year(twitter.com)
2 points by mikesname 3y ago|1 comments
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by mikesname 4y ago
Lovely. Here's hoping there's a DeHavilland Hornet sitting in a barn somewhere as well.
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by mikesname 9y ago
Even though the Ariane 5 has a decent record I am so nervous about this launch! Makes you wish they'd built a backup just in case...
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Lift Framework 3.0.0 Released(github.com)
1 points by mikesname 10y ago|0 comments
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Anything.js(github.com)
1 points by mikesname 11y ago|0 comments
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Theranos, a much-hyped medical startup, is plagued with doubts(economist.com)
2 points by mikesname 11y ago|0 comments
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Why you might want to choose Ceylon(ceylon-lang.org)
158 points by mikesname 11y ago|146 comments
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Why you might want to choose Ceylon(ceylon-lang.org)
3 points by mikesname 11y ago|0 comments
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The Breakup of SpaceShipTwo Frame by Frame from the Tail Boom(parabolicarc.com)
1 points by mikesname 11y ago|0 comments
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The why and how of landing rockets(spacex.com)
15 points by mikesname 11y ago|0 comments
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by mikesname 11y ago
I agree that they accumulate, but not necessarily that they don't break. I've recently recycled a 600e (working), a T30 (working), and a T61 (motherboard dead). There was a massive build quality difference between the (brilliantly
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by mikesname 12y ago
I must say, having switched from Google OpenID 2.0 to Google OAuth2.0 for authentication on our site I raised an eyebrow when I belatedly read on Homakov's 2013 blog[1] that OAuth2.0 was never intended for authentication, only authoriz
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Cleaning up space junk(thespacereview.com)
1 points by mikesname 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikesname 12y ago
You get all the benefits of a mature and very full-featured RMDBS. Neo4j is a great database, and I use it myself for a project that involves lots of deep hierarchies. But it has a fairly sparse feature-set where schema enforcement and data
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Torturing Databases for Fun and Profit [pdf](usenix.org)
18 points by mikesname 12y ago|0 comments
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by mikesname 12y ago
I think it's fair to hope for a more customizable Chromium, since customizability is one of the things Opera was known for. For me personally, things like a bookmarks sidebar and more flexible tab positioning would help tempt me to swi
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by mikesname 12y ago
Someone needs to tell this guy about the semantic web, though perhaps this is another indication that it's never going to catch on.
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by mikesname 12y ago
> it's not possible to unambiguously segment the text into distinct letters (which is a necessary first step in any OCR engine that I'm aware of) In my experience, the ability to handle overlapping letters (which is very comm
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by mikesname 13y ago
Walter - I'd really be interested in an article/blog about writing a lexer/parser, from your experience and perspective. Just a suggestion ;)
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by mikesname 13y ago
That's not the case in my experience. Anecdotal, but I worked at a company where the brunt of the downturn layoffs fell disproportionately on people who needed work Visas, which have become much more difficult to justify in the current
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by mikesname 13y ago
Fascinating. I'm quite impressed she lived to the ripe old age of 66.
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by mikesname 13y ago
Being quite familiar with Kirsty Wark and Newsnight, my impression of this segment was that she was playing devil's advocate, almost doing Greenwald a favour by allowing him to easily rebut some of the more common charges against his h