muaddirac

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by muaddirac 4y ago
I know it's protected information, but I am curious which types of fraud these amounts are awarded for. There seems to be lot of unpunished public examples of securities fraud (MLMs, cryptocurrencies, legislators dumping or buying stoc
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by muaddirac 4y ago
I've noticed a related effect, where every problem discussed in a retro has a "process" solution, because the team's own processes are the only thing the team can fully control. This can lead to both a constant churn in
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by muaddirac 10y ago
I used to help teach kids (12-16ish) how to code. One thing that we always did towards the beginning of a class was an exercise where we tell them to write down the steps to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then we'd literally
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by muaddirac 10y ago
Since I didn't see this elsewhere - client certs have privacy concerns, because by the time you've done your handshake the other side knows exactly who you are. This pretty much rules out always-presented certs. Because of that, y
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by muaddirac 10y ago
> DataHand, a two-thousand-dollar sensor-laden, ergonomic “keyboard without keys.” Not as defunct as you might think! See: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0
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by muaddirac 10y ago
I think the McDonalds of the future may look more like a vending machine than a restaurant. Of the the things you listed, only "test a burger patty for the correct internal temperature" is actually related to producing McDonalds f
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I loved the old Myst-like Connections game. Might take some work to figure out how to run this on modern hardware, but I found it on myabandonware[0] if anyone's interested. They do have a guide[1] for how to play it. I also just disco
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I really appreciate this description. Always nice to see the "actual" definitions instead of "it's like a thing you can map over." I initially had problems understanding monads in Haskell having come from a math per
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by muaddirac 11y ago
> You’re unlikely to see +1-DDoS-type behavior inside private repos, for example. Maybe not, but the lack of an "Approval" system is keeping us from moving from Bitbucket to Github. The proposed fix for +1 spamming could easily
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Where I live there is a minimum fare of $75 imposed on Uber cars leaving from the airport. I took an Uber there and had a great, simple experience ($34 fare) but had to take a taxi back when returning from my trip. The cab was falling apar
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by muaddirac 11y ago
One of the many good points that Lanier made was that there is not currently an inevitable, moore's-law-like progression that will take modern AI methods towards the "superintelligence" that is meant when AI is discussed as a
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I enjoyed reading it - it's amusing and some of it resonates with my experiences. ...But I don't think it's great satire, for the reasons you point out.
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I think its ubiquity is important (installed by default on most non-Windows machines, at least in my experience) combined with the simplicity of running a python script. Now that Microsoft is supporting non-Windows with .Net core, C# is mor
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but there is some evidence that nicotine alone can lead to heart disease.
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I would recommend listening to this sometime: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-vitamins I'd be curious to see if you still hold the same opinions. (It's a very entertaining podcast too!)
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I could see an object-capability based scheme working well. Apple is probably in the unique position to actually implement such a system successfully, controlling the hardware, os, and even language choice.
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by muaddirac 11y ago
That's very interesting, but other than in name not related to the article. If you didn't read it I would recommend you do - it's possibly one of the most interesting and reflective things I've ever read about programmin
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I always liked the mathy symbols used in The Five Doctors (for more see: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67524/can-gallifrey... )
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I think object-capability based access control would solve the problem as well. If the login screen is only given the capability to talk to the authentication program, then even if you could force opening photos, you wouldn't have the
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by muaddirac 11y ago
That's perfectly reasonable. Sorry if it seemed like I was making a fuss. Wasn't trying to pass judgment on the kid; even if he bought a brand new clock and stuck it in a case, I still think that's an admirable quality. The m
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I don't think it has much bearing on the reaction to bringing the clock to his school, but man it really bothered me when I saw a picture of it - who adds a 9v connector like that to what would almost certainly be a first or second sho
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Sure, for consuming the API - but does RAML have to be used this way? Couldn't RAML be used to generate test expectations or even (with tooling that probably doesn't exist) actually generate the API itself?
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I studied monads in a Categorical context in college (Domain Theory, if interested). Monads can be understood very simply in Category Theory if you don't care so much about the details: pick a couple of your favorite categories (which
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.
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Giant bags of mostly water – Securing your IT infrastructure [pdf](kernsec.org)
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by muaddirac 11y ago
"In some of these cases, we have explicit permission from the authors to relicense sections of relevant code." (from linked page, though only very recently added)
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Will a major OS vendor ever start taking object-capability ideas seriously? It seems this is part of a class of vulnerabilities that simply couldn't occur under that model.
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by muaddirac 11y ago
Out of curiousity, are there legal ramifications to the "asshole" scenario? What recourse would the person being fired have?
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by muaddirac 11y ago
> Talking about documentation, purists claim that the only piece of information API should expose is the root URI, e.g. www.example.com/api. Everything else, including allowed methods, resources, content types and documents should b
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by muaddirac 11y ago
I'd say they're on par with das.

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