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by o2sd 15y ago
Thanks for enlightening me. Welch's tenure ended in 2001, by which time 40% of GE's revenues were from GE Capital, who were actively engaged in derivatives markets and had large exposures that would have gone bad even if they hadn't levered
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by o2sd 15y ago
Is this the same Jack Welch that nearly bankrupted the world's largest company through high risk speculation in financial markets?
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by o2sd 15y ago
>> TrueCrypt's deniability was broken in 2008. Citation? >> I'm not sure if they fixed it since then. Maybe you could find out and post something useful.
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by o2sd 15y ago
Actually, this article reads like a play book for the next group who wants to create 'MegaUpload2'. 1) Secure your servers 2) Encrypt your email 3) Keep a low profile 4) Hide your identity 5) etc
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by o2sd 15y ago
1. Register (with email) for practices - THAT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BEFOREHAND 2. Python only - THAT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BEFOREHAND 3. Skype required - THAT INFORMATION WAS NOT PROVIDED BEFOREHAND -1 fail and don't send me
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by o2sd 15y ago
> I've visited twice, read a lot, and conversed with a number of people who've lived there. So did I before I lived there. Once you live there for a while (a year or more), you begin to understand that much of what you thought was true
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by o2sd 15y ago
> Often not worth it, C is the lowest common denominator of languages, if you want to be accessible to all languages... you'll probably use C. Personally I see that not so much as a feature of C, but as a limitation of other languages.
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by o2sd 15y ago
Thanks for replying. I lived in Singapore for a year, and my experience of the place was very different from yours is, so I am interested in your perspective. From your reply, I understand that you are running a startup in Singapore? I am p
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by o2sd 15y ago
> If you're passionate about computing and software engineering, you'll have a natural interest in how things work under the hood. When I was 12, I learned 6502 assembly language. The computer I had did not have a C compiler, only BASIC
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by o2sd 15y ago
> Singapore has many admirable qualities Could you enumerate them? Do you (or have you) live(d) in Singapore?
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by o2sd 15y ago
If I wanted to do iOS/Cocoa programming, I would go straight to Objective-C, bypassing C without stopping, but that's me. I learned C++ without ever learning C. Although, one could make the argument that in learning C++, I learned about 80%
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by o2sd 15y ago
Thanks for your reply. > Not all of us see C++ as an improvement over C. I know, but you are the first I've encountered to quantify it. > The result is code that is easily FFI'able from any language I agree that this is a big advant
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by o2sd 15y ago
OK. NOT TROLLING, but can I ask why anyone would want to learn C, other than to develop device drivers, kernel modules or other arcane software that is yet to be replaced by C++? I asked this question of a younger programmer the other day,
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by o2sd 15y ago
> That being said, I never felt particularly inclined to write the whole things in C++. Agreed, however one of the problems we are encountering is passing messages efficiently between RoR and the C++ components. Currently using XML unti
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by o2sd 15y ago
I am currently writing part of a web application in C++, the other part of the web application is being developed by another programmer in Ruby On Rails. In a single request, the RoR part 'does' about a two dozen 'things', which takes it ar
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by o2sd 15y ago
Noam Chomsky once noted that the problem of the soundbite age is that some questions don't have simple answers that fit inside 30 seconds or 2 minutes. The main problem with SOPA is that it is not possible to solve a market problem with leg
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by o2sd 15y ago
> Most sane people support sane IP legislation. Too ambiguous and vague. IP legislation that was written at the time of the constitution is perfectly suitable for the modern age without the need to extend forever. > It's perfectly r
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by o2sd 15y ago
I think this Bill will be good for the world. By the 'world', I mean anywhere that is not the United States of America. The US has outsourced it's manufacturing, rationalized retail into behemoth monopolies and completely destroyed it's cap
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by o2sd 15y ago
Actually, LOTS of people benefit. In no particular order: 1) Wackenhut (GEO group), private prison operator, and the entire prison complex (guard's unions etc) 2) Law enforcement. Even if the DEA had a 99% interception rate, that economics