walexander

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by walexander 2y ago
Yeah, kinda crazy. I didn't even remember ICQ had numbers until I read the first comment in this thread posting theirs and most of the number immediately popped into my head, 10238* (cant remember last two). Makes me wonder what other
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by walexander 3y ago
My C Instructor assigned us this in college in 2005, during a brief period where the dotcom bubble was still felt and the social network hadn't come out yet. At the time, there was a lot of talk about how programming was a dead in job
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by walexander 3y ago
And QQQ rose 47% this year. This does not seem surprising at all. The entire market went up in 2023.
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by walexander 5y ago
Cisco | Webex Device Technology Group | Raleigh-Durham, NC (Currently Remote) | Software Engineers Want to join our team and work on our portfolio of products here? https://www.webex.com/collaboration-devices.html As part o
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by walexander 5y ago
The most plausible theory I've heard is that the attackers used a BTC tumbler that was a honeypot controlled by feds. But who knows, maybe the FBI has a quantum computer we don't know about.
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by walexander 5y ago
"Self-replicating probes could exhaustively explore a galaxy the size of the Milky Way in as little as a million years" - Wikipedia [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox ] The possibility of these thing
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by walexander 5y ago
Is this actually a serious question? Do you think there is no point to PayPal, or do you think your GitHub repo is an equivalent replacement? Is forwarding an email to a bunch of people equal to twitter? The point of cryptocurrency and smar
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by walexander 6y ago
You could do a similar style of hacking in Dark Forces 2, which had "cog files" that were controlled client side and let you change the projectile of any weapon. At first it was fun to replace your pistol bullets with rockets, or
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by walexander 6y ago
I don't know why people call Madoff's scheme or Enron bubbles. People acted quite rationally given they believed these companies were not completely fabricating their accounting. Once it was found out what they were doing, the mar
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by walexander 6y ago
The first nine months bitcoin was at a $10k and below level. They are making considerably more money since the boom took off after that. I don't know if it will be 20x higher either. Just saying, this makes more sense than say, Zoom, w
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by walexander 6y ago
Not sure what the operating costs look like for Coinbase, but here's some napkin math based on just the Coinbase Pro exchange . They get roughly $200 per bitcoin trade. That's on both sides, so $400 per bitcoin transaction. Today
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by walexander 8y ago
There is no moral obligation for them to do so and yes they can choose not to enforce US IP law if they don't want to. The US can also choose to place massive tariffs on any goods coming out of China, making them highly uncompetitive.
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by walexander 10y ago
One of the points of the E2E security model used here is so that you don't have to trust Cisco.
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by walexander 10y ago
Cisco Spark: www.ciscospark.com It provides end to end encryption with customer owned keys. High level data on the security model: https://www.ciscospark.com/content/dam/ciscospark/eopi/count... Draft of
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by walexander 12y ago
Don't forget the MPAA and RIAA.
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by walexander 12y ago
And the Bill and Melinda Gates building @ UT Austin. I'm guessing there are even more?
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by walexander 12y ago
I think he's implying that they awarded it to blue LEDs in order to promote low power consumption/green tech.
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by walexander 12y ago
A crosswalk that is parallel to you (i.e., pedestrians traveling in the same direction across the intersection as the drivers) will have a "walk" signal that is synched with the traffic light. In this case, a green light would be
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North Carolina House Unanimously Passes Bill To Discourage Patent Trolls(wunc.org)
2 points by walexander 12y ago|0 comments
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by walexander 12y ago
Not trying to sound cute, but The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plaugher (1974). Just read this last week during a day of plane travel. It's all PLI and Fortran, with lots of GOTO being harmful examples, but surprising
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by walexander 12y ago
Just FYI, Cisco doesn't own Linksys anymore. They sold it to Belkin in January 2013.
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by walexander 12y ago
It seems like a lot of flame wars could be prevented without a pending comment feature, or at least a watered down one. If a comment is particularly offensive/offtopic, it is already downvoted, eventually greyingout. To prevent flame w
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by walexander 13y ago
Basic cable runs over clear QAM and can't be blocked per FCC rules. It gets broadcast over the line unfiltered if you have Internet. So if you are paying for it, stop.
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by walexander 13y ago
As a start, you could read this article (or the book, I guess), exploring elite athletes (like Usain Bolt) and comparing their stories to what Malcolm Gladwell suggests in Outliers: http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adven
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Google Glass competitor ships 50K devices(venturebeat.com)
3 points by walexander 13y ago|0 comments
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by walexander 13y ago
I don't know if the convergence will happen, but they certainly need to fix WebView in Android to at least allow migration. It's still using the old Android Browser and is severely outdated (no WebSockets, etc). My guess is that C
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by walexander 13y ago
>Emacs is next to worthless without all those userspace utilities GNU/Emacs?
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by walexander 13y ago
There's nothing particularly unexpected by this, is there? You see a big spike for "NSA" and "Prism" initially, then "Snowden" gradually takes over. People consuming information about the NSA leak learned
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by walexander 13y ago
> there's absolutely nothing we can do at a technical level to stop the component working My solution, which I'm not particularly proud of, but have found necessary, is to ensure it's possible to stop the component from wo
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by walexander 13y ago
I stayed at my first AirBnB last week, in Cancun, MX. It was $29/night for an entire apartment. I spent the last day of the trip at a resort for $120 (equal to my entire stay at the ABnB) and found it lacking comparatively. I'm su

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