Devilboy

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Devilboy··on CEO Fights Feds: Save Our Balls

The amount of iron in your blood is really minuscule, I don't think there's any risk there.

Devilboy··on Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch

If you sell stock to yourself... why even bother to go through the exchange? Why would the exchange even allow such trades?

Devilboy··on Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch

Since there's 2 parties to every trade doesn't that make 50% the limit?

Devilboy··on Apple went No. 1 in PC sales

If laptops are PCs then iPads should qualify too in my opinion. Traditionally when you say 'PC' you probably mean a desktop machine, not a laptop or notebook, but if you start including laptops then you might as well count netbooks and tablets and while we're at it let's throw in phones too. Are these not all 'Personal Computers'?

Devilboy··on 9GAG (YC S12) Raises $2.8M

9GAG in YC. What the fuck.

Devilboy··on Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous

Randomly returning a word from the question will get my bot in about 3% of the time which is plenty.

Devilboy··on Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous

Spammers have thousands of machines.

Devilboy··on Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous

Even just randomly picking 3 images will be successful about 1% of the time which is more than enough for a bot.

Devilboy··on How The First Google Glass Commercial Should Have Gone

Maybe in 5 or 10 years yes.

Devilboy··on Sqlmap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

If your tables has SO many columns that you can't simply return them all and show the relevant ones only at the application layer, .... well then just maybe there's something wrong with your database design.

Devilboy··on Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins

Could we combine the ATLAS results to get over the 5 sigma mark?

Devilboy··on Higgs Boson: Physicists See Best Proof Yet of 'The God Particle'

I say we change it back to the 'Goddamn Particle'

Devilboy··on Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible

They don't see it as a mistake.

Devilboy··on Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback impossible

Hanlon's razor is not a law of nature.

Devilboy··on Google Glass Team: ‘Wearable Computing Will Be the Norm’

In the Ghost in the Shell series you'll often see one person talking to another only to eventually realise that the other person was 'diving' (using the internet) and not listening to a word they say.

Devilboy··on My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report

This is a very well-known phenomena. If you don't feel anything after a bug in your code cost your company lots of money and your team members many days in debugging and fixing it... then you're like nobody I've ever worked with.

Devilboy··on MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL

You're claiming 'full durability' and comparing it to InnoDB's durability which is complete bullshit as the article explains.

Devilboy··on MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL

So you could lose up to 128MB of updates if the machine crashes at the wrong time. NOT DURABLE.

Devilboy··on Scientists trace a wiring plan for entire mouse brain

I have a question about this, I know that we have a complete wiring diagram of all 302 neurons in the C. elegans nervous system, so are we able to simulate that neural network and see the same behaviours as in the living nematode worm? I've seen papers that's focused on the locomotion circuit and other parts but I don't seem to be able to find any attempts at simulating the whole thing at once.

Devilboy··on Larry Page is 'Speechless' now

I'm sorry why do we care? He just lost his voice. It happens.

Devilboy··on Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

Have you seen the online courses?

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml (From one of the authors of this paper!)

https://www.coursera.org/course/vision

https://www.coursera.org/course/computervision

Prof. Hinton's videos are very watchable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU

Devilboy··on Why Your McD's Burger Doesn't Look Like the One in the Ad

Also their burgers are pretty gross.

Yea well that's just your opinion man.

Devilboy··on Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than programmers?

Ours do not.

Devilboy··on Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds

Not sure if serious...

Devilboy··on Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds

Can we get a mod to clarify the title rules please? This is getting annoying.

Devilboy··on Butterfly Labs Announces Next Generation ASIC Lineup

Interesting that this press release carefully avoids mentioning 'bitcoin' at all...

The other thing that caught my eye is that $30k will supposedly get you 1 Terahash/s. Well, the entire bitcoin network hashrate is currently only 12 Terahash/s which means someone only needs to purchase about 12 of these devices to gain a majority share. That's less than half a million dollars' investment.

Devilboy··on C vs GO

Right now there's Go compilers for Windows, Mac and Linux. I'm sure others will follow soon.

Devilboy··on C vs GO

The big win for go over c is the goroutines - cheap and easy multithreading built right into the language.

Devilboy··on Why is the BBC future site not accessible from the UK?

I don't understand... this site is available for everyone EXCEPT people in the UK? And their explanation makes sense to you?

Devilboy··on Kogan imposes a tax on IE7 shoppers

4. All sarcastic comments get -5 starting karma

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