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NewAccnton Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer

So all I need to do to be a great journalist is to win a Pulitzer?

NewAccnton Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer

Local journalists got the cops fired. How the hell such a thing exists, I'm not sure.. Probably teens or funded by a local community college.

NewAccnton All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage

  Old software + "wish I could say more" = conspiracy

  /joke
  /defensive mechanism

NewAccnton Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer

Ok, since when is the ARM Cortex fully documented, and what depth does your comment add to this discussion? Your emotional appeal is more shallow than any other comment here! Throw in some programmer jargon and nostalgia, and a smiley and your comment is practically garbage. :)

NewAccnton Parallella, a $99 Linux Supercomputer

I wonder how those in the performance computing sector feel about running a proprietary supervisor with built in DRM on each and every CPU? Raspberry users might not care when for just hobbyist applications, but I doubt any serious scientist is going to overlook that.

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...

NewAccnton Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Wow, four times? You should probably be more careful about who you give your number to. Personally, I usually get a new card every 3-5 months. If someone ever sat on my card number, it's useless to them now. Never had any issues either.

NewAccnton Gitmo Is Killing Me

Good, we could use more enemies. Gitmo is a very expensive way to manufacture them. It's only effective if it pisses off a lot of people.

NewAccnton Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020

I seriously doubt this. Unintuitively, I think it's more likely that niche cloud services with specialized features will be able to compete better by exploiting industry-specific economies of scale that Amazon can't by being so generalized. Any of these companies that resist a buyout will have huge profit margins like Amazon doesn't.

NewAccnton Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020

Since the writing of this post, AMZN has gone up ~150%.

NewAccnton Adam Smith Hates Bitcoin

But you're both completely missing the point that mining for coins will become exponentially more efficient over time, with new mining techniques and hardware.

NewAccnton "Put down the crack pipes" doesn't go so well

This is exactly what it is. I don't understand why people working in technical environments can't put their ego aside. Oh yeah, it's the pay.

NewAccnton How Kaggle Is Changing How We Work

Just another exploitation of creative labor if you ask me. The people competing for prises may be doing it for fun, but as you can see in the industries using it, these are serious big money applications. Of course, nobody is blind to this and a majority of applicants are going to try to go for the cheapest and easiest solution for a shot at the gold.

NewAccnton I Tried Hacking Bitcoin and I Failed

Rumor has it that Butterfly has been sitting on their preorders and using it to build a massive ASIC fleet. Whether or not these are true, as you suggest, building a 51% fleet is not out of reason if you take the right path and keep your mouth shut. There has already been forks of the blockchain due to powerful miners.

http://mineforeman.com/2013/03/14/what-the-fork-was-that-a-f...

NewAccnton Empowering Change: Programming Literacy for All

Sites like jsfidle.net and codebin.org are the perfect solution for education, except there isn't a lot of reason they need to be run remotely. It would be great if they offered a local version, but somehow I think that's not going to happen.

NewAccnton ASM

I feel the same thing about HTML5 with dynamic everything and pointless whitespace and extra borders. Completely unnecessary. To each, their own.

NewAccnton ASM

Exact same experience here. QBASIC allowed you to put ASM code in line with BASIC, like so.

  y=199  
  x=319  
  c=15  
  def seg = &ha000 + (&h14 * y)  
  poke x, c

Of course, functions like CIRCLE were already much faster since the entire function was already in ASM, instead of having to go in and out of the interpreter for each pixel. You'd wrap the above code in a SUB routine and replace all your PSETs with it. I even coded my own sprite maker that used the mouse in a similar manner and made a pretty impressive looking Mario clone with the appropriate functions I learned in math class. Pythagorean theorem was very useful when working with grids. I didn't understand why everyone wasn't doing the same thing and why everyone hated math.

Imagine the teachers surprise when on the first day everyone is learning FOR loops and I'm making a RND bump map with directional lighting. This was 1997 so we were still using Yahoo to look up the ASM offset codes, which worked just fine, you'd just have to be good at making your queries or you'd have to dig through a couple of pages of results.

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

http://www.puredarwin.org/blockers#TOC-OpenDirectory-depends...

Good luck with that.

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

Thanks for making my point for me.

NewAccnton Bitcoin's Wild Ride Shows It's Not Real Money

I guess you're not planning on sharing that reason and you expect me to let my imagination run wild for the benefit of your argument?

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

Your absolutely right on all accounts but you could have presented your argument in a less aggressive manner, despite the rampant fanboy-ism, transparently willful ignorance and fellatious marketing.

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

HTML5 is not standard, certainly not open. Everyone abandoned WebKit for some unknown reason having to do with Apple. Please list these OSS Apps, I would love to know since Google and Wikpedia say nothing like that.

NewAccnton Bitcoin's Wild Ride Shows It's Not Real Money

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NewAccnton Bitcoin's Wild Ride Shows It's Not Real Money

Bitcoins stability is enforced by the market, not a single controlling party (large holders manipulating the market excepted, but their ability to do so has a hard limit). This is a mathematical fact that can be proven with a scientific proof. Contemporary currencies on the other hand are veiled in secrecy in process, and the market simply accepts them as stable for the benefit of society, which is taken advantage of regularly by those who control those currencies.

NewAccnton Stolen From Apple

They should make an iSteve app.

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

It is support for Apple with the OP casually mentions Apple as being somehow better than Microsoft today then vaguely points to Windows 8 as if there were anything especially wrong with it from a moral point of view. IMHO, My post is more on topic than the OPs because I actually address the Google situation where the OP is just shallow insinuation and emotional appeal directed at Google.

I have yet to see any proof that Google has done anything shady with the information they collect from users that isn't mandated by law, while that is not true of Apple. That's probably the reason that people continue to trust them with their data while people trust Apple simply because it is trendy or easy.

NewAccnton You know, Google, the web already had this feature

Google, has no obligation to support Reader. What they did to the RSS market was shady, indeed, but it is well within their rights and they did not do anything that would infringe on the rights of developers or users the way Apple does. Nobody has a right to make a profitable RSS service, and nobody can tell them they have to support RSS in place of their social network of choice

Apple on the otherhand enforces a single marketplace on their operating system today. Microsoft has mostly learned from their past mistakes and people watch their every move and jump on them if any technology they use can be used to subvert freedom of developers or users down the line.

I don't have any dog in this race, but I don't understand why Apple continues to get a free pass to implement market control mascaraing in the name of clean interfaces with comforting whitespace and unified design, especially when it is used regularly to usurp users' and developers' rights.

This article is nothing but platitudes and entitlement. Somehow people got in their minds that they have a right to Google Search and can demand features and support from them.. I have no idea how this idea came about, but it seems that the gist of it is that we've come to expect everything for free from Google and that's just how it should always be.

NewAccnton Amazon Coins Launching

no.

NewAccnton Amazon Coins Launching

There are all sorts of off-brand "bit-coins" already. Litecoins are hoisted on certain forums quite regularly.

NewAccnton Amazon Coins Launching

Technically, they don't support it. People have just figured out how to side-load it and Amazon hasn't done anything to block it.

NewAccnton Amazon Coins Launching

What shady history is that?