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etanazir··on Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986)
"You’re seeing a lot more cases where people can afford to use C, instead of using assembly language."
etanazir··on War on Anonymous: British Spies Attacked Hackers, Snowden Docs Show
Has anyone ever done a kickstarter to bribe government employees to whistleblow on other government employees?
etanazir··on Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit
'hush hush'
etanazir··on A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)
is this trademark 'descriptive', 'distinctive', or 'generic' ?
etanazir··on Google permanently bans popular application from Play for not using IAP
Boycott. Don't develop for closed gardens!
etanazir··on Rape question baffles computer science students
student does not know how to complete assignment; so raises fuss with admin to avoid it.
etanazir··on What makes Node.js faster than Java? In a nutshell, it's all about concurrency
I'll call you when you need me.
etanazir··on PyCon US 2014/2015 and Passover
ergo the innuendo of second year in a row
etanazir··on Venture Capitalist Says "War" on the Rich Is Like Nazi Germany's War on the Jews
I think mass delusions had something to do with the widespread use of amphetamines.
etanazir··on “Marriage promotion” is a destructive cargo cult
It is typically more efficient to share spaces like a kitchen than for each to have their own.
etanazir··on Ask HN: Should I remind users that their card is about to be charged?
Disable the free trial service until they confirm purchase.
etanazir··on AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user
Cooperating with the police may engender good will.
etanazir··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
If you matriculate 1 semester at Harvard/Yale whatever - you've got the trademark - so why keep paying to waste your time?
etanazir··on Renting vs. buying a home
rent v. buy is a function of the specifics; not a generalization proposition.
etanazir··on Is our Sun falling silent?
I guess we can green house gas like rockstars now.
etanazir··on Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover
NASA is just scratching the surface.
etanazir··on Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
Is the senate floor secure from advanced eavesdropping? Can't you bounce a laser off of the marble and listen in?
etanazir··on Math is not necessary for software development
One solution, zero solutions, infinitely many solutions, ... this is grade school math.
etanazir··on Math is not necessary for software development
What is a variable? function? you might be astonished at how many lawyers don't even understand what true and false mean. I guess some programmers use algebra so much that they forget they are using algebra and consider it just writing. (You don't need to know how to move your legs man! All you got to do is walk.)
etanazir··on Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation
The minimum uncertainty wave equation is ~ e^(-x^2) ergo the standard measure is in terms of x^2. QED.
etanazir··on Lawsuit: Oracle called $50K 'good money for an Indian'
Discrimination based on race and discrimination based on the foreign nationality immigrant status are very different things, no?
etanazir··on Exploding Job Offers Are Bullshit
If you only have funds to fill one job opening; you might want your first choice to answer before your second choice gets too cold.
etanazir··on Blogger’s Incarceration Raises First Amendment Questions
His case is not over. It still exists as an appeal and public opinion. Why make deals with a corrupt i.e. invalid government official if you are fighting corrupt invalid government officials?
etanazir··on London's first pay-per-minute cafe
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jjimjilbang
etanazir··on Frameworkless JavaScript
Reasonable argument for preferring small optional packages v. shipping the kitchen sink with a big package. But hubris to roll your own everything.
etanazir··on DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON
Targeting fast moving objects is the apex of warfare engagement. (coordination strategy perhaps more transcendent.)
etanazir··on DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON
Will al-Qada field a team; or bring any hot chicks in burkas to seduce the winners?
etanazir··on DEFCONBOTS - An Autonomous Robotics Competition at DEFCON
Show me your security credentials and I might compete in a secret event; but not sharing my thoughts with every body.
etanazir··on Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata
Data also has value. Should we as a people refrain from capturing value and let it dissipate into nothingness?
etanazir··on So someone "stole" your idea
So the priest is worthless because you are warrior?
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