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Comment · 10 years ago
The problem is that small businesses are salmon.
Comment · 10 years ago
And no one deserves customers. What silicon valley is doing is destroying the consumers that would be buying its products.

The guy doesn't work at Tesla, but if the average employee in Tesla can't afford their standard model and have enough money left over to live they are not a viable company, as Henry Ford figured out more than a century ago.

It's capitalism 101, you cut labour costs only to find that you've cut demand as well.

Comment · 10 years ago
To pay for things when your bank is an idiot which won't let you spend over your limit, but will let you withdraw as much as you want in person.

I paid for my first car in cash because of that. It was idiotic, but physical money beats bureaucratic idiocy.

Comment · 11 years ago
This isn't unique to Russia.

Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s

The same is true for just about every country, the UK when you start mentioning every genocide and famine they started (there were a rather lot of them), the French when you mention how much they screwed up Africa and Indochina, the Turks when you mention the Armenian genocide, etc.

Hopefully we will use the clear example of another country slowly going insane to stop the same thing happening here. But somehow I doubt it, because we are special.

Comment · 11 years ago
>But we also have to acknowledge that we as a profession are not able to write secure code in C/C++.

You can't write safe code in any Turing complete language. That's the whole point of Turing completeness. The only reason why memory attacks are as common as they are is because C like languages are the most popular ones.

If we replaced everything written with C to a "safe" language like, I don't know Haskell?, we'd have just as many zero day exploits of the monads within programs.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
You don't need capital if you're not expanding.

Running costs include the wages for those working there. I think $150,000 or so per employee is more than enough + volunteers. Of course you would have to give up the dream of being a billionaire. Off the top of my head I can think of less than 10 people to have done that, and none of them did it after 2001.

Comment · 11 years ago
Again, I'm not seeing why it was 33kHz exactly. It sounds like OP just used the wrong prefix.
Comment · 11 years ago
And who exactly makes the observations? Is a cat good enough? A chimp? If we get someone really smart to look at an electron can we collapse it better?

The brain centered quantum mechanics I've seen become fashionable to lay people in the last 20 years are a last gasp of homo-centrism that really should have died a very long time ago.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Computerworld faces endangered species status, tries to regain lost ground with click bait articles.

So let's actually read the article:

>the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications' tracking, ending February with 11.6%.

That seems a lot less serious than is actually made out. Lets find out some more about Net Applications:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Applications

That says to read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20081205105936/http://www.thestan...

>The company tracks browser usage -- how many hits are coming from browser A vs. browser B. In November, several factors skewed the results toward Safari. Thanks to the presidential election (which kept people visiting news sites) and the Thanksgiving holiday, an unusually high percentage of overall browsing in November happened outside of the office. So it's no surprise that browsers with higher home usage, such as Safari, would do better. (Firefox also did better, gaining more than 20%, while Internet Explorer -- popular in corporate environments -- dropped below 70% for the first time.)

>Net Applications tracks usage across its more than 40,000 client websites. Although these sites are located all over the world, they're skewed towards Europe and North America. That happens to be where Apple has a strong presence. Vince Vizzaccaro, the Net Application's Executive Vice President for Marketing and Strategic Alliances, acknowledged the problem and informed The Industry Standard that they will start weighting their statistics by country in January. "We need to better represent Asia and Africa," Vizzaccaro said.

Oh right, so they get access to the logs of "client websites", of which microsoft and apple seem to be some of the largest. So scientifically lets open the logs of my sites and see what browsers are represented there. Oh dear, it looks like safari has a 30% market share on mine over the last week. But what's this? Virtually all those hits are from the same IP address group. Oh it turns out that a whole bunch of mac scrappers hit my sites. And look! The same user shows up both as a internet explorer hit, a safari hit, and a chrome hit, turns out the same person uses different devices and the default browser that comes with each. This would be three different people according to Net Applications.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I got married yesterday. If the trend continues tomorrow I will be doubling the number of wives I have every day. I expect to be married to the whole human race by the end of the month.

Your childs increase in reading speed by contrast is highly unimpressive.

Comment · 11 years ago

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