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Comment · 9 years ago
I can't figure out the circle jerk around Node. Debugging sucks A LOT, JS syntax sucks, single thread sucks, NPM is filled with 95% junk.

Python, Java, golang, C#, and maybe even PHP have more mature and reasonable stacks.

Comment · 9 years ago
Turns out knowing more than one language isn't a rare or sought after skill. In Europe maybe 40% of the population knows multiple languages fluently. Perhaps a third of these write well enough to translate.

You're not going to get paid well for a job that close to 15% of the population can do with no training

Comment · 9 years ago
This does a bad job of simulating a slow network. First, as others mentioned, it only throttles outbound. It also doesn't simulate buffer bloat.

Linux network stack isn't designed for this. The best easy thing to use is BSD's Dummynet pipes.

Comment · 9 years ago
I may be overly paranoid, but the majority of what Fuscia is trying to accomplish is extremely bad for open platforms.

The outcome of moving drivers to user space will be proliferation of binary blobs and black box drivers. If you think binary GPU drivers are bad now, imagine an "open source" OS where every single driver is a binary blob. It will become impossible to run Fuscia devices on any other operating system because you have no drivers, sealing off the Android platform permanently.

Comment · 9 years ago
I disagree. There's always a possibility that someone else already knows about it and isn't disclosing it. Waiting to disclose will naturally lead a company to take longer to fix the issue.

Immediately disclosing allows customers to take action to protect themselves in case someone else is already exploiting the bug. Waiting to disclose is being peddled by the corporate agenda as "the ethical thing to do" because it makes vendors look bad.

Here's typically what happens. You disclose a bug, company fixes it for next release and puts a footnote in the release notes. Nobody ever looks to see if it was exploited because the instinct is to bury it. Customers aren't widely notified and the seriousness is downplayed because "the bug is already fixed" . In the meantime the software was vulnerable for up to three months when it didn't have to be.

If you disclose immediately there's a temporary panic as everyone does mitigating measures (which is how it should always be done!!!). the company is under tremendous pressure to out a patch in a matter of days which they usually do. Then you get yelled at by the company for making them look bad and "putting their customers at risk" even though the customers are provably safer because they were only vulnerable for a few hours

Comment · 9 years ago
Ambiguous messages do not imply slang. Plenty of words have multiple meanings in normal and formal English. It's a much worse problem in tonal languages like Chinese. Tell me how you could grammatically correct this without understanding meaning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Ston...

Strong AI isn't a buzzword either, it's been in use for as long as I can remember. Maybe you would be able to understand my Grammer better if I said super human general intelligence and wasted a bunch of space in the process.

I don't think you read my comment? You seem to imply that the corrections would be unambiguous while my point was that some errors are uncorrectable without understanding meaning.

Comment · 9 years ago
Wow. These things just scream military use. My guess is phased array radar.
Comment · 9 years ago
The average American commits ~ three felonies a day by accident. The combination of district,city, county, state, country, and international law that applies to you would probably take a few hundred lifetimes to read.

Let's say, one day you write an article critical of your cities parking ticket policies. The police chief doesn't like it, he implemented the program.

Do you have anything to hide now?

Comment · 9 years ago
Playing this was deeply satisfying
Comment · 9 years ago
Article is a bit short but I like the premise. Balsamiq is excellent, I guess this explains why.

The happiest people I've known have been lifestyle business owners. Investors act like it's a sin to create a business that consistently makes money and stays small.

Comment · 9 years ago
Vector seems to be some kind of hybrid entity, presumably designed to soak up ML talent at the University that revived AI research while also soaking up taxpayer dollars for Google.

Added bonus of making Trump look bad by doing cool stuff in USA's backyard instead of the valley.

Comment · 9 years ago
Holy shit you weren't kidding. A search for 500x forex brings up all sorts of day traders doing this stuff. Scary.
Comment · 9 years ago
I have a feeling this is one of those places where ML will not be useful until we have strong AI.

Certain grammatical errors are impossible to fix unless you understand the overall meaning of the text. Sometimes this meaning is embedded over many paragraphs. Errors involving incorrect word usage are unsolvable when words have more than one meaning and you don't comprehend the subject at hand.

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