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Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway
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www.wired.com
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12 years ago
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Despite it’s oxymoron of a title, this is a great piece by Felix Martin for Wired drawing some interesting parallels between Bitcoin and the monetary system of sixteenth-century Europe. Bitcoin has enjoyed a great deal of support up until now, but the jury is still out as to whether it will turn in to a viable, stable currency or go down in history as a somewhat lengthy flash in the pan. Hopefully, though, for the reasons Felix laid out in ..
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Fantastic article by Jon Lovett at The Atlantic, where he writs about the power of free speech particularly with regards to internet culture. In my mind, these two issues have collided and come to a head recently with the resignation of Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich: given the political nature of the reasons Eich lost his job, I have seen a great number of people on both sides of the issue speak up, out, and often vilify each other. And th..
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After I posted A Question of Value the other day, where I talked about some important questions to ask when evaluating the plausibility of a smart watch as a viable future device category, Linus Edwards sent me a link to a very interesting and thought-provoking piece of his from July of 2013 titled Where Did The Time Go? The Failures Of Technology . Part of the reason I found it so noteworthy, though, is because I disagree with it so str..
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How many times has the following happened to you? You go to a web site and it asks you to create an account. You fill out a form with all the obvious fields and hit submit. The page refreshes and shows you the form again. Phone Number is required Well, that’s annoying. There was no indication that the site needed your phone number. You prefer not to give out your phone number to every web site, but this one is run by a company you t..
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Merlin Mann once said that when he was seventeen years old, he felt his sole job in the world was to expose all hypocrisy. At the time, at seventeen myself, I laughed; however, a couple of years later the same thing has become true of myself: very few things annoy me as much as hypocrisy these days, and the very closely-related phenomenon of the double standard drives me insane. Today, in a fantastically ironic turn of events that came to m..
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Last week Ben Thompson recommended that anyone who enjoyed his three-part series on the future of news and newspapers check out Nieman Journalism Lab’s latest report on the state of news media in 2014. For anyone interested, here’s the link: New technology, new money, new newsrooms, old questions: The State of the News Media in 2014 ; at the time, I was: I promptly saved the essay to Instapaper and eagerly awaited reading it. However, ..
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It adds up… just like the way compound interest snowballs over time, small differences in affordable freedoms add up to big advantages and disadvantages. A person with more freedoms has better and better chance of having a good and successful life than a person with less freedoms. We live in a world where some birth characteristics such as skin color cannot be used legally for discrimination. But other birth characteristics such as nation....
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Projects These are projects that are basically abandoned right now. I wish I had more time for them! GoNetMon - Network use visualization writting in GoLang, using Prometheus and Kibana ouilookup - CLI tool written in go to look up the vendor for a given MAC address PiBlaster-MQTT - port of PiBlaster to use MQTT instead of a local charachter device goxb_mqtt - native go code that reads from an XBox(tm) controller (using libusb) and sends ev..
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What you need to know about April 7 and your security on the web.
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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Yahoo Amazon.com Netflix Various banks Many more If you’re interested in more technical details you can follow along or on the Heroku blog . The short of it is you, yes you as in everyone, should rotate your passwords once all websites are safe. For further details please continue reading. What does the vulnerability mean In this case it allowed an external party to acquire a moderate amount of data from some computer runnin....
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What you need to know about April 7 and your security on the web.
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www.craigkerstiens.com
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12 years ago
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eng
Yahoo Amazon.com Netflix Various banks Many more If you’re interested in more technical details you can follow along or on the Heroku blog . The short of it is you, yes you as in everyone, should rotate your passwords once all websites are safe. For further details please continue reading. What does the vulnerability mean In this case it allowed an external party to acquire a moderate amount of data from some computer runnin....
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Continuing with investigating Capsules as we did with 1.48.0 , lets look at 1.49.0. Small changes this week, so another small teardown. Capsules More objects files have been added. capsule_divider_left.obj capsule_divider_right.obj inventory_icon.obj More strings have been added. const-string/jumbo
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How You, I, and Everyone are Still Getting the Top 1 Percent All Wrong
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www.theatlantic.com
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12 years ago
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eng
I don’t agree with the constant vilification of America’s top 1. Some call them “captains of industry”, others have much more choice combinations of nouns and verbs to describe the small subset of Americans that earn substantially more than everyone else — the constantly marginalized 99 — as if they somehow did not deserve their hard-won success. This article from The Atlantic does not go as far to dispel that ridiculous notion as its title..
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Tor A Fallingen: Installing Wt v3.3.0 on Debian Wheezy
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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eng
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Tor A Fallingen: Installing Wt v3.3.0 on Debian Wheezy
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blog.raymond.burkholder.net
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12 years ago
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eng
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Just wanted to share a quick MCEdit filter that I put together. Given a selection, this replaces the top layer of the perimeter circle with glowstone. On our server we use this to mark off private land borders so that people don't accidentally interfere with one another or set up camp on top of one another. Feel free to use it as you like. from pymclevel.materials import alphaMaterials import math displayName = "Player Boundary" inputs = ( ..
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When small handheld computing devices went mainstream, they did so by replacing boredom . I recognize that this supposition seems rather reductive and perhaps more than a little stretched in pursuit of achieving comedic effect, but consider the situations many use their mobile devices in, and what they use them for: often, people employ the latest iteration of this category, smartphones, to stay boredom in a checkout line, provide an escap..
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Moving existing Win 8.1 App to Win Phone 8.1 with new Universal App project – HypeMix has a go!
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blog.gripdev.xyz
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12 years ago
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eng
This a quick and dirty write up of how I moved my existing Windows 8.1 App to Windows Phone 8.1 in a weekend. Now before we get into that I’m going to be honest and say there is still some work to do around the UI, as playing music on the phone is slightly different to a PC or Tablet. What I’m talking about here is all the rest of the work.
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Another week, another seven days of spectacular podcasts. Maybe I’m just biased, but this is my favorite medium in existence — even more beloved than television, film, and — yes, and — writing. So sit back, relax on your commute for once, and tune in to some of the best podcasts on the internet. Permalink.
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Recently, I participated in the 2014 StartupBus. I took a bus from New York City to San Antonio and then spent a few days in Austin for SXSW. I had an unforgettable experience and look forward to being active in the StartupBus community. A simple way to explain StartupBus would be: A hackathon on steroids with lots of unknown side effects. There are buses from all over the United States that compete in creating, developing and launchi....
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Should I Continue Working As A Contractor Or Go Full-time?
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www.financialsamurai.com
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12 years ago
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eng
As usual, an interesting article from Sam Dogen at Financial Samurai. Especially within this microcosm of independent app developers and writers, it has become so common to hear the story of a full-time employee striking out on his own that this piece nearly took me by surprise: rather than leaving his large company and setting up a one-man shop, Sam is considering returning to the corporate nine-to-five lifestyle he left in 2012. Even more..
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Introduction One of the more unique features of Go is how the language implements constants. The rules for constants in the language specification are unique to Go. They provide the flexibility Go needs at the compiler level to make the code we write readable and intuitive while still maintaining a type safe language. This post will attempt to build a foundation for what numeric constants are, how they behave in their simplest fo....
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En 2004, UPS anunció una nueva política corporativa para sus conductores: la forma correcta de llegar a cualquier destino era evitar cualquier giro a la izquierda. Cuando aparecieron mejores sistemas de seguimiento en 2001, el servicio de entrega de paquetes revisó más en detalle cómo era el rendimiento de cuando los camiones entregaban estos paquetes. Como empresa de logística con unos 96.000 camiones y varios cientos de aviones, una buena..
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I finally installed Octopress on the new Macbook Air. Finally. My last update was a while ago. Since the Icy Walk of Creepitude the main thing that’s happened has been the trip to San Francisco for GDC 2014. This has been my third year going. This year I focused mostly on attending the tools talks - specifically the several tools roundtable/discussion sessions. I ended up meeting a few people from the other EA studios after the first talk..
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Ninject is a fantastic Dependency Injection framework for the .NET framework. You can bind to the kernel whenever you want however you…
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Last week when I wrote Hedge Yourself Before They Wreck Yourself , I talked about the regrettable situation we have found ourselves in with regards to the discourse around issues like sexism. Rather than affecting meaningful change, this community has grown into a hodgepodge of pseudo-activists more concerned with the lexicon used in furthering their professed cause than actually making any meaningful progress. Unfortunately, this diverg....
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Last weekend I participated in a capture-the-flag event sponsored by Bishop Fox and ran by students at BYU. Following the event I decided that it may be fun to try and crack the scoring software itself – so I've written up the process here to explain how I put the exploit together. Although spoofing client-side authentication tokens is nothing new (and the targeted framework in this case isn't a widespread one like Rails or something....
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From the Kickstarter: It's not every day you see this email in your inbox. WE ARE ON STEAM! Thanks everyone for your votes! We were part of a batch of 75 titles, even though we hadn't reached the top 100 yet. Go check out the other games that were greenlit today! Here are the statistics for anyone interested:
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After coming across another video on Laughing Squid of a dad using a quadracopter to pull his son’s tooth out , I found what has to be one of the coolest videos I have ever seen: Shaun O’Callaghan flew his own DJI Phantom quadcopter over an active volcano on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, and the resulting video is awesome . Permalink.
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In a brief departure from his daily Tab Dump series, Stefan Constantinescu wrote about the LG G Flex. He did not write a review though, but instead a rather introspective essay about how the single advantage to this device and what that signaled for the future of the mobile phone industry. Quite a while has passed since the 5S came out, and even longer since Apple did anything new with their flagship phone’s form factor. We have already see..
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Spoiler alert: sexism isn’t the only social issue holding up progress within the tech industry at large. A few weeks ago, I read a great article by Yiren Lu titled Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem , where she explained how a preference for young entrepreneurs combined with the type of projects they tend to work on has created an unsustainable culture of front-end innovation built atop outmoded technology. She later went on to detail how ..
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Mi segunda idea de app móvil, en pos de probar performance En mis ratos, una de las cosas que hago es crear algunas piezas de código interesantes. La última, buscaba conseguir una performance de scrolling en Android bastante decente cuando habían imágenes de "peso" cargadas en la ventana, lo que logré optimizar bastante —cosa que ni Facebook hace con su app móvil—. ¿El resultado? Una app que decidí lanzar a todo público: HD Wallpapers. Bá..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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Here is a fun puzzle. Suppose we have a group of 10 men and 10 women, and each of the men has sorted the women in order of their preference for marriage (that is, a man prefers to marry a woman earlier in his list over a woman later in the list). Likewise, each of the women has sorted the men in order of marriageability. We might ask if there is any way that we, the omniscient cupids of love, can decide who should marry to make everyone hap..
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So this happened : James just James at RedHat headquarters in North Carolina wearing his new red hat. RedHat made me an offer, and I am happy to say that I have just started this week! I am proud to have joined a company that employs many of the worlds foremost, highly professional and clever hackers . It is indubitably the best Free Software [1] / Open Source company out there, and they ship some of the greatest and most eleg..
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So this happened : James just James at RedHat headquarters in North Carolina wearing his new red hat. RedHat made me an offer, and I am happy to say that I have just started this week! I am proud to have joined a company that employs many of the worlds foremost, highly professional and clever hackers . It is indubitably the best Free Software [1] / Open Source company out there, and they ship some of the greatest and most eleg..
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From the Kickstarter: Just an update on development progress for Lemma! Thank you so much everyone for your support. I'm still getting tons of useful feedback from people playing the demo. Levels have been tweaked, bugs have been fixed, writing has been edited, and graphics have been tightened. Expect a new build very soon! Here's some new features to look forward to: First, a minor technical detail. Saved games do not carry over between..
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Since I wrote the code to these snippets I thought I may as well add them here in case I ever need them again or want to review them. As the other interview ones they are the answers to a question I was asked, slightly modified to protect the innocent. These ones are written in Python. Q. Write a function to reverse each word in a string. def reverse_each_word (words): ''' Reverse each word in a string ''' ..
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When I started this website, I did so with the same intentions many decide to set up a blog these days: post often and about topics that interest me, and link to the work of others in between. In short, I set out to model my website after the likes of John Gruber, Shawn Blanc, and Marco Arment, back when the latter two published with much more regularity. By any measure, I succeeded: I wrote regularly, posted often, and occasionally made so..
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I have been experimenting with different DIY antennas for RTLSDR since 2013,Below is my review on different antennas I have tested so far. For decoding NOAA weather satellite Signals # Quadrifilar Helix (QFH) Antenna is the most recommended antenna for APT signal reception, But I was too lazy to build one. So i decided to make a ground plane antenna with coat hanger. In my opinion GP antenna is the simplest and easy to make antenna for....
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The trend toward intentionally ignoring data that does not agree with one’s biases only continues. A 2010 article from Scientific American discussing emails received by climate scientists: Trenberth* says that is the most dispiriting aspect of the e-mails: Facts don’t carry more weight in the public debate. The nature of public discourse - be it climate change or health care - has changed; information that does not fit one’s worldview is n..
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