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I agree with this article on its descriptions but not its conclusions. In particular, the conclusion that we should not attack economic inequality directly. Attacking economic ineq…

To all the people in their early twenties who are using this article to justify their sensitivity and irrationality and lack of control over their emotions: Don't. Yes, having the …

Yeah that's fair. Though I think there is more of an abundance of open source code on Linux that I can build off of and use freely. Windows utilities are usually closed source, hen…

I agree with all the points here. Despite all of this, Linux is still my preferred desktop. Why? The power! I can literally do anything with it. Including writing my own drivers/ap…

Fpgas really only accelerate parallel workloads, sequential computation is done easier and just as good with a CPU. Problem with massive parallelism becomes communication costs and…

This is part of Python culture. That's like me saying "can we stop choosing HN usernames that contain programming references?"

The same could be said for Python/Ruby programmers. Pragmatism and nice code are not at odds with each other. Quite the opposite, they are often in agreement with each other.

No. Inline assembly is a static construct targeting the same compute unit as the C code during compile-time. What is needed is "runtime inline assembly" which assembles inline asse…

Crazy, that's so relevant to this post.

Whoa, you started matasano?

"Exposure killed my restaurant so I'm writing about it to get exposure for my new restaurant."

That $100 hamburger reference is completely unrelated. According to the Wikipedia link you posted, a "$100 hamburger" is an excuse a pilot will make for the opportunity to fly. It …

Just encrypt each packet individually in CBC or CTR mode with a new random IV per packet. Hopefully things have structured such that 802.11 packets are divisible by video frames.

Welfare is really an economic stabilizer, in the same vein as "printing money," lowering interest rates, and raising taxes. It's a macroeconomic tool government uses to keep the ec…