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I know it's protected information, but I am curious which types of fraud these amounts are awarded for. There seems to be lot of unpunished public examples of securities fraud (MLM…

I've noticed a related effect, where every problem discussed in a retro has a "process" solution, because the team's own processes are the only thing the team can fully control. Th…

I used to help teach kids (12-16ish) how to code. One thing that we always did towards the beginning of a class was an exercise where we tell them to write down the steps to make a…

Since I didn't see this elsewhere - client certs have privacy concerns, because by the time you've done your handshake the other side knows exactly who you are. This pretty much ru…

> DataHand, a two-thousand-dollar sensor-laden, ergonomic “keyboard without keys.” Not as defunct as you might think! See: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41422.0

I think the McDonalds of the future may look more like a vending machine than a restaurant. Of the the things you listed, only "test a burger patty for the correct internal tempera…

I loved the old Myst-like Connections game. Might take some work to figure out how to run this on modern hardware, but I found it on myabandonware[0] if anyone's interested. They d…

I really appreciate this description. Always nice to see the "actual" definitions instead of "it's like a thing you can map over." I initially had problems understanding monads in …

> You’re unlikely to see +1-DDoS-type behavior inside private repos, for example. Maybe not, but the lack of an "Approval" system is keeping us from moving from Bitbucket to Github…

Where I live there is a minimum fare of $75 imposed on Uber cars leaving from the airport. I took an Uber there and had a great, simple experience ($34 fare) but had to take a taxi…

One of the many good points that Lanier made was that there is not currently an inevitable, moore's-law-like progression that will take modern AI methods towards the "superintellig…

I enjoyed reading it - it's amusing and some of it resonates with my experiences. ...But I don't think it's great satire, for the reasons you point out.

I think its ubiquity is important (installed by default on most non-Windows machines, at least in my experience) combined with the simplicity of running a python script. Now that M…

I'm not an expert, but there is some evidence that nicotine alone can lead to heart disease.

I would recommend listening to this sometime: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-vitamins I'd be curious to see if you still hold the same opinions. (It's a very entertain…

I could see an object-capability based scheme working well. Apple is probably in the unique position to actually implement such a system successfully, controlling the hardware, os,…

That's very interesting, but other than in name not related to the article. If you didn't read it I would recommend you do - it's possibly one of the most interesting and reflectiv…

I always liked the mathy symbols used in The Five Doctors (for more see: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/67524/can-gallifrey... )

I think object-capability based access control would solve the problem as well. If the login screen is only given the capability to talk to the authentication program, then even if…

That's perfectly reasonable. Sorry if it seemed like I was making a fuss. Wasn't trying to pass judgment on the kid; even if he bought a brand new clock and stuck it in a case, I s…

I don't think it has much bearing on the reaction to bringing the clock to his school, but man it really bothered me when I saw a picture of it - who adds a 9v connector like that …

Sure, for consuming the API - but does RAML have to be used this way? Couldn't RAML be used to generate test expectations or even (with tooling that probably doesn't exist) actuall…

I studied monads in a Categorical context in college (Domain Theory, if interested). Monads can be understood very simply in Category Theory if you don't care so much about the det…

I can't shake the feeling that this will just measure of how willing people are to follow instructions for no reason whatsoever.