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It does. Source: me, living in one of these countries.

If you're talking about the past-past (say up until the mid-nineties) IMHO you're wrong. Pre-mass-internet there wasn't really anywhere to share code. People were swapping floppies…

I remember reading Howard Rheingold's book "Virtual Reality" when it came out almost 30 years ago, and seeing the Alvy Ray Smith (co-founder of Pixar) quote where he claimed that "…

I don't think there's anything in the definition of smart contracts that necessarily has it defined to be what they are in Ethereum. They are very different, that's for sure. Asset…

It's not run by "a set of trusted third parties". It's run by SETS of trusted third parties, where each individual node specifies what set of nodes it trusts to not collude against…

It always confuses the hell out of me when I see this. Back when I grew up, a polyfiller was a polygon filler, i.e. a polygon rasterizer for computer graphics.

This gives me severe flashbacks to clueless clients/PMs. We had projects we had to run through Black Duck -- "No open source code." The reference implementation of the Mersenne Twi…

Not all countries have feminine gender, just check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland

I wish I could downvote this a million times.

This. Words used in patent claims are always defined by how they are used in the context of the patent description. You can't read the claims and think you understand what they cov…

s/Recognition/Detection/

Doesn't Guido himself preface some of the things in PEP8 as being his pet peeves?

Open the SVG file. The characters are all there, you just have to sort them into the right order. Not much of an improvement. Or maybe not... * Are trivial to crack by a computer. …

"Stops at 99%" sums it up for me, on 10.10.3

Fair enough :)

You're working on remote collaboration, but not really eating your own dog food. Offices in SF and SJ. What's remote with that?

Never roll your own crypto? Also, D-H was published 39 years ago, before the author was even born.

Am I the only one who doesn't see what's so innovative about Spritz? About ten years ago or so, when people didn't create startups for every little side-project they had, there wer…

"Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" is from 2001, and looks a lot more like the right half of the image than the left.

I really haven't done auctions in years, but with the way ebay works, with the current price one bid increment above the previous bidders maximum price, what's there to gain from s…

Nokia Refocus is quite different. Refocus is a set of photos with different focal lengths, and a look up table. For each "pixel" (The look up table isn't full resolution) the look …

SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred. Southeast Asia/EU. If you have a higher end non-Apple mobile phone, chances are pretty high that I've been involved in some of the software embedde…