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deanstag··on Google to Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers
I agree with most of your points here. But regarding malware, even without malicious intent, if the large amounts of apps are made without much thought to security, number of malwares and security risks would definitely go higher
deanstag··on The Monaco Code Editor
and a salt biscuit brand
deanstag··on India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday
'Everything went according to the projectory, he said adding that the winged space plane will not be recovered from the sea.' - Is that okay? Do a lot of missions around the world consider sea a dumping ground?
deanstag··on Why do old statues have such small penises?
oh. i did not mean it as an insult. i really thought i was reading a reddit thread :(
deanstag··on Why do old statues have such small penises?
for a second i thought i was reading a reddit thread
deanstag··on Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
I am actually curious. Did everyone who upvoted the title post not click on the link at all?
deanstag··on Adam
haha. and the realtime coordination of all the 100+ agents.
deanstag··on Ditching tmux
Just to know. why did you mention proudly? I don't use it either, but i thought it had gotten pretty stable over time and has very few issues. What problems do you see using neovim?
deanstag··on Google Hangouts
but you need chrome for this don't you?
deanstag··on Google Hangouts
i dont see an option for OSX hangouts. Where did you get it?
deanstag··on LLVM for Grad Students
For the past year, i had two projects which required me to work with LLVM. Because of the scarcity of articles/documentation, i found it really hard to get into it. The API Docs and a few articles by Eli Bendersky(thank you so much!!! ) was all i found useful.

But once i got past the basic hurdles, the llvm project code was so well written, i felt a certain pleasure working with it.

deanstag··on Soylent 2.0
Some time back, i had read about a very noticeable flatulence issue for soylent drinkers. Was that ever addressed?
deanstag··on What is Ethereum?
"You might even imagine a nation defined not by geography but by the rules and benefits of citizenship. Imagine that people of the future could opt-in to the virtual nation that suits them best." . I wonder if we will ever get there . But its eye opening just to think about it.
deanstag··on 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack
i am interested in this query as well
deanstag··on Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes
I meant whats the advantage of viewing it in browser? Couldnt you go through the output in a terminal with multiplexers and tail?
deanstag··on Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes
I am curious. What is the usecase of this?
deanstag··on “Chess-Playing Excitement” in 1859
I was thinking the same.
deanstag··on Netflix porn hack?
Or video captures ;)
deanstag··on Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign
it is quite funny to see another innocuous post amidst all the vile and hateful posts. "How do people even do this shit? (X-Post from /r/gtagifs) " (https://i.imgur.com/po4V0QW.gifv )

Edit : added quotes for clarity

deanstag··on Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
When i saw this talk, it got me thinking. Does anybody else feel that human beings inherently have limit to the amount of things and concepts they can think by themselves. His talk presents tools that helps push this limit by some amount. Its not just about thinking, its about how much information can be processed, modified and assimilated.

The books, media and the internet has been able to help us push this limit slightly more. A single person doesnt have to learn every science, but can get the updates from each if he wants to. He doesnt have to work hard in that field to learn from it. Maybe true advances in AI would take more of this processing from the person and help him move higher in terms of understanding and knowledge.

And probably that is whats the next step in evolution for us?

deanstag··on D-Link patch doesn’t address all bugs listed in their own security advisory
I was in a dev team for a network security appliance. It is really sad they way they treat vulnerabilities and security advisories. There were very few people who know what the actual vulnerability was.The vulnerability would be listed as one of the last items in a release checklist. Gets assigned to a guy who has no clue whatsoever. The guy fixing the issue would google a patch. apply it. has no way of testing it comprehensively. He will run a basic test case. He will make up a report with a lot of security jargon for the managers and advisory team. And the next release would list the vulnerability as fixed.
deanstag··on Three.js – JavaScript 3D library
what is jQuery? :P
deanstag··on Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (2009)
Yeah. I was exploring exactly this problem when i came across this original article. Later i saw that "char arr[] = "stuff" " actually inserts assembly code that puts the value stuff into the stack. That was interesting news to me. stackoverflow.com/questions/29184100/char-array-and-pointer-initialization-semantics/29184190#29184190
deanstag··on My tmux setup
I have my prefix key as alt-j. Very convenient.
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