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epicaricacyon The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff is getting cheaper

The problem with trying to mass produce homes... Most of us don't want to live in prefabricated boxes that have no character.

epicaricacyon Marissa Mayer says the secret of success is working 130 hours a week

130 hrs requires you only get 5.4 hours of sleep a night, never eat, and never sleep. And that is assuming you don't take breaks on weekends.

Assuming a 5 day work week that means you are only getting 2 hours of sleep a night.

tl;dr Title should read "Marissa Mayer is full of shit and/or expects everyone else to live up to expectations she cannot meet herself"

epicaricacyon Losing our business – we didn’t see it coming

They ran his ads for weeks. He got all the advertising revenue.

epicaricacyon How to use your full brain when writing code

>I currently have 4-5 different PM's

That sounds like Agile done right! /s

epicaricacyon Mathematical Notation Is Awful

>It's like saying "Well the plural of mouse is mice but the plural of house isn't hice!".

Just because English sucks and doesn't make any sense doesn't help the case for mathematical notation.

epicaricacyon Ask HN: Boss won't fire a chronic slacker. What should I do?

Stop carrying. If they haven't fired him then you probably have nothing to worry about.

epicaricacyon Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends

Obviously, anyone who has ever searched "What is love" really has no clue what it is. Thus we can conclude that there is a massive population of sociopaths in our society. /s

epicaricacyon Bushido: Way of Total Bullshit

Bushido is a lie, Cowboys never had shoot outs, ninjas are overrated... At least pirates were sort of legit. Jury is still out on zombies.

epicaricacyon How to Stop the Next Viral Jihadi Video

So, they reinvented Content ID?

epicaricacyon Drop the Supersonic Aircraft Ban

New York JFK to Tokyo is 14 hours on a Boeing 777-300ER. JFK to Taipei is 16 hours. Those would be the perfect niche for a supersonic flight.

epicaricacyon StartCom launches a new service – StartEncrypt

Finally. Us Flock users are tired of being the second class citizens of the internet! /s

epicaricacyon The future of agriculture

FTA:

>RTDS has already created one commercial product, a form of rape

Whoa whoa whoa. Phrasing.

epicaricacyon Security Conventions

Personally, I don't mind when security researchers go "on tour" and redo their Defcon talk at smaller Cons. Not everyone can afford to travel to Vegas. Not everyone wants to spend their limited vacation time on it. Watching it on YouTube is not even close to the same thing as being in the audience and getting to ask questions.

Con talks should not be presentations. They should be conversations. If I just wanted the content I can watch the replay on YouTube or you could have saved us all a lot of time by writing a whitepaper.

Cons are not all about the talks. I love a good CTF. I love going out for drinks and just bullshitting with like minded security professionals for a couple hours. I love meeting new people in the field. I love when people do dumb shit like hack the menu at the restaurant that was dumb enough to use an iPad for their menu in a town full of hackers.

An hour talk is the format for giving someone a high level introduction to a new topic or technique or technology that they have little to no experience with. It's deeper than a blog post, but lighter than a white paper. If you really want to turn a newbie in a reverse engineer, or something similar in scope, that depth probably should be a one week bootcamp, or a structured multi-week course (online or in class room).

epicaricacyon Federal Judge Says Internet Archive's Wayback Machine a Legit Source of Evidence

That goes to weight more than admissibility.

The only thing that the judge ruled in this case is that it CAN be used.