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jzd··on Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
_______ is propaganda run by a government that has propaganda as its modus operendi (INSERT TOP NEWS NETWORK HERE)
jzd··on Ansible 2.0 released
That does not make it Turing complete.

"You need some form of dynamic allocation construct (malloc ornew or cons will do) and either recursive functions or some other way of writing an infinite loop. If you have those and can do anything at all interesting, you're almost certainly Turing-complete." -- http://stackoverflow.com/a/449170

jzd··on Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%
What does this mean for Bitcoin?
jzd··on Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar
> Also, how do you plan to scale up transparency?

I suggest using a web of trust akin to PGP signing mechanisms

jzd··on China stock trading halted early after 7% plunge again
What does this mean for Bitcoin?
jzd··on Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python
Same goes for Python
jzd··on Pymux: a tmux clone in pure Python
Because doing it in C might be a waste of time
jzd··on The Refragmentation
The inequality gap is the direct result of an education gap
jzd··on Microkernels are slow and Elvis didn't do no drugs
Great idea! I deleted everything in <head> and it looks beautiful
jzd··on What It Feels Like to Be Adopted at 17
What happened to the brother!?
jzd··on The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf]
^ this guy is why we can't have nice things
jzd··on The rise and decline of Wikipedia [pdf]
No
jzd··on How DEA Agents Took Down Mexico's Most Vicious Drug Cartel
Have you seen what sleep deprivation does to people? Have you seen how it causes people to lose their impulse control and go crazy ? What about driving ?
jzd··on Devstash.io – Hacker News alternative focused on computer science
The design sucks it is not minimalist and most elements are too big. Do you even use Vim/Emacs?
jzd··on What web developers should know about SSL
The general public couldn't care less about EV certs.

Important reading: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/9095

jzd··on 1% the Code (2001)
two words: job security
jzd··on If Apple didn’t hold $181B overseas, it would owe $59B in US taxes
Thanks for the paper! Great read
jzd··on Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release
excellent!
jzd··on If Apple didn’t hold $181B overseas, it would owe $59B in US taxes
Works really well for Somalia!
jzd··on Tensorflow 0.6.0 Release
Python 3 support please
jzd··on Pg_paxos: High Availability Data Replication for PostgreSQL
It is very difficult to do distribution right, and Postgres is extremely conservative when it comes to new features.

Stability, reliability, and performance are #1

jzd··on Slack is down
My company is unaffected because we use MatterMost internally
jzd··on Math.random in V8 is broken
this. also /dev/random blocks and it can be really slow
jzd··on File Says N.S.A. Found Way to Replace Email Surveillance Program
Lol, like they give a fuck
jzd··on John McCain wants to outlaw encryption that the US government can't crack
Big media is controlled by powerful politicians.
jzd··on BetaFEC
But the politics don't change as a result of it.
jzd··on Google launches offline maps
All I use is an Android phone loaded with the OSMAND app and a small 1 sq. ft. flexible solar panel. I'm good.
jzd··on HTML as TeX replacement
HELL NO.

If you need to, generate HTML et. al. from TeX. But HTML is not a substitute for TeX. Forget it.

jzd··on Microsoft and Red Hat partner
This is the most important comment in the whole thread
jzd··on Microsoft and Red Hat partner
CentOS / RHEL are non-starters for cutting edge work in machine learning due to their ancient mathematics and scientific libraries
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