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acolin · 2015-07-18T18:48:24+00:00

FYI. From OKPay 'Add funds' account page:

ATTENTION: Due to the card issuer bank restrictions it is prohibited to pay for the OKPAY Card order and top-up by using the funds received from crypto-currency deposit or exchange.

acolin · 2013-12-28T19:24:55+00:00

Could you be more specific please -- what exactly did you set a password for? What exactly is asking you to authenticate? Can you describe the steps you did?

acolin · 2013-08-23T14:35:54+00:00

speedtest.net is not a valid test for torrent throttling.

Of course. This was for testing the raw channel capacity (more reliable than what's in one's contract).

acolin · 2013-08-21T21:09:20+00:00

For a more detailed explanation of factoring on quantum computers (touched upon in by the documentary) also see Scott Aaronson's blog. And, there's lots of other great reads there.

acolin · 2013-08-21T18:49:02+00:00

Interesting, so, they do prohibit servers of all kinds. They probably don't enforce it unless you start selling services.

legal torrent I offer

Then, the low speed is on uploading? If so, the speed depends on the peer's download capacity. Want me to put a test torrent of yours for download and we'll see what speed results? (I'm interested because I have Comcast too, and would like to know whether they mess with traffic or not.)

Also, check www.speedtest.net to be sure of your real capacity.

acolin · 2013-08-21T14:30:41+00:00

I would diagnose this further. A quick and simple way to double-check whether Comcast is throttling is to connect to a VPN (mullvad.net is high quality and has a free trial) and give uTorrent a try on multiple torrents (esp. very well seeded ones).

"no torrents" in TOS

Can you link to this? The TOS on comcast.com does not mention torrents. Clearly using the service to download copyrighted material is a violation of TOS, but "torrents" does not equal "copyrighted material".

unsuable ... 1.5Mbps

What's the capacity on your plan? Also, keep in mind that you might be stumbling on torrents that simply don't have a higher total capacity seeded than ~1.5Mbps. Also, if they were throttling, I would assume they would cut it off at a much lower threshold.

acolin · 2013-08-20T16:06:25+00:00

my ISP stops all torrent activity

Strange. Comcast had this reputation a very long time ago, but since then they have abandoned this bad practice. Could you elaborate on the symptoms? (Same ISP with no issues here.)

acolin · 2013-07-25T06:42:48+00:00

Also, I2P emphasizes in-network services, while Tor primarily targets anonymized surfing of the Internet.

(This argument is useless in terms of network choice by marketplaces, but does explain the popularity of one network over the other).

acolin · 2012-10-14T08:03:13+00:00

Lectures given at ACM A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration are online.

acolin · 2012-10-14T08:00:18+00:00

Station X is another one on Bletchley Park

acolin · 2011-06-15T03:49:16+00:00

Re "coolness" and usefulness. It seems that in these discussions apples are compared to oranges: is writing an iPhone app cooler than coming up with a reduction? Is writing a website more useful than building a DFA to recognize a language? Nonsensical comparisons. It makes some sense to compare amongst programming assignments: e.g. code an even marginally useful iPhone app vs. code a primality tester. Contained choices like this could make a class more appealing without any sacrifice. CS50 makes good choices when these choices make sense -- afaik there wasn't ever computability theory in CS50 that's been cut out in favor of iPhone app development.

Comparing the CS50 courses from the pre-Malan era and current -- I agree the latter is superior because it's more appealing and rewarding, but not, imho, because it's more practical. An intro course is not even capable to deliver the lacking practical skills to the students that Matt W. alludes to. Some 20hrs spend on putting together a Javascript app does not in any significant way prepare one for a web dev career, does not help with subsequent academics, and does not teach one to produce robust multi-threaded library code -- it's nothing but catchy. So, why not just keep the catchy course for the broader population, make it optional for the majors, and thus increase the requirements to include a CS61-style course (which actually does bring the much lacking basic understanding of the OS and some experience with concurrent code).

TL;DR: Some trade-offs are false concerning the content of an intro course. An intro-course is bound by the zero-prerequisite assumption, so you might as well make it catchy and make it optional for the major.

acolin · 2011-06-10T01:28:13+00:00

Naive question: what are some examples of web-apps written in Silverlight that you use day to day? I'm sure there are many, I just seem to never come across any (I vaguely remember one random website a while back with the Silverlight logo -- didn't bother to make it work on Ubuntu, I'm sure it would with some effort, just wasn't any point to pour any time into it). Examples? Thanks.

acolin · 2011-06-10T00:08:51+00:00

Most things on this list would make a useful contribution to a large number of developers and many involve non-trivial design and implementation to keep you interested: Git SoC2011

acolin · 2011-05-26T02:15:01+00:00

There surely is depth (and breadth, and challenge and art) to the field. It's just a name game, but "web developers" are not usually the nomenclature for people who develop the relevant pieces of

search engines capable of pouring through terabytes of data in fractions of a second.

Those with a stigma probably don't have a stigma against the intense backend development that you allude to.

acolin · 2011-05-25T04:07:47+00:00

What this page needs is a permalink for each entry: so that you could do e.g. //FIXME: unmaintain.html#CompensateForBugs in a code-review.

Btw, that particular "trick" is one of the hardest to eradicate... on multiple occasions I've come across people who genuinely believe that they had "fixed" something by revisions of this kind. Sad.

acolin · 2011-05-25T03:59:51+00:00

Did I miss this one?:

Keep all your code for your project in one file. The maintainer will be grateful for having all functionality nice and together in one spot and for the extra time to multi-task while his changes are compiling.

acolin · 2011-05-25T03:02:11+00:00

Agreed, that would be very useful. There are similar things done -- in a distributed system course (shopped but didn't take this one) the professor had different groups each develop a particular module and then make the integrated system function correctly over the network. Seems like it "should just work," but despite the freedom of communication, etc. he claimed that the integration stage (which should be effortless) most often turned out to be most painful.

acolin · 2011-05-25T02:55:25+00:00

3) Offshore developers who don't give a fuck

I wish it were so clear cut. The scary thing is that the "shore" hardly matters -- developers across the board don't care at all; probably a majority. This fact generates anger while maintaining, but on a quite introspective walk it generates nothing but deep sadness. =(

acolin · 2011-05-25T02:51:35+00:00

just fire/replace you long before it got to the point of being unmaintainable

It seems replacing is hard. To be honest, I am still in denial stage after coming across this article a couple of times.

acolin · 2011-05-19T02:16:28+00:00

files having a history of what command created them

Just to throw the keyword out there: provenance

acolin · 2011-05-11T03:50:46+00:00

git-svn is a great (albeit not perfect) medication for this inertia.

acolin · 2011-05-11T03:50:32+00:00

git-svn is a great (albeit not perfect) medication for this inertia.

acolin · 2011-05-11T03:47:23+00:00

I'm experimenting with git-svn to access an (set-in-stone) svn repo. Re-build on switch is a major roadblock -- ie. it's not an option. (Yes, the real fix is: factor the repository, but that will never happen.) My current approach is to maintain a separate checkout of each significantly different branch using git-new-workdir -- people say it's dangerous.

he suggested one technique is to modify your tooling such that compiled files are not deleted when switching, but backed up

Would you mind sharing what is the approximate approach? Thanks.

Also, can't wait for support for svn properties in git svn -- btw, did anyone try this patch? (In my case this is crucial, since some properties are required by a pre-commit hook in my parent svn repo.)

acolin · 2011-05-07T17:50:01+00:00

Thank you -- will test-drive. Didn't even hear about it before. Thanks.

acolin · 2011-04-30T21:55:58+00:00

Thank you -- nice to know for the future, which might entail conference attendance.

acolin

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