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natemurthy | 2 years ago | on: Appeals court revives bribery charge for Apple security exec

Remember that time when Apple's Global Head of Security bribed the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office with tens of thousands of dollars worth of iPads to expedite concealed hand-gun permits for its company agents? Welp, federal appeals court put that criminal case back on the docket. Paywall removed, plain text available: https://pastebin.com/Fzgs5t2X

natemurthy | 7 years ago | on: All the things I hate about Python

Hi everyone, so I'm the guy who wrote this article. I'm sharing a video recording of George Hotz writing some Python code. Note his reaction at 5:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hlb8YX2-W8&t=355s

His outburst is an emotional manifestation of the different sources of frustration I've had working with Python that I've tried to document.

A common theme I've seen in responses is that many claim that I've mistaken Python as a weakly-typed language countering that it is indeed a strongly-typed language -- obviously an argument of semantics. I'll define a "strongly-typed" language as one where it is trivial to identify the type signature and definition of any function or variable in a program. In Python, this is non-trivial.

FYI, this article is also cross-posted on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16337435

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16371338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411765

natemurthy | 8 years ago | on: All the things I hate about Python

Let me ask you all this: Why was Hadoop written in Java and not Python? Why was Spark written in Scala and not Python? Why was Kubernetes written in Go and not Python? Why was Mesos written in C/C++ and not Python?

natemurthy | 8 years ago | on: Light Traffic

This looks like an awesome project, and I hope this receives significant attention from city planners. I imagine as cars become more connected, we'll have better interfaces for integrating mobile traffic sensors with stationary traffic sensors for optimal management of vehicle flow along congested streets. But I do worry about the pace at which city planners adopt such technology at a time when local government budgets are tight.

natemurthy | 8 years ago | on: Initial Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Meltdown fix could make the system unbootable

I would think that the chip manufacturers (Intel, AMD, etc) should be reaching out to OS vendors for correct patch implementations.. unless they're committed to selling us shit forever.