ConcernedCoder

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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   I'd have to defer to your experience, but fire-and-forget cyanide bombs seem a bit radical and dangerous as "solutions" go... I'd rather pay someone that can handle a rifle to hunt whatever needs killing -- as opposed to
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   yes! and have you thought about working in politics?
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   counterfeit stickers...
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   Screwing with the browser history == "The abomination that causes instant abandonment"
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   Here's my thesis: The company collected DNA from the girls he trafficked after they copulated with the rich and famous... He then generated revenue by keeping the results of the DNA analysis secret ( for a fee ).
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   What a world we live in... Tucker Carlson on Fox News yesterday tried to directly correlate the findings in this study to other news agency reports ( lies according to Tucker ) on the coronavirus... see the video @ around 6:50ish headlining
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   mrw you're using a package to do a type-check: return !!obj && (typeof obj === 'object' || typeof obj === 'function') && typeof obj.then === 'function'
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   by ConcernedCoder 6y ago

   Cue: Kenny Rogers music: "...You gotta know when to fold'm.... know when hold'm.... know when to walk away... and know when to run!"
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   by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

   I'm so glad to see people stepping up to donate compute resources to one of the best (IMHO) uses of computers, helping humanity. Thank-you everyone.
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    Well how would you expect to get any clicks doing that?
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    Sunlight?
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    To be fair, I didn't start programming in JavaScript until 2000, but even back then I could see that it would be a game changer for the web.
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    "For some strange reason when a bank calls the FBI things move with a high level of expediency." Except when these hackers are in China, etc...
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    One bill one thing, would cure so much of what's currently wrong with government.
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    Am I wrong, or does one update from Microsoft make this whole drama go away and the "problem" a moot point?
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    +1 for trying to do something about it If anyone from DOJ is reading this, could you sue the broadcasters next for continuing to present TV advertising at a higher decible level than the content it is embedded in - even after AFAIK law(s) w
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    So cool, you can find anything you search for: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?concernedcoder0001 about 1/2 way down the page you can find: "concerned coder is a programmer living in the sourthern usa, p
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    "A method of writing a patent application whereby the most trivial and non-patentable ideas are made to seem novel and patentable."
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    Every cool thing that I've ever built has started with an idea becoming a basic ( and I mean really basic ) proof of concept... just enough to see all the concepts and moving parts working together... start there, forget about all the
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    That struck me as wierd too, then it got me thinking about the 'great wall' and China's ability to insert tracking ( or other ) JavaScript into a user's session... and then how that's going to be different now in th
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    For the record, I do NOT disagree with your sentiment, but because you asked: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?keyword_list=&bay...
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    which begs the question: "how much did the data analytics cost?"
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    TLDR: https://imgur.com/gallery/zgrscWq
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    So far this week I've had 2 packages left right in front of my front door ( actually blocking it ) with full visibility from the street with no knock or doorbell ring ( I work from home and my office is right next to the front door ).
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    I wonder if it's holograms all the way down...
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    I was told long ago in the newspaper business that "dark mode" ( background darker than foreground ) was unprofessional / hacker looking, and "light mode" ( background lighter than foreground ) was the opposite, and
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    If commenting code is bad, then I don't want to be good...
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    Jim Keller, the designer of "Zen" architecture, is now working for Intel... https://web.archive.org/web/20180426124248/https://www.kitgu...
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    I remember playing StarTrek on one of these in my 7th grade math class: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.html
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    by ConcernedCoder 7y ago

    This is not "hacker" news, as in illegal hacking, this is hacker news as in the old-school definition of hacking whereby you'd self-learn and figure things out... the word hacker in this context doesn't condone illegal a