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by alexnking 11y ago
Did anyone else understand the first sample without knowing you had to hear the clear version first?
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by alexnking 11y ago
This wasn't a security disclosure at all - Facebook knew that this information was available but didn't see it as a problem. The "problem" was that somebody tried to make the public aware of how it worked. "Noticing
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by alexnking 11y ago
As I understand it, this just means they're allowed to require you to sign a contract saying that they own your "off the clock" work, not that they own it by default. Or is it different in NY?
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by alexnking 11y ago
Exactly - I don't understand why even computer literate people have trouble understanding that computers aren't "an" activity, they're a gateway to millions of them, limited by your imagination. My parents also limi
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by alexnking 11y ago
Another easy way to play with this is the DeepDreamer mac app ( http://realmacsoftware.com/deepdreamer/ ), although it has some size limitations unless you purchase it ($15).
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by alexnking 11y ago
Good point - this could create an incentive for people to stop taking the medication that they need just so they're allowed to compete.
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by alexnking 11y ago
Agreed. This feels like adding an additional hurdle that non-minority hires would not face (most generic recruiting sites I've seen don't require degrees).
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by alexnking 11y ago
This is like a company saying "I know employees need food, but instead of giving you money, you'll be compensated in hamburgers". I'm tired of this stereotypical judgement that poor people are so bad with money that we&#
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by alexnking 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of streaming coding, mostly because of Markus Persson and the Ludum Dare streams (one of the first http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/293076467 where he builds a dungeon crawler, skip ahead a bit). T
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by alexnking 11y ago
I wonder if a possible solution to this problem would be getting universities to require publication to open access journals as opposed to closed ones. Then journals with paywalls would have an incentive to offer open access options in orde
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by alexnking 11y ago
Homeless proof - I'm really hoping the problems that Sidewalk Labs is working on don't include making sure homeless people don't have access to public bathrooms. I'm honestly not thinking of a lot of reasons for public b
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by alexnking 11y ago
Yes, because clearly people in Kenya living in houses with mud floors and thatched roofs just need to work and save more. The idea that under privileged people can simply work and save their way out of poverty is naive and dangerous.
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by alexnking 11y ago
Well, they sort of have to be accessed by unencrypted HTTP, their HTTPS certificate gives a huge warning. Any site doing journalism needs to have their SSL setup correctly if they care about the privacy of their readers.
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by alexnking 12y ago
The first article mentions a Supreme Court case in 2011 to "determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens with GPS vehicle trackers without a warrant" - anyone know what that case was or how it was decided?
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by alexnking 12y ago
Well there's a difference between code reuse, and cross-platform code reuse. If you're porting a Laravel project to Rails or vice versa, you should be reusing logic, not code.
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Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown in YAML and JSON(github.com)
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by alexnking 12y ago
"Are the Yankees the best team in baseball? We used to think so." http://commonmark.org
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by alexnking 12y ago
WINBOT http://www.amazon.com/WINBOT-W730-Cleaning-Frameless-Windows...
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by alexnking 12y ago
In my opinion, Kickstarter projects should not be legally obligated to deliver hardware rewards. We already have something just like that called "stores" and "preorders". I want to fund projects where the creators don&
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by alexnking 12y ago
Well, I imagine she's actually making money with her original content - and then they're saying she can't, because it happens to refer to their "unique braand".
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by alexnking 12y ago
It's alarming to me that we allow corporations to control how and how we are not allowed to use words. Trademarks should be limited to preventing people from selling similar products using your company name. They shouldn't be a wa
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ZTE Starts Selling $99 Firefox OS Phone(recode.net)
1 points by alexnking 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple in Talks to Acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion(macrumors.com)
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by alexnking 12y ago
I'm more and more concerned that the legal and cultural environment for web scraping would make it hard for a company like Google or Yahoo to be founded today. The internet isn't about "don't take my stuff", it&#x27
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by alexnking 12y ago
"Such systems make it impossible to intercept and read messages sent over a network, because the very act of measuring a quantum object changes it, leaving behind telltale signs of the spying. 'It’s unlikely ev
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by alexnking 12y ago
I wish there were more companies that were more worried about doing the right thing than serving their paying customers. Especially when those customers are businesses who want to snoop on their employees, or ad agencies that want to sort t
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by alexnking 12y ago
Thanks! I'll just try to be patient though :) Good luck with the product :D
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by alexnking 12y ago
This is exciting - I think the fact that it has cooling built in easily puts it apart from crock pots for convenience - allowing you to go from the fridge to the stove is really cool. Now I just have to resist getting a peltier module and m
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Legality, terms of service for performing a web crawl(stackoverflow.com)
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by alexnking 12y ago
"Our dev team is no longer producing quality work at a pace fast enough for the business. They're complacent." B does not follow from A. Just because your team is not producing "fast enough for the business" does no

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