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by bitteralmond 14d ago
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence."
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by bitteralmond 10y ago
Stealing one thing from the store isn't hard, but the nature of vulnerabilities like this one means there isn't much additional technical challenge going from stealing one thing once to stealing everything a million times. To cont
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by bitteralmond 11y ago
The magic of Kernighan: "When we were choosing among typesetting systems, Brian never let on that he was one of the original authors of Troff, the system we ultimately went with," Donovan said. "I realized this only after res
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by bitteralmond 11y ago
He hasn't-- the article is from 2010.
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by bitteralmond 11y ago
Is the link in the top-right broken? http://i.imgur.com/U08DB9p.png
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Sell an outcome, not your deliverables, tools, processes or skills(subvert.ca)
5 points by bitteralmond 13y ago|0 comments
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
For anyone interested, I'd recommend Gasland. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ This "new" evidence of contamination will not end it. People will be paid in quiet settlements, sell their houses at a fraction of
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
Looks like a bogus address with only a real email in Tor-land. Domain is paid with Bitcoin through bitdomain.biz, so that's a dead end too.
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
This is pretty cool! Even as simple as this is, it shows how pretty webGL can be, and how it can play nice with DOM elements. Did you have much trouble getting the text to look right?
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
Aside from the whole "will they actually build it" debate, I'm worried that if they do, the capsule ceiling won't be high enough for someone fairly tall (let's say 6'5'' or taller) to sit in comfortab
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
I agree: I have no idea how the scoring system works. Am I supposed to get it done in as little (real world coding) time as possible? As few keystrokes? Is it supposed to be done in as few cycles (on their test machine) as possible? Should
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
Hear hear! For the record, he's never actually voted against abortion. He opposes government-funded abortion, but also voted "Present" on a bill to defund the "Planned Parenthood" organization, saying that he will n
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
Somebody's having some fun with the Speaker of the House's name... "...you can imagine the Speaker's office will be quickly filling up with agency heads looking to get their hands on an impotent Boehner."
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
A proprietary language created for a closed, for-profit platform isn't naturally the most popular choice for open source projects.
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How the demise of Adobe Fireworks will change our workflow(subvert.ca)
16 points by bitteralmond 13y ago|4 comments
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by bitteralmond 13y ago
This doesn't seem as much like an actual attempt to gain compensation as it does to simply get a law changed.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
This guy seriously doesn't understand that "Europe" to most us westerners basically means "All European countries with a coastline, down to Italy."
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
I love that this is a thing, and that it's such a success to keep it current. However, I don't approve of Windows 8 itself and that's a bit of a problem in itself. This story still gets an upvote thought.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
Can someone please translate the trader jargon out of this article?
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
+1 for LSN: back in '04 a friend of mine and I must have spent at least 50 hours playing nothing but the hotseat multiplayer of that game. FS is also a lot of fun, but it just isn't as deep or complex as LSN. Fewer enemy types, less variety
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
The problem is that the GOP doesn't truly support any of that stuff-- simply listening to what a wealthy few campaign donors tell you is right and blindly proselytizing this warped view until you have nearly 50% of the vote is a much easier
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
I hate to knee-jerk this one, but my first reaction to this is that it's probably propaganda. In the States a few years ago, there was an effort to create a self-contained ecosystem and it failed no matter how hard the engineers behind it t
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
Though this is cool, I'm not entirely sure what this is good for. How will we use these portals?
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
Though this is really cool in itself, this has a horribly sensational and misleading title.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
A-yup, couldn't agree more. It's already common practice to buy bundled CPUs and boards. We might as well be buying them as one solid piece.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
Funny how he writes it so much like Java. I see so many different styles with JavaScript.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
Rule of thumb: Never trust a study funded by someone who would benefit directly from a certain result. It doesn't matter how sound the science seems.
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
I'm always skeptical of using this stuff for PTSD since the comedown is so harsh. I would suspect that the period of serotonin depletion could actually be just as bad for PTSD as the MDMA "high" could be good. Though I guess it's also impor
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
I agree that this project is hugely ambitious for one man. So was Linux. Linus recruited a bunch of other hobby programmers to help him make it. Although he may be jumping the gun on announcing it, he's got a lot of good ideas about strippi
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by bitteralmond 14y ago
The last bit about the "subconscious processing" is spot on. I read a study once that found that people daydream/drift off around 30% of the entire day, and the people who do not resist doing this and allow themselves to dream are more crea

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