chaetodon

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by chaetodon 13y ago
So the government should have had a year to catch him before he went AWOL to HK? Holy Cr*p! Please, please, please... when do they learn to shut up?
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by chaetodon 13y ago
He was suspected of carrying sensitive material, which apparently couldn't be found. The search and interviews apparently lasted 9 hours to the minute according to reports and his detention wasn't extended. In my book: if there wo
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by chaetodon 13y ago
IMHO an alpha engineer should do one of two things: 1) Architect the application and divide the detail programming in enough well-defined subtasks that lesser gods can start working on these subtasks while the alpha starts engineering furth
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by chaetodon 13y ago
I would be highly surprised if mails (even spam) wouldn't be scanned for steganographically hidden messages (no insider knowledge though). Hell, I would even want this for my own antivirus functionality. I would be surprised if your st
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by chaetodon 13y ago
No. Users are fickle and unpredictable.
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by chaetodon 13y ago
Lefthanders like me need an inverse Colemak to remain effective, given that many of the most used letters are on a QWERTY keyboard on my left hand (while with Colemak e.g. the E has moved to the right). Does an inverse Colemak exist?
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by chaetodon 13y ago
Global Warming Alarmism? Physics isn't alarmism.
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by chaetodon 13y ago
Despite not being a US citizen, I fully support this petition since in a capitalistic society it isn´t up to the government to determine the way goods and services are delivered to customers. Government has only a role in policing this proc
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by chaetodon 13y ago
Only fragile jobs are lost during technological upheavals (See Taleb, Anti-fragility).
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by chaetodon 13y ago
Slate is an anagram of Tesla. Brilliant.
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by chaetodon 13y ago
1) Not okay: what constitutes the 'best interests of the USA' is in the eye of the beholder. A libertarian might have a different outlook on 'best interests' than say a religious zealot, etc.
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by chaetodon 13y ago
It seems that in the end the install was performed on a system where no Ubuntu disks were present (Ubuntu disk was removed). If true, the whole dualboot discussion is moot. Personally I also encountered registration hell. After some time t
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by chaetodon 13y ago
I guess that France is of the opinion that from a French perspective it is better to let Dailymotion grow and develop the European IT scene further, than to be opportunistic and do another sell-out to an US company.
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by chaetodon 13y ago
a speculator is also (a certain type of) user.