cypherpunks

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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Notice how you automatically assume that the person pointing out bigotry is in the oppressed minority. This is not always the case. If you expect a Christian on a site full of atheists to have to be thick-skinned, then by the same logic, yo
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I was not proposing censorship. Reddit, as well as slashdot, HN, digg, etc. have a community process developed with the intent that the best comments make it to the top. The structure of that process determines what makes it to the top. Cha
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I read reddit, but I would never buy a gold account. The site has too much hate speech, and it is hard to support that financially. Between the misogyny and the atheist anti-Christian bigotry, it's pretty bad. You don't have to be either a
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I might go back to Firefox when it no longer consumes gigabytes of RAM after a few hours of operation. Until then, I'm with Chrome. I don't care about speed as much -- so long as it's reliable, and doesn't grind the rest of my machine to a
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I've seen swarms of employees get screwed in ways similar to this. It's not uncommon in Silicon Valley.
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I kinda wish Google had better versioning in their infrastructure. While I used neither of these products, their disappearance makes me reluctant to adopt Google products for any core infrastructure. If I buy a program from Microsoft, and M
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I am aware of the current opportunities. I think you (and most people here) underestimate what the "old web" could imagine, though. We had all sort of ideas for agents that would go out and grab and analyze data for us in all sorts of cleve
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Which only works for pre-intended uses, or standards that have substantial market share. Again, read the literature on agents from the nineties, and see how diverse a technology tree was killed....
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I'd love to see that extension. If you write it, I will use it. I use Chrome too, so it should work here. As to what should and shouldn't be part of the browser -- the way to figure that out is experimentation and competition. When you make
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I'm glad. Thank you for taking the time to read and understand. Hacker News is starting to go down the decline that hit reddit 2 years ago, where people don't bother to try to understand different viewpoints, and just downvote anything they
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Did you read what I wrote? I mentioned Google Maps as one of the two places I found AJAX useful. The applications on my mom's PC do have much better UI standardization than the web does. Microsoft releases UI guidelines. alt-f4 does the sam
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
> You mean bookmarks? Add a scroll %, assuming they're not nice enough to use anchor tags / IDs meaningfully, and you're golden. Bookmarks in books work okay. You move them. Book marks in browsers don't. You have to remove the old one,
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Not just scraping. Any sort of non-human parsing of web pages. Look at the 1990s literature on web agents for lots of applications.
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
The Google Spider grabs pages from other servers. That's a web client. It's a web client that was easy to write when Google was started, but is almost impossible to write today. If search engines hadn't been invented 20 years ago, they'd be
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
No. I haven't. I've noticed maybe 1 or 2 web apps I want to use (Google Docs and Google Maps). Beyond that, I don't see anything that couldn't be delivered more effectively without JavaScript that I want or need. Usability is not up. Each w
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
15 years ago, I could reasonably write a search engine. Myself. 1 person. In a few weeks (modulo bandwidth and server farm). I write a program that grabs a web page, and reads out keywords. Today, if I grab a web page, quite often, that web
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Google is a big organization in the business of developing web software. Most organizations are in other businesses. If I'm running a construction company, it doesn't make sense to have IT consultants come in each time a new version of some
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
As a web user, I'm not grateful. I don't think having more pixel-perfect control or slightly faster JavaScript makes the web any better. All websites look slightly better, but the client side dies a little bit every time. In the web circa '
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
This is what really irks me about Google Apps. You don't have any control over this kind of thing. They can (and do) yank the rug out from under you whenever they feel like it. A while back, they forcibly transitioned all accounts to also b
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Your math is weak. You should go back and study.
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Anyone know of the equivalent of Stroustrup for Python? If anyone's not familiar with Stroustrup, his book on C++ explains the language in-depth, and gives clear rationales for the design decisions made, so you understand not just the hows
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
He's an exceptionally good communicator and has very strong soft skills, and applies them to self-promotion. He's also good at politics (as in convincing crowds of people -- not so much at interacting and making long-term connections with i
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I'm not sure if I trust much be ESR. He's extremely eloquent, so what he writes always sounds convincing. In practice, he's a pretty bad developer, or at least he was at the time he wrote most of his stuff (at the time, the most serious tec
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
My experience has been the opposite. Best employees aren't desperate to work for you. They're gainfully employed, and you have to poach them. No one I know who is productive would give up this much time to something. Almost everyone I know
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
You are correct -- there are a few exceptions, and the Playstation was definitely one. Therein lies the difference: 1960-1985: Sony is the gold standard for quality 1995-2010: Sony makes crap, with a few exceptions Out of context, this may
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
Oh come now. Their products mostly suck. Their support sucks. The Playstation, they did okay on, only now it turns out that if you bought one, crooks have your personal information. They cut corners on consumer security. Their laptops have
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I would call this a huge leap backwards. It is the first version of Debian or Ubuntu in 15 years that doesn't work. Wireless broke. Wired broke. Unity caused windows to randomly turn white. No obvious way to turn off visual effects. The UI
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
You should have no problem finding a job. Unique skillsets are unique, so there will be a small number of people who truly want someone with yours, but you'll be very valuable to them. Things to do: 1) Make a resume and cover letter. Have m
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
I'd like to see more back story first. Medicine is about risk management. There are places where you need 1/100,000 reliability, and there are places where you need 1/1000, and there are even places where 1/10 is good enough. There are prim
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by cypherpunks 15y ago
What's right, though, is you can implement an interpreter in a weekend. That makes it usable in a lot of places. Once you add exceptions, that goes away. File encodings and character sets are nice, but short-sited. R5RS was eternal. No one

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