danielsoneg

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by danielsoneg 14y ago
I like it. I think you've got one too many lines, though: you don't need both a confuse-o-meter and an understand-o-meter - they're reporting the same metric. I'd consider averaging them into one line for overall sentiment.
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by danielsoneg 14y ago
Nobody gets forced into anything. You agree to a 2-year contract when you decide to get a phone for ~$400 below market price.
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by danielsoneg 14y ago
A more accurate version is: > A business is valuable to own if you think it may bring you more value in the future […] The mistake is conflating money and value: money can be a value, but other things, like riding into space, the presti
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Not to mention they're just Gorgeous. I had a set I picked up at a thrift store just for the look - Wikipedia's faster, but damn, Britannica had Gravitas.
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
In my rather limited experience as a sysadmin, I've found avoiding those calls to be one of my best motivators: My systems work like they're supposed to because I like my sleep. Consider it a performance-based bonus.
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Two reasons: 1. Logs filling up with login failures from drive-bys masks legitimate/focused hack attempts. 2. If there's a security vulnerability found for sshd, non-standard port choice reduces the risk of drive-by scanners. Non-standard p
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
I was just thinking the same thing - but Noam Chomsky writes, and talks, and lectures, and by that, he creates, just as we do when we write software.
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Aside from the privacy issues, I think this is the biggest cock-up of the whole thing: They managed to predict, with shocking accuracy, the fact that the girl was pregnant - yet they missed that she was a teenager living with her parents. T
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
In this case, the difference is if Foozits were something you used to stop your whatzit from itching, the proprietor probably wouldn't mention that out loud in the company of others. Target, on the other hand, is fine sending you an ad for
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
I think part of the problem is that it's a very difficult question to quantify - we can't control the inputs, we're not totally sure what we want from the outputs, it's unlikely that a uniform process will work to get the outputs we want, a
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
I think it's worth bringing up a factor mentioned here a while ago - Piracy serves as a useful market signal. The fact that people are pirating content means there's demand - if they're pirating it, but nobody's paying for it, that means th
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
The site's down, but you can buy the folded version at Powell's Books for $12.95 here: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780981855127-0 No luck on the wall hanging versions yet.
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Because then I've gotta deal with two windows. Cmd+~ : One's now in the background, the other isn't. Switch apps, one comes back, the other doesn't. Switch monitors, the sizing's off. Try to do anything other than 50/50 split, have to adjus
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Wealth accumulation roughly follows the process of "1. Earn money 2. Don't spend it" - It doesn't strain credulity that IQ might be correlated with the former, but not the latter. I'm curious as to the effect on quality of life - measuring
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
They've got the design down absolutely pat - the look of the item, the look of the print-outs, the site, the video - it's great. They've also got some valid uses for it in there - yeah, we've all got screens, but those screens are used for
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Yeah, I wasn't sure of how to approach the mental aspect - I didn't mean to say construction or other physical labor required little mental ability, because I've done enough of it to know that's just not the case. I think coding is differen
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
I suspect two differences: First, "working hard" and working the sort of insane, body-destroying hours that Arrington & co are advocating are two different things. It's good to work hard, be diligent, and get things done, but balance is
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
That's about half of what got us into this mess, isn't it? If you do this well, Yeah, I'd rather pay for it - we're not talking bank, but for a couple bucks a month, if you do what you say you'll do and I stop having to worry about whether
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Honestly, the biggest problem I have with this site right now is that I don't know how you're paying for it - or how you intend to keep doing so. That's pretty much the exact problem with the sites you're monitoring - if I'm not paying for
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Microsoft's pro-PROTECT IP [1], though I don't think they've made a statement on SOPA yet. They are, though, as pointed out, a member of the BSA, which is very pro-SOPA. 1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
I was briefly skeptical, but on reflection, I like this for three reasons: First, email just doesn't work for contacting Congress. They get entirely too much, and it's entirely too easy to get lost in the pile. It's the preferred means of c
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Sunlight Labs has an API that'll do it by zip code: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/ They've got libraries for Ruby, Python, and even PHP, and the interface is drop-dead simple. Definitely worth a look - I'm b
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Just add a short delay between the keypress & the search/url push, and add a check to see if the query is the same. If after a ~second or so the query is the same, do the search and update the URL.
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
One of my favorite anecdotes about that comes from an article found here (can't remember the exact article): The author (a developer) went along with their lead salesperson on a call to MIT. After demoing the product, which normally sold fo
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
The other big problem is that debt loads don't drop along with prices - which effectively makes them rise. Falling prices (which lead to falling wages) + stable debt loads make it far harder for debtors to pay off their debts, which puts ev
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Yeah, but nobody listens to 15M tracks. They listen to a small subset of those tracks, and that subset differs from person to person. Heck, for fun, let's say you were to listen to music 8 hours a day every day for a month (~30 days) -
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
> When you pirate something, you're sending the message that you want the content. That, I think, is an undervalued point here - Piracy as a signaling mechanism is, I think, why an awful lot of what's currently out there for digital del
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Well, it is harder in a game to indicate to the player when they should press the Rhinoceros button - sure, running man to WWI fighter plane is fairly intuitive, and the squiggly-line-to-polygon-to-point-cloud powerup basically speaks for i
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
Ok, this is just ridiculous. I've really tried to do this right - I have Netflix, RDIO, Pandora, and Amazon Select, and by and large, if something's available on those services, I don't go trying to dig it up somewhere else. If I'm not payi
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by danielsoneg 15y ago
The USD has a century of relative stability behind it - there have been ups and downs, but there's never been a full-fledged currency crisis, and a USD from 1911 can still be used today. The Euro is a stronger threat to the dollar than we'v

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