dvanduzer

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by dvanduzer 6y ago
Why do you think understanding math requires hard work?
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by dvanduzer 6y ago
Hail Eris
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by dvanduzer 6y ago
We must act now, and let the billionaire class play the Most Dangerous Game. It's our only chance of survival!
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
$ whois a1.6z.com
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
I intended that as a reference to an XKCD strip[0]. Folks often talk about public goods like scientific research, as if the "real stuff" couldn't possibly happen without private investment. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [0] https:/&#x
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
(arxiv.org is not archive.org if someone wants to fix the title. both are absurd creations that can't possibly exist, though.)
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
I found Spinoza and Wittgenstein comprehensible. I've found many other philosophers not so. My comment is not satire.
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
Wittgenstein's Tractatus is one of the most accessible pieces of philosophy ever written. I recommend it. For an even more accessible view into Russell and Wittgenstein, and well, life the universe and everything: logicomix.com
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
On what basis can you compare a writer/editor from GMG with the private equity group that purchased his employer? Are you saying that we can't trust his motives and competence, because he was fired?
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece, but not directly by name. Deadspin did not fail, it was murdered. And I know you aren't saying it directly, but this really shouldn't be about The Left and The Right. The problem
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by dvanduzer 7y ago
A crawler has two high level options: parse the page, or render the page. Most of our parser-based crawling is done by Heritrix (crawler.archive.org) and most of our render-based crawling is done by a proxy-based recorder similar to what yo
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by dvanduzer 8y ago
A five minute outage of the point-of-sale system during the lunch rush can easily cost even the smallest of restaurants several hundred dollars. True, most websites do not have this problem, because most websites do not drive revenue like
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by dvanduzer 8y ago
Website: Help me relate this to the Web of Trust
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by dvanduzer 8y ago
Yes, that is the core thesis of the article. For the last 30 years, that tiny fraction (0.1%, correcting what I assume was a typo/misread) has seen their overall share grow. Thirty years ago, that 90% possessed 35% of the wealth. Today
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by dvanduzer 8y ago
Was the lesson that there's a fortune to be made in software maintenance?
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Overall crime rate in the US (everywhere?) has decreased since the 1970s or so. There is speculation it had to do with lead paint. There has not been a single "mass shooting" in Australia since the gun ban. In the US, mass shootin
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
I mean, you can call the APIs locked down if you insist, but SaaS is SaaS. Would you count S3 as a locked down API, for example? OpenStack's Swift (and plenty of other products) will emulate it. I chose the term "interoperable&quo
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Indeed, Federation was only a part of their Enterprise offering. :rimshot: It is only Slack-to-Slack, so it is not interoperable in that way. Shared channels are a thing now too, and danged if I can keep up with all the new bells and whis
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Seems like Slack figured out how to make a lot of money out of interoperable groupware. If they'd been slower at it, I'd still be saying they're an acquisition target for those companies. edit: "All" they did was co
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
AOL bought them. Slow burn.
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Slack has the saving grace of optionally supporting an XMPP gateway, for those still committed to that dream. For now. (I sincerely hope this comment isn't too prescient.)
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
The article says it's about shopping experience, but I would be surprised if they aren't also looking at warehouse logistics. Put the clipboard into a HUD, etc.
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Some societies seem to focus more on individual success than community survival. I want to live in a society that is obsessed with creating a future where every member can thrive. Canada seems to be working a little harder at this than the
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
You're not generally wrong about tone. But: > He has stressed, for over half a century, the importance of the treatment and access of information, which turns out to be the top priority of the human race in the contemporary sphere
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
I would love to see more of the interview, with however much polish you feel appropriate! I will mildly argue the case for posting raw footage with a link I posted elsewhere, the raw footage of an interview with him almost 30 years ago: ht
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Hmm, HyperCard in the same list as Zope and node? Interesting. :-) The idea that JavaScript "won" is a little controversial to me. I think it's huge and important, but the world is still changing. Embedded Python goes places
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
I don't think Don meant that JS was the critical success factor for the Web. But that extensible scripting is crucial to the kind of Web Ted Nelson wanted in the first place. From my lived experience, the Web craze would be better term
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
Your preface to the UserLand thread was fantastic. "We haven't even INVENTED twitter yet, but I promise y'all will ENJOY the hell out of this series of comments-with-character-limits, but you're gonna do it IRONICALLY.&q
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
As long as a person doesn't pretend they've never been cruel to another person, it isn't hypocritical to call for more kindness. There is also a huge difference between using salty language to emphasize when something is ma
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by dvanduzer 9y ago
No, I understand the conversion factor is constant. The subthread started when someone thought it was necessary to point out that the log everyone was talking about was the natural log. Independent of what the actual problem is, say someo

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