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by extension 1y ago
> kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever Funny how intolerance for boredom is framed as the problem, rather than the boredom itself. > incarcerated students really want to learn They also really want to see the sky. It's goo
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by extension 9y ago
I think detention before trial is always unfair in principle, but likely unavoidable in practice. I would like to see the issue acknowledged and taken more seriously, but it's a tricky problem and I have no easy solutions to offer. Pra
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by extension 9y ago
Imprisoning people without trial, for predicted future crimes, is what's unfair. Letting an algorithm make the prediction instead of a judge only punctuates the injustice. What is a "fair" criteria to base this decision on?
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by extension 9y ago
It is, but I think the OC was suggesting that the old code can be kept around and used for automated regression meta-testing, which is an interesting idea.
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by extension 12y ago
Would be cool if it could detect which users had access to the document and switch to the most recently used of those to open the link. Not sure if that can be done securely though.
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by extension 14y ago
No standard library, nor even a standard class/object model. Lua is more of a language engine than a complete language. In that capacity, it is quite a success.
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by extension 14y ago
Java probably outperforms JRuby primarily because the JVM was designed and tuned to run Java. But in any case, if Twitter's architecture is truly scalable then any intrinsic slowness of the language shouldn't be a big problem, because they
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by extension 14y ago
Some guesses: 1) Their backend crashes constantly during normal use, so they have to shut it down when nobody is around to babysit. 2) The form submits directly to some poor soul's email, who then has to copy it onto a piece of paper and dr
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by extension 14y ago
It's YouTube's responsibility to implement a system that doesn't defraud people. The users getting ripped off have no direct relationship with the other users who are abusing the system, and no way to hold them accountable.
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by extension 14y ago
YouTube has become a Kafkaesque nightmare, at least for regular users. They recently opened up monetization to everyone, but if you actually try to use it, half your videos will go "under review" and you will be asked to provide proof that
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by extension 14y ago
For comparison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAB83Z1ydE
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by extension 14y ago
the standards body was forced to adopt h.264 The WHATWG did not adopt h.264 as a standard, nor any other codec.
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by extension 14y ago
So, if you want to cover up something bad you've done, just make sure you get charged with a crime, and the court will protect you? Strange system.
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by extension 14y ago
Yes, many people see it this way, while many see it as black and white in the other direction: CL doesn't own the content on their site (this is a fact) and thus has no say in how others use it (debatable). Mix black and white together, and
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by extension 14y ago
Not a lawyer, but I would be really surprised if that sort of copyright shenanigans held up against any legal challenge. I don't think you can sneak copyrighted stuff into non-copyrightable stuff in order to protect it.
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by extension 14y ago
According to his website, the police came to arrest him a few days ago, and if he hadn't been out at the time, he would be in jail now. So, this has gone beyond "possible charges". The church is dead serious about charging this man with the
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by extension 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote http://github.com/jedediah 13 years as a working programmer, 10 more as a kid hacker. Lots of web, some mobile, a little game dev, many platforms and languages. Also make music, comedy, stay fit, long walk
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by extension 14y ago
When we figure out how to do that, we won't want to call it AI anymore either. AI is human mental tasks that we haven't figured out how they work yet.
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by extension 14y ago
As with the web, it's not the shoehorned apps that are leading the charge on mobile. It's the totally new kinds of apps that didn't make sense until this platform came along.
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by extension 14y ago
Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.
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by extension 14y ago
Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.
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by extension 14y ago
From what we've seen, these cyberweapons take a long time to work their way behind enemy lines and must evolve as they do so. If it's hidden in a shoe then it's not really a useful cyberweapon.
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Security researcher Byron Sonne cleared of G20 bomb charges(cbc.ca)
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by extension 14y ago
Try binding shift-space to underscore. You'll start to feel much better about it.
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by extension 14y ago
So is this a clever split frame trick or did they actually spend an entire day doing that? EDIT: Actually, the lighting would be really difficult if it was a trick so I'm going to say it's real.
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by extension 14y ago
But what's the point of the "no consideration" bit? What's the point of two parties agreeing that they won't make a new deal later, when they can anyway?
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by extension 14y ago
Sites are allowed to use cookies for certain internal purposes without consent, and that is probably one of them.
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by extension 14y ago
As long as the inventor holds the patent, what stops them from making a new agreement with the assignee that allows non-defensive litigation?
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by extension 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but when I see a product that claims to do something seemingly impossible without explaining how it works , I tend to be highly suspicious that it doesn't, and I feel a little bit patronized. I think the main descriptio
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by extension 14y ago
If == is supposed to be a numeric comparison and you are supposed to use strcmp for strings then why does == (sometimes) work on strings? Make it always coerce to a number, or die trying. Overloading it as numeric or string compare depend

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