hagios

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by hagios 14y ago
> OTR is a brilliant and fascinating protocol, particularly because it gives people who communicate deniability, which PGP, for example, doesn't. This is a point which a lot of people seem to overlook. Sometimes, non-repudiation is des
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by hagios 14y ago
At the point where you're allowing negative values, 'histogram' is probably a misnomer. Allowing for negative values lets you track things like delta, jerk, and so on, which can in turn reveal interesting data which isn't immediately obvio
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by hagios 14y ago
This is pretty nifty; I'll be tinkering with this a bit for sure! Nice work.
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by hagios 14y ago
I think that it could be explained away in that Perl 6 was an experiment with enough major changes that it never took hold, and that Perl 7 was moving the language forward rather than waiting for Perl 6 to gain widespread adoption.
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by hagios 14y ago
The question of 'why' is an important one, indeed. For example, I suspect that the disparity in cooking and ceramics is not due to a [perceived] unwelcoming culture, or a [perceived] pervasive attitude that men who are entering the field a
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by hagios 14y ago
Can't hurt, but I suspect it won't help. I wrote in, and it took less than two minutes to receive a response which basically said "write to legal, not to us." Here's to hoping I'm wrong and they listen to unhappy people.
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by hagios 14y ago
Later quote from the article reads: "Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians."
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by hagios 14y ago
I've been hearing great things about Gandi pretty consistently from everyone who uses them. I'm in the process of moving my domains over to their service and so far (given, only a few months in) nothing but smooth sailing.
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by hagios 14y ago
This makes sense, given that water fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we face.
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by hagios 14y ago
This is absolutely true. It's almost always easier (and certainly less emotionally taxing) to just walk away entirely--especially when [the perception is that] the community will be either passive or against you after you act.
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by hagios 14y ago
There is a LOT of blatant sexism in the tech sector. The more specialized you get, the worse things get. It's a pretty well documented problem (e.g. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/sexual_harassm... for a collection of sec
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by hagios 14y ago
I don't think it's too hard to "get" Minecraft. The way it was originally explained to me (I purchased it in the beta) was "it's Lego." I played for a few weeks and it was good fun. What pulled me back into Minecraft was logic circuits.
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by hagios 14y ago
Nifty, thanks! Emailed to see if there's a way to earmark my donation for this cause (since it'd be separate from a general donation).
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by hagios 14y ago
I'd donate at least a couple hundred a year if the FSF/EFF did this exactly.
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by hagios 14y ago
In my case, this couldn't be more wrong. One needs only wave their hand in my periphery to get my attention--this encourages others to come to me to bounce ideas, get opinions, etc. Listening to music is definitely helpful to me when it co