jaybill

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Drone Swarms: Uncomfortably Plausible(silencingmachine.org)
17 points by jaybill 4mo ago|9 comments
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by jaybill 13y ago
The author of the article wrote it using words. He didn't make a video or draw a picture, because words were the best way for him to communicate with other humans. For some reason, he wants a different way to communicate with machines,
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by jaybill 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. I thought the linked article seemed to be making a lot of dubious assumptions, but didn't have the references handy.
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by jaybill 14y ago
And it STILL doesn't play DVDs without additional software! sigh
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by jaybill 14y ago
This is going to sound arrogant and troll-y, but I assure you it isn't. I don't look. When I want a new job, I stop ignoring recruiters and wait to see what comes along. I've never waited more than a few days to have a pile of interesting o
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Sawsij: A lightweight web framework in Go(sawsij.com)
2 points by jaybill 14y ago|0 comments
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What Developers Mean: a Guide for Project Managers(jayblog.jaybill.com)
1 points by jaybill 14y ago|0 comments
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by jaybill 14y ago
That is quite a leap of logic based on a single correlation.
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by jaybill 14y ago
Precious $DIETY, take my $APPENDAGE. Please let the next version of OWA look like this.
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by jaybill 14y ago
Being Dutch is not an excuse for saying terrible things about who should and should not have children. People are suffering. Have some respect.
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by jaybill 14y ago
This isn't "running Java on iOS". This is cross-compiling Java to Objective C, the exact same way that other toolkits like MonoTouch, Titanium and RubyMotion do it. The difference is important. You can use this toolkit to target iOS from Ja
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by jaybill 14y ago
This ought to be front and center on their site. What you wrote there turned a bunch of meaningless buzzwords into a useful product description. I'm now actually interested in the product. Well done!
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by jaybill 14y ago
I don't know. This is essentially saying that the way to solve problems is to add additional layers of abstraction. If you want to see a bunch of examples of why that's a bad idea, take a look at any J2EE application. RAPHT ( https://github
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by jaybill 14y ago
I'm not sure why, but I find the term "for the masses" horribly insulting and elitist. It instantly turns me off on whatever it is you're talking about and tells me absolutely nothing about the product other than you think your target marke
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by jaybill 14y ago
How is that a fallacy? I think the fact that private keys have been leaked in the past demonstrates that they will be leaked in the future.
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by jaybill 14y ago
I was with you right up until you called everyone who doesn't do it your way a retard.
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by jaybill 14y ago
Two part answer. First, I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. Second, though, is that I don't think it matters. You need to find something you like to do and then get someone to pay you to do it. If you don't do that, th
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by jaybill 14y ago
I think that really depends on your goals. If your goal is to bash out a web application and get a startup off the ground, you ought to learn something that is tailored to doing that. Ruby on Rails and Django(Python) aren't bad choices. I'd
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by jaybill 14y ago
What kind of "beginner"? If you mean someone who has never programmed before, Go is much simpler to learn than C and makes a lot more sense. If you mean someone that is a programmer and hasn't used go before, I can tell you I went from "nev
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by jaybill 14y ago
I am not sure you can make the claim that cooperation and mutual aid are "principles that life on earth has found to be beneficial", nor would you find a large body of either biologists or anthropologists rushing in to support said claim. L
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by jaybill 14y ago
Not to sound like a jerk, but I would really like to see the math you used to determine that learning one text editor versus another increases your earning potential.
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by jaybill 14y ago
For word breaks? Why are they not important?
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by jaybill 14y ago
I didn't say I picked consecutive words. You'd be right otherwise, though.
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by jaybill 14y ago
I get annoyed when I can't use spaces, because my general password strategy is to click my link bar shortcut to Random Wikipedia Page, pick five or six words and use that as my password. Easy to remember, hard to guess, even harder to brute
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by jaybill 14y ago
I think it's probably more on the side of "sad", considering the way I did it. No mods. I wrote a little android app that you could put the words and number of correct letters each try into and it would shorten the list each time you did. A
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by jaybill 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the password guesser I wrote to give me passwords on terminals in Fallout 3 would easily give me these passwords.
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by jaybill 14y ago
I second your thoughts about Go. Much like the author of the post, I was really tired of Java and all the bloat that went with doing most things. I was going to get back into C and I had even blown the dust off my K&R. By random coincid
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by jaybill 14y ago
Oh, dear $DEITY, I remember that. Getting the wireless to work meant spending the whole weekend recompiling the kernel and crossing your fingers.
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by jaybill 14y ago
When I first read that you were a "long time linux user" that started with it in 2004, I chuckled, then I realized that 2004 was actually six years ago (a totally legit "long time") and that I am really old . :) I'll give you that the wa
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by jaybill 14y ago
I'm not sure who this post is aimed at. I hope it wasn't developers, for his sake. He's basically saying that a) he's only interested in hiring dim people and b) smart people moody and easily bored. Good luck recruiting people with that p

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