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by jimfl 13y ago
If you work at McDonalds, you probably fed a soldier or a weapons designer, or CIA field operative. You'd have to drop out of productive society entirely to escape this dynamic.
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by jimfl 13y ago
Yahoo! engineers probably could do this. Yahoo! middle management not so much.
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by jimfl 14y ago
/usr/games/worms is the best shell ever.
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by jimfl 14y ago
This dynamic seems to give an advantage to corporations who have a systematic, always-full pipeline of patent applications. The barrier to entry for a single inventor for filing a patent is pretty large.
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by jimfl 14y ago
If nothing else, cyberspace can be delineated economically. In meatspace, the economic leverage of a traditional business is scarcity and the leverage of traditional parasitic distribution business is distance. The economics of cyberspace c
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by jimfl 14y ago
Security red flag: passwords are "secure enough."
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by jimfl 14y ago
Cornyn has been gunning for Holder for a little while, asking for his resignation earlier last year. http://www.google.com/search?q=cornyn+holder Edit: spelling
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by jimfl 14y ago
It would be cool to have an external source of quests/bounties, such as user stories to be implemented, trouble tickets to be addressed, etc.
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by jimfl 14y ago
I have a DVD player, and a broadband connection. Without getting into something (cable, set top streaming, torrents) for which there are investments in time, energy, and money, there is no legal way for me to watch the second season of game
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by jimfl 14y ago
"...a feature, not a company," is high praise. That's how it should be, as long as that feature can be combined with other such features to create new things. Very few users are well served by being locked into a single vendor's constellati
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by jimfl 14y ago
Except that every time they can, Amazon reduces their prices. Any investor who thinks that they will at some point increase margins doesn't listen to what Jeff Bezos says: we're good at running low margin businesses, and that's what we will
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by jimfl 14y ago
Part of preparation of this kind is merely getting comfortable with the idea of problem solving and coding in a high pressure environment, many otherwise excellent candidates eliminate themselves by choking at the whiteboard or collaborativ
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by jimfl 14y ago
Every line of code is a liability. Every comment is also a liability, especially in light of the fact that the comment may, over time, drift away from the code. I sometimes wish I had an IDE that would color nearby comments red (and prevent
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by jimfl 14y ago
One sign that you're lying to yourself: you're actualizing a vision.
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by jimfl 14y ago
Give up trying to measure people against some standard yardstick. It doesn't work in school, it doesn't work at work. People have a complex set of inter-relating competencies, and managing them is challenging work, not an exercise in stack
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by jimfl 14y ago
Good kids don't get detention.
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by jimfl 14y ago
Earlier this year, I removed the clock from my toolbar. If I need to know the time, I can hit my iPad, or do a 'date' command in a terminal window. If I know that I have an impending appointment, I will run a clock app on the iPad. I don't
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by jimfl 14y ago
For the XBox model to work, apps will have to cost $40.
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by jimfl 14y ago
The day before Saturday is always Friday. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/world/asia/samoa-to-skip-f...
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by jimfl 14y ago
https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/811
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by jimfl 14y ago
Seems like another section of a businesses disaster recovery plan should be the one on how to resume operations after a government raid.
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by jimfl 14y ago
Then there's probably an AbstractCPUBuilderFactory to go along with it.
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by jimfl 14y ago
App idea: Twitter client with a breathalyzer.
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by jimfl 14y ago
Is location, role, and current/desired comp sufficient to match employers with talent?
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by jimfl 14y ago
Rule of thumb: run test coverage. Consider deleting any code not covered before writing a test to cover it.
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by jimfl 15y ago
Typing skills.
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by jimfl 15y ago
Human beings are the worst sort of people.
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by jimfl 15y ago
So, you're saying they're pirates.
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by jimfl 15y ago
One interesting side effect of this tactic is that actual LOIC users may now have some plausible deniability, as they can claim they were duped into participation.
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by jimfl 15y ago
I have found Flipboard + the @newsyc20 Twitter feed to be an ideal way to read Hacker News.

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