lucifer

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by lucifer 17y ago
The problem is that we are given a single qualifier that is then conflated to represent a variety of reactions. Even just one additional qualifier would go a long way to disambiguate the community opinion.
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by lucifer 17y ago
" If someone makes factual errors in their post downvoting is a perfectly valid signal, for instance." Reply with the facts as you understand them.
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by lucifer 17y ago
"I wonder who Seneca thought was carefully arranging the universe so that everyone would had enough time if only they had used it properly." The Stoic thought process would simply reject the exceptionalism of Man and the maxim naturally f
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by lucifer 17y ago
Sex Pistols rebuttal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlx0-LLDE0
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Memory Barriers and JVM Concurrency(infoq.com)
1 points by lucifer 17y ago|0 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
But where is the innovation that would justify a patent lock-in [npi]? Is it still (really?) "non-obvious" that GUI elements may mimic physical devices? What is so innovative about a virtual toggle switch?
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by lucifer 17y ago
"I wonder how much the ability to persevere in the face of difficulty is affected by a persons genes?" That's character, and based on lingual evidence alone (which I'll take to be a summation of collective knowledge) "the development of c
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by lucifer 17y ago
"I agree when he says that trying to model your problem in a specification then write the software is doomed for failure." Is that a reasonable generalization? Here is a case where divergence between the model and "reality" would be catas
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by lucifer 17y ago
That's a fair point. But I just somehow don't see Steve Jobs sending that email. (He would have Woz hack the school PBX and have fun with the Professor. ;) So, yes, if you are a genius with a devilish charm, and have the stuff to back it
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by lucifer 17y ago
"xxxx, get your shit together. Getting a good job, working long hours, keeping your skills relevant, navigating the politics of an organization, finding a live/work balance…these are all really hard, xxxx. In contrast, respecting instituti
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by lucifer 17y ago
That is an isometric projection.
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://www.ubiubi.mobi/
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Boiling Frogs Post | home of the irate mintory(boilingfrogspost.com)
2 points by lucifer 17y ago|0 comments
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by lucifer 17y ago
Exactly: win win for all (except Big Brother). How about this as an alternative: Modify the plugin to route the GETs for the ad content through an anonymizer server.
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by lucifer 17y ago
No, this is precisely how we can force them to rethink their approach. I don't want Google to know my every move on the net. Its that simple. Beyond that, I couldn't care less if someone wants to stick useless bits on their content to ma
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by lucifer 17y ago
There is a very nice implementation of a concurrent skiplist map in Java collections: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/C...
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by lucifer 17y ago
"Try to reframe it as nerds vs the world or even better, nerds vs the normals and then maybe we can talk." 'I suggest' you consider Geek vs Nerd (or even more generally avant-garde vs outlier ) to recognize that the antagonism is int
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by lucifer 17y ago
http://viewfromthecenter.com/files/images/uroboros-color.jpg
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by lucifer 17y ago
That's not the winning attitude. We shouldn't have to beg to have our rights (back). Just remember how you got those rights in the first place.
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by lucifer 17y ago
Its basically a weasel strategy to keep "civil rights" on the books, yet practically emasculating those same rights in the courts. Welcome to global fascism. (Remember fascism means the union of the corporate and the state. Egomaniacs in f
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by lucifer 17y ago
You make an excellent point, but just curious if you are this concerned when "unnamed sources" are the basis for hysterical headlines that inevitably end in some far flung land getting bombed and invaded.
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by lucifer 17y ago
> you can rise above this challenge too, and become wise as well as gifted That's the essence of what ESR was saying.
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by lucifer 17y ago
"It's about challenging yourself. Becoming better. Training. When you can do stuff good, then you have to find stuff you can't do as well that is even harder." Good read and solid advice. But the title raised the expectation that the arti
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by lucifer 17y ago
Google is a pretty young company: can you cite a consistent pattern in their past that would argue they would never do so? (I can cite this: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-03/google-wants-u-s... ) How about this? http://appft.us
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by lucifer 17y ago
No, he's saying that Jobs has a fiduciary obligation to protect the interests of Apple, and that given the reality of tech business, he must play the patent game. Every other tech company does it; why hold Apple to an exceptional standard?
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by lucifer 17y ago
"SVN vs Git" An excellent comparative case in point that in my opinion actually undercuts what you are asserting. You do not lose features and functionality in that transition (where as noSQL is by design reductive), and further, Git is a
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by lucifer 17y ago
"the use of a proxy object to communicate between threads" WTF. How the hell do they get away with establishing non-obviousness for these things? (Wouldn't that cover OTP, Go channels, Java Channels, etc.?) I have no beef with Apple per s
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by lucifer 17y ago
I think the problem is that in a startup, the leads are typical code slingers who are very good with programming, competent with SQL, and manage basic DBA (hand held by documentation). Even if they are that rare startup that has heavy weigh
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by lucifer 17y ago
"[SQL deal for when] "Data consistency and reliability is a primary concern"." I'm curious: lets say you have a tweeter scale app that must satisfy the consistency and reliability as a primary requirement. Is there really a NoSQL soluti
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by lucifer 17y ago
Lets wait a few years until all the bells and whistles are bolted (in ad hoc, product specific manner (until someone invents ... a formal query language ;) in layers and tiers that take a NoSQL data store to a full blown database which

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