lurker14

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by lurker14 13y ago
Is coderwall some sort of troll site, like the the Swedish Lemon Angels recipe in How to Play With Your Food? I keep seeing bad advice posted there and popping up on HN.
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by lurker14 13y ago
> I've been very hard on Flat UI in the past (and still dislike extreme Flat UI) but I've decided to embrace it after-- --after Apple declared it to be in style. No, that's not what you meant, but it rings so true in the tech buzzospher
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by lurker14 13y ago
cue-cat didn't retail for $1500
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by lurker14 13y ago
Wouldn't public safety be better served if the police granted him grand-jury-style immunity from "using his statements as evidence" in exchange for getting information about other bombs?
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by lurker14 13y ago
If they cared so much about public safety, they should be willing to disregard a bit of testimony to get it. It's insane that confessions are admissible at all really, since they are almost always false.
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by lurker14 13y ago
Indeed. " The commitment to this rule is so strong that the Supreme Court has recognized only one exception to the Miranda rule" So, not much of a commitment at all. I am so committed to my wife that I only recognize one exception to my mar
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by lurker14 13y ago
Yahoo engineers may have verified that none of the users of these products have a vacation scheduled in Yahoo Calendar, which will presumably be the last property to shut down, for this reason.
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by lurker14 13y ago
Interesting that it has a Linguistics section, as in the International Linguistics Olympiad, but not seen on a modern SAT or high school classroom. http://www.ioling.org/problems/samples/ I suppose that morphed in to the "logic puzzles" f
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by lurker14 13y ago
It would be interesting if someone other than the author submitter had that opinion. Nice astroturf attempt, though, alexwg/alexvr.
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by lurker14 13y ago
"Keep your options open" is also called "analysis paralysis" when it is unwise.
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by lurker14 13y ago
Today's effort was actual security.
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by lurker14 13y ago
What's the maximum reasonable spend to catch a bomber, for an efficient force? $1M? $100k? A large part of the expense was due to the successful effort to apprehend him without killing him or bystanders. Tweets aren't precisely geolocated,
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by lurker14 13y ago
Simple experiment. Make a website with 3 buttons, and invite 10K people to visit. Make strong assurances of anonymity: and independent 3rd party will select the participants, logs will be destroyed, etc: * Bill my credit card $20, donate to
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by lurker14 13y ago
People who use the terms "champagne socialist" or "bleeding heart liberal" as insults are fellow rich people who feel socially threatened by the people they insult.
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by lurker14 13y ago
Before when? Maybe a few years ago was better. But 50 years? 100? No way.
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by lurker14 13y ago
And the rest of us are well within our rights to not tolerate those people.
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by lurker14 13y ago
No one is immune to everything forever -- not even billionaire Steve Jobs. your friend wasn't poor before his seizure, but the seizure knocked him down. And of course several countries in the world do provide for the disabled. Even the US p
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by lurker14 13y ago
Google Groups website is broken, so that thread is not readable.
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by lurker14 13y ago
2. https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonr...
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by lurker14 13y ago
Haiku Challenges Expectation of Cadence Counting Syllables
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by lurker14 13y ago
Incorrect example. Your $4000 hand-carved peruvian phone was worth that, since you bought it.
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by lurker14 13y ago
Changing a boy's name to Sue, however, is known to lead to very positive outcomes. There was even a poem/song written about it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Google Now shows unsolicited restaurant recommendations. They might not be paid (I don't know), but they are certainly ads.
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by lurker14 14y ago
My Chromebook and Nexus are full of ads.
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by lurker14 14y ago
If they are hearing the same complaints murmured (muted, more anonymized and filtered) inside the company, but saying, "whatevs, they'll stay for the paycheck", and people start walking away from the paycheck and announcing it, it might sin
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by lurker14 14y ago
Why does "sudo -k" still exist, when it has obvious risks and is superseded by "sudo -K". Why does 'sudo -k' not check to see if a timestamp exists, and avoid creating one if it doesn't yet exist?
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by lurker14 14y ago
That's what parent said.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I am curious if all the "free-then-ads" defenders in this thread are (a) purveyors of "free-then-ads" businesses defending their business. (b) young or jaded people who really have grown accustomed to this tactic Option (a) is Annoying, un
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by lurker14 14y ago
Amazon really doesn't have any competitors in the mail order business. Any would-be competitors are partners/clients.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Right, that's what "bait and switch" means.

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