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by msg 14y ago
irony: n. ... I see we also have different definitions of slap, slime, empathy, and manipulative.
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by msg 14y ago
My suggestion: read more of Rands' oeuvre before you ascribe manipulative psychopathy to three words in a title. Once you see that, You should have said "if you see that." Here's what my eye saw as I was scanning the HN news page: ...
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by msg 14y ago
Aw, usually programmer's day is my birthday, but it's a leap year. I'm turning 100000 tomorrow.
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by msg 14y ago
If the suspect had a screen lock, would that create a reasonable expectation of privacy? Would you have a problem with an officer opening a suspect's mail at the scene of an incident? Ripping paper is just as little effort as hitting button
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by msg 14y ago
Required listening: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/r... It's about a cop who felt that his station was becoming corrupt. So he started wearing a wire all the time and recorded evidence against his bosses. "I wi
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by msg 14y ago
What I use: GoogleMonkeyR - a Greasemonkey that breaks SERP ads and instant search and allows you to format them to your liking. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9310
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by msg 14y ago
Rainbows End: "No User-Serviceable Parts Within". Technology is depicted as black boxes all the way down. Cars shut down when driven outside of sanctioned roads. LARP content unavailable unless you have the rights. Reflections on Trusting T
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by msg 14y ago
It's similar to what we said when MJ died: we feel a kinship of spirit with someone who hacked. Instead of hacking technology, he hacked himself. And there's a certain question about how far you'll go to pursue perfection. I hold out hope t
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by msg 14y ago
If you guys have not read Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut (finished it this week), you should. Its about the evolution of the human species over the next million years turning on very specific events in Ecuador in the year 1986, and the common a
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by msg 14y ago
tl;dr: I think that agrees with what I was saying, for some definitions of the word "separated". The two activities credentialling and learning are strongly related, because testing can be a good way to give feedback during the learning pro
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by msg 14y ago
It's very simple, I think: If you need these courses for credentialing, you have to lock them down more. Get a credit card, require a payment, and issue a token. Validate the name and address (and maybe store a hash of the SSN), and don't a
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by msg 14y ago
Use debugging to form a mental model. When I'm trying to understand foreign code in less than enough time, I instrument it (almost always at inputs/outputs) and try to treat functions as black boxes. In an ideal world the black boxes would
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by msg 14y ago
An interesting litmus test. I caught the satire at 3 but double taked when I started wondering how this stuff would translate to my company of choice. True story, two weeks ago my team launched a feature and decreased latency. We hunted for
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by msg 14y ago
Interesting. I have shown my son the Logo turtle, but hopefully this will make even more sense to him. I was looking for a way to expose him to Processing but unsure where to begin. It's obvious now. We are home schooling and always looking
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by msg 14y ago
You prefer to make mathematical discoveries using automated theorem provers. It occurs to me that these would make hilarious fortune cookies.
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by msg 14y ago
Spirals, functional, ... Emacs. I haven't done such high math but analysis seems more like how I approach design problems (domains more unique, beauty and intuition for guidance). I have noticed that when each kernel is firm and can be clea
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by msg 14y ago
I don't think this is about "blaming the manufacturer" for the behavior of retailers. My anecdata is that they distributed their product to the gift shop of what is, overall, a kid and preteen museum. For adults, there is a King Tut exhibit
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by msg 14y ago
I was in the gift shop at the Pacific Science Center (Seattle) two months ago. The Buckyball demo video was playing on the corner of the sales counter, surrounded by the other science toys and kits that the museum sells. So I feel this clai
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Amazon Launches Textbook Rentals, 3P Sellers Dismayed(ecommercebytes.com)
1 points by msg 14y ago|0 comments
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by msg 14y ago
This is about a year old. I hadn't seen it. You can guess from the headline (because big developers/publishers destroy your soul and your projects). The mini profiles of games and people are sweet.
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by msg 14y ago
From the same chart: Extra Light (Olive Oil) - 468°F Maybe that's what GP was referring to. I would put the oils with higher smoke points in the chart closer to exotic territory (avocado, ghee, rice bran, tea seed). I buy my Extra Light OO
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by msg 14y ago
Nokia sold the Qt licensing business over a year ago. The remainder was in the offing as soon as the Windows deal went down. http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/07/nokia-sells-qt/
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by msg 14y ago
It's apt, as long as the locked down nature of iOS and the target hardware made it suck less.
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by msg 14y ago
I don't know the facts here. In author land, you may have sold the publication rights to the prior work to someone, and you may not have reprint/derivative works rights without a new deal. You can see rights clearances on the copyright page
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by msg 14y ago
I observed this with Google Music too. Nirvana is underrepresented in my music collection (1-2% tops) but I seem to hear multiple Nirvana songs every time I log in and shuffle all (4-6 hour period). I have wondered if Google Music is pickin
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by msg 14y ago
Stealing usually has the undertone that this is a zero-sum game. You have something, I steal it, you don't have it any more. The operative word is "take" and it implies the removal of a thing from the sphere of influence of its owner into t
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Portland's airport stripper convinces judge nudity was protest against TSA(oregonlive.com)
4 points by msg 14y ago|0 comments
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by msg 14y ago
I understand he wasn't actually armed when he went in. Only when he returned through the emergency exit. Hopefully people will think ahead far enough to downplay the effectiveness of such security measures.
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by msg 14y ago
I flagged you. Sorry, this just looks like flamebait/trolling to me. If you want to believe I'm a Liberal Elite silencing your "discourse" I guess I can't convince you otherwise.
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by msg 14y ago
Wizard... is about to die The interesting point: the couponing market is saturated, so Groupon must grow into new markets or find new products for its existing systems and software. I wouldn't bet on this kind of metamorphosis. A slow death

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