shawnhermans

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by shawnhermans 2mo ago
I recently started collecting Blu-ray because of thrift and second hand stores. In a few cases, I was able to purchase some of my all time favorite movies unopened in the original retail packaging for a dollar. Not to mention my local libra
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by shawnhermans 3mo ago
The Wii came out in 2006 and all my discs still work fine. But me thinks this missing the main point people are mad. People are fine with digital only for the most part, but they don't trust Sony to do the right thing. For instance, I
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by shawnhermans 4mo ago
I resisted learning SQL for years. When I finally got around to learning it, I kicked myself for not learning it sooner. Sure, it has its share of jank and every DB has its own flavor, but at the end of the day you can do insane amounts of
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by shawnhermans 4mo ago
What really gets to me is how big tech isn't even pretending anymore to serve society. They clearly feel superior to the rest of us and entitled to rule.
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by shawnhermans 4mo ago
Former Catholic. I left the church for a variety of reasons, one of which being the child abuse scandal. I am aware of the Catholic Church's long and often sordid history. What I am trying to say is there is no love lost between me and
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by shawnhermans 3y ago
I stopped commenting on HackerNews years ago because of that same phenomenon. It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with RMS. It isn't an excuse to act like a total asshole all the time.
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by shawnhermans 9y ago
This whole conversation is frustrating because it is boiling down to a stupid semantic debate. The author is claiming that people don't get paid to explore data, they get paid to find things. IMHO, this statement doesn't even ma
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
> Anyone who has tried to edit a page that's politically contentious, or that anyone cares about, knows that what's written depends almost completely on who has the most time and patience. [Citation Needed]
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
I'm really struggling to understand the issue. I understand the issue of conflict of interest when it comes to things like government contracts and public corporations. Here conflict of interest occurs because the person makes decisio
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
Warren Buffett has a solid reputation of making excellent investments. As long as the money returned a good investment, I wouldn't care at all.
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
This is a crude way of handling low performing employees. It measures time spent at one's desk and not productivity. A good manager shouldn't be worrying about how their employees spend their time but should be worrying about whet
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
The author makes a lot of statements but doesn't really back them up with solid facts or analysis. Consider the second reason of "Bitcoin will not end the need for trusted central parties" and claims that intermediaries do mo
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
You claim that Google could use personal photos of my kid eating ice cream to sell advertising? This seems directly against their terms of service found at http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ . > Some of our S
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
As others have pointed out, I don’t think Berkshire Hathaway and YC really compete in the same markets. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have some great words of wisdom on their approach to investing, but I am reminded of two of quotes in
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
When these types of things happen, I notice a strong "blame the victim" mentality. When Sony was hacked, I saw similar comments about how it serves them right for having bad security. Some people even go as far as to praise the
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
By what stretch of the imagination is TCP/IP a bad protocol? It is a 30+ year old standard that is still in wide use today. It has managed to scale from a few networked computers to billions. From an engineering perspective, TCP&#x2F
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
Technically, you are wrong. NSA has a signals intelligence side and an information assurance side. It does have two dual missions. You may argue that they haven't done a good job with the information assurance side of their mission,
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
From the first link: Very briefly, pointer events has 3 main drawbacks relative to the alternative: 1) Mobile-first web: Pointer events would likely never supplant touch events on the web (especially without support from Safari). Since tou
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
Back in my days in academia, I used LaTeX for math and physics. I liked that LaTeX separated out formatting of content from the display. It made it easier for me to focus on the getting the ideas and wording right and someone else worried
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
In most cases, I disagree with the point the author is trying to make. The author is arguing against the heavy restrictions Medium places on typesetting and layout. As a reader and author, I don't want the author to worry about these
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
Because it wouldn't accomplish anything productive. At best it makes her feel a little bit better, but at worst it backfires and burns some bridges that don't need to be burned.
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
That doesn't prove or disprove anything. The author assumes the simulation would have to simulate the entire known universe at the level of detail we observe. That is absurd. A simulation wouldn't need to simulate the entire uni
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
I haven't read the book, but I did read the EFF's brief ( https://www.eff.org/document/eff-amicus-brief-ibm-ats-claim ) which seems to rely a lot on the alleged Nazi connections. Based upon what I have read so
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
What does standardization, rules and responsibility have to do with being an engineer? Yes engineering does often involve a great deal of those things, but that is not the defining quality of being an engineer. Fundamentally, an engineer
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
It is called obstruction of justice.
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
What the author does not seem to grasp is security is fundamentally about managing risk. Consider his statement that "IT executives seem to break down into two categories: the 'early adopters' and the 'pause and thinker
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
Maybe I am wrong, but is the author just looking for a decimal type? Those exist in most major languages, right?
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by shawnhermans 12y ago
"Yo" is the pet rock of our generation.