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by Afforess 11y ago
I agree. I feel the overpowering urge, when asked this sort of basic interview question, to shout back "WHY?". What does inverting a binary tree have to do with software engineering, at all? Google (and other interviewers) might
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by Afforess 11y ago
What outcomes do actions like this encourage? Well, it encourages controversial writers to stay in the shadows, hide their real identities, lest the vigilante mobs find them. This outcome also encourages people in general to say less, creat
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by Afforess 11y ago
> Couldn't the other solution be less greed on the part of business owners? Greed has very little to do with the problem. If one business pays their employees slightly less, and gains an edge over the competition by doing so, it fo
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by Afforess 11y ago
There are other, valid reasons to not run a public access point. Not wanting neighbors to steal your bandwidth, run a TOR node off it, or host illegal content, for example. All of these activities could get you removed from your ISP, and ev
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by Afforess 11y ago
Yes, they have won. It is a sad fact, but true.
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by Afforess 11y ago
I don't blog because I have found the internet is too hateful, too quick to judge, and too eager to bring torches and pitchforks. I have a quiet, calm, low-stress life and I can not justify giving up those for free, just to share a few
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by Afforess 12y ago
I see no one else has mentioned another, even more obvious solution. Retire . With the sky-high salaries it is possible to earn as a software engineer, it should be straightforward (not easy, but still straightforward nonetheless), to save
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by Afforess 12y ago
I don't think mailing lists have a future. There is no new adoption of mailing lists, newer developers (those under 30) use other forums for communication (stackoverflow, github, etc) and mailing lists will eventually just die out as t
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by Afforess 12y ago
It exists because the original settlers of America were persecuted for their religious beliefs. The Puritans were essentially ostracized from mainline Anglican Christianity. The new government didn't want religious persecution to happe
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by Afforess 12y ago
I guess call me crazy, but I really enjoy chores. They aren't always pleasent, but they are a diversion. I can listen to NPR podcasts while grocery shopping. I catch up on the "Stuff you should know" podcast while cleaning an
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by Afforess 12y ago
> In the specific case of Comcast and Time Warner, it is difficult to predict exactly how much additional leverage this will create, but as it turns out, these two ISPs are already in markets where they are not competing with one another
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by Afforess 12y ago
It has nothing to do with a fascination with doctors and everything to do with a fascination with death. Death today in first world countries is so far removed from what death ought to be, that it's almost unrecognizable. Dying in a st
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by Afforess 12y ago
Sure. I do know that my address and name are out there. But security isn't about perfect protection. If there was such a thing as perfect defenses, we wouldn't need security. Shredding documents with my personal details is about s
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by Afforess 12y ago
I don't have a landline. I can't imagine my cell # is in a public phone directory.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Yeah. This is why I shred any document with my name on it. If it's junk mail and has my name, it's shredded. If it's anything, and it's got my name on it anywhere, it's shredded. You can't be too paranoid.
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by Afforess 12y ago
You are thinking of iodine. http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree with a lot of this. The Chinese value the appearance of working hard, not actual hard work. Cheating among Chinese students is pandemic. Chinese companies regularly publish misleading or outright fraudulent earning statements and
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by Afforess 12y ago
I was under the impression µBlock was a fork of uMatrix, made simpler for users.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Most businesses survive on slim profit margins. Most businesses are barely viable. This is why minor changes in the availability of credit, for example, can cause a recession.
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by Afforess 12y ago
It's not the technology nor the porn. It's the stress and work hours. Japanese work very long hours, and very hard jobs. High stress and very little free time create exhausted people who do not have time to do anything but attempt
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by Afforess 12y ago
Agreed. I think the Snowden revelations have harmed the NSA's reputation to the point where most people on HN just assume NSA is a bond-level villain. The NSA serves a purpose, they are meant to be prepared offensively and defensively
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by Afforess 12y ago
I dunno, the fact that Sprint still offers (real) Unlimited data plans in the US is the best marketing they have ever done in my book.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Nice attempt to cover up your blatant age discrimination.
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by Afforess 12y ago
> though the aix guys I worked with were convinced it was game changing I was talking to an ibmer a while ago and AIX was mentioned. We agreed the platform had technical merits, and on a pure platform level was superior to x32/x64
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by Afforess 12y ago
Case insensitivity only makes sense dealing with ASCII. Once you allow files and directory names with unicode characters, case insensitivity no longer makes any sense.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Complaining about downvotes is the surest method of accumulating more. It's an observation I've made over the years, not an indictment of you.
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HTTP is not elegant. I can disprove its elegance with one word: referer [sic]
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by Afforess 12y ago
I am really rather tired of the appeal to simplicity that is often made in language design. Simplicity is not a virtue in a programming language. Consistency is a virtue, but not simplicity. Simplicity is a tradeoff that takes away power a
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by Afforess 12y ago
I think the biggest draw for Ayn Rand and her works is that there are very few "role models" for fiscal conservatives in today's political environment. Most Republicans are neo-conservative warhawks that only pay lip-service
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by Afforess 12y ago
> In the very final couple of paragraphs he attempts to say that because large scale aid programs don't work then human rights treaties are "an act of hubris". The author explained why large scale aid programs don't

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