AgentConundrum

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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
It appears to be a British term[1], which makes sense for The Economist as it's based in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_article
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> I would donate money to the "anti-Lamar-Smith" fund. Perhaps we could fund a couple billboards in his area. This happened. "Reddit's" Political Action Committee, "Test Pac", was raising funds to put billboards all over his district[
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I think some of the downvotes you got are from people who just didn't read the whole comment. After your first sentence, I wanted to downvote you too. It wasn't until the last line that I was sure you were being sarcastic, so I can understa
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> Why does the other page have the original likes? Because Facebook doesn't know how to deal with changes to pages. Seriously. Facebook has unilaterally changed my affiliations on me at least twice. There are probably others that have c
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
So does this mean that there will be ongoing development in the 1.9 line which will add new features available in the 2.0 line, or is this just the end of the line for IE <= 8? The blog seems to imply the latter, and that 1.9.x is only
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
You have to fight power with power. No, he probably couldn't have done this without gaining traction using traditional means, but so what? He's using the power he's gained in that system as leverage to improve the system. He's in a position
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> Craigslist is in major need of disruption. I rarely hear anyone mention Craigslist in Canada. We have Kijiji [1] but its UI isn't significantly different than that of Craigslist. The home page is essentially just another long list of
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
You're likely talking about the general case, not the OP, but I'd just like to point out that the submitter of the bug report was jumping from 5.1.6 to 5.3.1 (not to mention changing from Solaris to Red Hat, which could have its own issues)
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> almost no one was using their Public folder I almost exclusively use my public folder. I mean, I keep things in other folders as well, but my main use case is typically "I want to send this file to $friend, so I'll just save it in m
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Is anyone else getting a message that "sathish@DOMAIN.com has been unsubscribed from future notifications."? (Redacted just in case.) There's a notification at the top of the page for me with that message, but it didn't appear in Chrome. Se
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I didn't say I didn't understand your point. I get where you're coming from, and I don't necessarily disagree. I just didn't like the sarcastic dismissal of an entire profession.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> Because blogging and marketing is so very tough? I agree with the rest of your comment, to an extent, but I strongly disagree with this line. The act of blogging is easy, sure - it's just typing. The act of marketing, or at least so
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I have no idea. I thought they were, but your comment made be do some really naive analysis: For a typical password, each character can be one of around 92 characters, depending on what rules are in place - 26 lowercase letters, 26 uppercas
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Good to know. I had no idea what it was, but it looked more legit than the OP. Wikipedia seemed to back up the idea that it was a proper source, so I linked it.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Here's a link from RT.com (Russia Today): https://rt.com/news/monsanto-brazil-seed-soy-908/ I have no idea if they're trustworthy either, but Wikipedia[1] had this to say about them: > RT is the second most-watched foreign news channe
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I think I answered my own question, but I'll ask anyway - why does memory intensiveness matter?
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Not a Linode. Just on your own machine. You can run your own VM with something like VirtualBox. Just download the install iso for the Linux you want, register it as a CD/DVD in VirtualBox, turn on the VM, and away you go. It's dead simple.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Why not just create a VM?
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> that has no bearing on programming whatsoever I have no objection to the rest of your comment, but I do wonder about the part I quoted. Hacker News isn't just, or even primarily, about programming, and articles shouldn't be judged b
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I was referring to Facebook with my comment, not Diablo 3. Facebook massages the data to allow you to login even if you have caps lock on, so "pASSWORD" works when your password is "Password", or if, e.g., your phone capitalizes the first c
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
They would only have to store a single hash - the proper password. When you log in to Facebook, they hash the password you gave them and try that. If it fails, they modify the password you gave them, reversing the case on all letters (and p
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> - Too long domain name (with some skills and little money, a great 4-letter dot com is a no brainer) They do have ddg.gg as a short alias to the full domain, though that doesn't address the .com suggestion at all. For that, they als
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> It's similar to the copout line included in email marketing when companies know their contact lists are spurious, but they want to err on the side of self-interest by emailing you anyway: "if you received this email by accident, plea
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
The article he's talking about[1] is linked from this post, literally within the first sentence. More generally, Scott Hanselman is known, to me anyway, mostly as a blogger and host of the This Developer's Life podcast[2] with Rob Conery. H
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
That might sound too overly forceful to come off as human and casual. I can definitely see it working for someone like ThinkGeek though.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I remember when the video came out, the opt-in emailing was a huge deal, and he commented on the response he got to that in pretty much every interview I read from him on the subject. I also opted-in to his mailings, partly because it was o
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
s/a choice/an added bonus/ You get the audio in addition to the video now, whether you buy it now or in the future. Stand up guy.
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Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA) calls for the resignation of TSA head John Pistole(broun.house.gov)
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> otherwise, you'll pursue a law suit IANAL and this isn't legal advice, but I want to comment on your wording. You should word the "threat" as saying that you may pursue a lawsuit, not you will . The difference is really subtle to
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> they speak as if there is some entity or organization There is. It's a group calling itself "Anonymous", not just an anonymous group, though they are that as well. "Organization" might be a bit too strong of a word to describe them

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