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by Blahah 13y ago
I usually hear 'ore' from people who learned their Japanese by watching shonen anime. Even outside of a business meeting, in normal conversation, it would be offensive to most people I think.
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by Blahah 13y ago
No, my argument is not akin to that because piracy is not akin to theft. Downloading the beta from a public URL is not depriving Github of anything or breaking anything of theirs, whereas if I broke a window to steal something I've lef
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by Blahah 13y ago
also, why 'open'? It's asynchronous with the bash session, so the mv will fail.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Not sure about that - if it's on a publicly accessible URL on a site designed to generate public interest, it's their own fault it got out.
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by Blahah 13y ago
confirmed, works for me too
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by Blahah 13y ago
They only come out at night. Or, in this case, during the daytime.
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How can we measure quality, not privilege?(blahah.net)
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by Blahah 13y ago
At that age most babies are experts at getting their parents to do everything for them...
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by Blahah 13y ago
Yup, I came here to say this.
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by Blahah 13y ago
As someone who did absolutely nothing at school except get in (sometimes very serious) trouble, I find this astonishing. I didn't even go to university for 4 years after school, I just got a menial job. Then when I'd figured out w
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by Blahah 13y ago
The Hacker in Hacker News refers to the subculture, not specifically to security. See http://hack.org/faq-hacker.html .
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by Blahah 13y ago
Well, then I agree in abstract. I'm not suggesting we disrupt publishing, or try to save it. We (loosely the open science movement) are trying to fix our own field. Publishers serve a purpose, but some of what they do is harming us. We
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by Blahah 13y ago
Crucially, here the rasterised scan is made by the publishers, and whoever runs the analysis software is allowed to access the digital image.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Of course the world is more complicated than that - but just saying it's more complicated is not a constructive contribution. We can talk about problems we perceive and try to solve them, or we can sit around saying things are complica
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by Blahah 13y ago
John Baez's excellent Azimuth project has a really good summary of current scientific understanding of mass extinction events: http://www.azimuthproject.org/azimuth/show/Extinction .
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by Blahah 13y ago
I agree with all your analysis. In this case the presentation is discarded and, as I see it, only the facts are retained. For example in parsing chemical structure diagrams what is recorded are things like the number of atoms in a section o
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by Blahah 13y ago
It's all FOSS: https://bitbucket.org/petermr https://bitbucket.org/petermr/imageanalysis
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by Blahah 13y ago
Altmetrics is a growing field - I think in the next couple of years we will have an ecosystem of tools (like impactstory.org, altmetric.com) much better and more rounded than impact factors. I also think impact factors are poisonous in thei
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by Blahah 13y ago
They theoretically could play this role, but others are much better at it. These companies are structured to exploit scientists and the public, not to enable them. Innovation is stifled both within and without. We're much better off tu
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by Blahah 13y ago
Edited to be more specific - it's only the publishers who are systematically restricting knowledge that are at fault. But no matter where they've come from, what they are doing now is holding humanity back on a massive scale.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Peter Murray Rust (author of this blog post) is a really great man. He's been a tireless advocate for dismantling privelege and setting knowledge free for several decades. I'm proud to say he's becoming a sort of mentor to me
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by Blahah 13y ago
Ouch! Any idea which firewall service/software they use?
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by Blahah 13y ago
A couple of points: 1. that advert right next to the entry field is very distracting - can you put it somewhere that doesn't interfere with using the app? 2. you don't say anywhere that what this is an anagram solver. It took me
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by Blahah 13y ago
The competitors don't allow you to benchmark their services, so while you can benchmark your own product you can't compare it to others. For example, from the Alchemy API: YOU MAY NOT ACCESS THE SERVICES FOR PURPOSES OF MONITORING
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by Blahah 13y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback - I've added issues to our tracker. We're already quite far down the single page app route. It does have some drawbacks, but has also allowed us to develop pretty fast and enables some planned fea
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by Blahah 13y ago
We're building a site, http://solvers.io , to enable projects that improve the world to recruit highly skilled volunteers. Adelante Africa is a great fit - we'd love you to post to Solvers and we'll try to put some
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by Blahah 13y ago
/usr/bin/time is really useful, because it has the-v flag which tells you memory and processor usage.
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by Blahah 13y ago
By far the most interesting 'flappy bird' post so far.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Yeah, upon reviewing the data (as opposed to my own mental impression of these countries' wealth sources) it doesn't hold up very well.
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by Blahah 13y ago
Perhaps I'm wrong about the oil-wealth thesis. Re healthcare: I was talking about Scandinavian and Canadian systems. Government pays the cost but private companies provide the service. Contrasted to the UK where government provides the

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