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by BrandonM 15y ago
The article says that it's a class action suit. Law firms usually take those on for a share of the punitive damages, with no cost up front.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I'm having the same problem. I think it's a bad idea to use Facebook libraries for critical functionality. A lot of people (myself included) block Facebook resources from loading on external sites to decrease their ability to track user act
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The problem with pop psychology is that it often is not quite right. A half dozen decades ago, the "new idea" was that kids should not be beaten, but encouraged (spare the rod and spoil the child). In the last decade or two, we've learned
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Your version looks like a java/C# style to me. It's not really necessary to create a class for this.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Today's XKCD ( http://xkcd.com/978/ ) led me to this interesting and well-articulated blog post regarding the synthesis of "facts" via a Wikipedia-"reliable source" closed loop.
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Truths, half-truths and Wikipedia: Journalists play with loose facts [2007](theregister.co.uk)
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I think he actually said that the walls were to separate those who want it badly enough from those who don't. The point is not just that obstacles test you, but that they give you opportunity because others who want it less will give up and
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It always confuses me when I don't see people take pennies out of the change tray at gas stations; it's free money, just sitting there. It confuses me when people pay to ride the bus when they're so unlikely to get caught not paying. It c
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I wish this said "Ten recent Google search algorithm changes". When I clicked the link, I was anticipating to read an intellectual article related to relatively recent innovations to computational algorithms.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
As a former poker player, the problem here is very clear. Let's say there is $100 in the pot, and it's going to cost $50 for me to call and be all-in. I'm paying $50 to win a total of $150. That means that I need to have a 1/3 chance of win
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Like it or not, I think this is the future of human labor. As robots take over manufacturing (we're well on our way in the US) and other processes continue to be automated, we're left with the dilemma of finding productive work for displace
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I totally agree, except that I tend to use [y] to archive, since it also does the "right thing" from views other than the Inbox (e.g. removing label "Todo" from selected emails when viewing all emails with label "Todo"). I also use [ and ]
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I ordered The Mythical Man-Month a year or two ago. This is something of a blasphemous statement on Hacker News, but for me the book was a letdown. It felt like a rehash of ideas that I already knew from reading Paul Graham's essays, ot
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I'm pretty sure donohoe was being sarcastic. Maybe someday we'll learn that sarcasm is rarely an insightful addition to a discussion.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
While "meditating" one night, I had nearly the opposite perception. I realized that time is just one long stretch, and our convention of splitting it up into week s, month s, and year s is just a way to allow us to repeat the same existe
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Thinking back to when I was a kid, just about anything was fun. I remember categorizing my entire basketball collection in a spreadsheet, managing my parents' antique shop inventory, building bookshelves and birdhouses, putting together a
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by BrandonM 15y ago
This is inaccurate, isn't it? The whole point of working in teams is to share files. Any file that is being shared with everyone is being counted against everyone's space. At least that's my understanding of how Dropbox works based on shari
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I thought of this, too. This submission seems like a lesser rehashing of this classic.
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Are you going to argue that it is? Is GRUB merely a "tool" for booting your computer? Is libc a "tool" for exposing OS-provided functionality to software? Is GNOME a GUI "tool"?
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by BrandonM 15y ago
I wasn't referring to the name GNU/Linux ; I was specifically refuting the comment I quoted. The funny thing is that the comment effectively justifies RMS's insistence on using GNU/Linux . Because so many refer to the entire distribution
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> What I found interesting on reading the 'rider' is that he still refers to the GNU operating system as though it is in daily use. I've yet to see a HURD based system do anything useful in production but half the world wide web seems
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Having said that, it is a lot easier to sell a cool looking $250 gadget than asking someone to spend $5,000 to modify their home. I think a little creativity in the payment model could help this problem a lot. The whole point of the s
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Building managers typically get free or cheap housing and make pretty good income, one way or another. Architects, plumbers, contractors, and others involved in building and maintaining offices don't do bad, either. These jobs are in high d
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> Further, this data does not include dividends, capital gains or interest. Should be fairly obvious which end of the curve gets the lion's share of that. But it also doesn't include unreported income, public grants, welfare, food assis
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Thanks for the informative reply and the excellent blog post!
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In the US unlimited messaging typically means just that. And thankfully so, because about a year ago my teenage brother was on my plan and managed to send/receive 16,000 texts in a single month.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
> For instance, in C the * character is used both to declare a pointer and to dereference one and they can be stacked to dereference nested structures. This problem can be solved by thinking of * as always dereferencing a pointer.
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by BrandonM 15y ago
Louis CK (you might know him from the popular "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy" video) frequently appears on Opie & Anthony. He makes a similar point regarding chains driving out local stores then closing up shop in this show:
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Hello, world(secure.wikimedia.org)
1 points by BrandonM 15y ago|0 comments
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Dabbling in the Cryptographic World--A Story [Ritchie on Bob Morris](cm.bell-labs.com)
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