ColinDabritz

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by ColinDabritz 10y ago
Alfie Kohn has some good commentary on the topic of 'grit' as an educational philosophy: http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/downside-grit/ It's not just overrated, it can be actively harmful. He goes
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by ColinDabritz 10y ago
Certainly, but the borders aren't so obvious to me. Is any language going to last 100 years without changing so much it feels 'nothing like' it's origin point? Even if it hasn't changed in name, it may have changed
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by ColinDabritz 10y ago
Regarding LISP, perhaps the perspective that does count LISP and its descendants as one ongoing evolution of a similar language family is the same perspective that will allow that lineage to last 100 years? I feel that the systems that chan
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by ColinDabritz 10y ago
Perhaps if the feature requires continuous observation by the driver, it should require a continuous 'hold' of the button to operate?
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by ColinDabritz 10y ago
On the editing experience side, OmniSharp brings a richer text-editing experience to dot net development on many existing platforms and editors, including command line classics like emacs and vim. http://www.omnisharp.net/
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I had a similar reaction. I like the joke the site is making, it's well done. I had a good laugh the first time I saw it, and I've shared it with friends. Jokes are often huge exaggerations though. QR Codes definitely have valid u
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Wow, those videos are mesmerizing. Impressive work, feels like the future!
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I ran across a related issue working on a project that I think helped me understand the broader issue better. I'll relate it here and see if it helps. We had user search functionality for an internal business application. We allowed se
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Oh, I agree. I don't mean that the weakness created the vulnerability entirely, thank you for clarifying. I appreciate the excellent research and security investigation done here. It was excellently articulated and presented, and we ne
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
From the article: "For the third time in a year, a major Internet security vulnerability has resulted from the way cryptography was weakened by U.S. government policies that restricted exporting strong cryptography until the late 1990s
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I love these insights, they have strong echoes of "A Mathematicians Lament" by Paul Lockhart, another excellent essay on the topic. https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.... [PDF]
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I enjoyed the article, although I disagreed on some minor points, some of the broad strokes seem solid to me. Very thought provoking. I think it's interesting to contrast the thrust of the article with Ward Cunningham's original d
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This feature applies to other models, but without 3D-Touch it is activated with a two-finger scroll across the keyboard area. Very handy. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/06/11/first-look-ios-9s-...
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This is an amazing insight into the nature of programming. It feels right to me, and will help me explain what I do to others. I feel privileged to live in an era where many pioneers of our field are still with us. I feel the passing of tha
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I love that the context makes "power law" sounds like anti-competitive regulation, rather than a natural phenomenon.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I think they are helpful. Sure, they are not especially detailed or accurate, but the point of the 'micromort' is to give some broader context to the scale of the risk to aid in understanding. Much like the "banana" is a
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It's $5 for the cable, but you could potentially damage the USB C port on a laptop, and some rather expensive fruit branded laptops now charge solely via the USB C port, which you could argue destroyed the value of the laptop. That sou
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Neat! That's very good handling of "as intended". Being explicit about it, having a warning phase, then moving to "more correct" to match the intent, and missed edge cases.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I believe this refers to the difference between pre 1.0 churn as the language was being initially designed, and post 1.0 stability. Before, existing code was frequently broken by new changes as the language evolved. Now you should generally
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
I feel having people near this statue pause to reflect on the nature of art and beauty is some of the best use of my tax dollars in that area.
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Using rhyme and meter to remember things has a rich history, back to the epic poems. The phrasing of the title made me think of an Onion article along the lines of: They found the perfect password, it's '42Lemons?' and everyo
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
The basic cat scenario isn't "interesting" yet, you're right, it's just "we don't know." Importantly you would expect this result even if the cat was observed. You'd still observe a dead cat at t
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
It seems like its an important thing to be able to express. They are extending their trust to the new CA. I believe this information is available to clients if they wanted to choose to reject cross signing. You're right that this sort
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
XKCD had a wonderful color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ Plenty of good info there, but especially scrolling down to the color chart: http://imgs.xkcd.com/
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Yes, I don't think it's any exaggeration when they say that the TPP agreement will kill people. Medicine vital to survival will be priced out of reach of some of the less fortunate, and some of them will die. This bill is not safe
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This definitely feels like a political end run, going back on humanitarian progress we've recently made such as on generic drugs. Treaties as a way around that pesky will-of-the-people thing. "Oh we can't go back on that, we
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This is neat to see! Reminds me of the 200 line TCP/IP stack: http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software... which has a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
What is async resource management? can you link to docs for the features you mean? I'm having trouble googling this one, maybe different keywords are used?
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
Tough problem for sure, especially getting users to understand. For keyboards you could use the Bluetooth pairing trust trick. Display a short random number code on the screen, and only accept the keyboard if the numbers are typed, which co
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by ColinDabritz 11y ago
This does matter, perhaps pretty charts would help. Along the lines of "are we fast yet?": http://arewefastyet.com/ perhaps we could have "are we efficient yet?"

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