Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
It's usually a good idea when user testing to tell testers as little as possible about the product. It's true that real-world users have more context than that, but it can be worth it to get more unfiltered feedback— the first few moments y
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by Cushman 14y ago
It may be worth reiterating that I (or anyone) can open my (or anyone's) mailbox with a pair of bobby pins. This "authentication protocol" may not be worth making too much hay over.
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by Cushman 14y ago
That did occur to me, but I realized I have no idea when our mailman actually shows up at our building, since our schedules have never crossed. I decided I would feel too silly staking out our building all day :P Although now I realize that
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by Cushman 14y ago
It also comes in handy more often than you'd think. Picking real-world residential locks is usually a Bad Idea even if you're allowed to, but with a little practice anyone can learn to open cheap wafer locks (like you find on desk drawers)
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by Cushman 14y ago
So, assuming you mean 50 private repos, on Github that's $100 or $2/repo/mo. I understand cost of living differences, but what are you charging that $2/mo makes an impact? And if finances are really that tight, how do you get away with us
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by Cushman 14y ago
So much about this doesn't make sense to me. What features does Github offer that make you want to use it over, good example, BitBucket? Why do you feel you deserve those features for free? Why in particular do you feel you deserve to use t
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by Cushman 14y ago
I stand corrected, the server may know the HTTP host. Thanks :)
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by Cushman 14y ago
> I don't mind that the government does a sanity check on whether a given citizen should own a gun; but if they've decided I'm responsible enough to own a gun I don't really think it's any of their business if I own 2 guns or 12, any mo
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm not saying it wasn't a planned remark — nothing that man says is off-the-cuff — just that it was planned for emotional effect, not as a real basis for policy. If he seemed to be actually applying that standard, I'd worry. Otherwise it
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by Cushman 14y ago
That is an excellent analogy, well enumerated, and not one I've come across before. Thanks!
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by Cushman 14y ago
Again, I generally support gun control, and I'm not looking for a political discussion about that. My question is why progressives continue to list such an absurdly poor idea next to more reasonable and effective proposals.
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by Cushman 14y ago
He said that for emotional effect, he obviously doesn't actually believe it. Since somehow "This is killing hundreds of children every year, we need to act" doesn't connect with people, I give it a pass.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> 1. http://cdn03.cdnwp.thefrisky.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/... Sexism aside (since it's hardly specific to gun culture), that actually seems like pretty sincere marketing for something whose main real selling point is that it
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by Cushman 14y ago
I suppose it makes sense as a bargaining chip which will be left on the table, but there's a risk it will actually pass, right? My impression has been that the 1994 AWB did real harm to the image of gun control. If I'm a Republican legisl
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by Cushman 14y ago
That's... really interesting, actually. Has that argument been heard in any court, do you know?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not to get too political, but as a progressive who generally supports gun control, can someone explain to me why an "assault weapons" ban keeps coming back? Based on the metric of political capital:lives saved, it seems like terrible poli
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by Cushman 14y ago
By putting https in, you're forcing your browser to authenticate the server before making an HTTP call. At the time that you see that cert error, the server has no idea what you want yet.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Can you describe the point at which double counting is occurring? My hypothesis is, "Steve Heymann's defendants are more likely than others to commit suicide". I propose to determine with what likelihood a criminal defendant will commit sui
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by Cushman 14y ago
Two is not a sample size. The sample size here is the number of defendants prosecuted. Two events can be very significant if the prior probability of the event is very low.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The point of the prosecutor's fallacy isn't that you should ignore evidence, it's that you must include all the evidence in calculations of probability. Swartz' suicide is inductive evidence for the hypothesis "Steve Heymann caused Jonathan
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, okay, that one has pretty bad grammar. But no, that seems like a sensible analogy to describe a way a person feels right now.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I realize that. I'm just struggling to find one that seems unreasonable even out of context. It reads like as a list of valid opinions the curator disagrees with, which comes across as more than a little bit pissy.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, that twitter is stupider than anything I've seen on HN.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Because that is a lot of work, and this is a drop-in solution for any node application?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Suppose I want to `printf("Returning. A: %i", a)`. Same answer.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Not to repeat myself, but: if (a) printf("returning b"); return a ? b : c; ...makes it easy to modify the side effects of the return without muddying the semantics.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Then why are you using a statically-typed language?
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by Cushman 14y ago
...really? I don't even write C that often, and I didn't find that difficult at all. Even if you don't grok the syntax yet, it just does what it seems like it does at first glance. And how on earth does a two-long ternary chain strike you a
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by Cushman 14y ago
Bravo. That comparison makes worrying about vertical space seem ludicrous.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Since most of these seem to be about user accounts, I'll add: Don't require a user to have an account unless it's actually necessary for the feature. Also, although I understand many folks have philosophical problems with this, you should s

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