Hawramani

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by Hawramani 15y ago
And I'd say rm -r is like a rocket-propelled chainsaw, powerful and out of hand.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
This has been mentioned frequently. Whether it is the case or not, we can do little more than donate a few bucks to the likes of Demand Progress and EFF.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Reading the comments on here and many other places about global warming, it makes me sad that nobody is open-minded enough to entertain the possibility that an increase in the Earth's temperature could be a positive-sum change. We know very
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Couldn't Sony do something like the iPhone? The device could get a refresh every year or every six months, while all of the games would keep working on it.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
In my opinion those who wasted their time on the gadget were people who already had time to waste. When I saw it what I did was pass my mouse over it, think it's neat, wonder about the technology behind it for a second, then get back to wor
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by Hawramani 15y ago
"The same technology that simplifies life by providing more functions in each device also complicates life by making the device harder to learn, harder to use. This is the paradox of technology." -Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday T
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Has anyone read Apress's Pro Git by Scott Chacon? Do you recommend it?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Ah I see. Thanks for the answer.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
But doesn't a rich client need a platform, the browser being one of them? The rest are proprietary platforms like iOS. If the browser platform is not around in 10 years, I hope that means it has gotten superseded by a more powerful open pla
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Would using parentheses (NOT(NOT IN...)) make a difference?
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I wonder if NOT NOT IN would have solved it since he mentions the problem doesn't exist for NOT IN.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I wonder if publicly calling yourself a hacker could be used as proof by law enforcement that you admit to engage in illegal activity.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I expect the assumption is that male users are the security threat that females need to be protected from.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Maybe Card's definition of a hostile reading is different from yours.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I agree. If I made a robot that could follow musical notes and play the guitar perfectly, would anyone describe its playing the guitar as 'creative'? I hope not. This is a lab-like situation where we can know for sure that the robot is usin
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by Hawramani 15y ago
We need to reach a definition of creativity before we can have any discussion about whether an activity is creative or not. A good definition I found somewhere is that creativity is the ability to create solutions for a problem, any kind
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by Hawramani 15y ago
It doesn't seem fair. We are intelligent entities who can isolate the different points he makes and decide for ourselves whether they make sense or not. these problems go beyond individual occurrences and permeate the startup/IT culture C
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I wonder if a system that weighed upvotes based on the commenter's karma would make things better. The top 10% (or 50%) of users could get full upvoting capability, while the rest can give a fraction of an upvote based on their location on
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by Hawramani 15y ago
The reasoning in that line shows the classic misunderstanding that has led us here. As Taubes says, saying you get fat because you eat too much doesn't explain anything. Of course you need to eat more calories that you expend to gain weight
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Mentioning a comment he made somewhere else to discredit him is clearly an ad hominem, even if your attack on Chomsky wasn't. Chomsky is wrong on a lot of things. That in no way makes him wrong about everything.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
It seems like the US is just adding this to its list of excuses for attacking other countries when it sees a benefit in doing so. They can no longer effectively use the WMD bogeyman, so a new one is needed.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
These are a pretty good start. What I had in mind is an organization that gives long-term grants for many areas of study. Of course, any returns on this kind of investment would be ten to fifteen years away, which would make it hard to find
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by Hawramani 15y ago
The above comment is correct. The archive does have to be accessed by users though, since users can access listings from many years back. The entire archive seems to be under 4 TB from what he described in the video (2 billion documents at
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by Hawramani 15y ago
This reminds me, I have had an idea for advancing science through investing in graduate students and I would love to get some feedback on it. How about creating a foundation that gives grants to students to support them while they get a Mas
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I see. Should have read the whole thing before commenting.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
JSON started out with JavaScript and slowly expanded beyond the ECMAScript specifications to become more versatile. I don't see what the big deal is. Humans prefer easily processable and storable information, and for this reason they like t
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by Hawramani 15y ago
That doesn't rule out the existence of third offer. Just saying.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
One problem is the word 'expert'. When does one become an expert? I had a teacher who said you can't call yourself an economist if you don't have a PhD. PhD's may work for some fields, but not for programming, for example.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
Or if the powers that be start feeling threatened by it. Personally I think it is too early to tell what is going to happen. I would love to see it succeed and become something that makes the world a better place.
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by Hawramani 15y ago
I'm socially awkward and after reading lots of books on this topic I've come to realize that social skills are just that, skills. You get better at social situations the more time you spend in them. You'll never get good at them by sitting

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