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by Herring 14y ago
I've found this type of advice is easily misunderstood. Most people don't know how to not get offended. So either they try suppress their feelings (and feel depressed) or they defend themselves by lashing out at you. It takes an incredible
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by Herring 14y ago
Math professors at my undergrad college used to buy old (cheap) editions in bulk and rent them out to students for a semester.
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by Herring 14y ago
Another important lesson especially for techies is that being right isn't enough. You also have to persuade people and sell your idea, and in some ways that is the hardest part. I have often thought rms should step down and let Eben Moglen
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by Herring 14y ago
I've just read half of it & I'll probably end up finishing it because it's so interesting. But I really dislike the implication that leadership skills (purpose, reliability, equanimity) are intrinsically male, while childishness is intr
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by Herring 14y ago
Adding to this, maybe "true" is a bit of a loaded word. Newtonian mechanics works just as well today as it ever did. I prefer to think of it in terms of usefulness. 18th century knowledge is like a Pentium 3 that we just don't want anymore.
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by Herring 14y ago
The article equates them in the sense of "not being distracted" ... I think it's correct enough. You can work on them separately, or at the same time. Concentration practice develops mindfulness as a side effect, and vice versa. You can't g
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by Herring 14y ago
They are just being polite. For $2B a year I doubt they care what the public thinks. And anyway every corporation does it. Talk to your congressman.
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by Herring 14y ago
> Philosophy's purpose is to search not for an answer to the surface questions (and when you're doing it right, everything becomes a surface question) but to dive deeper into questions of what lies beneath those questions, what assumpt
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by Herring 14y ago
Presumably youtube's userbase has grown since then. Also Psy's song likely has more international appeal than either of those.
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by Herring 14y ago
> Were there ever "the days" when people would say "I'm sorry" without caveats or excuses and mean it 100%? Nope. The one thing I remember from How to Win Friends and Influence People is that nobody ever believes they are at fault. P
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by Herring 14y ago
> Separating producers from local sales was a big thing. That sounds interesting. I'm curious why.
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by Herring 14y ago
Until next version of windows when it's completely locked down. Look, if you're Microsoft & you want to own the entire platform like Apple, you can't just lock it down from day 1. You need to slowly "educate" the users and measure how m
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by Herring 14y ago
You're quite right! In fact the one reliable way to be sure the current threat isn't real is to invade.
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by Herring 14y ago
His problems started earlier, I think. A red flag came up when I saw that he ticketed the fire chief (and got fired for his trouble). Then later he kept escalating some issue above his superiors, despite being warned that his career was on
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by Herring 14y ago
Things are rarely ever clear when an entire nation digs itself into a hole. I'm reading about recent riots all over China about some islands that Japan claims to own. If China was a democracy, they might not have been able to avoid going to
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by Herring 14y ago
Then you'd be a British IP with a US user agent, which is probably a ton of bits. I just used User Agent Switcher & changed it to firefox 5.0 under XP.
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by Herring 14y ago
I changed my user agent string & managed to get down to 15.99 bits of information (one in 65,161). Curious if anyone did better.
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by Herring 14y ago
Suddenly I'm a lot less indifferent about my ipad's inability to run torrent apps.
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by Herring 14y ago
Microsoft would look like a huge success if it wasn't for Apple & Google, is what that article is saying.
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by Herring 14y ago
I guess part of the problem with fake rolexes is they affect the real brand. Much of the appeal of luxury items comes from their uniqueness & rarity. The music industry's problem with itunes etc is that they're giving up a lot of contro
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by Herring 14y ago
I nearly laughed when the article compared having a kid to getting sick or being in an accident. But I suppose male CEOs neglect their families too.
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by Herring 14y ago
I don't see it as a subtle distinction. Simple using shouldn't grant rights. If I touch an ATM, or if I borrow someone's computer there's no reason I should be able to demand the source.
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by Herring 14y ago
The whole article was mocking Gates, and not very subtly either.
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by Herring 14y ago
> I always found it irritating when Atheists and Secular "thinkers" would attack me for being religious and a scientist at the same time It irritates you because you take it personally. I understand religion plays an important role in
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by Herring 14y ago
Don't views on youtube take a while to update? I've noticed videos posted on reddit with thousands of likes on youtube, but hundreds of views.
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by Herring 14y ago
How do you enforce a ban on encryption? Weren't the algorithms mostly open source by 1999? Or why aren't other countries like Japan & Canada in the same position?
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by Herring 14y ago
I use Tree Style Tabs. I think it's better than tab grouping.
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by Herring 14y ago
How do you guys manage your tabs? I have ~100 and I sometimes feel like I'm drowning. That option you mentioned really helps.
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by Herring 14y ago
I agree, though I wouldn't quite say smarter. It sounds too close to being "better" than someone. I think the general principle is learn to truly listen to someone without judgements, or your ego getting in the way. It's a prerequisite for
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by Herring 15y ago
A loophole that amounts to the same thing, as the article says.

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