IvyMike

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by IvyMike 13y ago
To add a bit of seriousness back into this: Google is being coy about how they guess at humanness/robotness, but IP address is a likely factor. Maybe the OP is coming from an IP address or block that has a lot of robot activity on it.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Supposedly reCAPTCHA is easier if google thinks you're human. http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j... I guess google thinks you are a robot. I dunno, in my experience I usually don&#
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Once upon a time green on black was all some of us had, 24/7. Somehow we coped.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Isn't that why they used the word "also"?
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It varies with conditions, weight, and altitude, but figure something like 4000 feet. But add in the "desperate madmen" factor and who knows. http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/commercial/airports&#x2F
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Isn't there already Plumpy'nut for that?
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Guessing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_action_review
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Stanford has to protect the integrity of their program, and I'm sure one of the biggest concerns was discouraging future applicants from lying. If they let him keep his degree, they're sending a message that as long as your lie ho
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Fixed.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
JPEG has shown amazingly good staying power. I would have assumed "JPEG is woefully old and easy to beat" but Charles Bloom did a good series of blog posts looking at it, and my (non-expert and probably hopelessly naive) takeaway
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I've met a lot of people who are proud to be "the only one who knows how to do X" where X is something very important to the company or software product. They seem to think this makes them extra-valuable to the company. But
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by IvyMike 13y ago
"Homer: Do you want the job done right or do you want it done fast? Marge: Well, like all Americans... fast!" As an American, I figure that the most efficient (or maybe you prefer "laziest") option will win in the end.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Maybe that will be my new way to measure the effectiveness of my test suite. "Imagine the NSA snuck a one line 'fix' into your software overnight. Do your tests quickly and accurately detect the problem and point to the code
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It's always interesting me to take the passion and fury of online discussions about politics and freedom and to reconcile that with the comparatively paltry amount of money donated to political organizations by people in silicon valley
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Every time I see photos of a startup or workplace where everyone is issued a laptop with horrible ergonomics, I think two things: 1) boy it sure was fun to be in my twenties, and 2) you're going to regret everything fifteen years from
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by IvyMike 13y ago
A lot of the key C++ books in my library are outdated as far as C++11 or 14, but still are pretty valuable especially for legacy code bases. Here are a few good ones that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere in the thread. - Sutter&#x27
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Those who have not read "How to Lie With Statistics" are doomed to reinvent it. https://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Modern compilers have made external (or "redundant") include guards unnecessary. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RedundantIncludeGuards
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It seems relevant to recall Raymond's VA Linux windfall post from back in the day, if for no other reason than it illuminates his position on wealth. https://lwn.net/1999/1216/a/esr-rich.html
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I'm a cynical ass, but whenever I hear the phrase "the dignity of work" I can't help but sarcastically mentally add "yeah, work will set you free".
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by IvyMike 13y ago
> One file has 3000 lines of code, and is a huge switch() statement. Kids these days. I once worked on a system where the size of the switch statement broke the compiler. I believe the limit was 64k lines in a switch, although my memor
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by IvyMike 13y ago
I read "outragelet" which is something else that occasionally happens around here.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
This isn't an existing site, but it's an idea for a new site. It always seemed to me like the list of up/downvotes forms a graph not unlike hyperlinks the web; I'd be curious to see a site that tried to apply a PageRank-
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by IvyMike 13y ago
What happens when packets are dropped in UDP? A bit of audio corruption. What happens when packets are dropped in TCP? A hard-to-predict amount of delay. And retransmission of audio data that you might just throw out anyway. (There are a
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by IvyMike 13y ago
The reason the article doesn't mention people like you is because it wasn't about people like you. You must realize you've opted out of some of the most popular entertainment around and are atypical in that preference. This
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by IvyMike 13y ago
That works for now, but I don't understand why it's unthinkable that Comcast start throttling VPN services, too.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It appears to be semi-legit, in this block: http://myip.ms/view/ip_ranges6/60/2605:e000::_2605:e000:ffff...
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Actually Time Warner is kinda rolling out IPv6 support in a way that makes me think that it might not be too far away. I think I've even caught them live-testing features in my area, sometimes. I can (sometimes) get an IPv6 address
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by IvyMike 13y ago
Typo: The book's name is "The Handmaid's Tale". And you're right, it's a great book and does not deserve to be pigeonholed into some niche category.
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by IvyMike 13y ago
It's kind of nice to have a core set we can all discuss, though. I know there are people who basically never read a book, but I have a feeling the kind of person who reaches 100 won't stop there.

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