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by JackC 12y ago
Metafilter has absurdly good moderation. It sounds like they're going to do the best they can with more automation and fewer staff, but this is a huge loss. What they're doing is just really hard. It's not a paradise, but the
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by JackC 12y ago
That donation link appears on this page: https://www.metafilter.com/about.mefi "Supporting MetaFilter The site and server can always use upgrades of hardware, software, and bandwidth. If you'd like to chip in, you
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by JackC 12y ago
It's funny that you mention moonshots. Check out this list of products that spun off from NASA research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies The list includes stuff like invisible braces, longe
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by JackC 12y ago
Unsurprisingly, this comes at a cost. Seriously, no. Don't do this. Don't do "being attractive to men unsurprising comes at the cost of sexual assault." Don't do "not having sex when you want to is as bad as
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by JackC 12y ago
> I wish I had EFF's clout behind my work too. Man, I'm sure that must be really frustrating. It looks like your tool takes a different strategy than EFF's and there will be room for both -- I hope you keep it up. As a gen
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by JackC 13y ago
> Crypto is complicated and very hard to do well. Hell, any complex software is hard to do well. There will always, always be bugs. There will always be bugs, sure, but differences in the engineering approach can result in orders-of-magn
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by JackC 13y ago
I've been seeing a lot of comments recently along the lines that we "need" more evidence before we assume that the NSA took advantage of heartbleed. I don't get that at all. I'd love to have harder evidence of what
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by JackC 13y ago
Purely on a legal level, getting your most disgruntled employees to identify themselves and waive all claims in exchange for $2,000-5,000 is probably a pretty good deal.
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by JackC 13y ago
> Would you rather have your software written by a foolish programmer who is pleasantly tactful or a competent and conservative one who is tactless? This is a false dichotomy. Interpersonal skills are among the skills necessary to work o
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by JackC 13y ago
A highly Pythonic, Easier to Ask Forgiveness than Permission[1] version: FIZZ=3 BUZZ=5 cache = {} for i in range(FIZZ-1, FIZZ*BUZZ, FIZZ): cache[i] = 'Fizz' for i in range(BUZZ-1, FIZZ*B
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by JackC 13y ago
Since the point of this proposal is to inform password managers (or other user agents) that a password needs to be changed, a slightly different approach could be to specify "if you created an account in this timeframe, you should chan
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by JackC 13y ago
You probably know this, but remember that storing user data as code is a place where you (general "you") have to think very carefully about security. Is there any way that arbitrary code in the file could compromise the user'
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by JackC 13y ago
Stores will have a strong incentive not to advertise that they're using your service, as Nordstrom found out. Will you be doing anything to check whether stores post the stickers properly? Will you terminate service if they don't?
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by JackC 13y ago
The problem is the article isn't obnoxious to the person posting it , because that person already knows what it's about. It's obnoxious to you because the headline is intentionally vague, and because it's designed by
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by JackC 13y ago
> I would argue that if you are not safe you are not free. The vast majority of App Store users are non-technical and therefore open to scams, viruses and malware. That would make great sense, if there was a way for technical users to op
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by JackC 13y ago
Just in general, the difference between having an editorial gatekeeper, and not, is that it gives the site operator actual knowledge of what's being posted. An example of how that would matter is the DMCA safe harbor, 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(
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by JackC 13y ago
Ah hah! I actually think that HiDPI mode and retina mode are the same thing, but the issue you're getting at is that OS X doesn't yet have drivers for external 4K monitors that support HiDPI mode.[1] Here's what's going
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by JackC 13y ago
> This means that on a Mac, you’ll have to use it one of two ways: Either at 1x, ... or at 2x Huh. Are you maybe thinking of iOS, or have you confirmed this with a high-PPI external monitor on a Mac? Because it's not true of the bui
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by JackC 13y ago
Reading the paper, it sounds like the attacker can make the trojan arbitrarily hard to detect, in exchange for making the resulting encryption harder to crack. In the attack they describe, Intel's hardware RNG is supposed to return the
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by JackC 13y ago
Legally and practically speaking, it's not a store because it is instead a marketplace. If we were talking about a flea market, Kickstarter would be the company that rents out spots, not the guy selling you a shady DVD. It might be pos
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by JackC 13y ago
Thanks for throwing in some neat ideas. Doesn't your Second Time Around Problem conclusively answer _every_ question with "there is no way to know," though? For example: is there really gravity? Suppose there was a universe w
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by JackC 13y ago
That's really not what's going on here. I mean, yes, the US probably has better police officers than China. But the real reason we have higher per capita numbers than anyone else (with the possible exception of North Korea) is not
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by JackC 13y ago
Yeah, this is something to avoid in general. There are some people who hear "girls" the same way you do, so "guys and girls" translates as "men and women." But there are also some people who hear "girls&qu
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by JackC 14y ago
It looks like this is pretty much a gloss on a press release put out by a non-profit trying to sell their report? Here's the executive summary of the actual report: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2012-English... And here'
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by JackC 14y ago
That's where I think we're headed. Just looking at Apple's product line alone for simplicity, take a look at how much the new iMac looks like an iPad on a stand: http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/2949/as-images.apple.... From the iPo
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by JackC 14y ago
So first of all, it doesn't say they're selling it below cost, and they are engaged in an overall razor-and-blade strategy that is profitable without the need to drive competitors out of the market. So factually, maybe not predatory. In g
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by JackC 14y ago
I was curious what PyCharm would handle that. Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/IvwG5 Basically it will complain if neither Car or Tree have a DriveOnExpressway method, but it's fine if one of them does -- the warning goes away if I
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by JackC 14y ago
I came to ask a similar question -- how much better is IDE support for statically typed languages than, for example, JetBrains' IDE support for Python, Javascript, CoffeeScript, etc? They offer code-completion, live error highlighting, go-t
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by JackC 14y ago
I totally get what you're saying, and I know any comparison of different groups with different troubles is tricky. They're not identical. But I'll stand behind the analogy. Take a look at how 1950s professional men in Mad Men call their fem
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by JackC 14y ago
Hey, I don't know why you assume Mojang doesn't employ women. They totally have ... uh ... two female employees out of 28? http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Mojang_AB#Current_employee... Oh, so that's why. Incidentally, I don't mean to ca

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