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by Niten 12y ago
Two things in this article stuck out to me: > Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire That's an uncharitable paraphrasing of Goo
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by Niten 12y ago
Qt comes with a built-in event loop which can be really nice for certain types of asynchronous servers.
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by Niten 12y ago
> Yeah, creating a safe environment for discourse is super-awesome. You have a strange definition of discourse if all that's required to create a non-"safe environment" is to present a dissenting opinion. (Did you mean: ec
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by Niten 12y ago
I wouldn't call MetaFilter a particularly high quality community. Discussions there can have just as many trite and trollish comments as your average subreddit. How MetaFilter differs is in that it features a rigid, hierarchical modera
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by Niten 12y ago
I imagine there's a difference between using "you're smart" as a motivator, as you describe, and using it as an exclamation of praise for something that has already been accomplished (as opposed to praising how hard the
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by Niten 12y ago
That's what Google Wave was intended to be, among other initiatives.
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by Niten 12y ago
Great post. As a programmer who's also worked IT in education, most of this rings very true. Can you clarify what you meant here, though? I haven't yet used Chrome OS in this capacity, and I'm a little hazy on where the secu
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by Niten 12y ago
comex's statement is correct. Chrome/Chromium was designed from the ground up for fine-grained sandboxing of renderers and extensions; Firefox's single-process design currently prevents it from implementing any similar layere
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by Niten 12y ago
I agree that the topical references were pretty conspicuous, but they were also fair and served a purpose in my opinion. I think there is value in illustrating fallacies not merely in the abstract, but also by allusion to real-world example
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by Niten 12y ago
If you're referring to the iWatch, then what fantastical, overwhelming innovation are you anticipating out of Apple that would make Android Wear irrelevant? Referring to it as a "wearable notification viewer" makes me think
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by Niten 12y ago
It was Apple that chose to make HomeKit a nonstandard, proprietary protocol for the purpose of locking people into iOS. You simply cannot fault Google for failing to fall in line with Apple's play for the market.
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by Niten 12y ago
I don't think it would send that message at all. IKEA Hackers wasn't just some site using the IKEA name, it was a high-quality and well-established community. If IKEA had purchased this establishment, I don't think a reasona
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by Niten 12y ago
I've been a long time reader and I am saddened at the prospect of MetaFilter's decline, but yes, the man-bashing is certainly one thing that's driven me away from the site lately. I consider myself egalitarian; injustices aga
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by Niten 12y ago
> “Only intelligent animals play—animals like crows and chimps, dogs and humans.” Err, I'm barely knowledgeable in this field (so maybe someone can point out something that I'm missing), but I have to nitpick that this strikes
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by Niten 12y ago
His argument would not apply to an actual standardization effort without the negative attributes explicitly called out in the article. (Non-standard, undocumented moving target, and a community of developers who go out of their way to anta
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by Niten 12y ago
> But somebody somewhere is reading this and thinking this is a "semantically correct pattern" (as it is introduced) and may just copy-paste it into their program. I dare say that would be their fault for blindly copying and pa
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by Niten 12y ago
Rubbish. IPv4 NAT is not a security feature.
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by Niten 12y ago
> Systemd has won by being vastly superior to any alternatives. Systemd is better than Upstart, but it won in no small part due to politicking and strategically merging other projects that everyone else depends on.
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by Niten 12y ago
> 4. And? I'm not sure what's the problem here. udev and dbus are mandatory by pretty much anything that's not a .sh script nowadays. I don't know that this was the author's original meaning, but I think the much
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by Niten 12y ago
> I remember many people running their own SMTP server used to have massive issues with their outgoing mail being silently or non-silently ignored or sent to the spam folder. Does this take care of this? "Mostly" really isn&#x2
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by Niten 13y ago
I'm surprised this article doesn't place more emphasis on the surprising quality of GMail's spam filter. Especially in the early days it was a major differentiator from Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, maybe even more significant tha
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by Niten 13y ago
C++ is an ugly, flawed language. Despite this, it can also genuinely be the best choice for certain applications, and so there is a need for a FAQ such as this one. But it's not "essential" that any such reference be accompa
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by Niten 13y ago
It's pretty disgusting to dismiss this level of abuse of the DMCA (these aren't even legitimate copyright issues!) and legal bullying under the guise of standard operating procedure. It's over-the-top wrong.
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by Niten 13y ago
It might be tangential, but that's an odd choice of title for the film given that females are actually the majority in France (as well as in, say, the United States).
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by Niten 13y ago
This is an important point to make. In fact US deaths from cancer are on the decline too: > An American Cancer Society report finds steady declines in cancer death rates for the past two decades add up to a 20 percent drop in the overa
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by Niten 13y ago
Well for what it's worth, I keep reading that from people whose exposure to programming languages and techniques is limited to making LOB applications in PHP and maybe one or two other lowest-common denominator languages. Most peopl
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by Niten 13y ago
I appreciate your intent, but this line of reasoning about the implications of the term "bro" seems like a huge stretch to me. Being a male, should I likewise feel personally offended by the Emacs woman command, which is a similar
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by Niten 13y ago
I agree that Schneier is clearly an expert; it's the way you've reached that conclusion which I disagree with, as it could easily lead you to the wrong answer in any case where celebrity and actual expertise are not so happily ali
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by Niten 13y ago
Apologies, but you're displaying precisely the kind of aggressive and arrogant ignorance that this article highlights. You trust Bruce Schneier because he's a popular figure. You said it yourself: "Tom Nichols is a nobody&qu
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by Niten 13y ago
At least in the United States, this year's trivalent vaccine includes a strain of H1N1. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2013-2014.htm...

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