PotatoEngineer

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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
My theory is that Linux is used by experts, usually people with high-paying programming jobs, who can afford to drop a little more money. Macs are more expensive, so they'll also belong to people with higher income. Windows machines are c
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Well, yes. When your enemies are working on something, you want to see if their stuff is good. If it's good, then you use it yourself. This isn't "stealing" as much as it's "I really don't want the other guy to have a strategic advantage
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
It sounds like you're agreeing with the article - things work on Linux when you have a deep understanding of them. While it's good to encourage a deep understanding, the group of people using any given OS will always follow a curve of some
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Even a non-profit insurance company would want to know about your genetic sequence; if nothing else, it would help them predict how much money they need in order to treat you over the course of your lifetime.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Not everything is good as leftovers. A fair amount of Chinese food, salads, and cooked vegetables don't reheat well or don't make good leftovers.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
I'm in a driving study right now that installed a black box (plus a couple of cameras) in my car, to see how people drive. The study took care to make sure that the recorded footage and sensor data can't be accessed during any incident; it
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Part of the trouble is that the victims often aren't local. Police departments, humanly enough, care more about solving local crimes that hurt local people, rather than crimes that hurt people "somewhere else." I agree that the FBI and ot
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Of course it doesn't say it in black and white. That's why people use the phrase "in the spirit". The trouble with LendInk is in how the metaphor of a book changes once it's online. With a physical book, you have to learn that your friend
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
You are in a twisty set of deeply-nested directories.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
"Putting the video out there" is an experiment. It's not rigorously controlled, but it's about as controlled as a website is likely to get. So they put something out there, see how well it works, and maybe tweak it. That's the very essen
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
The cynical side of me says that, while warrantless wiretapping is bad and the NSA will get a strongly-worded condemnation, not much else will come from this once the furor dies down.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
The trouble is that ultra-low-overhead charities can be completely ineffective. If a charity doesn't pay for computers, utilities, sorting machines, postage meters, etc. (or pays for only the bargain-basement minimum), then each hour of vo
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Pop culture has more traction than ancient history does.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Those might be vulnerable to anti-spam agencies actually hacking the control protocol. Or maybe it's just harder and the spammers don't want to spend as much time designing it. If government agencies keep taking these things down, and if
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
What if you're running late to do something, or you are anxious to get access to the data behind the authentication for some other non-duress reason? Duress-detection will be tricky (but I look forward to them doing it!).
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
The point is that churches attract people who think they are doing good, and each church attracts local people. So you have a group of people who like being good to other people, are local, and some subset of that also enjoys activities ce
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Many users have figured out that if they click the OK button (or maybe the Cancel button), the dialog goes away. In this case, they know that they get what they want (downloaded file) if they hit the right buttons; they've probably hit exa
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
It depends on how well I know the item. If it's a commodity where I've bought exactly the same thing before (Charmin Extra-Strong Toilet Paper), then price rules all. If it's a new item that I'm not sure what I need about it (chef knife,
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Yes, of course. Refute them if you can do it without being a dick. Ignore them if you can't. Even if you never interact with them directly ever again, they'll talk to other people, and you don't want to give them fuel to burn you with.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Depends on the manager, and probably labor supply. I worked a minimum-wage stocking job a while back, gave my two-weeks' notice, and worked those two weeks. YMMV.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
He doesn't have to be corrupt; he simply has to believe that ACTA is good for Europe. If he's trying to circumvent various obstacles in his way, it's because he thinks they're wrong.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Reading is a skill you'll use all your life, and reading books - even, say, the World Weekly News - still sharpens that skill. Granted, I'd rather kids read something more enlightening than the World Weekly News.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
That's quite horrible! Fortunately, it's obviously horrible, and since "goto" has such a stigma attached to it, programmers will only use it when it's necessary. (Cross your fingers.)
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
I would love to not drive. I have a 45-minute daily commute each way, and paying attention for 45 minutes of driving is not something I look forward to. I'd rather surf the web, stare out of the windows, or just about anything else. So
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
Yes, there are plenty of ways to circumvent the block, but some of them take more technical know-how (or social links to people with that knowledge) than others. A block will definitely cut down the traffic to TPB.
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by PotatoEngineer 14y ago
No, the point is that all of the current & older versions of software would still be GPL. Only the author's next release (possibly released today) would be under different licensing terms. You can't revoke the GPL.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
What if you spammed out one to every reference the candidate has? If there were, say, four or more emails, you'd get a decent chance of a reply if the guy really was stellar.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
The idea is to not always say "we'll do it later". "Later" works fine as long as the various decision-makers involved can be talked into doing it later. If their answer is always "if it works, don't touch it," then they are the target a
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Don't cats eat insects, too? I'm all in favor of getting rid of the rats, but I don't think cats are a solution.
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by PotatoEngineer 15y ago
Another example: Collision detection, finding the shortest path, and other physical-world problems are NP-Hard (as the number of dimensions increases, it gets really disgusting to find intersections and paths). But there are a large number

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