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by RickHull 16y ago
Wow, this is powerful stuff. The radio bravado is high, and the situation is dictated in heavy engineer-speak, but you can read between the lines and sense the empathy and frustration from Houston. I would love to get an in-depth technical
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by RickHull 16y ago
They are designed to be descriptive and informative (hrmph!). I applaud the article I submitted. Let there be no doubt.
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by RickHull 16y ago
For what it's worth, I completely agree with your sentiment, and I felt a pang of regret when I reviewed my submission later. If I could rewrite the title now, I would call it "In-depth, insightful" rather than "Excellent".
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Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)(zunguzungu.wordpress.com)
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yes -- as they say, war is diplomacy via other means. If you skip over the diplomacy part, then you annihilate anyone who breathes on you wrong. It's hard to imagine how exactly this ethos could reasonably manifest.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Hi, I made a quick mockup of HN's frontpage using semantic markup and CSS. There are some issues as my CSS skills are not the greatest, but I think it's a very good start. https://gist.github.com/719217
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by RickHull 16y ago
> there are not a lot of stock options floating around anymore. > They have been replaced by, you guessed it, derivatives. Stock options are derivatives. I'm not sure what distinction you are making. It seems like the term i
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by RickHull 16y ago
From that link it seems that TomorrowNow had a promising marketing and sales division that improperly used Oracle IP . While this improper use was going on, TomorrowNow gets to put up big numbers . SAP buys TomorrowNow based on those bi
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by RickHull 16y ago
> why do you have a feature on your site that can obliterate mentions of a certain phrase? It's called database access, and every CTO has it, ultimately. That said, I doubt there is a big red button sitting like a blank check for the
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yes, and also we expose them to our ideals. It's a win-win. Either they stay here and produce and inform, or they go back home and produce and inform.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Well, it's a pretty low bar to have a rational basis . Such ought to be apparent. When it is not apparent -- and called into question -- it must be defended, for to acknowledge no rational basis is policy suicide. The problem is not th
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by RickHull 16y ago
Google Nav is pretty friggin awesome. I had a TomTom for the first year I lived in NYC and the last year I owned a car, and Google Nav was comparable on all fronts, as demoed in rental cars up and down the Eastern Seaboard since then. Nota
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by RickHull 16y ago
This article completely fails to demonstrate that Fake Work exists in any meaningful quantity. I could just as easily have written an article titled "Phlogiston is Destroying America". How do you distinguish Fake Work from Real Work? Ther
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yes, this article is long on alarmism and short on serious critique: > The design of the form does not match the design of either the merchant or the issuing bank. The design looks ‘cheap’. It doesn’t look trustworthy. > No telep
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Any idea why a cab driver would want to reject a journey? As stated by OP, shorter journeys within Manhattan tend to be more profitable. The main reason is that once in an outer borough, it takes longer to find a fare to get the ca
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by RickHull 16y ago
Out of maybe 100 cab rides from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I have sensed reluctance maybe 5 or 10 times. Definitely get in the cab, close the door, and only then start talking destination. Also, be aware that they have a counter-strategy if th
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by RickHull 16y ago
> The suit also accused Full Tilt pros Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch of creating bots. ... Ferguson became a big tournament winner, with very little tournament experience, because of the edge he had. The Chris Ferguson? aka "Jesus"
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Apple deserves to be lauded for not using overly boring adjectives once in their boilerplate blurb. Plaudits for using hyperbole? Oh laud, gag me with a spoon, please.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Jesus, it was reverse-engineered, not "hacked". Did Linux engineers "hack" into every single piece of hardware they wrote drivers for? I think reverse-engineering definitely falls under the "hacking" umbrella. I would go so far as
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by RickHull 16y ago
> by your definition if I write "When you go to the store can you pick up milk, butter, and toilet paper" In the context of a human conversation, the semantics of your list are apparent. In the context of HTML, the semantics are not
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by RickHull 16y ago
It's similar to using lists for menus. Breadcrumbs are a list -- a list of places that you have visited on the way to where you are. If you buy that, then you can acknowledge such use is Semantically Correct. There may be alternatives tha
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Each time you miss your training, you lose twice. One for being behind your schedule, and another for being behind your opponent. This is a very interesting and motivating point. But I do not think it goes into the causal matrix. I
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by RickHull 16y ago
This is a flawed analysis. It sounds like the "14 point turnaround" in football -- wherein the offensive team is about to score a touchdown, but instead turns the ball over to the defense who runs the ball back for a touchdown of their own
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by RickHull 16y ago
There is also a convention of capitalizing the first letter of a sentence. The example text demonstrates that corpus quality (forgive the fuzzy terminology) trumps clean, simple rules.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Intuition is like your nose leading you to yummy food. But you need to evaluate (chew and taste) that food before you are certain that you want to swallow it. It's an indicator that you are on the right or wrong track, and it can point to
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by RickHull 16y ago
The second line of the kitty server: -export(start_link/0, order_cat/4, return_cat/1, close_shop/1]). Is seems odd to me that the close bracket is just dangling at the end. I find the Erlang syntax rather inscrutable...
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by RickHull 16y ago
My guess is, they will verify the identification information on the application before sending a volley of requests at a single target.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Hence the aforementioned hefty penalties for abuse of process.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yep, Felten is a pretty legendary electronic freedom fighter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten I must admit to being shocked at this sudden outbreak of common sense.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> then there shouldn't be airlines because it's just not a profitable business, right? Hence the constant bankruptcy / bailout cycle. They are in effect subsidized by the government. I believe American Airlines is the only legacy carr

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