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by SteveJS 14y ago
'If you really think articles "should never be removed," build a service to host articles written by anyone about anything and see what happens.' Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki thinks it is worthwhile: http://www.wired.com/wirede
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Will anybody even agree on what successful delivery looks like?
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Actually you are correct it's not Zero. It's negative. If your claim were true, no one would clean the crapware off their windows machines. With respect to tv channels extra channels impose poorer usability for the on screen guides, and
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by SteveJS 14y ago
Was it originally the same title as in the html?: <title>The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ</title>
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by SteveJS 14y ago
I experienced both sides of that filtering by major. I took 6.001 and 18.001 freshman year. Scheme was great. However the first problem set for 18.001 convinced me being a math major was dumb. Why do rote proofs like A*0=0 for all A? I am
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by SteveJS 14y ago
Learn Metonymy. And it's use in marketing an idea.
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by SteveJS 14y ago
It's not the software it's the community. Here's the exact same software with a community that tolerates a list: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/4994/fundamental-examples That said the community+software is good at what it does. I can
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by SteveJS 14y ago
I thought the three way merge tool was independent of the source control system. I'm pretty sure that's true for the four systems I've used: hg, tfs, perforce, and the horrible horrible SLM. I can say however that SLM's default three way m
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by SteveJS 14y ago
Making the front page on HN is a sure fire way to get a SO question closed.
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It is important to have strong opinionated technical arguments unsullied by consensus building distraction. Naggum's writing here is not an example of that. He is opinionated about irrelevant non-technical issues. This type of behavior sa
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You are right, my claim that this is moderator specific is misleading. It is a meme of the current active SO community. My general claim is merely that the closing of these questions is not implacably imposed by the software, but is instead
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by SteveJS 14y ago
The claim of how the server doesn't have the information to decrypt seems valid. The key is computed locally and never sent to the sever. That doesn't make this a good idea, but I see plenty of comments already pointing to the specifics
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by SteveJS 14y ago
The moderators on SO will say it "isn't a good fit for the software". They have no data to back this claim, but will go to great lengths to rationalize it as fundamental to the software rather than a strong shared opinion of the moderators
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by SteveJS 14y ago
Indeed, when I was at MIT there was a exhibit in the Doc Edgerton hall that did exactly this with florescent food coloring for the water and a strobe. You could turn a dial and change the speed of the strobe, and the 'drops' would change d
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by SteveJS 15y ago
It was closed as off topic. <rimshot/>
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Why does the picture show Bing in Beta? Is there somewhere where it is still in beta? Google clearly has it's new (IMO uglier) UI.
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This seems like some relevant history on your point. June 22, 2000: "Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), who represents Silicon Valley, says she does not see her constituent companies worried about DOJ antitrust scrutiny." http://www.crn.com/n
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by SteveJS 15y ago
I don't think he misunderstands at all. "value not just to the person they are helping but as a searchable help database over time." I think he is pointing out that what something looks like at one point in time, does not prove it will be t
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by SteveJS 15y ago
The criticism is that writing an authoritative book or peer reviewed article is demonstrably insufficient in the face of a large body of incorrect secondary material and active editorial control. I think it uncontroversial to claim Wikipedi
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Wikipedia's accidental mission to ensure the stability and propagation of "popular misconceptions" is not very compelling. I understand it is the current tradeoff for something as great as wikipedia. But that doesn't mean the criticism is
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by SteveJS 15y ago
>How can you argue that copyright infringers are immoral, when the reality is that copyright holders are the ones who've violated the original intent of the law purely for personal gain? I'd rephrase this as taking from copyright holder
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by SteveJS 15y ago
With open source both the producer and consumer sides are agreeing to share. There's nothing wrong with that, it implies nothing about the value of what is shared, and it is not piracy. Piracy is where the consumer side of a transaction ta
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Fairness/cheating: It violates reciprocal altruism with respect to the artist. The act of taking without compensation implies the work has no value. Authority/subversion: Arguments that the compensation is indirect (and therefore excuses t
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by SteveJS 15y ago
Thanks for sharing this. His thoughts on treating travel as pilgrimage ring true for my best vacations. It convinced me to add his not-yet-out book, Religion for Atheists to my wish list.
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This is our strawman plan: Get 3 distinct credit cards. One is for recurring payments only. It is left in a safe, and pays only those businesses with which we have a regular monthly bill. These are the ones that are the biggest pain to up
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Ask HN: How to minimize pain from compromised Credit card?
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There is a mature aspect to this sentiment, even if it is not expressed in this particular post. For a counter to your argument see Viktor Frankl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_
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This is one of the founding ideas behind Positive psychology. Some good books that go into depth on this insight: Antonio Damasio's "The Feeling of What Happens, Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness", and Jonathan Haidt's "The H
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Great idea. It's bookmarked now. One bit of feedback: It does not indicate if the base search term is a free domain on it's own. I understand that is not the common case, but it does mean a user needs to check that as well, outside your se
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This is why it is more important to have a crisp understanding of what you need to accomplish. From what I've seen, bringing a project in 'on time' is about risk management. The primary leverage point is actively slicing off the unnecessar

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