TheCapn

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by TheCapn 15y ago
DMCA or not Google's negligent algorithm is causing people with a legitimate income to lose out. Maybe they should be at the end of the lawsuit to have them drop their automated system?
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by TheCapn 15y ago
>Why do Americans elect lawyers? I think you're overthinking it. Lawyers make good politicians because they're good debaters. A good debater and charismatic individual garners votes. So long as you're not 110% bat-shit insane you'll w
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Without reading the book I assume what he's getting at is that the sciences are often the barers of bad news. Cancer this, climate that, death this, unsafety that. Eventually people get fed up with having their worldview turned around and a
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Well, I don't blame them. If you're walking a thin line between success/failure you want "the best" with you and often "the best" want to do it on their own (like you said). Makes perfect sense; thanks for the reply.
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by TheCapn 15y ago
To me it sounds like he's trying to say that the vast majority of startups aren't in a position to offer lavish wages to obtain talent; they're still trying to receive funding to get off the ground. He suggests that the companies should be
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by TheCapn 15y ago
"Tribler is based on the standard BitTorrent protocol and uses regular BitTorrent trackers to communicate with other peers. But, it can also continue downloading when a central tracker goes down." Well there we go. A bunch of sensational jo
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by TheCapn 15y ago
So please bare with me as these are the questions of an outsider looking in. For background: I'm a Canadian software engineering graduate, I'm working towards my P.Eng. and have a IEEE Computer Society certification. What sort of "shortage"
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Anyone have a summary of the bootstrap process for this? There is no "central servers" or the like but how does one client find the next?
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Without a goal or focus it can be hard to find algorithms that have meaning. Writing algorithms without a goal leaves you without focus and, although you may have written some good functions it'll be harder to know where they can be properl
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by TheCapn 15y ago
To me a "good programmer" isn't someone who can recide sorting algorithms or the like. A good programmer is someone who can properly identify the right tools for the job and adequitely apply them to the given scenario. A good programmer kno
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by TheCapn 15y ago
And reading a few page resume is quicker? I don't think you have a strong grasp as to what the presentation was aiming to accomplish or how the presentation stood out from the rest.
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I think people forget that reality TV and the like are edited and spliced to appeal to the audience. Anything you see on TV is weighted to determine if its entertaining or not... should a show/news cast adopt the OP's recommendation you can
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I agree with you. I can achieve flow while programming sometimes that when I look back wonder how I managed to accomplish certain things in the time I had. Often the code has to be reworked to hash out bugs or inconsistancies but that doesn
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I guess a nitpick on the article. When you say a "Steep learning curve" doesn't that mean the time to learn is quick? (Think X/Y plot with Time being independant, steeper slope indicates faster learning?)
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I'm glad Wil Wheaton is so vocal about his distain for the industry practices. He holds a lot of respect in many "geek's" minds and is a good spokesperson for many people to get behind. If enough people start raising questions then hopefull
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I speak as an ignorant outsider (Canadian) but have a legitamate concern when 3rd party onlookers are providing a more sensable explanation and rational summary regarding US law than the lawmakers themselves. Aside from the typical bouts of
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Keep in mind the guy asking if you do a lot of streaming doesn't give two hoots about you cancelling or not. He was probably just trying to drum up a conversation. The lowly Customer Service Reps for ISPs aren't malicious unless they're try
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Agreed. As an engineer when a vendor wants me to pick their product over another they try to "sweeten" the deal to make it seem like they're the right choice. It is my ethical duty to refuse the cherry on top and accept what's best for my
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Police/investigators don't "schedule" take downs in the same sense that a programmer/manager would schedule a project launch. The FBI wouldn't plan to make the takedown they factor it around multiple situations and a big one is that of futu
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by TheCapn 15y ago
When I got my first job out of university I was doing C coding for a dept. that shared space with a group that had heavy unix scripting jobs. They were swamped with work and I was relatively free. One day one of the acting Business Analysts
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I try hard to stretch my imagination and see things from other's viewpoints. To me it seems the majority of people view piracy about "someone obtained something that wasn't theirs." We tend to look at it as "I still have what is mine." I
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Not setting goals is dumb. When you lose aspirations you lose focus and you lose direction. A better way? Create attainable and realistic goals. My resolution last year was to be more patient with my family. I'm the only one from my entire
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by TheCapn 15y ago
The way I look at it is like having 100 of your friends all go to McDonalds and line up. One at a time you order a glass of water, and then go to the back of the line. Honest customers will enter and get in line. If they wait/keep trying fo
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by TheCapn 15y ago
My point isn't so much about how we go about things but more of a plea to have people work on their opponent's terms in order to win. Each side on the issue is drawing their line in the sand but that line is too far from one another to ever
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by TheCapn 15y ago
If its "available" in the UK in the same way that it is "available" in Canada then you're lying to yourself. They gimp the offerings on the foreign netflix due to licensing issues and it really hurts the service. I tried netflix but cancell
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Intentional or not it makes people look upon his content as immature. You're not trying to win the opinions of like minded individuals, you're trying to sway opponents and to do that you have to work on their terms (formal, coherent writing
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I don't understand pirates that think downloading the content is a form of protest. If you want to make a change and win then you have to think like your opponent. This is how the greedy suits think: "Our product has sold X copies, but Y pe
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I don't know where I read it but that seems to be exactly the goal. So much of American labour has been offshored now. A vast majority of it is outsourced and the US provides less and less manufacturing each year. The result is quickly beco
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by TheCapn 15y ago
I think government and the populous as a whole play a large part in this natural progression of things as well. When it comes to innovation and changes to the way the world works we're faced with two competing sides: 1) Let innovation take
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by TheCapn 15y ago
Excellent points. I never bothered to expand my thoughts beyond "why" it is broken mostly because I'm not American and don't necessarily have a say in the matter.

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