Wilduck

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by Wilduck 15y ago
I agree that there are probably market forces at play here. Duck Duck Go definitely fills a niche. However, I disagree with your distinction between open and closed minded individuals. I think both styles are useful, but the first is for ti
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I would actually be rather upset if my filter bubble went away. More than 50% of the time I search for something on Google, I'm actually just looking for the relevant wikipedia page. When I'm searching for something code related, I always w
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by Wilduck 15y ago
My family has somehow associated the word "download" with stealing. If I say anything about downloading a piece of software, I get lectured that Piracy is Bad, regardless of the fact that it's usually open source/free.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Almost certainly the latter.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I read this and immediately started freaking out, until I took the mental steps to calculate that he had 8 years of experience writing Perl. By the time I hit 8 years experience hopefully I'll have an exit in the works as well.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Sure, but what blackhats often claim is that even if a company pays whitehats large sums of money, it is often fairly easy for the blackhats to do just as much damage as they could before.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I hate doing this. I just want to see the comments for an interesting article and end up flagging it. I always hammer on the back button, but doubt it does any good. I don't know if a single user flagging a post on accident has any real eff
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Really? I think it captures the feeling of having your feeling of purpose slowly sucked out of you fairly well.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Also related: In Emacs C-n is next line, which I would use to scroll through a small portion of the document. Most everywhere else it spawns a new window, so in Firefox I would want to scroll down 5 or 6 lines and end up with a bunch more w
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I picked this book up a couple years ago and got through a couple chapters. Without any accountability though, I didn't finish. I'd love to have some peer pressure. At this point is joining the google group the best bet to insure participat
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Stress reduction. Imagine if his car broke down. What could be a major financial crisis for many would be a drop in the bucket for him. He could fix it and move on with his life. Having more things leads to more potential points of failure
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I don't know about how many, but I certainly do.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Also a tendency to use single letter variable names exclusively.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't this simply a better study that shows the universe is expanding and not a direct observation of dark energy? Is there something particularly novel about this study?
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by Wilduck 15y ago
If you want to un-expand the text, hold the alt key. Very cool.
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by Wilduck 15y ago
I'd also like to know. I've played around with apache and mod_wsgi, both with a framework (Django) and by writing my own mini-framework. Both were good exercises, but I'd also really like to know if there are other approaches, and why you w
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by Wilduck 15y ago
It's probably in part because you assume $200k and four years will make you a "master." That load of arrogance in turn makes it hard to accept the rest of your points. Some Russian/Indian kids are better that those with expensive CS degrees
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This is also true for middle income students. I qualified for $1,000 of aid at my local state school, and enough aid at a high caliber liberal arts school to make the difference on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars. I went wit
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This is an interesting list of online learning resources, but I'd really like to see some objective measurement of the success of these programs. Are there any studies about: A) The effectiveness of online versus traditional education? B) T
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by Wilduck 15y ago
This is how I learned Emacs, LaTeX and Linux. It works, but only if you enjoy the process of everything being broken always.
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by Wilduck 16y ago
It's about "compressed sensing" not "computer science"...
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by Wilduck 16y ago
With just this, it would be fairly easy to learn how many votes translate to what color, and you're back at square one. Maybe color as some function of upvotes on the comment and proportion of all upvotes (maybe only those comments at the s
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by Wilduck 16y ago
Or a signal that Linux users are willing to pay for quality software?
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by Wilduck 16y ago
I work for a company that grinds railroads. While 100% of the office employees spend more than half their time in front of a computer, none of the people in the shop do. So, I'd say it's most certainly an overstatement. I'm not willing to e
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by Wilduck 16y ago
The problem with seeing strangers' +1s is that you can't validate their authority. However if I were to see that my friend who is an excellent photographer has +1'd something photography related, I would trust it more. Alternatively, if a f
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by Wilduck 16y ago
I wouldn't mind seeing this pop up in my apps, especially if it provided me with some sort of in-app reward for reviewing...
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by Wilduck 16y ago
The key assumption here is that you both have someone to pair program with, and that they're patient enough to teach you key commands. I wish I could learn a new IDE this way.
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by Wilduck 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when setting up an online business that accepts credit cards, you need a merchant account. Do you need something similar with Square? Or do they get around this somehow by keeping your funds in a paypal like acc
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by Wilduck 16y ago
Tiny circles: http://demoseen.com/langton.html#/<./<.. .
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by Wilduck 16y ago
Good, do it. Forget your brother and get something working that people can use. I can guarantee you, however, that by doing so, you will learn something. Don't be averse to that.

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