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by Xurinos 16y ago
And if you absolutely must stop your customers from responding to you, do not use a domain name that does not fit the RFC standard for useless domains, or you may inadvertently be setting yourself up for trouble: http://blog.washingtonpost
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by Xurinos 16y ago
In Firefox, (1) View >> Toolbars >> Customize (2) Drag your search box out of the bar (3) Okay (4) Go to any search engine. For example, go to google. (5) Right-click in the search box, and choose "Add Keyword for this sear
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Anecdote of dealing with average users: When I am over shoulders and ask people to go to various sites, the first thing they do is slap in a "www.", assuming that every web site must begin with it. In some situations, I have to specificall
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by Xurinos 16y ago
How about vs posterous? (Sorry, I should have included it in my first post, but I forgot the name.)
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I don't want to hijack the intent of this submission too much, but I am really curious about a question burning on my mind. I can't help but notice the sheer number of WordPress mentions on HN and other sites lately, and while a paranoid p
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I made it through college on my own and had no expectation that my parents would or could pay for it. I do not understand how it is the parents' responsibility, and having done it myself, I know it is not necessary. I had to find my own g
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by Xurinos 16y ago
That is certainly a valid way of looking at it. I have a different perspective, though. I have been in the past, by nature, a shy kind of person. I was not into parties, I let things slide by that dug me in more deeply, I became what othe
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> But the fact is that despite its lack of mature tools, Clojure is more newbie-friendly than CL. As a newbie, I have to disagree. Clojure has a ton of syntax to get used to, and to make it useful, you have to learn all the neat Java l
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Doesn't some of that stuff fall along the lines of stalking? If the term "authorized" can be defined properly in this context, isn't there a branch of cybercrime that deals with "unauthorized" access to or use of information? Is it possib
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Just to keep this into perspective, we are reading about this because it is Google. But every system and every relay through which your email passes is a point where somebody with less then well-meaning intentions can read your email.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
For my learning, aside from my 25% figure being misleading, can anyone explain their disagreement with my comment? Is the video a bad source?
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by Xurinos 16y ago
The way I learned it from the nice professor in the video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM ) was simply: fructose = bad, poison glucose = good sucrose = fructose + glucose, unsafe because the composition preserves the fructose p
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Absolute rubbish. 4chan? lolcats? lolcat lingo? No. This describes general Internet young geek stereotype, not programmer. Inane graph. This article contributes nothing useful whatsoever.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
What do you use now for your payments instead of PayPal?
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by Xurinos 16y ago
It requires a pass phrase. On a related note, I remember reading an article that had some interesting things to say about password security. I tried to find it, but I ended up with this blog post that does not include the derived "million
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> You can write a parser in any language; nothing magical about Lisp there. Your statement is correct; it is just misleading. First, it is irrelevant in that we are talking about parsing the syntax of your language and producing code;
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Actually, in CL, you can write a "reader" macro that interprets your first infix examples. You probably do not want to because overriding ()s (as opposed to overriding maybe []s or {}s) is complicated. But you can. As for the issue of spa
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I didn't watch the video, based on some of the other responses here (I do not have time for the presentation fluff), but I hope he made mention of slime.vim. If not, I will toss in a quick plug for it -- Want to quickly send blocks or line
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by Xurinos 16y ago
What I learned: If I want to lead people into something, I need two stooges. Plant them in the audience, and start the show.
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> how much logic belongs in the controller, and how much in the model I always thought this was really simple (at least based on the original Xerox definition of MVC): Controller transforms inputs/parameters as needed. Controller can u
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I can make my computer output the number 42, and we can argue that there is a force behind me that resulted in that program to output 42 (as well as in Scott Adams's choice of the number and my inevitable reading of his books, etc etc). Bu
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Hm. I think we are mostly the same. I would say that you have free will if, after you have removed all possible influences, you are still able to choose. Many things in life reduce your choices, but reduced choices are still choices. We
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> what do you feel like is the alternative to free will? predestination? I would propose that the alternative is manipulation, and the most extreme form of manipulation is predestination. Less extreme forms are environmental manipulati
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> why? can you justify this statement? Yes. Based on your next sentence, I think I see where the misunderstanding lies. You state that the scientific method is about making conclusions on observable data and then discarding them when n
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Given that the choice is a form of insanity vs a way of dealing with life that may lead to greater happiness, I agree. But we are, after all, discussing "free will". :) It is also interesting to note that scientific studies may show us thi
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> free will is an objectively observable phenomenon Not true. To observe free will, you must have a really big picture view. You must have enough information at hand to be absolutely confident that the action was not a direct result o
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I remember beating myself over this idea in college, that there is no such thing as free will. I came to believe it. Then I realized something that was even more important: it does not matter if it is true. This is not a form of enlighte
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by Xurinos 16y ago
I would take this approach (and it may very well be flawed, or it may work)... First, I would find people using business BASIC. Next, I would approach them and clearly state the problem you identified. I want to know if they would be will
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by Xurinos 16y ago
> Common sense on the other hand is the accumulation of your observations of humanity over a lifetime. There is no such thing as common sense, and it is anecdotal, at best. Now if the OP and a statistically significant number of people
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by Xurinos 16y ago
Yeah, I am sure I am not alone in despising tailgating. It is the exact opposite of what we are talking about in this thread, a product of impatience and bad assumptions. You simply cannot stop some people from hitting the brakes repeated

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