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by a3_nm 15y ago
Other benefit: if you aliased myownloc="myloc -i --complicated_option", you can run myownloc -x to selectively disable the -i switch.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
The community should probably spend less time complaining about how existing centralized social networks are abusive, and spend more time developing, using and promoting federated alternatives. The fact that you have to use the one that eve
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I find it quite worrying that people will rely on Wikipedia but stop editing it because it's hard and because not everyone is friendly there. Yes, part of the time that you spend editing Wikipedia is lost because you have to look up obscure
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by a3_nm 15y ago
It's probably a coincidence, I'd say. There are only that many ways to represent a piece of bread.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
For Wikipedia, apparently someone did their homework: the disclaimer under the edit box says "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." SO's insistence on non-obfuscated links doesn't m
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I can think of at least three conflicting approaches to teach programming: - Start with a low-level language like C (or MMIX...), possibly on embedded devices, so that students know what is going on at the hardware level and don't think tha
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by a3_nm 15y ago
If you dislike existing XMPP clients, you can use bitlbee (which is an IRC-XMPP gateway you can run on your server) and use your favorite IRC client.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Anonymity and pseudonimity exist on the Internet. The main problem is that people don't care enough.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Actually, you can still email Knuth, and his secretary will print the email out. See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html I can understand why he wants to be on the bottom of things, but I don't get why encouraging people to
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by a3_nm 15y ago
> How exactly is it bad to connect people with things they want and need? Ads aren't always about giving people what they want or need, because there is that clever hack of creating the need in the first place. Besides, even if ads were
731.
by a3_nm 15y ago
Bookmark the page in your browser?
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by a3_nm 15y ago
> Save your rage for when you discover someone actually being evil. So it's okay for them to be evil as long as we don't discover that they are? More seriously, once they have the info, how can we be sure we nail them? The best way is s
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Does this really solve the whole problem? I've seen BIOSes (even on reasonably recent machines) which were unable to boot from an USB key, but I'm not sure that they would all have been able to boot from an USB optical drive either.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
They're usually surprised. Some were faintly rude, others were nicer. My canned reply is that they should understand "hacker" in the MIT sense, and that it's not necessarily related to computer security or even computers in general. They us
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I hope that the winning entry will be an actual implementation. It's not hard to have ideas to improve Wikipedia's search; the hard part is writing the code.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I occasionally wear a T-shirt indicating "I'm a hacker". It has generated a surprising number of comments from strangers in public places.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Hackernews is a biaised sample.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Apparently, it does not do what I hoped it would. Assertions are about ownership of an email address, not about control of the private part of a key pair.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I agree that the find command isn't minimalistic and could be simplified, but the use of du in this case semes pretty ugly if you're not interested in the file sizes. A lightweight find would probably be a better solution.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
404 now, I wonder why.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Ah, right, so the real problem is still open. :-) I didn't examine the code very carefully, but here are some sensible things that you could do and that I'm not sure you're currently doing: - Are you doing alpha-beta pruning? http://en.wik
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by a3_nm 15y ago
It would be nice to provide the game tree for the 10x20 case. If it's not too big, then it would be an easy way to check the result of your experiment. Even if it's big, it would probably be fun to navigate.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
> But effort expended to build a private repository consisting of copies of things you don't own doesn't give you ownership of the result Surprisingly, it sometimes does in the EU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Actually, making it easy to exploit loopholes is probably a good way to ensure that they are closed. (Possibly leaving more subtle ones open...)
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Actually, what I was saying amounts to using github as an agnostic data store, and doing the actual work on the clients. So, yeah, most of the usefulness of github goes away and you can just use pretty much any file hosting service.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
Pushing for existing closed networks to be somehow regulated seems like a worse solution than pushing for federated social networks where you can switch as you like and still communicate with everyone. The best way to avoid abuse is to have
747.
by a3_nm 15y ago
Actually, "all your files are visible to everyone" isn't a restriction at all if you're using crypto. Likewise, it's funny to think that you could encrypt your git repositories and use github public hosting for private projects. I wonder if
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by a3_nm 15y ago
You can also want to have your own server, because you don't want to need to trust Github, or because you think that rolling your own is fun and makes you learn.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
I was thinking of a standard. From your website, it seems that you are developing a product.
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by a3_nm 15y ago
> you only get one go at it Sadly, I don't see how you could hope to enforce this constraint... The idea of a game seat is nice, though -- a collaborative time capsule of sorts.

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