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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   I didn't spend the month with my "offline life" community. I agree, they're far less intellectually stimulating than the people I find online. I spent the month reading books, which I found even _more_ intellectually stimulating than the pe
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   I'm not Mathematica's biggest fan, but this is just a smear job. He goes way out of his way to write code to do things that Mathematica does automatically. For example, his 32 lines of bar chart display code can be replaced with: BarC
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   You can tax land. Land isn't going to go away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoism
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   How Washington Can Support Entrepreneurs(washingtonmonthly.com)

   6 points by aaronsw 17y ago|17 comments
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   I'm amazed Amazon did this. Even casually reading the spec, this jumped out as a red flag. Another example of Rule 5, I guess: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   I mirrored the old mpt site here: http://mpt.mirror.theinfo.org/discuss/msgReader$173 in hopes that Google will index it.
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   Nor Wikipedia. If you need to compare Wolfram Alpha to something, compare it to Freebase.
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   Do you seriously Wolfram Alpha is trying to compete with Google? They'd much rather get integrated into Google, ala Google Calculator.
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   by aaronsw 17y ago

   I asked Stephen Wolfram about this and he explained that it was because sometimes the answers contain complex mathematical formulae that are difficult to render in HTML and that since he wanted a consistent display, his preferred solution w
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    This is precisely the problem with /classic -- even old (classic?) users use the main home page, so they're going to vote up stuff they see there. The front page is so path-dependent that taking out certain votes after-the-fact is never goi
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    "How can I find the creation date of a file?" is my favorite. So evil!
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    This poll question is bogus. How is an Ann Coulter interview like a Noam Chomsky interview?
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    You can't do computation with those results. At the first level, this means you have to click a link and load a page. But it also means that you can't ask compound questions ("What films did Orson Welles make that star Ruth Warrick?"). And
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    http://prgmr.com/status.html doesn't inspire confidence. Sample quote: > The cutover from Cogent to Rippleweb was messy, and resulted in nearly a full day's down time This was completely my fault, (That is, Luke Crawford's) as I set t
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    by aaronsw 17y ago

    The most amazing thing about this is that it took them so long to think of this attack. It's a pretty simple idea. Is it really possible that so many major companies implemented this spec without even thinking it through?
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    If "repeating the game ... changes the utility equation" from negative to positive, how can you possibly say "it has nothing to do with how many times you get to play"?
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    I purchased watchdog.net, which I thought was a great name, but almost no one ever remembers it correctly.
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    This is another example of how if you go public people will try to kill anything that makes you original. How long before we start seeing stories about how Google needs to end luxuries like 20% time?
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    I'm not sure this directly applies to you, but the one thing I wish people had told me when I was applying to college was that if you want to be a Master of the Universe, there's still a significant advantage to going to an east coast Ivy L
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    Tor2web: secure anonymous Web publishing(tor2web.com)

    2 points by aaronsw 18y ago|0 comments
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    I assume you mean "sue" for "sure". They can try, but what we're doing is legal, so they won't succeed any more than they would by suing MAE East for routing packets to some bad site.
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Wolfram Alpha is coming -- and It Could be as Imporant as WolframTones! http://tones.wolfram.com/
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    DNSCurve: DJB's proposal for securing DNS(dnscurve.org)

    3 points by aaronsw 18y ago|1 comments
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Oops, I meant to add footnotes. Sweeney and Sweeney is here: http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~kildegac/Courses/M&B/Sweeney%... It's an awesome paper.
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    If by new, you mean three years old, then sure. http://www.pcworld.com/article/120362/google_intros_qanda_se...
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Must be a slow news day. In other news: Programmers Captivated by Power of C
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Wow, this piece is actually just a quote from my article, which goes on to disprove the statement. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia Why are people voting this up?
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Wow, this article is so wildly ignorant of the basic economics. Let's start at the beginning. Depressions are caused by a slight increase in people's preference to hold onto cash, which causes a downward spiral where the economy slows and t
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    No, PG is always like that.
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    by aaronsw 18y ago

    Kragen was referring to my nasty experience with them, which I haven't published yet since I wanted to get all my data off before criticizing them.