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by adammil 13y ago
Forget carpet, colors and textures. The functional aspects of a new building are critical and guaranteed to heavily affect everybody, so you cannot think enough about them and always get tons of input. Otherwise, you end up with nice bath
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by adammil 13y ago
A group of hackers is not physically intimidating in the slightest, so what's to admire? I would have admired him if he had apologized and resigned.
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by adammil 13y ago
I counter with the experience of repeatedly encountering plain average admin assistants who have managed to hack together Excel spreadsheets that do exactly what they need to. And all the crappy little bridges that villages whip together fr
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by adammil 13y ago
With NSA spying, would anyone seriously suggest exposing that level of personal communication to the Internet?
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by adammil 13y ago
You may have to acknowledge there are going to be consequences, but you absolutely do not have to "accept the retribution that is dealt", especially if it is unjust. You have the moral options of fighting every step of the way, or
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by adammil 13y ago
I was referring to the whole concept of the model and the purpose of the layers, not simply reciting from memory the names of the layers.
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by adammil 13y ago
Why do you say the OSI model is unrealistic? Writing the simplest Hello World web service call takes advantage of the OSI model, even though you might not notice it unless you also write network drivers and manufacture network cards. In fac
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by adammil 13y ago
Please cite an example of how the number of guns a US citizen can have creates a terrifying effect? Or did you mean simply that you are terrified of guns?
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by adammil 13y ago
The science itself is just a set of measurements and is apolitical. The politics start when people apply their conclusions to the results.
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by adammil 13y ago
This post is relevant because it demonstrates how some founders' extreme narcissism is experienced through the eyes of others. The recruiter, embarrassingly, could barely put two sentences together to explain why anyone should care abo
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by adammil 13y ago
Anyone who represents the NSA in public is absolutely the appropriate person to confront about their organization's illegal activities. They are civil servants after all.
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by adammil 13y ago
Because these things are usually planned far in advance and they are just now executing on their earlier plans.
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by adammil 13y ago
You'd better maximize your listening skills before hurrying to sharpen your 'saying No' skills. Half the time I've heard people say "our problem is we can't say No", it was simply a rescue blanket for thei
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by adammil 13y ago
If you're comfortable sharing your browsing history with the government, feel free to email it to them at the frequency you prefer. However, I demand that they get a warrant from a non-secret court, so proper checks and balances can wo
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by adammil 13y ago
This isn't a story about successfully delivering a product, it's about the personal mental failures and quirks that prevent success. It's a great cautionary tale that describes his thought process for others to avoid those tr
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by adammil 13y ago
Having hired many software development firms for projects, I expect the project manager to ensure the consulting team is not working inhumane hours and to push back if I ask for too much, too soon. Healthy push back should normally come in
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by adammil 13y ago
I'm proud to have signed the petition and I'll tell anyone who asks. The government depends on cowardice to get away with what they've done so far. The least a citizen can do is to sign a few petitions and contact your repres
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by adammil 13y ago
I don't think you meant it that way, but you dishonor their suffering by using the word gift associated with watching a loved one slowly die. To a highly empathic person, this event is nearly equivalent to the death of self altogether.
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by adammil 13y ago
And nothing of value was lost. It's a blog post with an intentionally hyperbolic headline to let you know he has a new book to sell.
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by adammil 13y ago
Giving money to charity does not make you a better person, but is a common act of better people. It is interesting that you defined a philosophy where a person should take moral credit for never outgrowing their infantile narcissism. But St
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by adammil 13y ago
They use the passenger side door because its the one facing the sidewalk.
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by adammil 13y ago
They don't choose to be on the streets, specifically. Instead, they make terrible choices that lead to being on the streets due to things like addiction and mental illness.
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by adammil 13y ago
You're trying to replicate on demand, at the last minute, the discipline, focus, and maturity that the others have gained and heavily practiced over the same years that you apparently spent fooling around. It has nothing to do with intellig
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by adammil 14y ago
I think if you've wrapped your daily lifestyle so tight that eating is actually disruptive, then your lifestyle is the problem not the eating.
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by adammil 14y ago
I wonder what Grace Hopper would say about this gender issue? Oh wait, she was too busy BEING an example of female computer science excellence rather than talking about it over and over. She apparently didn't need a "women's" group or havin
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by adammil 14y ago
I am extremely pro-science. However, I am angry about attempts to scientifically study gun ownership because I know the only reason is to try and violate my rights by restricting or banning ownership. It's just as offensive to me as a scien
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Process Web Logs with AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon EMR, and Hive (youtube.com)
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by adammil 14y ago
I created a White House petition for this, please sign it: Terminate prosecutor Carmen M. Ortiz for overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz, leading to his suicide. http://wh.gov/EO5n