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by ameasure 15y ago
Let me clarify. 1) Muggings - If you get mugged by someone you know, it's very easy to find them and punish them. It's no coincidence that muggings tend to happen in big cities where the chances of a mugger attacking someone they know is ve
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by ameasure 15y ago
Anonymity is about much more than people trolling each other. Anonymity is what allows a guy to mug you and then disappear into the wide world without consequences. It's what allows a child rapist to buy a nice house next to an elementary s
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by ameasure 15y ago
That makes more sense to me.
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by ameasure 15y ago
I'm all for shielding people from crap, but is that really what you think of customer requirements? Are you building the software for your own enjoyment?
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by ameasure 15y ago
Wow, fantastic work and what an important project. I can't believe I haven't used these libraries before.
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by ameasure 15y ago
Excellent post. Technology doesn't propagate throughout society instantaneously, people have to invest in learning to use it first. Unfortunately many people aren't willing to do that, even when the immediate costs are very low relative to
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by ameasure 15y ago
We've already passed the technological singularity, we just don't realize it because we assume machine intelligence is going to act like human intelligence. Look around, computers have been more intelligent than humans in many different dom
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by ameasure 15y ago
I started splitting my time between Chrome and Firefox maybe a year ago. After I read about how difficult Chrome is to hack I started using it more faithfully. My only complaint is that it tends to crash a lot more than Firefox. Not sure wh
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by ameasure 15y ago
IMO BranchOut is even worse, their page now features a very clever and very evil "spam your friends" feature in disguise. The worst thing is this kind of crap is very effective. Look at Zynga, they've built a billion dollar company out of i
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by ameasure 15y ago
You're right, I don't have much of an argument for relational databases here. I am concerned about the complexity of this approach though and I don't think the concessions we're doing away with are that terrible. How meaningful is it to be
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by ameasure 15y ago
Recalculating ranks for everyone every time the score changes seems like a difficult task no matter how you approach it. I don't think you really need that for most use cases though. Some reasonable simplifications I've seen are don't rank
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by ameasure 15y ago
I'm all for expanding our toolsets, but this seems like the wrong tool for the job. Relational databases are excellent at this sort of thing.