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by angelbob 17y ago
Can't load this article in Chrome on Ubuntu.
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by angelbob 17y ago
You'd think. But actual organized criminals like bootleggers are/were generally not terribly efficient either. Here's one way to look at it: very, very smart criminals should do much less damage to their victims than they seem to, just fo
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by angelbob 17y ago
That's actually a slipped square knot. But the way you tie it is sort of reminiscent of a clove hitch. As he says on the site, you wind up with the same knot (slipped square) that you'd get by the usual method of tying.
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by angelbob 17y ago
According to the comments, this article is just wrong according to the current IRS web site. cloudkj's comment here seems to be correct.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I really like the code structure he advocates, and "midlayer mistake" is a terrible name for it. He names it by what it avoids.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Or he hates it. I've used Exchange, and the main reason I'd have written this about GMail instead of Exchange is that Exchange does too many things, poorly. It's fine for email, in the sense that I would never use it for personal email and
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by angelbob 17y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." -- Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda But seriously, maybe there's more to a game than what platform it uses?
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by angelbob 17y ago
The author of the article actually demands mixing them. He says that you should never use tabs to do things like format a block of text -- that's what spaces are for. So this guy isn't pro-tab-only. He's in favor of mixing. And I agree wi
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by angelbob 17y ago
His assertion that Ubuntu has made Linux a monoculture because it's up to 30% market share makes me happy. He's dreadfully wrong, but it's nice to see a group so consensus-phobic. It means I certainly won't have to worry about a Linux mo
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by angelbob 17y ago
Well, their site is remarkably quiet about who they are. Absolutely no names of these seasoned investors and entrepreneurs are given. So even if they're a legitimate venture, they seem rather dubious and perhaps a bit sleazy from their w
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Self-Teaching: 30,000 computer-literate kids, 100 computers, 3 months(psychologytoday.com)
5 points by angelbob 17y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
Weird. You'd expect HN to be overstocked with those, just because of its target audience.
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by angelbob 17y ago
It'll make the next attack much easier -- they'll have a better idea of the flaws available, and more ability to find unpatched, non-public bugs.
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by angelbob 17y ago
The strongest arguments I know for Perforce are scaling and performance. Perforce has simply been used for larger projects, on larger servers, by larger companies than just about anything else in existence. It's also presumably good for co
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by angelbob 17y ago
Wow. That's a good point.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Awesome. It only locks out the site you searched on -- so you can do that with faas.cn, then go to baidu with no problems. Sneaky!
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Search for Google's "New Approach" post, get locked out of baidu.com(yro.slashdot.org)
60 points by angelbob 17y ago|10 comments
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by angelbob 17y ago
And interesting to see how Bing responds...
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by angelbob 17y ago
Presumably they have a weakness. As you say, it's hard to quantify what they're doing, but that just means we don't have an easy way to figure it out. It still has statistics, limits and numbers, even if only their accountants have a go
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by angelbob 17y ago
Presumably somebody at Silicon Graphics was willing to say, "yeah, we'll keep using this code. But we're not in this business. We're not going to be in this business. We don't want to be in this business." Which is really, really awe
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by angelbob 17y ago
Is this article as crackpot as it sounds? Is there any documentation of that project the article mentions (with a broken link) about worldwide random number generators giving fluctuations during events like Princess Diana's death?
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by angelbob 17y ago
He thinks it's for replacing a bit of your browser and doing phishing that way, based entirely on the symbols the executable imports. So it's a guess, but a semi-educated one.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Presumably he's saying that if you don't write tests you can code faster. I agree with the original poster -- it's important to slow down and think about the problem. Then again, I'm a big fan of trying hard not to write code you already u
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by angelbob 17y ago
An excellent point. People who treat their homes as investments should remember that, should the investment completely lose value, it's reasonable to cut their ties and take the loss, not continue to take losses on it indefinitely. That is
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by angelbob 17y ago
IT != programming Programmers are in a very different boat, job-wise, especially programmers with some experience. Recessions don't hit us as hard.
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by angelbob 17y ago
You know, if I was going to have a single unifying principle to me improving my conditions at work over the years, it would be "be presumptuous" :-)
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by angelbob 17y ago
And so time marches on... It'd be neat to have a graph of when various algorithms and numbers of bits were cracked, and see what progress looks like, long-term and on average.
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by angelbob 17y ago
Do you have a good way to differentiate yourself? You say "all the features I was working on". Do you have a vision for something neat that they haven't done? That would be the factor I'd worry about. If not -- if they've really done eve
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by angelbob 17y ago
When I say "this particular flavor of", I use that to distinguish between Rails and other frameworks. The protected attribute tags that Rails uses are not common to other frameworks.
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by angelbob 17y ago
I'm generally in favor of people doing little mashups over the Google interface. I'll bet there's a lot of potentially interesting work in that area -- though I'd hate to try to make money off it.

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