angelbob

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by angelbob 15y ago
"I wouldn’t call this censorship," Dr. Alberts said. "This is trying to avoid inappropriate censorship." Wow. So he thinks that if they don't self-censor, the government will censor for them... And that that makes it not censorship? Ouc
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by angelbob 15y ago
I am so looking forward to a huge army of newly-trained programmers who view prototype-based inheritance as the default and classical inheritance as weird. Similarly, I look forward to a whole set of various modules and libraries to gra
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by angelbob 15y ago
Carnegie Mellon is quite a stronghold of this. They don't teach much coding -- they hand you the books, give you projects and grade the results. If you produce workable code, mostly you win :-) It's telling that CMU is considered such a g
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by angelbob 15y ago
The 25 next-stage interviews are the only part that sounds even slightly unrealistic to me. The phone interviews are 30-60 minutes each, so 40 of them is no problem (20-40 hours of work). The next-stage interviews are going to vary from 1-
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by angelbob 15y ago
Duff's device! :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
Time of day would be an excellent addition if you can do it in a clean way, UI-wise.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Overall, this is really excellent. My town is small but near Silicon Valley, and this does a great job of showing me stuff that's actually near me. Well done! I imagine it's going to be hard to present information in the same way for larg
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by angelbob 15y ago
Microsoft is well aware that they can just break antitrust agreements and the enforcement is unlikely to have any teeth. That was their approach for many years, and I'm sure they remember how effective it was... And yeah, your footnote d
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by angelbob 15y ago
Yes. If the really good people won't work for you because you're evil, that makes a huge difference. Here, if you're old enough to remember, try this one: "Of course Microsoft didn't care that a lot of the top talent wouldn't work for
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by angelbob 15y ago
Now don't overgeneralize... There are lots of other reasons why enterprise software is crap.
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by angelbob 15y ago
"git blame" helps too - yes, you know it was you, but that tells you what commit added that line. Now do "git log -p 31dc4a" (or whatever) to see the commit's comments.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Darwinism suggests that if ghosts can continue to exist (and reproduce?) and affect the world to create more of themselves (e.g. tell people that it's not so bad), then they will be selected-for. Ceasing to exist is, in a strict Darwinian s
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure. Usually if you give embarrassing people the runaround, they eventually go away. It was, admittedly, way too optimistic for the government to assume every seized domain would work this way. But for them to assume this one specifi
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by angelbob 15y ago
I like how they apologized for the unrest . That is, they apologized for how people reacted, not what they did.
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by angelbob 15y ago
And yet here I am, not stopping. I probably have some ulterior motive for reading, rather than really doing it in order to be qualified for that startup idea I have. But I won't know that until the next article gets upvoted that tells me my
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by angelbob 15y ago
Dude, he's 19. Let him have off-days.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Wow. So it just rewrites it to the latest version, with (according to what you just said) about 95% accuracy? Does that make other people feel queasy, or just me? Like, that feels like a really bad idea to me. What happens if the result
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by angelbob 15y ago
That'll need to be a different poll, partly because I've worked for a number of startups and only had one exit - in general, we'll need to vote in some other way to get a feel for that.
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by angelbob 15y ago
They've already released Regretsy's money (says the tone-deaf, possibly inaccurate response). So solving matters is just to convince them that they will have more trouble getting away with this in the future. I believe Jon Stewart can help
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by angelbob 15y ago
This is a really amazingly tone-deaf response. We may only hope that somebody like the Daily Show takes them properly to task for this.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I suspect he meant it, too.
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by angelbob 15y ago
There is nothing wrong with that. For exactly the right definition of "retain", you're right. For most practical definitions of the word, you're wrong.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I think you're not looking far enough into this. I promise, my opinion of this won't improve as I think through the further implications.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Indeed. It may or may not be related to the fact that listening to music helps memory and cognition slightly -- as long as you're not concentrating on an auditory task. For whatever reason, occupying systems of your body that aren't requir
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by angelbob 15y ago
They haven't. But they do leverage civilian companies who do - for instance, the credit bureaus routinely do what turns out to be police or intelligence surveillance, without specifically meaning to. If they could make Google do the same
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by angelbob 15y ago
Rotary phones were simple in that their implementation was fairly clear and self-contained. Though I'll grant you, that didn't often make them simpler to use. Also "there's a way to do that, even if you have to hunt for it and it's weird"
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by angelbob 15y ago
Amusingly, you could. Create a new account, answer just those questions as "mandatory", and see who your matches are. That's a bit effort-intensive, obviously.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Depends what you're looking for. But sure, adapted to your, um, target market.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Honestly, it's also slightly easier to train a good junior Rails dev than a good junior iPhone dev, given things like tracking allocated memory. Not sure about Android.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Obviously he didn't. If he did infringe, they wouldn't have sent a legal statement saying that if he complied they would "release all claims" (as they did). Instead, they would tell him to stop and in return he wouldn't be continuing "w

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