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by antics 15y ago
Not to be pedantic, but it actually says "more conservative", not "conservative". They're not necessarily the same.
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by antics 15y ago
I'm a student, and I'm an RA at my University. I don't work for the government in any way, shape, or form, either directly, or via secondary means (like a contractor), if that's what you're asking. Anyway, that's bad form to ask. :( Edit: A
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by antics 15y ago
That's not really the point, though. What you're describing is an invisible exercise of power. What I'm saying is, exercising power in a public fashion, particularly when such a display involves technology that people are nervous about to b
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by antics 15y ago
Oh yeah, I totally agree with that. Seeing any of the organizations up close it is obvious that this is true.
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by antics 15y ago
I totally agree.
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by antics 15y ago
FUD, [edit:] IMHO. [not trying to be a dick.] The TSA is not an intelligence organization. Its job is not to secretly develop intelligence. It does not have the same problem of needing to not be accountable to the public as, say, the FBI or
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by antics 15y ago
IMO, that's super myopic. When intelligence agencies do something visible to the American public that causes any sort of discussion, it forces what they are doing (which is usually supposed to be secret) into the spotlight, which makes them
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by antics 15y ago
Less concerned about privacy. More concerned about what this sort of thing means to juries. A lot of forensic "evidence" is not actually completely conclusive, but people seem to have a built-in notion of how solid, say, fingerprint and DNA
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by antics 15y ago
I actually agree that it's not a fair comparison, but they did make Buzz an opt-out component of Gmail. No, it's not an arrow on their front page, but what you seem to be getting at is also not completely correct.
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by antics 15y ago
> A debate is an artifical situation where "scoring points" with a variety of dubious tactics e.g: attacking the person (or his style, or his mannerisms) are valid tactical maneuvers. Scoring points is more important in a formal debate
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by antics 15y ago
Yes, you're probably right. I'm a classically trained debater, and I tend to talk and write the way I was trained. Also I tend to post only when I'm annoyed, and I turn more into a speechmaker the more I get annoyed. It's maybe a weakness a
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by antics 15y ago
Maybe Amazon is more interesting than Google, but the only thing you have demonstrated here, OP, is that it is not you who will be demonstrating this for us. And the real miracle of your screed is that there are dozens of issues that you
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by antics 15y ago
Yeah. You're the guy who reposted that Reinvigorated Programmer article again a week or so back, right? Something like, "Old Post, What's changed?" Just a friendly reminder, you may have forgotten, here's the profile blurb you have up right
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by antics 15y ago
I can't believe no one has suggested this yet: this is the PERFECT argument for two-factor authentication. He's even already sending texts to himself. For every new connector, send some sort of code to your phone, and require it to be inp
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by antics 15y ago
This is a very good paper, but it seems to approach mouse tracking specifically from the search perspective. Perhaps not extremely pertinent, but still super interesting.
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by antics 15y ago
Ok, Gruber's answer is probable, maybe even correct. But what exactly is Jobs responding to[1] here? Not the ramblings of a tabloid magazine, but the reporting of a world-class newspaper. And before we band together behind a blogger it's wo
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by antics 15y ago
Well, what did Google lose? The title includes a subscript, "What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search", and yet, the article has almost nothing to actually say about the subject. Nothing. Instead of substantive contribution here, Mr. J
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by antics 15y ago
Except that it didn't. Even if it were true that most people were intimately acquainted with the pricing habits of tablet makers (and they're not), the fact that one product in the Apple canon happens to be comparatively cheap is not even r
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by antics 15y ago
Interestingly, they spend a lot of time talking about it in terms of flash[1] and give a pretty cursory treatment of its uses for the iPad. I understand that it's .net magazine, but the subject of SVG as Flash replacement on the iPad is pra
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by antics 15y ago
Reminds me vaguely of the uncanny valley[1]. Not a perfect analog, as nearly-human forms seem to elicit a particularly strong and emotive response. I also do wonder to what extent, and for whom, this is true. ( i.e. , are power users more o
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by antics 15y ago
Are you talking about this email? http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=111314792424707 I'm not entirely sure he would disagree with with what he said here. He seems to be trying to convince people to come at the problem of content manag
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by antics 15y ago
HTML5 needs to be geared towards things that websites can do in general, where CDF appears to be geared towards a very specific set of tasks. In other words, possibly nothing, but your original question may or may not be the right question
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by antics 15y ago
Pretty slick, too bad you submitted during the rush when no one will notice it. The main concern for me is not that you differentiate from other services, per se, but that you tell me why I should not just do it myself. I could, e.g., write
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by antics 15y ago
The tighter the loop of whatever you're doing, and the more consistently it is run over time, the slower your application will be, just generally speaking. This is because the miniscule differences between individual operations add up asymp
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Why I do contribute to open source: a how-to for beginners(antics.posterous.com)
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by antics 15y ago
Invite-only systems are generally really great at keeping people out. Systems like Wave implement invitation systems generally because they aren't ready to scale. If you're ready to scale, and there's no compelling reason not to open regist
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by antics 15y ago
First off, it's not going to "peg your CPU to 100%" for 45 seconds. I just tried a 600 meg file on my dumpy Macbook Pro. 15 seconds tops, and it was never noticeable or prohibitive. Besides, committing is not the bottle neck, it's add, when
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by antics 15y ago
Ugh. Developing around git is a nightmare. libgit.a is not reentrant. It just calls die() whenever it's done or something goes wrong.
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by antics 15y ago
That's not (EDIT:) space-constant.
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by antics 16y ago
That is too vague to get really good answers back. What position are you in for? That said, the best practice you can hope for is to INTERVIEW AT A LOT OF OTHER PLACES FIRST. Just trust me on this. Interviews require practice, and the best

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