apotheon

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by apotheon 17y ago
They serve different community niches, though. You seem to think that each must necessarily overlap the uses of the other so significantly that one of them has to fail for the other to succeed. The functionality of each is so distinct from
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Global warming is definitely scientific fact, but the issue here is moreso how much money do we need to spend to mitigate the (still somewhat unknown) risk. I think there's something to the indicators that global temperatures have bee
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by apotheon 17y ago
There's a huge potential flaw in your prediction: you assume that the true efficacy of the techniques they use will determine the survival and popularity of the research techniques. In the cases indicated, the people deciding whether to co
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by apotheon 17y ago
Maybe it's just curiosity. I've discovered I can downmod some comments (though I haven't yet), and not others. That gets me thinking about things like "What are the rules? At what point do I get the ability to downmod articles? Is it all
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by apotheon 17y ago
I try to equivocate intelligently, in an attempt to be more precise and accurate in what I say. I end up equivocating a lot. It works well for me, though of course I only get to experience it (and judge it) from the "inside".
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by apotheon 17y ago
That would only be a "math problem" if it came with enough numbers to do some calculations. Oh, wait -- he's probably assuming that the only worthwhile metric in the problem is fuel usage. Well, with that requirement, it's easy. Hell, I
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by apotheon 17y ago
s/boarhound/boarhog/
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by apotheon 17y ago
I don't really see how the equivalent of "I'm already at risk, so I may as well be at further risk" is an effective counterargument.
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by apotheon 17y ago
You're probably right. I'm still feeling too lazy to sift through it, though. I'd rather just deal with one discussion context, and spend the free time I would have spent on the other discussion context reading SICP instead. edit: Part of
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by apotheon 17y ago
> Try using facebook, youtube or any other number of sites with flash, java . . . shut off. Actually, I do visit those sites without Flash automatically playing in my browser. In fact, I use a script to download YouTube videos and pl
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by apotheon 17y ago
> A much better point against JS would have been about XSS or similar. I don't think anyone was making a point against JavaScript in terms of vulnerabilities in the JavaScript interpreter itself. If you read the statement to which you
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by apotheon 17y ago
It appears he was of that crowd: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335734
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by apotheon 17y ago
Fair 'nuff. Upvoted. I just don't usually like to read discussion in two separate places of the same topic. It gets tedious. I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Oh, I read stuff there from time to time, and it's often interesting. I just didn't see anything in the original posting at LtU that made me think "Yes, it was definitely important to submit this instead of the actual meat of the matter."
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by apotheon 17y ago
Ah, yes, the old "I like to turn away certain classes of customers because I don't think well of them!" approach to market share. That works well.
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Interview coding tests should measure more(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)
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by apotheon 17y ago
I just want to know when it's coming to BSD Unix.
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by apotheon 17y ago
I think it translates as something like "It doesn't have anything to do with it in the real world, but by syntactic trickery it can be truthfully (if not honestly) claimed ."
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by apotheon 17y ago
> the good news is that the barrier to entry is likely to be insanely high by the time they finally get it working... . . . and the bad news is that the company is surely still going to try to claim copyright on results. Hell, by then
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . which still seems to be about 4:50 longer than it takes with Google.
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by apotheon 17y ago
Even if the data is represented in the same form as the code, mixing the two isn't really a great idea, in my opinion. edit: . . . and if that's all the data they've added, they're moving too slowly.
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by apotheon 17y ago
A few hundred bytes is precious space on a floppy.
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by apotheon 17y ago
. . . which falls apart for people who don't allow JavaScript to execute in the browser. This would definitely impact some Websites more than others.
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by apotheon 17y ago
This kinda looks like a linkjacked version of that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=777666
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by apotheon 17y ago
Sometimes, the newer, simpler languages are new versions of the older, more byzantine languages. I think that's basically the Perl 6 approach, for instance. It's called "evolution", in some circles.
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by apotheon 17y ago
What? X Combinator? What's that all about?
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by apotheon 17y ago
"DIETY"? Is that like a deity for dieters?
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by apotheon 17y ago
Didn't he just say it might be because he uses OpenBSD?
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by apotheon 17y ago
Not true. Actually, a couple of years ago, GoDaddy donated $10K to the OpenSSH project: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6063349.h... Other large corporate users of OpenSSH have also donated (both code and money) to the
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by apotheon 17y ago
It's still not a contract, no matter how many times you say it is. See above.

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