arh68

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by arh68 13y ago
Yet they presumably chose to join the military, right? Is it really excessive and abhorrent to suggest that those who decide to join the military would tend towards militarized philosophies? They're not saints.
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by arh68 13y ago
For what it's worth, I started messing with HTML in elementary school, but had no idea how simple HTTP/1.0 was until I hit the 400 level classes in college. Editing in Notepad was the only way to go back then: even Dreamweaver got
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by arh68 13y ago
And the spearfishers will maintain SV is still in 'clump' phase as long as plausible to attract more chumps, right? So as someone who's interested in finding his own clump, I've got to filter out the suits from the shirt
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by arh68 13y ago
Wasn't that where Kim Dotcom wanted to drop a cable? (Or are you obliquely referencing it?)
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I guess I don't see the contradiction: given finite memory, you'd want as much for your applications as possible, right? We don't buy computers to run window managers, after all. And even if 100MB seems 'small' nowa
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by arh68 13y ago
Point 1 is also patently false: I have bought sparkling water and I'm not a felon! Obviously the GP is not making logical declarations. To stay SAFEST, one must avoid sparkling water, threatening jokes, and any statements the DOJ would
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by arh68 13y ago
The fact remains that as more and more information about the programs is leaked to 'adversaries', the more pointless the program becomes. You wouldn't play hide and seek if everyone could see you, right? Or if anyone shouts &
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by arh68 13y ago
I stand by the GP. It's really not that hard for federal employees to transfer: what's hard is getting on board. It's largely done online, so your friends can check it out. https://www.usajobs.gov/
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by arh68 13y ago
Courier Prime [1] is a comparable font and features bold+/italic. Serifs vs sans-serif they differ, but I find their quality to both be top notch. 1 http://www.quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
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I don't think he's suggesting that, just making the observation. You're right in that anonymity is key.
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Sometimes I like to reach for my toes, so to speak. There are times when I try to reach for the stars, stretch myself while reinventing a wheel (maybe write a Fibonacci heap in Python, a hash table in C.. ). There's the other end of th
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by arh68 13y ago
What would your profile look like? I'm a little confused. At first glance, does this add any features past what 4chan has already done? It's 100% anonymous and you get real answers (though I think we've got different definiti
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by arh68 13y ago
I switched to DDG recently, have noticed no lag, enjoy the !g and !yt shortcuts (one less thing I have to set my browser up to do), and I really like how it puts Wikipedia at the top. But that's not why I switched: I don't want my
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by arh68 13y ago
I read the book as a kid (I'm guessing 15), and while I probably understood little of it, I read the whole thing. It was definitely inspiring to learn Wiles' slow persistence/progress, and the never-would've-guessed kind
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Syntax sugar sure is great until you forget any of it, at which point you become blind to a whole category of bugs.
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But the use doesn't destroy the creations! It's not like they printed off a finite number of Apple IIs and waited for all of their caps to blow 20 years later. They got thrown in the landfill when they were running on all 4 legs.
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by arh68 13y ago
> There is, however, a nearly 20 minute long segment of various random people explaining why they think the Information Age and Silicon Valley is EXACTLY like the Renaissance period, followed immediately by a clip of Jobs saying, "N
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> Whichever square he picks, that’s the board you must play in next. And what about the dual of this game, where whichever board you pick determines the square he plays next?
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It doesn't solve the decentralization problem. > Without a trusted certification authority and a secure infrastructure, the above four security features cannot be achieved, and electronic commerce becomes impossible over an untruste
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by arh68 13y ago
Here's a thought, though: if Google's data were tapped, would Google Voice phone records be within their jurisdiction?
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For those into old-school typography, I've come upon http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~cs704-1/PAPERS/mccarthy.pdf
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by arh68 13y ago
Here's how I see it: either Fujimoto was predisposed to a sushi career (his sushi destiny guaranteed, though with uncertain timing) or Fujimoto would have been equally amazed by any old thing his rich friend showed him. There's also the who
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by arh68 13y ago
Pretty good execution, I was entertained. I didn't mind the puzzle difficulty, though the answers felt arbitrary. It was confusing going back from @left and @right to @door, which seemed puzzling for sure but guessing's no fun. If the langu
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by arh68 13y ago
> Profit per visit seems flawed as well. Why not just optimize profit, or long-term expected profit? I think it's like averted vision: the point is to achieve profit long-term, but you have to focus on profit per visit to get there. Reg
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by arh68 13y ago
You would be right, but you would have to show that there are murders taking place for the direct production of snuff films, that there are (significantly) as many murderers feeding snuff film addicts as there are child pornographers feedin
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by arh68 13y ago
> If I were able to touch only a single thing outside the technology "bubble"; the Economist would be my #1 choice. You're absolutely right, but that's not the point. The point is (and I'm referencing the New Yorker article) that you do
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Can't you hop on the Baltimore craigslist and find your $150 XP machine and your 17" monitor? Do these things cost much less in Silicon Valley? I don't see how anything in your last paragraph ties specifically into the Valley. Tapping into
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Sort of a unexpected result, isn't it? The more 'egalitarian' companies distribute (massive) amounts of wealth into a (relatively) large number of people, gentrifying the entire Valley, and threatening to push the old inhabitants out. Is th
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The original paper (and movies!) are available at http://crablab.gatech.edu/pages/publications/index.htm
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> Moreover, it's every geek's dream. You can remotely control the car with a smartphone app, monitor the car's efficiency and performance via beautiful graphs, and even have presets for charging cycles. Yuck. If that's a geek dream, I'l

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