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by ax0n 17y ago
Unless you plan on teaching the subject, a lot of places don't care what your major was, so long as you have the piece of paper that says you graduated. My dad is a Mech. E. with a music education degree, for example. He still makes music,
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by ax0n 17y ago
I am a security professional, but not a developer. You're half correct. Your suggestion of a VM with Haskell would result in a system that could still be made to fail. The methodologies would just work differently.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I don't mind reading about programming, startup politics, etc. but things like this paper and the aforementioned javascript ![:alnum:] thread are the things I love the most on HN. I also love how much really good intelligent discussion happ
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by ax0n 17y ago
You, sir, win at teh internets.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Evidence that shake, pinch, spread and multi-touch are non-obvious UI features that average folks would not discover quickly on their own and likely need help understanding? Please. At the very least, they'd need a short video clip or a get
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by ax0n 17y ago
I'm actually poring over the list of projects that I'd like to get done one of these days, seeing if there's anything I can get some traction on with just an hour or two of work. I should be sleeping. I have a job interview in 8 hours. Well
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by ax0n 17y ago
No, the author is saying that it's hard to use a modern computer. It's not. In fact, with shakes, gestures, and other non-obvious input methods, I'd say the iPhone is anything BUT a perfect UI for "retards"
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by ax0n 17y ago
I used the word "teach" pretty loosely. "move the pointer on top of the Mail picture and press the button on the mouse twice." Do you really think that's hard? Do you take the majority of humans to be complete and total simpletons? Give my
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by ax0n 17y ago
Because it's geeky and a tinkerer's platform. There's already a well-researched and established pattern here. Geeks are most likely to be males. This is like asking why so many Barbie owners are female. No offense, Jolie. It's a good discus
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by ax0n 17y ago
I guess I don't see the point. Windows isn't hard to learn, neither is OS X. Heck, even Ubuntu isn't too bad, if you only want to do three things with any of them: mail, word processing, web surfing, for example. I've taught numerous senior
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by ax0n 17y ago
The iPhone's OS is feature-poor and anemic, hence the lack of controls. It has a very, very limited set of things that it needs to perform when you compare it to a real computer. "math is hard, let's go shopping!"
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by ax0n 17y ago
Currently, my most powerful machine is my MacBook, which dual-boots OS X and Windows 7 natively. I probably use them about the same. I run a lot of things in VirtualBox, though. I almost always have an OpenBSD VM up and running, for example
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by ax0n 17y ago
It's a text editor that I first used on plan9. I tried it out in the 90s, and I didn't "get it" back then, but I kind of liked Sam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29 I'm a self-described operating system junkie. At home,
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by ax0n 17y ago
As a network security engineer, it allows me to look at my public-facing IP addresses, and it also gives me an at-a-glance overview for IP address ranges that seem to be attacking me, without the need to fire up nmap, nessus and nikto for a
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Social Engineering Scammers Offer Live Support(informationweek.com)
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by ax0n 17y ago
If it runs counter to what my beliefs are, I'd assume he was mistaken, but it would certainly put some kind of perspective on how my God went about things. I am not the type of Christian who forces the issue on others, but I find debates of
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by ax0n 17y ago
I eat up stuff like this, and it brings back memories from my childhood. I remember that intro! Thanks for sharing.
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by ax0n 17y ago
That's alright. All the really good shit happens in the New Testament.
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by ax0n 17y ago
If it wasn't fiction? Here's the thing: I might be open to the prospect of a humanoid 30-something white guy talking to me being an apparition of God. But I really don't get hung up or terribly passionate about things like all the laws in L
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by ax0n 17y ago
Indeed. It's like having to point out irony. The subtlety of well-played irony and sarcasm are part of what makes them so great.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Also Christian, and I found it to be a clever bit of fiction, really. Well-written, entertaining. Also, thanks for that link :)
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Usability and User-Centric Design(leahshanker.com)
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by ax0n 17y ago
Teens have been in tech for a long time. I'd bet a lot of us here were techy teens half a lifetime ago. Or less. Or maybe some of us still are.
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by ax0n 17y ago
++ The problem is EVERYONE is doing it. Always. The share holders practically demand it. Also, I think it goes without saying that the original post overly simplifies things a bit. If the pharm industry cooked the books to come up with subs
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by ax0n 17y ago
And this, folks, is why I loathe Big Pharma. EDIT: okay, it's only part of it.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Beat me to it. That is precisely what it reminded me of. Most comments ever does not equal best comment thread ever. Of course, by the end of it, I'm pretty sure people were just trolling.
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by ax0n 17y ago
This one's only a couple days old. I'm still tracking it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103801
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by ax0n 17y ago
That's fine and well, but not all hackers are developers or programmers. I like threads like the one we have going here.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Flag it. Linking to a page that links to the crash demo with appropriate disclaimer? cool. Putting a warning in the submission title would have worked, too.
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by ax0n 17y ago
A startup I worked for in 2006 was ostensibly building embedded systems for their server farm. Granted: We were talking about x86 boxes, but they would boot from 32MB of flash. Hundreds of them, we built. In our case, we were running a cust

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