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by balloot 15y ago
I completely disagree. Watching a big proponent of SOPA have to scurry away from its position with its tail between its legs very likely gets the attention of people in Washington. As a Democrat, I feel there is way too much Outrage over a
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by balloot 15y ago
At the very least, I think GoDaddy put namecheap.com on the map this week. I know I had personally never heard of namecheap before the last few days. GoDaddy probably won't release how many customers they lost, but I bet namecheap will be
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by balloot 15y ago
Agreed. They were totally for SOPA yesterday, and even went so far as to publicly antagonize people who disagreed with their position. Their general counsel was also an architect of the bill. Forgive me if I don't quite buy that they're
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by balloot 15y ago
Too late. Their petulant and dickish responses from the last few days show their true feelings on the issue.
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by balloot 15y ago
Just in case you thought there was anything that couldn't be trolled, here is the guy who managed to come out against giving earnings to charity. Why couldn't Louis just spend the million on hookers and blow like a normal entertainer?
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by balloot 15y ago
Berners-Lee is British. He has been working with the British government on internet issues. I know this is crazy, but they actually listen to him.
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by balloot 15y ago
I highly recommend contacting your Representatives/Senators immediately. It amazes me that both of the California Senators are cosponsors of this turd. I would think they are among those who can be swayed.
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by balloot 15y ago
I dunno. I definitely consider Palantir evil no matter how many open-source goodies they put out.
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by balloot 15y ago
I have lived in SF for 5 years, and seriously have no clue WTF you are talking about. The crime rate in SF is quite average as far as big cities go. You make it sound like some post apocalyptic hellhole.
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by balloot 15y ago
Anyone who raves about the great weather in SF is clearly not qualified to give judgment on the city.
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by balloot 15y ago
Absolutely. I am an experienced software engineer in SF, and you would have to pay me WAY more money to live in Texas. The number is high enough that I would never realistically move there.
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by balloot 15y ago
This math is much harder than the math on the current SAT test. There are no geometry proofs or trig/logarithms on the SAT. However, most admits into Harvard nowadays have either a solid AP Test score in Calculus and/or a SAT2 Math score,
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by balloot 15y ago
Absolutely. But it appears that the fault falls clearly on the NC state government, which according to the article debated for less than a minute before awarding Apple $46 million in tax breaks. The irony is that Apple basically used Repub
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by balloot 15y ago
If they're counting jobs at Apple HQ, there are FAR more than 50 jobs associated with this data center. They're talking about the people who report to work in the actual data center building. And that's an incredibly stupid way to measure
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by balloot 15y ago
Yes, we all yearn for the days when cloud computing data centers were run by thousands and thousands of operations engineers. Sadly, those times are no longer here - mostly because they're a figment of your imagination. But don't let that
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by balloot 15y ago
It is incredibly short sighted to say that the sum of the jobs created by a data center is the people reporting to work in the building. This data center likely created hundreds, if not thousands of jobs. It's just that most of them aren'
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by balloot 15y ago
This seems like a deeply flawed study. Their definition of "talent" is "performance on tests of working memory"? That just appears to be totally bunk. I also think that the "spend 10,000 hours" thing is flawed, in the fact that you genera
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by balloot 15y ago
Incorrect. Salt and hash your password strings so they're all the same length.
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by balloot 15y ago
That's my thought too. If you're susceptible to this kind of attack the problem is the lack of basic salting + hashing to create a fixed length password.
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by balloot 15y ago
I don't know where this claim comes from, but as a Stanford CS grad (MS) I never heard of such a thing. Stanford definitely offers loans.
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by balloot 15y ago
Maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned, but I think it's slightly premature to brag about your great company culture before your company has done anything of note. On that note, the "only hire entrepreneurs" thing is just stupid. Yes, everyone want
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by balloot 15y ago
That's my takeaway as well. Who cares how long a webserver takes to do a Fibonacci loop anyway? The point of a web server is to process lots of relatively small requests quickly and concurrently. Testing node.js with a Fibonacci loop is
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by balloot 15y ago
Which software was it exactly that was so great and just worked? MS-DOS? Windows 3.1? Windows Me? Some specifics would be nice, because across the board it seems everything is MUCH better now. It used to be that you would buy a compute
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by balloot 15y ago
This guy just sounds like you run-of-the-mill crappy programmer. "I can't get things to work! It's the fault of The World - it couldn't possibly be me! I've had a game in the App Store!" As a rule, the worse the programmer, the more convo
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by balloot 15y ago
You remember when most things "just worked"? When exactly was that? I remember when you would buy a new mouse and sometimes it just wouldn't work and then you actually had to take it back to the store because you had something slightly dif
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by balloot 15y ago
That policy is crap. Any time someone takes vacation their team is going to move a bit slower on the current project. Commitments should be built around vacation, not the other way around.
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by balloot 15y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the "unlimited" time. I've never worked somewhere with that policy, but it seems an unintended result would be that nobody knows exactly how much time is considered "reasonable". The policy likely sounds way better t
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by balloot 15y ago
I'm sorry, but if you have a startup and you decide to spend your time producing a fancy video for your 404 page, you probably aren't the best at setting priorities.
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by balloot 15y ago
It's not bad to give all kids the "gifted" classroom. It's just impossible. There's not enough "gifted" resources to go around. It's a zero sum game at some level - to give "gifted" education to someone you have to take it away from some
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by balloot 15y ago
This study doesn't tell us anything we didn't know. Yes, when you give kids the best instructors and best resources, they do better. The "success" in this study is that regular kids in a regular class end with 10% of kids testing for gifte

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