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by barik 14y ago
> Change the way the program works here Then it isn't really the same program if the changes are fundamentally different, so in essence, it isn't direct copying anymore. But changing another person's program in non-superficial ways is o
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by barik 14y ago
I'm not really sure why your comment was down voted, it seems like a reasonable question to me. Just because something is open source doesn't automatically make it better (or worse) than a proprietary (in the sense of closed source) solutio
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by barik 14y ago
Industrial control systems are often excellent candidates for visual programming, particularly because much of the logic is conditional and combinational in nature (that is, IF X AND Y OR (P OR Z AND NOT Y) AND NOT ALARM) THEN OPEN VALVE),
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by barik 14y ago
> This is supposed to be reassuring? I guess I'll worry about it when and if it happens to me. But no, it's certainly not something I think about on a day to day basis, just as I also don't worry that someone might steal my car in the m
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by barik 14y ago
Oh, absolutely. It is not something that a regular person would ever need to worry about, since statistically the odds of this ever happening to any one person are extremely low (and even if it did, the person may not even know it because o
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by barik 14y ago
I worked for the Department of Homeland security as a contractor in 2009 to develop software for exactly such a use case. The operation for such merchandise is to ship products to basically an arbitrary address (sometimes knowing that the a
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by barik 14y ago
This reminds me a lot of the server-side procmail [0] and Sieve filters [1]. Perhaps this was even the inspiration for such a project, who knows? But tray.io looks like it can handle far more advanced rules (or at least those somewhat compa
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by barik 14y ago
> If Carl had the presence of mind back in 1998 and open sourced enough of the Rebol eco system to be useful for web platform development, then /index.r rather than /index.php might have been one of the most popular default documents in
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by barik 14y ago
It may be the case that Red was created for the reason you state, but it simply doesn't appear to have the necessary momentum. And that's unfortunate, because REBOL does not have a lot of interesting and smart features, such as having mini-
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by barik 14y ago
It's available to all users. But since it's experimental, you have to go here to enable it: http://www.dropbox.com/try_twofactor Then it will appear under Security.
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by barik 14y ago
I tried it and it seems to work well enough. It supports various authenticators (I used the Google Authenticator app on my iPhone, since I'm already using it for Gmail).
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by barik 14y ago
It's a bit annoying, and you shouldn't have to do this, but you can read it in privacy mode within your browser (in which case you won't be asked to login). I have a somewhat orthogonal issue that requires this. My Google Apps administrator
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by barik 14y ago
Since it's described as "Task tracking for nerds" I think it would be nice if the export were compatible with Emacs org-mode [1]. These days, it feels like a lot of apps try to implement some of the features that org-mode has provided for a
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by barik 14y ago
I think this effect was largely due to the draft. Since the US military became all voluntary in 1973, it has become more difficult to find candidates with a military background. Notice that military service has not been a talking point in t
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by barik 14y ago
> Learning tools like this would have saved my teachers a lot of headaches if they were available 10 years ago. This type of teaching has a formal name. It's sometimes called course delivery reversal or course flipping, with the idea be
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by barik 14y ago
Can you give some examples of this? Would this be an emulation layer to support classical hierarchies or something else entirely? Academically, I've seen some research in this area from file systems researchers and it certainly has not been
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by barik 14y ago
"How would this file system work for the non-technical user?" It does raise a number of questions that aren't immediately obvious without immediately falling back to a hybrid approach, even if it's internally. But then, you're back to folde
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by barik 14y ago
I guess I don't understand what you're trying to say then, and I don't want to assume you are trolling, so I'll try again. Your link [1] referred to a post which specifically said: "Last month, without warning, Facebook and Twitter killed-o
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by barik 14y ago
How is this not arcane magic, though? Twitter should have used a meta tag so that the RSS feed would be auto-discovered by any relatively modern RSS client. But their recent actions suggest that their interest is not making it easy to use t
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by barik 14y ago
> I'm not constantly mentioning I don't have a Twitter account. I mentioned it because it's relevant. Perhaps, but I think my sarcastic tone was warranted, at least before giving a serious answer. You could have said: "I don't have a Tw
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by barik 14y ago
"Guess what: not everyone has a Twitter account. Freaky, I know." I think Twitter is absolutely the right way to go on something like this. Your post is even more peculiar since Twitter supports RSS. [1] Does your reader not support RSS? (O
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by barik 14y ago
This is fantastic. I followed it immediately. It reminds me of a condensed version of The Daily WTF [1] or perhaps http://bash.org/ , but for Hacker News. More amusingly, it seems to have that strange meta property in which this thread its
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by barik 14y ago
This seems somewhat contrived, but in realm of plausible, so let's say it's in the fact the reason for doing so. If so, why do you think that the old/current password field also has paste disabled? I think an easy solution (that perhaps
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by barik 14y ago
The 16-character limit is not as bothersome to me as the fact that they go out of their way to set onpaste="false" in their HTML, making even 16-character passwords annoying because the average user has to type it all in by hand. I will nev
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by barik 14y ago
Then do you believe that the tasks outlined above are in fact Engineering. If so, why do you think so? And what is your definition of what would constitute Engineering versus non-Engineering efforts? It's true, my definition is US-based (ma
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by barik 14y ago
No, I don't think I am. I believe I addressed this when I said: "Efforts have been proposed to make Software Engineering part of this licensing process, but it seems to have a lot of push back." As you indicated, ACM would constitute as (a
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by barik 14y ago
It irks me (but only a little), because almost every licensing FAQ now has to have some caveat and say something to the effect of "by the way, Combat Engineer does not actually qualify as Engineering work." Maybe the answer is to simply add
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by barik 14y ago
"Does this mean that drawing blueprints for the bridge is not engineering? What about working a crane? Laying brick? Sealing pavement? Sweeping the bridge?" Yes. None of these items, strictly speaking, qualify as Engineering work for purpos
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by barik 14y ago
"Stupid companies have titles and titles are associated with more pay and and more respect." This is even more true in licensed fields. If you have a two year degree, your title will generally be "Engineering Technician", and not "Engineer"
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by barik 14y ago
"As someone with an engineering degree, it does irk me to constantly hear programmers referred to around these quarters as 'engineers', it's extremely introspective, and IMO a little disrespectful." I'm not certain it has anything to do wit

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