ben509

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by ben509 7y ago
That's fair, I was trying to keep it simple to explain my train of thought better.
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by ben509 7y ago
Pick a time during the day while most guests are out. Put the body in a body bag, load it on a stretcher. Take the service lift to avoid the lobby.
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by ben509 7y ago
Part of it is a big chunk of the HN crowd hasn't been in business, and part of it is that marketing is an ethical mess. And HN is engineer heavy, so we see how a product comes from raw materials and is built into a thing you can use, a
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by ben509 7y ago
But it's not executing a match, it's creating a random password picker. That's exactly equivalent to parsing the pattern where the actions on terminals are to generate random characters.
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by ben509 7y ago
> URL was deprecated in favor of URI before some of you were born. It hasn't been deprecated, it's still in use in the standard library[1][2][3] and they don't offer additional classes that accept URIs. > Easy to be a h
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by ben509 7y ago
They quietly mention at the bottom that they recommend using URI. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that an API be deprecated when core functionality, like comparing the thing, is broken. The stdlib docs should provide best p
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by ben509 7y ago
What's frustrating in hindsight is they knew the URL class was obviously terrible, but never made a serious effort to stop people using it. I'm fine with not breaking old jars, but they could have made newer javac's by defaul
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by ben509 7y ago
I see a number of specific advantages the military has. One is civilian oversight. You literally can write your Congressman and complain, and there is an IG office to curb some of the worst abuses. But, that's really only helping you i
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by ben509 7y ago
> Is it even possible to do as a licence? IANAL, but a license, can't, in itself, restrict anyone's rights because it is a grant of usage, and a more restrictive licenses is really a lesser grant. In the case of software licens
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by ben509 7y ago
Because diffs don't work. If you rename a table, for instance, a diff algorithm will see that as dropping the table and creating a new one.
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by ben509 7y ago
> The problem is, what are you actually verifying? Mostly memorization and test taking strategies. If memorization is so useless, explain to me how one studies history without memorizing thousands of facts. Or a foreign language without
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by ben509 7y ago
Nonsense, besides the fact that I can look at more than one budget item at a time, education is one of the biggest[1], being between 20% and 40% of every state's budget. > ... and a tax code that privileges rent-seeking over labor.
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by ben509 7y ago
As a citizen, I have a civic obligation to hold the government accountable for the use of my tax dollars.
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by ben509 7y ago
> Objective analysis and the ability to question assumptions, groupthink, consensus offends people. I disagree. Assumptions, groupthink and consensus are more a consequence of a social hierarchy. Social offense is the feeling one experie
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by ben509 7y ago
In a very similar vein is Bryan Caplan's book "the Case Against Education." In an interview[1] he lays out his argument, roughly, as: > Right. So, the first story is called human capital, and just says that people with mor
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by ben509 7y ago
I have the same problem with Automator on OS X. Once you understand control flow, it's pretty hard to dial back to a flat list of steps that do something useful.
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by ben509 7y ago
Replacing the 'ol' suffix in 'googol' brings 'google' much closer to common English phonetics. These could all be pronounced the same but would have been a harder sell: * gugal -- like frugal * gugle -- like bu
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by ben509 7y ago
> The nationalism on the homepage is a little odd. Especially seeing as how Europe is not a nation. > A future in which we all have sovereign control over our data and our digital lives. ... And this is exactly why we at Cliqz are dev
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by ben509 7y ago
How does using an odd spelling thwart user-tracker blockers?
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by ben509 7y ago
> Just look at the Left-pad thing, or the event-stream thing. Those prove that we could see the problem. Brokenness doesn't go away when you grab a snippet of code or reinvent the wheel, you're simply unaware of how much of it
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by ben509 7y ago
Agreed, you'd definitely need a mechanism to mitigate false positives. One technique would be to try and define what constitutes "trivial" code. Another would be to prioritize sources. Documentation from standard or major thi
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by ben509 7y ago
Suppose we had an index of snippets, meaning you've parsed them and are able to search isomorphically. So, e.g. variable names are not significant. Some techniques discussed[1]. Then we run that against source repos, we could get updat
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by ben509 7y ago
You can put a lot of effort into crafting a way to ask a thing, and it'll probably work in that specific instance, but it doesn't solve the broader problem. My working theory of "how to answer questions" is about making
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by ben509 7y ago
> The level of corruption on display by the three organizations involved in this scam: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), ISOC (The Internet Society), and PIR (Public Interest Registry), is astounding and very i
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by ben509 7y ago
I didn't consider user error because if we apply that objectively we'd have to say that standard fiat currencies don't work because people routinely lose cash to loss, theft, fire, flood, etc. My point with bitcoin is that bi
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by ben509 7y ago
Yeah, a lot of Muslims gain weight during Ramadan.[1] And I think they'd point out that the intent is spiritual. [1]: https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/cairo-the...
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by ben509 7y ago
It's all been lost by third parties, though. Any idiot can make a pretty webpage advertising BitCoinBank and all the best thieves in the world can try to break in.
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by ben509 7y ago
The gTLDs seem expensive. I usually use .us for cheap domains, and the free monitoring the NSA gives me is a bonus.
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by ben509 7y ago
> You can tell it's not property because the one thing that's guaranteed to result in losing a domain is failing to pay the fees. There's a sibling comment that points out that courts recognize it as property, and certainl
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by ben509 7y ago
You could own your name outright if you could take sole responsibility[1] for resolving disputes. Basically, we'd have to have some scheme where everyone can advertise which names they own, and then you'd negotiate directly with D

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