boredguy8

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by boredguy8 15y ago
The high school production of King Lear has nothing to do with your cell phone, either. But you should still turn the damn thing off. Having to forgo one relationship to participate in another is neither surprising nor odious. You don't hav
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I hope that, after the pruning process, some more 'random, rhizomatic' growth is allowed. You can't always tell what's going to be valuable ahead of time. And sometimes interesting connections happen when smart people are allowed to work on
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Can someone explain http://screencast.com/t/CFzp8f8Dx9 this section to me? I assume it was supposed to be "Typical 1965 CEO pay for the same period" on the left and "Typical 2007 CEO pay for the same period" on the right, but I also might
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Zoe Lofgren's statements were really good, and her criticisms of the way the hearing was structured (5 for, 1 against, no engineers) were compelling. Her question of, "How many sites would you want to see taken down?" and the dodging is tel
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Mechanical disk supply chains are increasing platter drive costs significantly while at the same time improvements in reliability and cost for SSDs are bringing costs lower. And yes, there have been large deployments: http://www.computerwo
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by boredguy8 15y ago
If you're taken from one https to another https location, doesn't referrer still get passed? So possibly what it means is that you need to implement SSL. Google's choice here will hopefully motivate change around the web.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I live 1.4 miles from home, and walking to and from work is one of the best choices I ever made for my physical and mental well-being. If you don't walk to work and can, I highly recommend trying it.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Did you read the page you linked? "Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic" and "Under the Convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in force upon their creation without being asserted or declared."
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by boredguy8 15y ago
> Lawmakers that are above the law will always be a problem. Much like sysadmins who make policy exceptions for their non-admin accounts!
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by boredguy8 15y ago
> Spoiler alert: he turned up pretty clean; he -- or at least someone using his name -- is most likely the author of his works Do you have a handy reference?
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by boredguy8 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277
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by boredguy8 15y ago
The exception to this was their movie suggestion algorithm. But lately it seems to be pointing me to their cheapest-to-consume content, not the best content given my rating history. (I say this primarily because of the prevalence of old, ol
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"It was the first one that didn't suck" That's also untrue. I remember being viscerally mad at Yahoo for moving away from Inktomi because Inktomi results were much better for what I searched for...or I had gotten my searches to work for Ink
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I disagree that he did a good job answering questions. For instance, I have no idea what it means to "game the system" from his description, nor do I understand the consequences if someone were to game it. How about instead, "If we told eve
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by boredguy8 15y ago
There are perpetual requests for changes as new payloads and new demands and modifications are suggested by the users. Changes are expensive because they require extensive testing. The proper way to save money is to curtail th
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by boredguy8 15y ago
If you have some time, read "Warrantless location Tracking" 83 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1324 http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv2/groups/public/@nyu_law_websi... A common step in police investigations today is to secure a court order tracking the m
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Physical objects only ever do exactly what they're 'told' to do, period. Rocks don't have a mind of their own, and physics isn't magic. Yet I don't want to live in a world where we don't spend time twiddling with dials and poking around.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
http://www.one-step-forward.net/2008/05/making-moot-point-mo... just FYI. And, btw, it rhymes with "newt" not "cute".
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Funny, I was just in a discussion with some folks on this very issue, so enjoy the citation bomb. In short: total compensation isn't outstripping productivity by a substantial degree. First, start with "The relative stickiness of wages and
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Oh please: we don't play along blissfully ignoring that. Arguably the biggest contribution to information theory is Shannon's source coding theorem, and we haven't forgotten it. For day-to-day work, the redundancy & reliability of somet
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Docs has been down twice in the last two weeks during business hours. 9/7 it was down for about an hour, and 8/26 the Docs listing was down for about two hours (the listed time on the 26th is about an hour after we submitted the issue).
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Is this a new realization? Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory explains that 'hygiene' factors keep a person from being unhappy, but aren't themselves motivators. So having a good salary keeps someone from becoming unhappy, but isn't itsel
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"Easier said than done, I know, but the thing I find helps most people is to understand that you can't refrain from doing something you like. You can, however, change the person you are into the kind of person who doesn't even like that st
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"Free Text Messaging" is an interesting 4 year period, though it looks like it's dead as a search term now. Is this because of Google Voice? Or did people give up on the idea? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g2VSqRc0n...
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Why not? I barely receive spam at this point, and it's pretty easy to block people that abuse the address. On the other hand, I'd love it if the places to which I've never returned asked me why, and then changed as a result and invited me t
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Burger, you're saying something different than the OP (and hence, different than what tghw was criticizing). In "all probability" the location won't be China or India, as those two countries alone don't represent a substantial majority of
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This passage seems relevant as it points at the contours of what I take to be the underlying 'problem' that the OP hints at with the litany of questions. It's also an interesting background from which to approach the writings of people like
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by boredguy8 15y ago
...what? The 'cost', to Apple, of going to Enterprise is pretty large. Enterprises need things like stable patch schedules, forward-looking roadmaps, and integrated control structure. The toughest, culturally, on that list, is the forward-l
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by boredguy8 15y ago
I like the friend's response. Almost always, the only wrong response to a "two roads diverged in a yellow wood" situation is to stall.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
That's why I love the Zappos story at http://consumerist.com/2007/10/zappos-sends-you-flowers.html - customer service for a "normal" like me, not the person that runs HARO & has a huge following.

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