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by branden 17y ago
Hence the flag button and editors.
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by branden 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."
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by branden 17y ago
It's not necessarily better in all circumstances, but it's an option that needs to be kept around. If the code's proprietary and the vendor refuses to release a patch in a reasonable amount of time, what choice do you have?
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by branden 17y ago
This article is a treasure trove of narcissism and self-pity. I don't mean that to be criticism; I think it's an accurate depiction of the malaise that comes from having nothing truly important to worry about. I recognize a bit of myself in
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by branden 17y ago
Content providers. In the brick-and-mortar analogy, retailers would provide the discovery service. Not to say that publishers can't do both, of course.
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by branden 17y ago
I love, love, love my Das Keyboard. It has more of a click than the Model M's clang, and the tactile feedback is great.
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by branden 17y ago
Those are some pretty crappy things to make kids do. I'm glad we stopped.
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by branden 17y ago
Agreed. Industry experience is great for developing practical knowledge, but it's not as good for (and often encourages against) developing theoretical knowledge. Is graph theory something you'll learn on the job?
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by branden 17y ago
I think that's the default for any user agent they don't recognize. For some reason I get "that browser" when I use Firefox on Ubuntu Jaunty.
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by branden 17y ago
Verbosity is not word length, and efficiency of communication is not measured in characters.
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by branden 17y ago
I hardly use Facebook chat at all. Most of my actual friends use Gtalk/Jabber.
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by branden 17y ago
But what happens if you create a concentration of left brain thinkers? Imagine if an industry sprang up that relied on such people, resulting in a dense population of super-geeks. So dense that they started breeding little geeks. If autism
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by branden 17y ago
This might result in a caste system with numbers.
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by branden 17y ago
I think this is spot on. Traditional broadcast video is headed toward a cliff that is just barely out of sight to anyone who doesn't want to see it. It brings to mind the larger point of Clay Shirky's article on newspapers ( http://www.shir
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by branden 17y ago
Is that really worse than a service with a simple TOS that can be pulled for no specific reason? I'd prefer to have all the rules on the table, even if the result is a stack of legalese. At least then I know the nature of what I'm dealing w
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by branden 17y ago
You solve that by fixing the TOS, not jerking your customers around.
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by branden 17y ago
It took me some time to realize that meTracks allows you to upload your music and listen to it anywhere. Is there a reason you can't say that instead of "meTracks is an innovative web based audio player allowing you to listen to your music
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by branden 17y ago
They're ways to solve two different problems. The goal of application development is to make a user happy (for some value of happy), and the goal of software engineering is make a good system (for some value of good).
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by branden 17y ago
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html See point 7.
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by branden 17y ago
But to say society didn't look fondly on them is accurate. Each was a controversial figure in his time, and each was assassinated or executed. Only after they've died have they been accepted as heroes.
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by branden 17y ago
I agree - the CLI's biggest weakness is discoverability, and the feature you describe is nice way to address it. And it's the right way to add a frill - there if you need it, invisible if you don't. Bespin's interface, on the other hand, is
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by branden 17y ago
The only good ideas I saw in this post were shell-known argument semantics (perhaps via standardized --help output) and pipe inspection. The second idea is already available with the pv command. > What other things could we do to trick
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by branden 17y ago
More accurately, you win if yours is the last bid to reach the server. You have less control over that than you think. Unless you pay for their premium service, of course.
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In Defense of Distraction(printthis.clickability.com)
16 points by branden 17y ago|6 comments
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by branden 17y ago
For crackers, it's not about the money. For people who download cracked games, it's probably about the money.
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by branden 17y ago
Here's a useful bookmarklet for replacing all your passwords with a unique hash: http://supergenpass.com/ . I need only remember a single master password, and all my actual passwords that get saltlessly hashed and stored in some jerk's lea
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by branden 17y ago
It's a problem because in lieu of evidence that women are innately worse programmers, it suggests a systemic bias keeping women out. The problem isn't that there isn't an even split, it's that an entire population of might-be geniuses and i
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by branden 17y ago
You're right, "entirely different sample" is a bit of an exaggeration. Assuming they've stumbled upon a constant for social interaction, it may be for our society rather than our species. There's no telling without further testing. But that
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by branden 17y ago
You're leaving out the pesky detail that an entirely different experiment with an entirely different sample using an entirely different communication method yielded a very similar result. This is damn interesting. Not conclusive by any mean
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by branden 17y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I wasn't saying anything about China or its citizens specifically, I was just showing that governmental paternalism for an uneducated/low/dumb/weak/however-disadvantaged population can wind up being it

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