calroc

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by calroc 13y ago
Ah, I'll buy that. Thanks.
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by calroc 13y ago
Hacker News? (Maybe I'm not getting it. That happens a lot.)
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by calroc 13y ago
Hacker News?
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by calroc 13y ago
I regret saying this already, but, uh, overweight men are also subjected to unfair judgement.
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by calroc 13y ago
They should include the Tesla Turbine. Only one moving part.
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by calroc 13y ago
Heck yeah blame the human race! If it wasn't for humans none of this would be happening! (heh.)
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by calroc 13y ago
I'm from SF. People should realize that politics in this town (and Berzerkeley) are infused with an entire cottage industry of lunatics and freaks. Watch SFGOV public access to see what I mean. People sing songs, rant, dress up in w
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by calroc 13y ago
Can we be sure these principles are misguided if no one sticks to them?
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by calroc 13y ago
Is "retroreflective" anything like a phase conjugate mirror?
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by calroc 13y ago
Is it weird that OpenBSD struggles to keep the juice on in the post-Snowden era?
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by calroc 13y ago
This is bullshit. It got me so riled up I went and blogged about it: http://calroc.blogspot.com/2014/01/love-is-power.html (It is cool to post links to own stuff in a comment like this? I'm new to HN.) tl;d
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by calroc 13y ago
Okay, what are they? And I mean cons from the POV of users (and hosts are users too in this sense) not from the POV of an unnecessary commercial organisation overlaid (overlain?) on the infrastructure. I'm not being snarky here, I&#x2
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by calroc 13y ago
Bandwidth is infrastructure, like roads. It should be managed by civic authority for civic benefit, not exploited to increase private wealth. Do you actually want to deal with a biased pipe?
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by calroc 13y ago
Cheers, I will do.
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by calroc 13y ago
Holy cow, I think you DO sort of understand what I was saying! :-) Obviously I don't know enough about Node.js to put it down (and from what you've said if I knew it better I think I'd like it.) Cheers (and I will check out
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by calroc 13y ago
First: Respect. Sorry for pissing you off. I was acting like a troll and I don't usually do that. I'm having a bad day. Thank you for calling me on my B.S. in a way that I can really relate to and respect. Next: Yes, I'm i
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by calroc 13y ago
Um, as long as you're asking ME what to do... Node.js should vanish (except for where it is already deployed and useful, in maintenance/legacy mode) and all those really smart and talented people currently wasting their time on it
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by calroc 13y ago
Twisted is (would have been) a better choice because it is (was) already done. (And done really really well.) To me it feels like people are busily (and happily) rewriting a lot of stuff in JS that might just be written better in some othe
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by calroc 13y ago
All points for working code, and let me confess ignorance up front right now. Really my irk comes down to something along the lines of, "Well why not write it in Go or something? Why JS?" and thinking that the only really good ans
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by calroc 13y ago
I agree with you except that you left out the only really important (in my opinion) part of his pretty trivial message: "Sometimes unexpected things happen, and people are bad at expecting the unexpected, and then they FAIL TO NOTICE t
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by calroc 13y ago
Faulty frame. Try it with other basic infrastructure: "The more money I think I can make by owning ROAD infrastructure, the more I will invest to build it now." See the flaw?
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by calroc 13y ago
Oh no, nothing so prosaic as that. (For the record I am in favor of making a [good!] living via open-source software.) The scam is this: I believe that Node.js is waaay too immature to be used as a foundational technology, yet so many peo
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by calroc 13y ago
There are no "cons" to net neutrality. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous at best and duplicitous at worst. The idea that we won't get enough bandwidth in the future unless the telecos et. el. are allowed to play gatekeepe
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by calroc 13y ago
I started reading that book and I thought he was a genius, but then, right abut the point where he starts bagging on the Uncertainty Principle, I realized that he's actually kind of an idiot. The book does make a good point though.
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by calroc 13y ago
Node.js is a scam.
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by calroc 13y ago
It bothers me that otherwise intelligent people are taking so long to realize that ubiquitous surveillance is never going away. I would have exterminated humanity in the 80's if it hadn't been for ubiquitous surveillance.
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by calroc 13y ago
Um this is just babble, and not about hacking?
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by calroc 13y ago
This is, of course, the only safe (for the speaker) way to admit to normals what s/he is. Otherwise it is torches and pitchforks with you people. (Normal humans are far more frightening than any psychopath. ;-)
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by calroc 13y ago
Bucky figured out most of the problems we would be facing about now, and many of the solutions. He pointed out that, if we used our technology to efficiently supply our needs, we would be able to work for about two years and then retire ha
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by calroc 13y ago
"Don't silence KeyboardInterrupt or SystemExit. We aren't monsters." Hahahahha

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