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by ceautery 13y ago
Yeah, seriously. If IBM is good at one thing, it's selling solutions to entities antagonistic to their citizens [1]. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
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by ceautery 13y ago
That was pretty cool, but the image of the 3.5" disk left me groaning anachronistically. Where's my 5.25"? Or better yet, the 8" Wargames-style floppy? Kids these days.
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by ceautery 13y ago
I love the finger-pointing image, it's very "Boy, I'ma tell ya' what..."
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by ceautery 13y ago
Nice! I remember around the time CompuServe bought The Source, CIS was charging based on the speed of your connection (I think $12.80/hr was for a 9600 baud connection). There were several products to minimize your online time that wou
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by ceautery 13y ago
I put forth no such assertion.
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by ceautery 13y ago
I used to work at a phone center for Dominos Pizza. There would occasionally be a need to give this basic size approximation: two 10" (diameter) pizzas are about the same area as one 14". (50/49ths as big as one 14", unl
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by ceautery 13y ago
Well, when they start shipping off your Jewish neighbors to ghettos, then it might be time to make your voice heard. I just don't think "they're spying on you!!" is a good cause to martyr myself. Because we already knew
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by ceautery 13y ago
"Your point has little to do with my argument" - It's unclear what your argument is. In addition to registering for an SSN, we provide images of ourselves as we age for driver's licenses, and some interactions with law e
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by ceautery 13y ago
This is much cooler than Joseph Franklin's Metric Leisure Week proposal.
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by ceautery 13y ago
We do register with the government at birth.
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by ceautery 13y ago
I tend to take the opposite of the popular HN view on security issues (to my karmatic dismay), but... "our government regularly classifies things not because they need to be secret, but because their release would be embarrassing.&quot
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by ceautery 13y ago
1. no; 2. no; 3. yes; 4. no; 5. no; 6. no; 7. no; 8. no; 9. yes; 10. yes - as far as I know, you either love someone or you don't, I don't think it comes in degrees.; 11. yes; 12. no; 13. no; 14. no; 15. yes, but [array of excuses
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by ceautery 13y ago
Yeah, I get it. I just don't feel this level of caution is productive. If you aren't being currently tracked, then your concern is about whether someone can backtrack forensically and find you. I think a simple trip to a public co
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by ceautery 13y ago
"When you are done you must [...] turn off the Wi-Fi before turning off the computer and removing the battery. The dedicated computer should never be used on the network except when..." This is silly on a "behind 7 proxies&qu
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by ceautery 13y ago
I like that Finland has added cloth diapers and taken the bottle out. I wish, though, that sleeping with baby wasn't stigmatized, and that ultrasounds weren't deemed to be expected and normal during prenatal care (you may not hear or feel i
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by ceautery 13y ago
Racism of old white men isn't my conclusion. It's been well studied, e.g.: http://www.naacpldf.org/files/case_issue/Duane%20Buck-FINAL%... http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/arwhite/files/fallernathanw... http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape
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by ceautery 13y ago
"men might actually be better at handling women’s issues than women. They don’t believe in “balance.” They believe in getting what they want, even if" What a ridiculous generalization. And calling wishing to care for your family a women's i
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by ceautery 13y ago
>fixing the root problem in the criminals The root problem is the xenophobia of old white men. http://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/raceinc.html
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by ceautery 13y ago
There was a good discussion about this on Language Hat a few months ago: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004914.php
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by ceautery 13y ago
"The offer is already above my current pay," Take it. And learn how to talk to people, as that will net you more pay over your lifetime than any other skill you build. Your current boss understands that, and is ultimately trying to help you
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by ceautery 13y ago
"Oh, SURE the Macintosh interface is Intuitive! I've always thought deep in my heart that command-z should undo things." -- Margy Levine Genius.
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by ceautery 13y ago
Actually, syntax highlighting + warnings about ambiguity would be just the thing in the article's example. Suggesting that the developer choose between use of an explicit "m" for the pattern matching: whatever m/ 25 ; # / ; die "this dies!
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by ceautery 13y ago
I have no opinion on whether that will motivate people to action. That doesn't change the message, or excuse Facebook's inaction. It's clear from this and similar stories what side of the exalt/subjugate line they tend to choose, regardless
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by ceautery 13y ago
What "Offensive Humor at its Best" is saying is take a woman by force against her will. That's hate speech. By choosing to not take the image down, Facebook is complicit in violence against women.
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by ceautery 13y ago
But will they be using all those CompuServe disks they never sold as hipster coasters? That's what I want to know.
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by ceautery 13y ago
He's also a good example of how a cult of personality can adversely affect one's humility.
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by ceautery 13y ago
Nicely done... right up until the end: "In that world if your game doesn’t run at 60 FPS, you might as well go work at Target." Target made $69 billion dollars last year, and employs 365,000 people; I'd say there's no shame in working there
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by ceautery 13y ago
Totally. Fix the bad grammar, and flesh out what cc/sa means for those unfamiliar with it.
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by ceautery 13y ago
Several years back I was in a meeting with a very extroverted Italian man, well known to the group and a VP of something or other. He was handing out awards of some sort, and doing the extroverted Italian huggy thing. It was endearing, and
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by ceautery 13y ago
I concur with all the Kudos to Jeremy, this is another very nice piece. Bezier curves show up in some unexpected places. I was pretty taken aback when I traced through Java's 2D library [1] and saw that it uses them for circles instead of d

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