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by chavesn 11y ago
It took me a while to realize that they are talking about the number of birthdays listed on the page about March 27[1], not actually combed from all Wikipedia person pages, as I expected from the title. To anyone who knows even a little a
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by chavesn 11y ago
How common are remote radio controllers in historical or modern systems? I think the most interesting part of this article is the use of radio for a wide-area network, even if it only got a passing mention in the article. Some questions I&#
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by chavesn 11y ago
Yes, that is what I am trying to say. Karunamon (above/below[1]) said it better than I did. The WSJ deserves to be compensated for their work if they ask to be (in other words, consumers should not "steal" the content), but
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by chavesn 11y ago
I think you had a branding problem. Yours appeared to be an attack on a brand that is doing good work; this one seems more to be thwarting a sinister publisher practice. Responding to specific criticism from your comments: > It does fee
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by chavesn 11y ago
No, no one should be surprised that a nightly build had problems. Yes, users should know what they are getting into. No, the developer has no obligation to be held to a higher standard of reliability. Yes, the developer can really do whatev
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by chavesn 12y ago
Nice work, love clean and simple data apps like this. (Do they have a good name? E.g., stuff like the NY Times "Upshot" interactive data apps?[1]) Two suggestions: 1. Make the bars consistently positioned and grouped across filte
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by chavesn 12y ago
As an aside -- I have always found this type of sentence formulation, common with software engineers, so mystifying. It would be just as easy to understand without the sentence variables -- it doesn't add clarity but it does add lengt
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by chavesn 12y ago
Too bad the plug is on the end... my guess is that it's impossible to pick an arrangement that works for every TV, but this seems likely to be a problem for wall-mounted TVs like the one in the picture.
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by chavesn 12y ago
This is very beautiful, and it's great -- no, essential -- to think of your users! But speaking of that, please THINK of your users and despise loading times. Hate them with a passion. As they say, kill them with fire! Do NOT
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by chavesn 12y ago
10% is pretty generous for most of the work experts actually do, though. Experts do many things, one of which is to occasionally make predictions, where 10% might be more reasonable. But, for work like imagining how a given goal can be real
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by chavesn 12y ago
Reply to EDIT: Your logical estimation was based on the wholesale elimination of several options, of which, I think "competent but wrong" has the largest possibility. I don't think which I believe and why matters much here, b
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by chavesn 12y ago
In pure logical terms, why is "competent, and erroneously concluded that NK is responsible" not an option? Leaving that out seems based purely on opinion and not in any reported or historical facts. Smart people make mistakes, to
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by chavesn 12y ago
Wishing for ultra-fast delivery with no tipping is NOT the same as wishing for tipping to go away altogether. Tipping is helpful when there is likely to be a high variation in customer service. In a small-item delivery scenario the customer
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by chavesn 12y ago
Of course there will be exceptions, and it wouldn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be better than counting hyphens alone, which the suggestion above inarguably is.
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by chavesn 12y ago
Interesting, though I don't know how this is really relevant to the debate about whether it's appropriate to tell a user that HTTP is insecure but HTTPS is secure (the comment I was replying to questioned that exact point). That&#
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by chavesn 12y ago
I'm not sure I follow your argument. You do realize that you are talking about two different kinds of attack channels right? Cleartext-based attacks and snooping (middleman, network peer) are simply far easier and far more likely. Yo
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by chavesn 12y ago
> Your mother's blog post is mostly about salary, which seems to be beside the point. There's more to life than money. Actually, it's not, it does bring up salary as one point but that's hardly the gist. Some quotes:
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by chavesn 12y ago
Hey, glad to see you're here. Let me clarify. As humble as your position is, I'm trying to say that you should be proud of your success, because there is probably good reason for it. I'm not one to tell you whether you ac
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by chavesn 12y ago
Summary: Hey, I run an awesome company and look at my face on this magazine. Actually, I really am impressed, and it looks like Carson has good reason to brag. That's cool. But I don't feel like there is all that much substance
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by chavesn 12y ago
Exactly. It's going to deter a lot of crimes of opportunity, which I would guess also make up the largest volume of unauthorized device usage.
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by chavesn 12y ago
> if you're not you say "This is way more work than its worth." Because what the hacker mentality gets reinforcement from, is overcoming the 'impossible' (or simply the 'you can't do this') not the
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by chavesn 12y ago
This idea that you have repeated several times... > A front-end developer working with HTML, CSS and Javascript will never EVER need to know how to write an algorithm. > In my 12 years as a developer thus far I have never needed to ..
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by chavesn 12y ago
Ok, but a jigsaw puzzle is sooo not the kind of puzzle that programming is at all about, even the explicit "puzzle" questions that companies like Facebook dish out. I can't even think of one similarity between the two act
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by chavesn 12y ago
This is an interesting point, but I think the source (the graduate now working at one of the "most prestigious employers in the world") may be affected by a healthy dose of the Dunning-Kruger effect[1]. First of all, as a 22-year-
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by chavesn 12y ago
Sorry, I don't have an answer to your question, but in theory, how would it detect an intrusion for automatic notification? It seems to me that detecting a bad operation from a good operation is the same thing as securing the system.
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by chavesn 12y ago
Probably not; seems to me like a pretty dumb thing to do if he wanted any bounty. The domain is nearly as dangerous as the URL, since it leads attackers directly to the vulnerable server(s).
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by chavesn 12y ago
> So Abbott and her husband walked into Buddy’s this past winter, hoping to replace the old sofa in their trailer, six years old, its wiring poking through the bottom, cutting gashes into the living room floor. I once bought a couch se
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by chavesn 12y ago
Trespassing is a good analogy. Neither all laws or violations of laws are equal. On one hand, there are the vandals, or outright criminals, who are using and abusing my property for their gain to my detriment. On the other hand, there&#x27
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by chavesn 12y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't get the joke about what's wrong with "Last 14 days" and "Last 12 months"?
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by chavesn 12y ago
If, as another commenter mentioned, they want every request to update all the data in an app, this is quite an elegant pattern. They don't have to modify any of their restful APIs to fetch or serialize more data than intended. Instead

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