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by conanite 16y ago
Strange, there were no posts complaining how reddit is turning into HN. What would be reddit's equivalent of erlang articles?
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by conanite 16y ago
The phone "may very well run on pure spite, in lieu of the traditional battery." No matter how badly flash sucks, Adobe at least gets to play the underdog card now.
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by conanite 16y ago
In 3 or 6 months his wife has a small baby to deal with. As far as I can tell (I'm not the right gender), babies are easier to deal with while they're still inside.
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by conanite 16y ago
I accept your point about the cameras. The movie in question also covers other kinds of privacy leaks. Another way to research a documentary about privacy, or lack thereof, would be to go do a bunch of interviews with detectives, police, an
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by conanite 16y ago
Why ridiculous? It's the story of a guy who hires two detectives to track him down, his attempts to evade them, and their techniques for catching him. It's an interesting experiment, well worth documenting. He comes across as a bit paranoid
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by conanite 16y ago
Currently, A New Approach To China, 1125 points. See http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points
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by conanite 16y ago
I wonder would James Chartrand have been found out ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994284 [Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants]
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by conanite 16y ago
Amazing that [to, to, on, my, to, on, be, on, to, to ... etc] can reveal so much. One of the linked articles ( http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/r... ) describes how the relative frequency of the use of "I" in com
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by conanite 16y ago
The video in the article shows him in various postures, but never moving. I wonder why this is so. The video mentions (4'18") that the same team studied another guy, mechanical engineer Mr Manek, who survives only on boiled water: "They con
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A distributed social network(joindiaspora.com)
1 points by conanite 16y ago|0 comments
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by conanite 16y ago
It doesn't scare me as a user - it scares me that yet another device encouraging passive consumerism may become immensely popular. It's sad to become used to hearing "I can't cook/sing/draw/dance/code/whatever" - I would rather live in a
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by conanite 16y ago
Will somebody please forward this to the ACTA negotiators?
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by conanite 16y ago
This is a media consumption device. I'm trying too hard to create things on it This is the bit that scares me.
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by conanite 17y ago
It would seem fair to argue that "rwxrwxrwx" is explicit permission to read your files!
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No Software Patents in New Zealand?(passthesource.org.nz)
5 points by conanite 17y ago|0 comments
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by conanite 17y ago
While siculars makes a reasonable comment about authoritarian creep, I would argue that the discussion hasn't reached the required length for Godwin's law to kick in, and the comment might have better been kept for a little later. It's also
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by conanite 17y ago
For me, coming from java, macros and closures were the two concepts that were completely alien and made a huge difference. Java provides a lot of structure (packages, classes, interfaces) that result in a lot of reassuring boilerplate code.
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by conanite 17y ago
Whatever new word they come up with, it will eventually sound sexy, too, assuming it sticks. Rebelling against self-destructive authoritarianism == sexy, no matter what you call it.
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by conanite 17y ago
More detail on why and where classic novels were banned here: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychall... Hailing from the Emerald Isle, I find it embarrassing how many of these books were banned in Ireland.
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by conanite 17y ago
When I visited London and saw notices with "There is currently a Good Service on All Lines", my immediate reaction was "why is this news?" By announcing their successes it seemed to underscore their users' low expectations of the system.
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by conanite 17y ago
The author seems like a competent internet user. I wonder though what happens to the intersection of people with her privacy needs and the people who don't know how to login to facebook?
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by conanite 17y ago
the U.S. military found pirated drone video feeds on other militant laptops What is the meaning of "pirated" here? Are they going to sue militants for copyright infringement?
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by conanite 17y ago
You mean the nth user gets a refund when the (2n)th user buys? As n approaches +inf.0, the incentive approaches zero. So it's likely to encourage early adopters, and not latecomers. But usually (I believe) the early adopters need no extra m
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by conanite 17y ago
I agree, the point about employment was nitpicking. I should have made that clearer. I liked the essay overall.
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by conanite 17y ago
The author argues that failed software projects are nonetheless beneficial: Their development employs many bureaucrats, consultants and contractors and their expenditure supports an even larger number of people throughout society. ... by
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by conanite 17y ago
... soap characters are typically well-educated and have few children. And they prove to be extraordinarily powerful role models: Simply giving a village access to cable TV [...] has the same effect on fertility rates as increasing by five
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by conanite 17y ago
The law unfortunately is our best effort at drawing a clear line (i said, "best effort") between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. I'm not sure there is any hypothetical legal system that could eliminate every one of these scam busines
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by conanite 17y ago
I remember seeing a urinal with a miniature propeller-like device attached to the grill at the bottom. Using a suitable jet of water, a visitor could make the propeller spin at great speed. Apparently, these things almost eliminate spillage
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by conanite 17y ago
Isn't there a huge hole in the market where there should be a quality mobile device running a completely open platform? Such a device would blow the iphone appstore away, I think.
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by conanite 17y ago
It would be interesting to see a video of two 1959 cars crashing compared to a video of two 2009 cars crashing. It's nice to have a tank, but if everyone has tanks, maybe I'm not better off.

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