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by davidp 13y ago
Yes. Debian has its own restrictions on one of its own logos. See the terms on their restricted use logo on their Logos page[1]; they reserve the right to assert copyright privilege in the same way. [1]: http://www.debian.org&#
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by davidp 13y ago
> does "clearly, not cleverly" essentially go out the window when the pro programmers get their hands on things? No. Mature software tends to accumulate requirements ("1) must work and 2) must be fast and/or small&quo
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by davidp 13y ago
The problem is that the DSM has become the de facto authority on what exactly constitutes an illness -- i.e is coverable by insurance. If your problem isn't in the DSM, insurers can in many cases safely deny coverage. So now we have t
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by davidp 13y ago
It doesn't have to be illegal for it to be a weapon in the wrong hands. "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Lavabit Party?" [1] "Your Honor, respected members of the jury: In 2013 Mr. Karana donated fund
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by davidp 13y ago
-- Edit: parent was deleted; the suggestion was about a solution to use http instead of https. -- Security nerd mode activated; solutions like this make me a little twitchy, even when I have to employ them myself. At the risk of stating so
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by davidp 13y ago
"Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by davidp 13y ago
I'm not sure about "irresponsible," unless you mean in the sense that he might impact his own future earnings and jeopardize his kids' college education etc. On the other hand, if he honestly felt that Snowden did the ri
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by davidp 13y ago
Static typing gives you useful things (with a trade off), not having to write tests isn't one of them. I disagree; static typing is, effectively, having an automatic set of tests automatically run for (by the compiler) you tha
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by davidp 13y ago
From the article (emphasis mine): Analysts were warned to follow existing “minimization rules,” which prohibit the N.S.A. from sharing with other agencies names and other details of Americans whose communications are collected
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by davidp 13y ago
Thanks for this. Does "mainline" mean "unstable/development"? I briefly looked around on nginx.org but couldn't find a description of the difference.
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by davidp 13y ago
Nice. It looks like the "pure markdown" part is built into reveal.js now: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#external-markdown Might this also address your requirement to read new slideshows (via browser r
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by davidp 13y ago
Completely unrelated: I zoomed out on your Google Maps link and saw a suspiciously circular lake formation: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=cap+chat+quebec&hl=en&ie=UTF8... Yep, it's the 4th most powerful known
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by davidp 13y ago
Because without some rudimentary numbers like the ones he's talking about, everyone involved can escape accountability -- the politicians, the contractors, the public (since they can claim to have been "misled" and not feel g
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by davidp 13y ago
Thanks for your comments. I hope it didn't sound like I was negatively comparing numpy's array/sequence operations to anything. I know very little about numpy, and I assume that "real" numpy solutions don't l
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by davidp 13y ago
I made a few more interesting (to me) measurements. As always, you have to measure your performance with your actual input data to see what's "best". Test 1: Boring, small array of integers In [28]: arr = range(0, 300)
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by davidp 13y ago
Indeed. Personally I'm surprised there aren't more comparisons to travel restrictions placed on black people during the Jim Crow era. Restricting someone's mode of travel even domestically, in such a way that they are at a
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by davidp 13y ago
Thanks for the link. The desks look gorgeous, but I'll be honest: the absence of even ballpark pricing and the presence of prominent financing offers make me a bit leery of looking further.
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by davidp 13y ago
I imagine it's something along the lines of "ok device, you have 10ms to play with the link before anyone's watching, do what you need to do." For example, electrically detecting the wattage of the power supplied over t
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by davidp 13y ago
> they'd argue the risk for abuse is outweighed by the consequences of terrorism( I statement I'd disagree with) Precisely, and I agree with your disagreement there. They tout "zero deaths from terrorism" as though t
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by davidp 13y ago
I agree with most of your points actually. It's the problem that I was addressing with "who are themselves subject to scrutiny"; note that somehow we find that corrupt judges are the exception rather than the rule, in no sma
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by davidp 13y ago
Gen. Alexander, Obama, Bush, Feinstein, all these people's arguments basically boil down to "trust us." I always want to ask those people this question: Sure, maybe you're a trustworthy, good man. What mechanism is in
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by davidp 13y ago
Xen/XenSource seemed to go OK.
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by davidp 13y ago
In Chrome's F12 tools I see three _utm.gif requests from the article itself. According to http://utmgifparser.appspot.com/ , the three requests appear identical except for the "X10 data" ('utme'); n
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by davidp 13y ago
I am simultaneously intrigued by the possibilities of functional programming, and horrified by the ways it can take people off into the weeds. Were I to use Haskell in a real-world project with teammates, I'd have to keep an iron grip
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by davidp 13y ago
> but, like half of HN, doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to radiological safety I think you're being awfully generous to HN... But seriously, the key takeaway from articles like this one is that marijuana
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by davidp 13y ago
I like the attention Chomsky brings to the NSA surveillance problem, but I think he does Snowden a disservice by using him in any kind of comparison to the true terrorists he lists. In attempting to point out the unevenness of America&#x2
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by davidp 13y ago
It's indeed a classic. I think one reason why there's relatively little discussion is that in the intervening years Dijkstra has been proven so correct that there's relatively little to say. But I suspect that the main reaso
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by davidp 13y ago
Agreed; although the only thing worse than not finding it is finding it all over the place. I've worked with Python code where the developer liked to use member names like "type" and "id" -- my 'ag' outpu
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by davidp 13y ago
I'm no fan of the recent fourth amendment violations, but the NSA's response is actually reasonable here given its proper mission. Re-read this section, but imagine the requester was asking for information on whether the NSA had
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by davidp 13y ago
When you're in business or divorce negotiations and your adversary "knows a guy" who can track your movement and communications, you won't fare very well. Someone who secretly has access to Warren Buffett's movement

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