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by davidp 13y ago
This takes me back to 20 years ago when I was studying Japanese. Their traditional (pre-Arabic-numerals) system uses four-digit groupings instead of three: There are characters for ten, hundred, thousand, and ten-thousand. (I assume Chi
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by davidp 13y ago
Similar to Scott Hanselman's "Your Words Are Wasted", a more impactfully written (IMO) piece about the same problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403558
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by davidp 13y ago
> without paying anything directly. Whether it's better/cheaper to pay directly or indirectly is a separate issue worthy of its own debate, but either way TNSTAAFL.
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by davidp 13y ago
> "I have no idea of this stuff, can anyone of my constituents explain to me how and why to vote on that" That is precisely the primary function of lobbyists, as distasteful as it sounds when that word is used. Many lobbyists a
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by davidp 13y ago
When using github, do you keep all of your code in a single repo? If not, have you found any solutions to the "fragmentation" problem where it's hard to get a big picture view due to issues being scattered across different repos? We're lo
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by davidp 13y ago
The first job of the respondent is to validate the input so that the right problem gets solved. > I've lost count of how many times I've seen the Can't Happen mindset delay resolution of an issue. It's a genuine problem. Agreed. > W
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by davidp 13y ago
That quote was the zinger for the article for me too. But electrifying claims like that one should automatically be received with a healthy amount of skepticism; I was disappointed that the author presented the quote bare without any balan
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by davidp 13y ago
I think it's simply a suggestion to compensate for the lack of social context that we all know exists in text-based communication. If we were working down the hall from each other I could pop my head in and ask you a quick question with eno
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by davidp 13y ago
You disagree that this is a systemic problem, while finding people to blame throughout the system...?
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by davidp 14y ago
"The idea that Aspie individuals are paragons of logic and reason is misguided." I certainly agree with this; I was simply offering a positive take on some of the "hyperlogical" behaviors described in the article and elsewhere, e.g. buildin
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by davidp 14y ago
Amplifying your different-not-worse theme: I sometimes wonder whether the human species would be better off if everyone had a strong case of what we call Asperger's. So many tribal/cultural conflicts arise because of people's ability to
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by davidp 14y ago
App Engine has support. We've found them to be helpful so far. https://cloud.google.com/support/packages
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by davidp 14y ago
Such a rule-of-thumb needs a crucial caveat (said by others better than I'll say it here): You need N years of steadily, deliberately advancing full-time work. There's a fundamental difference between gaining 10 years of experience, and
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by davidp 14y ago
I was curious so I went and looked: Mostly true, according to their SEC filings[1]. On page 28 of their 2012 10-K[2] we see their net earnings: 2012: $76M 2011: ($276M) 2010: ($677M) 2009: ($1088M) 2008: ($454M) So they juuuust squea
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by davidp 14y ago
Because technically[1] the US comprises 50 independent states[2]. Each is free to conduct its affairs freely except for specific powers reserved for the federal government[1]. Today people think of "the United States" as both a singular no
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by davidp 14y ago
The killer feature is that nontechnical Mac and Windows users can click a link emailed from anyone on their team who is already using the app, and get seamless group chat across platforms, without calling the IT department to set up a serve
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by davidp 14y ago
Names don't normally survive intact when crossing languages; even more so when crossing multiple languages (original -> Greek -> Latin -> English). Examples from Wikipedia: - The Greek name for Alexander is Alexandros (Ἀλέξανδρο
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by davidp 14y ago
What if lockdown worked in such a way that you could lock it down to only run your Linux kernels? E.g. load up your own certificate in the TPM and use that for signing when you build. In that case it would be a security feature -- another
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by davidp 14y ago
> It's weird that they start with Github. I don't think it's safe to assume that they started with Github.
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by davidp 14y ago
> "We were just following orders" and "We were just doing our jobs" and "We were doing what the law told us to do" aren't the indefensible moral positions you seem to think they are. Careful; that's a double-edged sword. Would you pref
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by davidp 14y ago
If you said "results" instead of "effort" it would ring even more true. In the real world effort doesn't matter as much as results. "Trying your best" is just a means to the end of getting maximum results, and doesn't in itself earn much
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by davidp 14y ago
Well, > "... the hackathon’s goal is to come up with technological answer to the problems of meat supply, processing, distribution, health and ultimately consumption. One of big problems the group will tackle is how — simply put — to ge
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by davidp 14y ago
Here's the thing, though: You have to assume that they are correct. If one believes that they are incorrect, he is effectively stating that he (someone thinking abstractly in the absence of any hard data) is better at pricing the value o
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by davidp 14y ago
It's better to treat matters of law as orthogonal to matters of morality, since the latter depends very much on the subjective judgment of the observer. Example: A company, acting "morally" as you define, pays more tax than it is required
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by davidp 14y ago
> It's that the price you're paying for the product is too low for them to provide general support on an individual basis. Exactly. It's always puzzled me why they don't offer a higher tier of support for more money. The only reason I'
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by davidp 14y ago
Yes. Basically it's giving 3rd parties (content owners) a self-service account in Mega's admin tools so that they can take down items without involving Mega, and in this case to verify that the content is infringing they'd have to have the
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by davidp 14y ago
My inner civil libertarian cheers at this, although one wonders how useful a public storage locker is without any associated content discovery tools. But my inner policeman hesitates. If actual bad guys (organized crime, drug cartels, spie
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by davidp 14y ago
> Was Lucas trying to say something about the inevitable result of the military industrial complex? You're giving Lucas far too much credit. Exhibit A: "Nooooooooooooooo" Edit: Agreed, TIE Fighter was a stupendously great game. It cap
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by davidp 14y ago
Your second sentence is true: Private censorship isn't the same as public censorship; you have no fundamental right to free speech in a context owned by someone else (private website, physical business, physical home, etc.). But your first
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by davidp 14y ago
That's when you turn to using multiple data streams/connections/endpoints. Funnelling multiple data streams with different needs over a single mechanism (TCP, or UDP, or smoke signals) only yields misery, sadness, and death.

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