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by dgreensp 15y ago
Anyone who knows enough about the stock market to attempt such an article owes it to readers to educate rather than fear-monger, with wild unexplained references to being raped by Warren Buffett for so much as buying a stock. It's true that
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Well, this again is a very hacker-centric perspective. Even if it's truly important that someone be able to surreptitiously copy all of JSTOR once in a while for the sake of innovation, who is in a position to let him off based on that? Pl
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Yeah, it was a joke, though maybe too close to the realm of possibility.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
This website's bizarre mix of imitation and over-explaining reminds me of some earnest but vacuous manual for a foreign knock-off product. "Press the File menu," I expect it to say, "and a beautiful pull-down fades quickly into view, with u
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by dgreensp 15y ago
It's definitely illegal, but some are trying to paint it as not sketchy, in what I think are disingenuous ways.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
What Aaron did sounds seriously sketchy (sneaking into MIT wiring closets, trying to download the entire database, etc.), a fact that Demand Progress and several commenters here seem to be ignoring. Defending his actions would require a v
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Exactly. Given that Dropbox is still on a growth curve and it's time to raise more money, you can bet that Drew is being very shrewd in maximizing his valuation and keeping from needing to raise another round any time soon.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
And more to the point, "do what you love" can save you from squandering that very luxury. I think many of us were handed down an old ethic of sacrificing your dreams to pay the bills that may or may not apply to our own lives.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
To pick a nit, I don't think the human, "cognitive" strategy really has any "back-off." In my experience (playing Monorail!) the "fast" approach is basically guess, repair, repair, repair, ... If you're trying to keep a mental stack of ten
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Exactly. Be prepared to be bullied by Shazam -- at least, that's what happened the last time someone posted audio fingerprinting code online. And inventing something yourself doesn't save you from patents. I'll be watching from the sidel
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I read these papers in grad school in 2007. Apparently he's been working on commercializing it ever since. This guy is the real deal.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
He stretches the point a bit far. When he's talking about "isolation" broadly, I can maybe see the point -- lack of role models, mentors, references, people to help get your foot in the door at your first job. (I have no idea if this is "
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by dgreensp 15y ago
No one has mentioned that modules/packages hold together code that shares concepts . Surely getting rid of Java packages and keeping the classes would be far less extreme than what Joe is suggesting for Erlang -- yet then we would have
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Generalities aside, the criticism of the post stands. It's pretty vacuous, offering no new information or insight. Some writers online actually do have knowledge of Google's or Microsoft's position with respect to Skype, so when they say
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by dgreensp 16y ago
From what I understand about Dropbox's anti-piracy system, he's talking about what they do when, say, someone posts a public link to "Spiderman.3.DVDRip.avi" in a forum in China. This obvious and illegal use of Dropbox is a big liability,
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Answerers on Quora seem to agree that Apple is undervalued by the market based on a fundamental analysis: http://www.quora.com/Is-Apple-AAPL-a-value-stock-now Seems like the point of the article is sound, though did anyone else find it m
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by dgreensp 16y ago
I think it depends a lot on the situation. A non-programmer who reports a blatant bug in a "mainstream" app like Firefox or VLC, if they press too much or one of the devs is insecure, may eventually get a cold "you could always submit a pa
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Watch out world, here comes sloiw.com!
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by dgreensp 16y ago
It sounds to me like you are just debating the semantics of "good rapper" in a way independent of the article.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Great explanation, Aaron, I agree 100%. It's great to hear how much the product was/is loved! Note that Wave's editor and OT really blew us away -- all of our "unique technology" was matched or exceeded in sophistication by Wave's! You cou
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Apple's gcc is freely available and open source. If you have a specific reason for non-programmers to need a C compiler on their machine, you can even make an installer for it.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
The issue is truly the stupid one you mention. But it makes sense if you think about it from the point of view of a company whose business is "secure hardware" to bash the Square hardware as somehow being "insecure".
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by dgreensp 16y ago
The author seems to have a bit of a money fixation. She is obsessed with how much money she has -- her blog graphs her net worth publicly! -- and with the image of thriftiness. Saying that someone who orders an appetizer at a restaurant,
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Agree completely. I met my girlfriend on Match.com (after using Match and OkCupid casually for a year or so). I sent tons of messages (in total) to girls I wasn't sure I had a chance with (heaven forbid I message someone "out of my league"
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Great, so now that we have... this... people can upload leaks.. somewhere and OpenLeaks will do the hard part of... something...
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by dgreensp 16y ago
I think you nailed it on the last sentence. Google originally started selling a phone directly to consumers with no carrier involved, but gave up on the idea because they weren't able to sell enough units.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Who says your new employer has to pay you your old salary? Don't lie, just ask for the salary you want. If you're worried about the "what was your old salary" question, see: http://bit.ly/fy9zDt
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by dgreensp 16y ago
For many individual developers and most companies, a permissive free software license like BSD may be a better choice than a restrictive one like GPL. Companies like Google are releasing all sorts of code under BSD on the off chance it gets
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by dgreensp 16y ago
No one should have to suffer what this particular man suffered. Holy crap that's depressing.
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by dgreensp 16y ago
Regression tests for a parser or compiler are by FAR the best application of test suites; they don't make a good defense of testing in general. I wish the tests I was forced to write at MIT and Google -- I think I even wrote unit tests for

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