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by djacobs 16y ago
As a fellow molecular bio guy, I agree with you. I like a healthy degree of skepticism, and I think cholesterol is altogether too taboo in the US (to the point where people won't eat eggs, even though it's been shown that people do not abso
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by djacobs 16y ago
'kj' is (for me) even more natural.
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by djacobs 16y ago
One of the more striking points of this article (for me) was not so much about lockpicking. It was this statement: "Some lockpickers observe a code of responsible disclosure by providing manufacturers information on weaknesses they discover
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by djacobs 16y ago
You're right about one thing: there is not much good writing out there. The -ly rule is a pretty established one. These adverbs are almost always pointless. Other adverbs (for example "not" or "almost" or many of the adverb phrases) are mor
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm a fan of show, don't tell. Brilliant.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Usually the rule is "no -ly adverbs" - so perhaps he should have been more explicit. The author's point, though, is that doing so makes for better, clearer writing and that in nine cases in 10, it is the better option. Regarding the passive
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by djacobs 16y ago
> If you would leave out the prologue of the story, and make it into a story where the accusations actually were true. Then noone would have blinked about what happened. If that's true, then we have a huge problem. Basically I'm hearin
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by djacobs 16y ago
My guess: 1. by giving us back control. 2. by giving us data portability.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Okay, then another question: if after you read the title, someone asked you something about the author so that you had to "instantiate" the author in your head, which sex would you think of? Is it likely than anyone would think of a woman?
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by djacobs 16y ago
Question: When you read the title, did you imagine the article was by a female author?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm not sure if I have to, but I have the impression that these spammers look at other spammers' lists for potential new targets, so keeping myself off those lists is (in my mind) a good move. What's more, it sends a signal to the people at
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by djacobs 16y ago
That was my first thought, too. Am I missing something? What does the live video (and "FaceTime", specifically) give me? Can I call gimmick?
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by djacobs 16y ago
What, specifically, about the Linux kernel and Unix structure makes them bad for distributed applications, again?
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by djacobs 16y ago
I just finished reading The Art of Unix Programming . Eric Raymond gives insight into exactly why this is a bad analysis. Regarding the anti-CLI argument: GUIs are helpful for one-time tasks... things that don't require much repetition. Th
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by djacobs 16y ago
I completely agree. I've stopped reading Siegler's pieces for that reason.
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by djacobs 16y ago
aaronblohowiak, I wonder if "pay up front" is analogous to pre-mature optimization? I'm thinking out loud, mainly because I tend to use the simplest syntax possible when coding in languages that allow for multiple syntaxes (i.e., Ruby). Mos
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by djacobs 16y ago
Okay, I'll try this approach. "You" is both intimate and formal today for native English speakers. There is no distinction between the two cases. For the Greeks and Early Modern English and really everyone except "modern" native English spe
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by djacobs 16y ago
@DotSauce Agreed. I keep my account honed to my actual friends and a few other people. When people add me and are clearly not into tech or anything I tweet about, I block them. So far, I've stayed spam-free.
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by djacobs 16y ago
No, I don't believe that's correct. Thou is intimate, you is formal.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I agree with your sentiment but it may well be that his Greek quotation (being written in a far more intricate language than English) indicates this conjugation and pronoun. Just sayin.
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by djacobs 16y ago
> Basically, they make Twitter Facebook. Twitter is not Facebook. Facebook is Facebook. I highly disagree with the author here. I don't use Facebook for data portability and privacy reasons. I also have limitations to what I can stand o
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by djacobs 16y ago
I see in your TODO you want to open stories in a browser. My two cents'? Shell out to Lynx. (Or, of course, whatever someone has BROWSER set to.)
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by djacobs 16y ago
I think his point is that good science strives toward perfection as opposed to being manipulated and twisted to appear relevant.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I mean, I'm a Unix guy so... I know bash. I don't really want to touch PowerShell or C# or .Net or anything of the kind (at work, the first thing I do is start up a Linux VM), but it's interesting to know that there is a way to treat the Wi
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by djacobs 16y ago
That's all I was thinking reading those slides.
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by djacobs 16y ago
I did this about a year ago and have not regretted it. I've also discovered which newsletters I don't need to be getting anymore (not that I've ever subscribed to many)--i.e., the ones that don't send plaintext versions.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Nice. I'm not too into DOS, but this definitely is an easier solution than creating a VFS for the job. Thanks for the pointer.
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by djacobs 16y ago
Intriguing. I hadn't thought of this take on filesystems before. I'm a big fan of text-based config files but am stuck on a Windows machine at work. I wonder, would it be possible to map the registry to a virtual filesystem I could access f
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by djacobs 16y ago
Is it the rendering or the font choice that you don't like? I, for one, install Lucida Grande as my system font and Monaco or Menlo as my monotype font and think the design looks much fresher. Sure, the rendering isn't 100% perfect, but wit
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by djacobs 16y ago
I'm okay with the high lowercase L, but I am with ya re: the lowercase T and S, they ain't so great. Is it just me, or did the lowercase T come straight from the Twitter logo?

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