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by dominik 18y ago
I don't think he's exploding at all ('cept for maybe the comments about the OpenBSD crowd). He has a very valid point: all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important. Security bugs are just a special case of normal bugs, a test conditi
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by dominik 18y ago
The secrets: 1. Happiness comes from within: "In my adult business life I have never had to make a choice of trading between professional and personal. I tap-dance to work, and when I get there it’s tremendous fun." 2. Find happiness in sim
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by dominik 18y ago
Misleading title. The article talks about Linux distros that look like Windows and ends with this: "Microsoft products will never go open source. The above list is some flavor of Linux distribution targeted at new users with Windows backgr
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by dominik 18y ago
Out of pure artistic curiosity: What did linked article use to make those charts? They look nice.
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by dominik 18y ago
I harbor a strong distaste for CAPTCHAs. At best, they're annoying. At worst, they're infuriating, such as when I simply can't see the letters or when I stumble into a cross-site hosted CAPTCHA that requires JavaScript -- which I have dis
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EULA violations = copyright infringement, even if the violation outside of a EULA isn't(eff.org)
13 points by dominik 18y ago|1 comments
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by dominik 18y ago
A closure is an implementation technique for representing procedures with free variables. -- SICP @ http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...
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by dominik 18y ago
I've made an Internet Law slinkset: http://ilaw.slinkset.com
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Why Felix Dennis thinks now is a good time to start a business(economist.com)
2 points by dominik 18y ago|0 comments
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by dominik 18y ago
A good review; the better parts are where the columnist, Mr. Kristof, describes the book and Mr. Mortenson rather than talking about his own opinion. Most interesting: "To get a school, villagers must provide the land and the labor to assur
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by dominik 18y ago
Filtrbox's own FAQ describes Filtrbox as "a value-add layer between the millions of sources online and your browser or desktop," whatever that means. At $200/year for the cheapest premium option, seems far too expensive. The free option li
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by dominik 18y ago
Some yummy changes; particularly the Wiki-like edit tracking.
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by dominik 18y ago
Excellent! I've been waiting a long while for something like this :) Some suggestions: - When adding a feed, include feed detection code, so that I can type in a URL and have the feed auto-detected, instead of having to find the exact feed
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by dominik 18y ago
I think HN strikes the appropriate balance between good looks and good usability.
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by dominik 18y ago
All that said, I'm uncertain how this article relates to "Hacker News." I can see a tangential relation by "hacking behavior through habits," but it's a stretch.
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by dominik 18y ago
Good read. The article speaks of the power of advertising to create new behavior patterns by influencing the public so that the public doesn't realize it's being influenced. Advocacy groups like the article's subject learned these tactics f
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by dominik 18y ago
There isn't one. All there is an email newsletter that just sends an e-mail every time he posts a new Alertbox. You can subscribe here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ Theoretically you could use email2rss to convert the newsletter into a
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by dominik 18y ago
I used Hulu to keep track of Battlestar Galatica for the early half of this past season. Originally, Hulu posted episodes the day after they aired and didn't include any commercials. However, as the end of the season approached, Hulu -- w
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by dominik 18y ago
Excellent. I can now have a feed to keep track of all replies to my comments. Thank you!
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by dominik 18y ago
If schools didn't do sports, perhaps they could focus more on academics. Unfortunately, as you astutely point out, football and other sports bring in "big crowds paying lots of money" -- something that academic competitions can't bring in.
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by dominik 18y ago
How can you tell if you're popular? I have fond memories of high school, but perhaps because I took just one class there while attending college classes and the local math and science center. Still, I "felt" popular at high school: people
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by dominik 18y ago
I wouldn't quite say unequivocally that those are lies, or at least that true love is a lie. The poem True Love by Nobel Prize Winner Wislawa Szymborska replies better than I can: True love. Is it normal / is it serious, is it practical? /
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by dominik 18y ago
Ah, alas that this essay ends. I hope there will be a follow up which may go into further detail in terms of how to go about erasing. The entire concept of erasing ("unthinking"?) brings to mind the dialogue between Gandalf and Saruman in