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by donbright 8y ago
one interesting thing is that the BBS would have been impossible if the government hadn't forced AT&T to allow people to hook their own chosen devices into the telephone network. In other words, in the old days, phones did not have
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by donbright 8y ago
i find that fascinating... this is the kind of thing certain builder philosophy would say "no user would ever notice", but users do notice and it bugs them. meanwhile, we can also get an insight into the internal social dynamics o
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by donbright 8y ago
my favorite example of this is Outlook showing the attachments to an incoming email in a tiny little window that is kind of invisible, with a scroll bar that is also kind of invisible, so its hard to tell if you have one attachment, or two
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by donbright 8y ago
especially since alot of fast food spots are not owned by the fast food company, they are owned by the franchisee who in all senses of the word, except for meeting xyz standards of the brand, operates an independent business entity. next th
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by donbright 8y ago
70s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, get an education" 80s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, quit and get another one" 90s conservatives: "If you don't like your job, start your o
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by donbright 8y ago
That is no problem. We had our comments scattered out into separate pieces, each doing their own thing in a non-standard comment idiom. In order to simplify and organize things better, I have created commentd which will combine them all int
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by donbright 8y ago
i spent a lot of time trying to make nix the 'standard build environment' for an open source project. it was going really really well, even on top of standard distros like ubunutu, redhat, etc. the problem is OpenGL and Nvidia. Ni
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by donbright 8y ago
"Because the Portable Service concepts introduces zero new metadata and just builds on existing security and resource bundling features of systemd it's implemented in a set of distinct tools, relatively disconnected from the rest
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by donbright 8y ago
im glad modern civilizations never sacrifice young people for insane belief systems.
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by donbright 8y ago
I've lived in many a city in "flyover country" and I think it's long overdue. The result of plunging sales tax revenue due to online shopping, for a lot of places, is bridges falling apart, underfunded police agencies, t
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by donbright 8y ago
that was interesting however at the end he says all their papers are at ctlab.org, which is now a parked domain...
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by donbright 8y ago
Does it also mean you should try your hardest to obey stupid rules? Since you may not realize whether it's stupid or not until you have more experience than the person who made it?
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by donbright 8y ago
Does it really matter if you know you operate in an environment where deviance is normalized? To me, it seems like realizing that you are in a cult. You aren't going to change the cult behavior because you aren't going to change h
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by donbright 8y ago
Q "But don't we sell the same kind of data to our paying customers?" X "Yes, but when we do it, it's not doxxing" Q "Why not?" X "Because we would never do it for any nefarious reason" Q &qu
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by donbright 8y ago
you know what would be interesting... is if there was some kind of equivalent for dtrace or strace or gdb.. but instead of collecting statistics on performance or call trees of functions, it could instead tell you statistics on who wrote th
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by donbright 8y ago
This actually happened to Theranos itself. In the book (Bad Blood by Caryiyou), there is this old genius medical guy who is in a family fued with Elizabeth's family, he hears about Theranos early on in their development, thinks his way
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by donbright 8y ago
no, it is the stereotypes that are inaccurate. not the article. it would be more accurate if people stopped believing in stereotypes.
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by donbright 8y ago
Anyone who was accepted to Stanford in the early 1970s was, by definition, not an average person. That's the whole point of being accepted at Stanford. I'm not saying it means Ivy League students are more likely to be psychopaths,
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by donbright 8y ago
The Wall Street Journal is the only reason the company was outed. This same journal was also one of her early boosters. We already have a framework that preserves independence of the media, the First Amendment. All of the NDAs and Boies sty
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by donbright 8y ago
Yes, if I am interested in European history, and after reading the novels of Sofi Oksanen, I feel as if the past is illuminated by the stories like Estonia's. It is hard for me to truly understand the massive shift in 'way of life