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by drcube 14y ago
>Every time someone says, "I want to learn to code." They should have a project/task in mind and just go. If there was a list of software projects somewhere, ordered by difficulty, with tips on how to get started and how to extend it la
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by drcube 14y ago
They're almost at the end of the alphabet. What are they going to do next? They won't stop until "Zebra" though.
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by drcube 14y ago
My guess is getting people to scan left to right rather than top to bottom increases ad views.
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by drcube 14y ago
Fluff Busting Purity, nee Facebook Purity, aka F B Purity (fbpurity.com) has been keeping my feed free of spam and other garbage for several years now. They've got a feature that removes timeline (from your view, other people will still see
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm usually the guy who defends science, but I kind of disagree with you here. Science looks for statistical trends. But I'm just one guy. Something could fail for >90% of the population and still work for me. Conversely, something coul
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by drcube 14y ago
It isn't yours if you don't control it. Period. You can use it only by the grace of Apple. If Apple decides you shouldn't use it anymore, it's bricked. If Apple goes out of business, your iphone is worthless. That isn't ownership. Not in my
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by drcube 14y ago
You bought an iPhone because you don't want the ability to be notified of drone strikes?
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by drcube 14y ago
"Apple at its worst" is the chicanery of not letting you own the device they sold you. App store censorship wouldn't be a problem if there were other ways to get the programs you want and/or need.
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by drcube 14y ago
Use Adblock Plus. Problem solved. Google SERP is 100% relevant for me. It's just results, white space and a little bit of UI. If you think advertising is going away or getting scaled back any time soon, you're fooling yourself. Just block t
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by drcube 14y ago
At work, part of my job is to protect my company's data. At home, is there any requirement, legal or otherwise, for me to secure my data if I don't have a desire to?
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by drcube 14y ago
Facebook told everyone their weaknesses for months in advance. Every financial detail was disclosed before the IPO. "Screwing" the buyer implies some sort of dishonesty. If I see an inferior product at an inflated price, I don't buy it. The
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't lock my car, my house or my wifi. This isn't negligence, I do it on purpose. If somebody steals my car and runs over people with it, THEY are at fault, not me. And if somebody downloads "infringing" material over my internet connect
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by drcube 14y ago
I've never bought a deck of cards that was pre-shuffled. I thought casinos had machines that did that for them.
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by drcube 14y ago
If you ask people what they want now, they will say touch screens. That doesn't mean it's the future.
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by drcube 14y ago
Certainly things could go wrong. But I would argue having a set of people in established, stable relationships is better than either A) having unattached astronauts who will inevitably try to start relationships with each other, leading to
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by drcube 14y ago
So you get a set of known stable monogamous couples to go. Or one big polyamourous family.
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by drcube 14y ago
Why isn't artificial gravity considered a solution to extended periods of microgravity? Just spin the ship at the right speed and have the living quarters on the outer rim.
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by drcube 14y ago
How do we deal with it when a judge makes a misjudgement for good laws? Or a panel of experts?
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by drcube 14y ago
Adblock Plus. Check it out. I don't know how anybody surfs the web with ads anymore. It's just a terrible experience.
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by drcube 14y ago
We don't need to get rid of juries, we need to get rid of bad laws that allow these suits to exist in the first place.
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by drcube 14y ago
I love where he says the kernel is about a year away from being finished. :) The interviewer mentioned public domain a couple of times, but Stallman explained how he used copyright+licenses to ensure improvements were passed on as free soft
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BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (1986)(gnu.org)
48 points by drcube 14y ago|39 comments
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by drcube 14y ago
That's 3 minutes per question, given the half hour he allotted. I don't think that's too disappointing. Did you really expect him to answer 12,000 questions?
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by drcube 14y ago
According to NPR yesterday, they also ruled on whether the infringed patents were valid. So yeah, that's the jury's fault.
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by drcube 14y ago
Interesting that as soon as they dump the old Windows logo, they just start using it as the company logo, minus the swoops. That said, however, I like it. I'm a big fan of color, and, while not a big fan of Windows, I've always liked its lo
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by drcube 14y ago
"The Metro interface is Windows 8. The desktop that you’re used to is also there, but it’s built as a separate app. Think of it this way: Metro is the shell. The desktop is an app within that shell. If you want to start Steam, you’ll want t
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by drcube 14y ago
>signing up for multiple, simultaneous sessions and picking best scoring sessions is pretty obviously cheating. Why? Taking the course multiple times sequentially is potentially okay, but taking it multiple times in parallel is "obvious
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by drcube 14y ago
Who hired the Bs?
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by drcube 14y ago
I don't think "prehistoric" implies a specific number of years so much as it means "Before people could write down their history". I don't know if this applies to Britain circa 600 BC or not.
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by drcube 14y ago
On the one hand, assembly developers are just assembler end users. If you don't directly manipulate the silicon, you're only a plumber. On the other hand, ifttt and excel are both programs for crunching information, same as a compiler. They

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