dreish

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by dreish 18y ago
Leaving aside the issue of whether this is a valid point, which has been discussed to death already, what exactly are you getting at? Do you imagine the following scenario? Applicant: Pleeze hire me!!! 37signals: You misspelled "plea
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by dreish 18y ago
This seems to be about the only reasonable comment on this page, and yet the ones that are getting upvoted are the ones that are making excuses for mediocrity and criticizing 37signals for using attention to detail as a hiring criterion. (
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by dreish 18y ago
One of the key details I like in this essay is that these people Yegge is referring to are experienced . That implies that for 95% of us, this is something we can still aspire to be someday. ("Every once in a very rare while you'll get a
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by dreish 18y ago
I would assume it is karma bombing in lieu of being able to downvote the dreaded first-amendment post.
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by dreish 18y ago
I learned them because I started programming BASIC when I was 5. (I've recovered, thanks for asking.) I had it down pat, and then I was taught the mouth mnemonic in elementary school, and for some reason for weeks after that I had a hard
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by dreish 18y ago
I don't think that's correct. I believe the first map is percent of total income in the county spent on gas. There's no median involved in that one.
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by dreish 18y ago
To each his own of course, but to me they offer just enough privacy to breed mistrust, and just enough exposure to feed paranoia. It's hard to tease out a central thesis from this article, but I think I would focus on the claim that offices
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by dreish 18y ago
Evidence is still inconclusive on a lot of things, but my list is: #1. Keep your mind active as much as possible. Waste time by working puzzles instead of reading People magazine. Constantly learn new things whether they're useful or not,
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by dreish 18y ago
Ah, you're right. No one has ever been sued for mishandling private data.
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by dreish 18y ago
In the late stages patients tend to be stuck in a fog of anger, confusion, and sadness. Just don't forget that even without a cure, most people don't ever develop Alzheimer's. Prevalence at age 85 is about 25%, and only 1% at age 60. And
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by dreish 18y ago
So, it's settled, then? Entrepreneurs are smart people with ADD who learn to channel their energies toward interesting enough ends? Seems like I've been hearing pretty much that message for most of my life. After all, if you excel at work
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by dreish 18y ago
I suspect it will only end in a courtroom, one way or another.
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by dreish 18y ago
The danger is that this breaks what is supposed to be a taboo, lowers people's resistance to giving out their password by conditioning them to expect that nothing will go wrong, and makes it easier for others to commit fraud. So people get
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by dreish 18y ago
It is painful to be reminded of how poorly so many people watch out for themselves. As an uninterested third party, you can shrug and say, "Every man for himself." But as soon as you start designing web applications that assume people beh
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by dreish 18y ago
The one positive thing I can think to say about this is that it will sting people whose Wintendos have been zombified by spammers. But mostly it reminds me of why I cut all ties to the local cable monopoly last time I moved.
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by dreish 18y ago
And the key there is being able to look at your everyday life and get annoyed by things that aren't as easy or as good as they should be. It takes a certain combination of imagination, creativity, a tendency for thoughts to wander off the
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by dreish 18y ago
On a Mac: System Preferences, search term "Vision". First match should be "white text on black display". Hit enter.
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by dreish 18y ago
Great, now people can make web pages that shut down my Mac!
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by dreish 18y ago
It was pretty easy for me, on my Fedora box: # yum -y install clisp
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by dreish 18y ago
The problems I see with a Bayesian classifier in this application are: 1. Spammers get instant feedback on whether their post was flagged. When they send me email spam, for example, they have no idea how badly they're doing. 2. Spammers ha
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by dreish 18y ago
(Regarding footnote 3) Someone I know who hates wearing suits made reservations at the French Laundry a couple of years ago and reported that when he pressed them to be specific about their dress code, they said, "Well, we think you'll be m
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by dreish 18y ago
1. an AI doesn't (yet) have money, and 2. a $20 bribe would not likely persuade a gatekeeper who would presumably be fired from a salaried job for taking it. Bear in mind that the participants were earnestly interested in settling the quest
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by dreish 18y ago
When I have imagined this scenario, I have concluded it would be sufficient to grant the AI access to the wider Internet. From there, it could amass a fortune, first on poker sites and later with brokerage accounts, and persuade others to
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by dreish 18y ago
You can use it to your advantage at parties: "Ive won two black pencils this year from D&AD!"
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by dreish 18y ago
Yes, glibc in particular uses a very nice PRNG with 992 bits of internal state and good randomness of high and low bits, though it is not cryptographically strong like /dev/urandom. I don't know what one gets on Windows, but from the graph
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by dreish 18y ago
Except it didn't. GDP grew faster in the fifties, with a 90% "millionaire's tax", than it did in the eighties, as top marginal rates were being cut to their lowest levels. Numbers from here: http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/var/r
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by dreish 18y ago
Yes, but not every idea turns out to be a good one. Based on the unanimous jeers every time a PDF submission gets autoconverted, scribd appears not to be one of the good ones. Maybe it's time to try something else.
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by dreish 18y ago
Given the profusion of licenses, that might not be far from a bad idea, though I suspect a trademark licensing fee would not find many takers unless the price were in the $0.01-1.00 per year range. I don't need the phrase anyway -- I call m
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by dreish 18y ago
It certainly is, but I don't think that has anything to do with the question, which was regarding the section of the linked article titled "Opting Out of the System", where the author writes "I can't even use the 'U' word" without giving mu
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by dreish 18y ago
From the article, it sounds to me like Microsoft's biggest problem is that Ballmer's direct reports are tired of dealing with him, and want him to fail. Gates got away with the temper tantrums because everyone at Microsoft had a deep and ab

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