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by drhayes9 10y ago
That's true, by about 10:1. Are you saying that we shouldn't bother licensing electricians or getting permits for electrical work because people are burning down houses in fires? It feels like you're presenting this as some k
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by drhayes9 10y ago
I don't know how I feel about this issue. Haven't decided. But if my neighbor miswires a light switch and it starts a fire that burns my house down because they're close together, that would suck. In that situation, I would h
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by drhayes9 10y ago
The best online communities I've been a part of have been the focused ones built around concrete discussions. I have problem X, let's talk about some solutions A, B, and C, that kind of thing. There doesn't seem to be a way o
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by drhayes9 10y ago
In this specific instance, I wonder if some people, when panicking about their courses or under a deadline, are comforted by the notion that a TA is out there and willing to help them.
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by drhayes9 10y ago
Atom and VS Code listen to your .gitignore when showing a folder of files. Quick searches ignore those files as well. In Atom those folders/files are still openable (the explorer pane thingy shows them as grayed out). To get the same f
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by drhayes9 10y ago
Well... the Kano distro is pretty good for "I'm gonna learn how to type and move around the computer". [1] They have a build-a-computer kit and are coming out with a screen soon? It's a little old for my son, though. It
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by drhayes9 10y ago
I've had a lot of success with a Raspberry Pi 3 and a 15" monitor. My 3 1/2 year old learned how to use a mouse nearly instantly and can click around on the desktop. The Pi is $35 and has HDMI out and lots of USB ports. It&#x
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by drhayes9 10y ago
I learned to program on an Apple ][, where the programming environment was always a CTRL+RESET away. BASIC was great. I carefully typed long programs that I found in the back of computer magazines, broke them by changing stuff, and fiddled
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“Mika Model” – Short Story by Roberto Bacigalupi(slate.com)
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by drhayes9 10y ago
You know what? I'm totally off my rocker, not sure what I thought I was responding to. Sorry! Wish I could delete my original comment!
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by drhayes9 10y ago
I don't think that's true. Tchaikovsky's "Rite of Spring" caused riots when it was premiered. The audience was laughing derisively, getting into fights, throwing things... and this was at a ballet! Galleries and mus
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by drhayes9 11y ago
One of my faves to ask my interviewers is, "Given a month of time to work on it, what would you work on in your current product?" The question is worded such that it's not offensive and doesn't sound like a "trying
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by drhayes9 11y ago
The whole second act of the musical puts Hamilton's worse qualities on display: his over-consideration with his legacy, his centralization of banking power to further his own rise to power, his hot temper and fondness for duels. I thin
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by drhayes9 11y ago
When you say "technical standpoint", do you mean the graphics? 'Cuz I think the accessibility provided by browser-based MMOs is the best feature: no download, no install, available anywhere there's a browser. AFAIK there
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by drhayes9 11y ago
My favorite resource for news about HTML5 and gaming is http://www.html5gamedevs.com/ . You should also check out itch.io and filter for browser games: https://itch.io/games/platform-web The "bigge
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by drhayes9 11y ago
My favorite thing about EventSource/ServerSentEvents is that reconnection is handled for you by the browser. EventSource also works over straight HTTP without need to renegotiate the protocol, which is nice for hosts that don't su
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Bruce Sterling wrote about the raid as part of his book "The Hacker Crackdown". As far as I know, the sting against SJG "Cyberpunk" was part of Operation Sundevil, a larger-scale federal effort to suppress this vaguely p
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Not if the shared key is present in the host computer already, which it'd have to be if the host process is to decrypt anything.
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Wow, this is word-for-word how my brain works. I don't hear words when I read and I tend not to see pictures in my head despite being a very spatial person. This is really neat! Thanks for articulating this! Whenever the book turns int
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Yeah, absolutely. I think you could do a circle of trust thing with other networks so that if A trusts B and B trusts C then messages could flow from A to C and back again. That could mitigate the pingback spam problem: not just anybody cou
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Pretty sure some federated social network is gonna win. Enclaves that are run by some tech-minded friend like BBSes, I dunno.
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by drhayes9 11y ago
I second the Gene Wolf recommendation. Huge fan of China Mieville, but that's closer to "new weird" than "fantasy". Mieville's books are complex and gripping.
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What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It's True(vimeo.com)
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Awesome Atom(github.com)
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How to program independent games (2001)(youtube.com)
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Do you have any recommendations for a music player that isn't iTunes?
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Sorry, I read it as an attack on the argument as a whole rather than a straight fact-check. I knew her employment situation when I wrote the comment and thought the factual citations were refutations instead of context. So yeah: I'm so
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by drhayes9 11y ago
As I've pointed out elsewhere: the original claim was "...[c]laims of harassment are easy to make". Are you voting that they are "easy"? Here is an anonymous hit-piece written about Horvath and posted on Medium: ht
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by drhayes9 11y ago
That's a cute rhetorical point you've made, but I think the evidence for whistleblowers torpedoing their careers in the name of personal justice is pretty overwhelming. The fact of her eventual employment doesn't undo the dam
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by drhayes9 11y ago
Good for her! How does this continue the discussion?

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