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by ecdavis 13y ago
Just because the Dunning-Kruger effect exists doesn't mean that skilled people who can accurately self-assess don't also exist.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
A reasonable compromise? Any compromise is reasonable when your starting point is extreme enough. Saying "well it could have been a lot worse" is a cop out. It shouldn't have happened at all.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
Optus is one of several major mobile telcos in Australia. Telstra also offers free Facebook, IIRC. I'm not sure whether FB is paying Optus/Telstra, but I would think so.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
They may not have had the right to release these fonts under the Apache license in the first place.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
"When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Facebook. It typically takes about one month to delete an account, but some information may remain in backup copies and logs for up to 90 days. You should only delete your acc
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by ecdavis 13y ago
There was a lot of tension between the KGB and the senior party officials in the USSR. In fact, in an interview I watched recently a KGB defector described them as "hating" each other. It's not necessarily true that all KGB o
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by ecdavis 13y ago
"Always put one in the brain." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfZTzcDFZ98 (graphic)
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by ecdavis 13y ago
This is a worthwhile article to take a look at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...
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by ecdavis 13y ago
It's actually a lot more accessible than it seems. For anyone interested in learning to play DF, I highly recommend YouTube user 51ppycup's "Dwarf Fortress for Dummies" series - he gets the basics across really well and
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by ecdavis 13y ago
Microsoft's "family sharing" (terrible name) allowed you to share games in your library with up to 10 people, regardless of where they were in the world[1]. It didn't just extend to people in the same house. With this an
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by ecdavis 13y ago
> This means that I can coop with my friends (almost) anywhere in the world even if they havent bought the game! I think this will be a huge feature. Everything else you've said is correct, but this is not true. Unfortunate, but und
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by ecdavis 13y ago
I think the timing is a coincidence. The most surveillance-relevant services Apple provides are probably iMessage, iCloud and FaceTime. All were announced in 2011 and saw widespread adoption in 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ecdavis 13y ago
> And the Xbox One’s heavily pushed smart-TV integration features seem to be designed for an imaginary world in which people browse the web on their TVs instead of the (non-Microsoft) smartphone in their pocket. This really jumped out
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by ecdavis 13y ago
It may be selfish, but it's completely understandable. I don't know if Larry is facing the prospect of losing his voice entirely, but even if he isn't having a disease like this is quite upsetting and frightening. I think anyone in his posi
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by ecdavis 13y ago
"Embarrassingly parallel" is a term used to describe problems that can be easily divided amongst processes and require little to no communication between processes.
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by ecdavis 13y ago
> "well, it can be solved by doing $NAIVE_SOLUTION, just to get that out there, and I know you're looking for a better one." I'm at the very beginning of my career, having just accepted a new grad position, but I thought I'd offer my op
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by ecdavis 13y ago
From what I understand, companies are currently asking for the H1-B visa quotas to be increased. This suggests that they are finding plenty of people to hire who qualify for an H1-B visa but there are simply not enough visas to go around. W
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by ecdavis 13y ago
The number of possible candidates is not the total population of the planet, but rather the number of people on the planet who have the knowledge and skills required to operate such a site.
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by ecdavis 14y ago
It's certainly not sociopathy. I can think of a number of reasons why he might have behaved that way and I've seen similar behavior from similar people in similar circumstances. Your level of maturity is an asset which not everyone has at y
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by ecdavis 14y ago
We were all teenagers once and we all had different experiences. I'm sure we all did things when we were young that we now find mortally embarrassing. Unlike most of our embarrassing moments, D'Aloisio's happens to have been written up in a
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by ecdavis 14y ago
So he's a teenager?
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by ecdavis 14y ago
One of my favorite discussions of hypocrisy is in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age - a novel which is well worth a read. > "That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that
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by ecdavis 14y ago
I'm not particularly fond of the ACS. I was provided with membership by my work and started getting a large volume of email from them. Unsubscribing from their mailing lists was a complete ordeal[1], and it was impossible to completely unsu
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by ecdavis 14y ago
Why are people so opposed to reinventing the wheel? In a professional context, I understand[1], but this is a personal project someone wrote to scratch their own itch. Why is it unjustifiable? I can think of plenty of reasons to reimplement
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Scientists hail 'potential cure for AIDS'(abc.net.au)
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by ecdavis 14y ago
It doesn't even have to be an exotic watch to arouse suspicion, something like a Casio F91W will do just fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainee...
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by ecdavis 14y ago
RuneScape was initially developed by two people and has grown to become extremely successful.
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by ecdavis 15y ago
I'd like to point out that I believe what you're saying is technically incorrect - at least as it applies to Facebook. It is my understanding that when you ask Facebook to "delete" your content, that is (or at least should be) exactly what
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by ecdavis 15y ago
Check out Pants! http://pantsweb.org/
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by ecdavis 15y ago
Is this true for all data - account details and whatnot? I deleted (not deactivated) my account a few months ago and just assumed everything would remain somewhere in FB's system.

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