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by edw 15y ago
Raise your hand if you're hesitant to write what's on your mind for fear of receiving some special attention from Anonymous, LulzSec, and friends.
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by edw 15y ago
_Hackers_ never really did it for me, but _Sneakers_ was an under-apprecciated hacker movie of the early '90s with Ben Kingsley, Robert Redford, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and President Roslin from _BSG_.
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by edw 15y ago
Funny. More seriously, this reminds me of the difference in deterrence value between Lojack and The Club: Lojack makes it little less likely that any particular car will get stolen but increases the likelihood that a car thief will be caugh
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by edw 15y ago
This article eerily parallels a conversation I was having just last night about Groupon and Square: Groupon's a bunch of bottom-dwelling parasites whereas Square has already done so much to make it easier to accept credit cards, and their p
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by edw 15y ago
I'm with you: my use of Color is nearly non-existent, due to the apparent non-exisence of any other users, at least in the Center City Philadelphia area. Is this a foreseen and accounted-for part of the Color Master Plan? [Shrug.] An app th
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by edw 15y ago
This guy's experience reads like something out of a William Gibson novel. If BTC takes off, I wouldn't be surprised if the world got several orders of magnitude nastier, malware-wise. If the value of breaking into someone's machine is not m
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by edw 15y ago
Here's the money quote: > If Groupon matches these payment terms, they’ll need cash faster and need to grow faster. (Google Offers accelerates the rate at which Groupon’s scheme has to draw in new suckers.) If Groupon doesn’t match, it
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by edw 15y ago
As the author of this article does, I explain how Groupon and other daily deal sites work to anyone who mentions using them. Many people I've told feel something close to shame for using them — and stop. The people who don't are the last pe
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by edw 15y ago
It's not unwarranted paranoia, it's treating people — and employers are people, by the way — with consideration, respect, and discretion.
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by edw 15y ago
"Take issue with" is vague. Is someone at a company allowed to think, "Dude, you don't talk about Fight Club"? Is that too extreme a reaction? Or are you talking about the legal department filing a lawsuit. Or something in between? I don't
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by edw 15y ago
Perhaps I'm too attuned to NDA issues after having listened to the most recent episode of Gruber's Talk Show ( http://5by5.tv/talkshow/46 ), but I am guessing that this guy is coming dangerously close to — and is perhaps crossing — the line
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by edw 15y ago
I went to the project home page and found the first paragraph in the intro section to be the most concise statement of the problem Backbone.js is trying to solve, but even that states the case for the project's existence in negative terms:
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by edw 15y ago
This tutorial fails one of the basic tests of a good introduction as put forth by the recent article in Dr Dobb's ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2607303 ): it provides no motivation. What is Backbone.js good for? A basic tutorial mig
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by edw 15y ago
Does anyone at Apple or Google or Facebook or Twitter really spend a lot of time worrying about what Microsoft is up to? It's sad — and I say this with genuine sadness, despite being an Apple guy — that the only even remotely interesting th
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by edw 15y ago
How are you using "pseudo" in this context? Do you mean "implicit"? Are you trying to imply some sort of value judgement?
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by edw 15y ago
I wonder if this fellow wishes we'd all STFU about this already. At some point he seemed to realize that being cute is not the better part of discretion. If I had come across this, I wouldn't have spread the news around; he could find himse
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by edw 15y ago
I think the Expedia-Groupon deal bodes very poorly for both companies. Expedia is worried about their core business and is throwing money at Groupon (in the form of subsidizing deals) in order to associate itself with a company that is perc
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by edw 15y ago
There's a big difference between private trading of already-issued shares and purchasing newly-issued shares. With the former, you know it's not going back into the company. With the later, the presumption should be that the money is being
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by edw 15y ago
You should invest in profit machines, not revenue machines.
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by edw 15y ago
So by voting with your wallet and not purchasing an Apple product, you are sending the message that you won't purchase products that don't incorporate technology from patents that you don't like?
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by edw 15y ago
> IIRC, HP patented a similar device a couple years back. It should be noted that The Man hasn't yet mandated compulsory licensing and implementation of this technology on all camera equipment. Then again, I don't know what the Trilater
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by edw 15y ago
"Nefario" argues that governments love inflation. That is not the case. There's no such thing as the government. The U.S. Fed generally likes having just a little bit of inflation. Anyone who remembers the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign
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by edw 15y ago
It's more a reference to the unstoppable memes on Digg and Reddit that become all-consuming obsessions for a small part of the public and irritants to everyone else. That these hobby horses happen to involve American politics is really just
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by edw 15y ago
You really think sheets of visible light transparent but IR opaque plastic are going to be outlawed? Do you think your favorite band is really going to allow such a device to be enabled during one of their shows, thus pissing off their fans
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by edw 15y ago
For what it'a worth, my comment ends on a very "Meh, who cares?" note. I don't know where that puts me in the context of your agonizing over our society's depressing descent into Manichaean dichotomies. P.S. My suggestion was intentionally
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by edw 15y ago
No, I think they should license it to HTC and all the other Android handset manufacturers, giving them one more bullet point in their long list of features that the iPhone lacks. There's a patent. That much is (apparently) fact. Everything
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by edw 15y ago
Bitcoin = (Ron Paul + Peak Oil) * Sarah Palin ^ Glenn Beck
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by edw 15y ago
I might never write another line of C in my life, but the K&R book will always have a place on my shelf due to many of the reasons given by the article's author. _The Unix Programming Environment_ and _The Practice of Programming_ are t
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by edw 15y ago
_The Scheme Programming Language_ by Kent Dybvig is also very good. _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ is my preferred "how to think in Scheme" book. I would recommend against _How to Design Programs_, which is entirely too
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by edw 15y ago
Do I get Birkenstocks and a fresh pair of socks if I join this cult?

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