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by ef4 14y ago
> there's a smaller, apparently more vocal segment who hate it (and perhaps have more time on their hands to make themselves heard). This is a general problem in local governments all over America. The people who already own real estate
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by ef4 14y ago
But limitless growth is never possible. Eventually you bump up against the limits of your market. If a business is aggressively trying to grow in a $100 million market instead of a $100 billion market, they are "limiting themselves". But
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by ef4 14y ago
That's a poor example, because "search engine" is the kind of business that is necessarily out on the far end of the scale. If we start travelling down the continuum, next you'd hit something like "an app that makes lawyers more effective",
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by ef4 14y ago
> Infant mortality, for example, isn't well served by market mechanisms; babies have no money. Stop and think about why this sentence is extremely silly. Who is really the customer?
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by ef4 14y ago
pg makes his point clearly at the cost of oversimplifying his definition. Scalability is a continuum. There is a continuum between barbershop and search engine. VCs have every incentive to hit the far high end of the continuum. But a young,
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by ef4 14y ago
Double stepping is fundamentally weaker from a security perspective. The phisher can present you the username screen, use it to fetch your correct image from Google, and present the image to you. This proposal is better in the sense that th
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by ef4 14y ago
Keep in mind that his alleged actions go way behind scraping. He allegedly broke into an MIT network closet to install his own hardware, so as to avoid IP-based restrictions on the content. I sympathize with his goals, but I have to wonder
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by ef4 14y ago
> The development of the jet's Block II software is 90 to 120 days behind schedule, according to the two-star general. Because of this delay and the increased complexity of the jet's third and final software block, Lockheed Martin and t
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by ef4 14y ago
Nice. I wish more GUIs had this kind of capability. Long live the command line. At least until I get my neural implants.
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by ef4 14y ago
This is one area where Matz kept too much of Perl. Thankfully, it's rare to see Ruby programmers making heavy use of these.
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by ef4 14y ago
> If you believe a law needs to be changed, the way to get it changed is not to start breaking it. On the contrary, history shows it to be one of the few effective methods. You're saying that Rosa Parks was wrong when she refused to go
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by ef4 14y ago
Isn't non-uniformity critical? Without it, there's no reason to go anywhere.
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by ef4 14y ago
The biggest problem with this idea is that it violates people's expectations. People already know how email works. They don't expect to hit a character limit. They will simply get annoyed. If you want to "take features away", you need to cr
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by ef4 14y ago
They don't really have enough bits here for asymmetric crypto. How many bits are they able to reliably recover from the screenshot, especially if they want to survive simple downsampling? I would guess not more than 500, probably less than
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by ef4 14y ago
A hash isn't really the right construct for that purpose. If Blizzard just produced a salted hash of user_id & realm, it would be pretty expensive for them to reverse it, even given possession of a complete list of user ids and realms.
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by ef4 14y ago
> I can see it might not be constant over an extended period, but I don't think there are many, if any, things that would cause a significant spike. While it's hard to predict, I personally wouldn't bet against a game changing spike in
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by ef4 14y ago
It would indeed be great to have some "higher bandwidth" way to interact with a program under development. And better graphical tools could clearly increase the bandwidth out from computer to programmer. But for bandwidth into the compu
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by ef4 14y ago
The real value in tools like these is pedagogical. They don't replace "real" programming, but they may introduce a wider audience to the concepts needed to do real programming.
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by ef4 14y ago
> "President Obama is committed to creating the most open and participatory government in our nation’s history" I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistlebl
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by ef4 14y ago
> “I’m disappointed that you’ve chose to knock off/copy a respected industry leader, and undercutting them, therefore starting a race to the bottom.” I sincerely hope we do get a "race to the bottom" on 3d printer prices, the same way w
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by ef4 14y ago
> If millenials still choose to settle down to raise children in the suburbs... I think that's an open question. Anecdotally, there are an awful lot of young families in my particular urban environment, mine included. Most intend to sta
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by ef4 14y ago
Was about to post the same thing but you said it all. Steel vs aluminum is like vi vs emacs. People argue about it all the time, but if you just go test ride some bikes you'll find out pretty quite which you prefer. I like steel. Aluminum i
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by ef4 14y ago
> Public transportation in most of the U.S. is awful, so I don't see many people choosing that over having your own shiny new car. Ah, but the shift in housing desirability also plays into this. Those few places in the US that do have
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by ef4 14y ago
To me this is another interesting example of Marc Andreesson's "Software is Eating the World" meme: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...
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by ef4 14y ago
A three year old, yes, definitely. But the original article was talking about a nine year old. But I completely agree with you. I think it's awesome how small children can focus so intently on simple things that bore adults. It actually jiv
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by ef4 14y ago
Single-user OpenVPN has become much simpler to set up than it used to be, because you can just use preshared keys and not worry about creating a certificate authority.
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by ef4 14y ago
Those are essentially ESR's original, canonical examples of "bazaar" projects. They're not middle-of-the-road. They're precisely what he meant by "bazaar".
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by ef4 14y ago
Manufacturing never left. The US outputs a greater total value of manufactured goods today than at any point in history. China's manufacturing sector is only 3% bigger than the US. What disappeared were the unskilled jobs, and they are neve
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by ef4 14y ago
But education (at least the way we do it now) is a political phenomenon. Science has little to do with it. Too many scientifically-minded people ignore this reality and cling to the idealistic notion that schools will teach the best ideas,
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by ef4 14y ago
You're overestimating the anti-science critics. You can teach all the spectroscopy and thermodynamics you want and they won't care, because they don't know what that stuff is. It's purely the words "climate change" that they'll attack. An

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