enjalot

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by enjalot 15y ago
Laws aren't always based in morality, even when they align with morals. Even when a person commits a "bad" act, that does not necessarily make them a "bad person." After all, only God can judge them, right? ;)
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by enjalot 15y ago
Right and wrong are often different from legal and illegal. I will pass no judgement (also because I still hold the believe that some communications technology is better than none) but using laws by the German government as a counter point
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by enjalot 15y ago
First off, I take issue with starting an article by citing an emperor from over 2000 years ago to bolster a claim about a modern government. That said my brother is in China now, and I setup a squid proxy for him using AWS (in singapore). U
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by enjalot 15y ago
I get one too t.t
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Challenge HN: William Wallace Loading Screen
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by enjalot 15y ago
I like your points so I will compliment the mechanical fish ;) To bring it back to the OP's point with your perspective, we should then not attempt to make the designers famous but rather highlight the importance, fun and satisfaction that
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by enjalot 15y ago
I think the point is more that the analogy is so misleading, that it hurts the student's understanding. A similar bad example would be using familiar round objects to teach equivalence: there are 10 apples, and 10 oranges, so apples == oran
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by enjalot 15y ago
I've been using google docs for these kinds of notes, searchable, shareable and accessible anywhere I can get to gmail. I may consider dropbox + txt files, but gdocs is working fine so far.
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by enjalot 15y ago
Walmart's supply-chain management software sounds like pre-cognition to me, at least in the sense that they are making some pretty good decisions about the future based on predictions. It's just like artificial intelligence, once you get ho
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by enjalot 15y ago
Extortion can bring out emotion. Extortion is disgusting, this is the "business" being analyzed here. You can take your emotions out of business if you want, but you shouldn't take out ethics.
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by enjalot 15y ago
I just recently decided to not pursue a PhD in scientific computing, so I'll be finishing my Master's and working at a startup starting in September. One of the biggest reasons I decided to not do further research is that I have noticed tha
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by enjalot 15y ago
I know a professor who has a big grant to sequence a whole bunch of animals, and will also do a high res CT scan of each specimen. He plans to make a comprehensive site where scientists and school children can access the data they are inter
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by enjalot 15y ago
I don't think it would work to have a Patent Haven, because the patents would block usage in the U.S. I suppose if everything was hosted in that other country, but what about payments?
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by enjalot 15y ago
someone should DDoS the court with other types of civil litigation.
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by enjalot 15y ago
I get so enraged when hearing these stories. It is no different from extortion, and now I hear that you can be sued for libel for calling it that? I wrote a blog post the last time there was an HN thread on this calling to action: http://e
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by enjalot 15y ago
I think you should keep in mind that you appear to be an intelligent, skilled and avid driver. For you driving is an experience you take seriously and also seem to enjoy. I'm not worried about what you do on the road, but I am worried about
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by enjalot 15y ago
I interpreted your point to be that we should leave government to the government specialists, i.e. politicians.
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by enjalot 15y ago
You forgot to mention that we should leave voting to the politicians :P
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by enjalot 15y ago
Would you still be against a group of people (non-violently) disrupting a business if that business illegally denied you service because of your race? Wouldn't you want the community to stand up for your rights? I'm not defending the action
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by enjalot 15y ago
I think my interpretation wasn't well put. I also see the child-like wonder, but what it does the most for me is remind me that even someone as great as him feels insignificant compared to the marvels of nature, so I don't need to stress if
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by enjalot 15y ago
I like this quote by Isaac Newton "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell
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by enjalot 15y ago
Here's a useless oneliner: The American Dream is now the American Nightmare :)
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by enjalot 15y ago
I'm sure a bucket full of your source code on bitbucket will serve the same purpose when interviewing. I'm on the job hunt and in interviewing with some YC startups we haven't really gotten to my github, since they more were interested in s
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by enjalot 15y ago
I've submitted a blog post which extends on my thoughts here. I hope it serves as a call to action that we can actually participate in while we don't have legal teams or large coffers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2746190
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by enjalot 15y ago
I know this feeling intimately, having tried a little consulting and having a serious ethical bend towards the truth. The fact is, the better I get at programming (and math and science) the more I know I don't know, and the less confident I
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by enjalot 15y ago
I'm with you on this, I'm personally outraged by the situation, and the analogy to mob protection rackets is way too accurate for comfort. The analogy has me thinking about how real mob protection rackets are dealt with (well, at least in t
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by enjalot 15y ago
Don't forget that a particular code might have 2 or 3 paper's worth in it, so releasing the code after 1 paper could mean getting "scooped" on another paper. I'm left a little cynical after a Master's in computational science, and I still c
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by enjalot 15y ago
I grew up interested in computer games, and I was lucky enough to TA a game design class at my university. I love the ability to create interactions, but my interest has recently turned to designing interactions into things that aren't norm
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by enjalot 15y ago
I'm finishing up a degree in Computational Science where we are essentially trained in computational and mathematical techniques used in the physical sciences, and all I can think about is becoming an artist. I don't think it's the science
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by enjalot 15y ago
My point was actually that I fear any corrupt person having access to the kind of data that FB or Google have. If I am that person's target, for any reason (political dissent, competition, just cuz) I am way more screwed. It doesn't have to

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