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by erydo 15y ago
Wait, why is that sexist? A proposition that mixed-gender groups behaved differently than homogeneous groups doesn't ring any alarm bells for me.
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by erydo 15y ago
You're inferring something that wasn't intended. Your peace-treaty example was exactly the type of situation my analogy was referring to. Patents are being used aggressively because that's the nature of competition—if anyone is going to use
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by erydo 15y ago
Yep, I was referring to the fallacy. I know people don't always make rational decisions—and there are many other considerations here besides—but I thought it worth pointing out that it's not quite so obvious that the large companies would
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by erydo 15y ago
They already purchased those patents, though. It's kind of a sunk cost. They wouldn't be losing $4.5 billion cash if patents became worthless, they'd be losing ammunition for a type of fight that they wouldn't have to deal with anymore. Tha
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by erydo 15y ago
I noticed it when they miscounted, and it was kind of interesting how it happened. The professor talked through a revolution, and then resumed counting from his previous number. The student who was counting in the background just sort of re
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by erydo 15y ago
In the meantime, I've been using the SIMBL plugin MegaZoomer: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html It works quite well with Terminal.
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by erydo 15y ago
Driving on an iced lake or any other condition where your car is more likely to become submerged than you are to run into something, being unable to exit the vehicle quickly can be fatal.
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by erydo 16y ago
I've noticed that I'm actually getting more out of the hidden-karma comments because I am not able to skim as easily. I'm also not forming preconceived notions of a comment's quality before I read it, which is activating the critical-thin
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by erydo 16y ago
Sam Hughes had an interesting perspective on this: http://qntm.org/number Basically, meaningful numbers are so sparse that to claim there's nothing special about them is ridiculous.
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by erydo 16y ago
You're misunderstanding the Peter Principle. It's not about promoting incompetent people, it's the phenomenon of promoting competent people into positions where they're no longer as competent.
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by erydo 16y ago
Yes, but his point was that the first screen of the app might look drastically different depending on certain settings (e.g. dark mode).
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by erydo 16y ago
Yep, you're absolutely right. I was making overly broad strokes.
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by erydo 16y ago
The protocol tells the browser which port to connect to on the server. That can't be done server-side.
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by erydo 16y ago
I don't mean to add to the noise floor, but is there a reason you generated a bit.ly link for this? This isn't twitter with particularly restrictive character constraints; all it serves is obfuscation as far as I can tell. I'm genuinely cur
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by erydo 17y ago
You're making a lot of claims without citations. flyosity's absolutely correct to question them, and if you're serious about what you say, then yes, you are obligated to back them up in some way.
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by erydo 17y ago
For some reason this made me think of Google and how they encourage movement between teams and projects. It seems to me that's probably a good way to keep highly skilled employees riding the wave of that 'value apex', rather than just crest
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by erydo 17y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you had hardcoded the addresses, only that you'll have to go through the process of finding the addresses anew for each build. Not an insurmountable problem (as you've shown), but making it slightly harder
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by erydo 17y ago
I'd completely missed the reusability aspect of things; I guess because the tight coupling to specific addresses would mean redoing a lot of the work for different builds. But once you figure it out, it looks like it could be trivial to rep
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by erydo 17y ago
I understood that not recompiling was the point; I was wondering why it was a valid point. "Because you want to do it to a running production app" seems far-fetched to me -- not saying that it is, I had just discounted that reasoning. tbr
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by erydo 17y ago
Why not just add tracing code to the source and recompile? I don't immediately see an advantage to this kind of hot-patching in this case.
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by erydo 17y ago
The passwd file didn't help, it just showed him that he could retrieve arbitrary files via an open/improperly escaped PHP include(). His injected worked by causing an error to be written to a log, and then reading that log back through the
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by erydo 17y ago
I'm sure their servers are caching the images after generation (or perhaps after 'n' requests or some other optimization in that vein). Just because the URL describes the operations performed on the image doesn't necessarily mean they alway
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by erydo 19y ago
You have to buy a unicode keyboard. They have over 95000 keys and take up about nine square meters. Hope you have a big desk. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)