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by fluxon 13y ago
The set of experts I'd like to invite to Talk page discussions would be published, widely cited authors, including professors, engineers, scientists, and non-degreed practitioners with a good reputation in their field. Publications can
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by fluxon 13y ago
Agreed, and well said.
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by fluxon 13y ago
I agree that many articles lack sufficient reliable sources. Only college or postgrad textbooks are considered reliable sources, but not great ones, unless written by noted and/or frequently cited authors. In my opinion, experts should
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by fluxon 13y ago
The title is misleading. The use of Skype specifically is only in the last sentence of the article, No problem, say his allies - if Rogers is ready to move beyond name-calling. Skype is only a computer click away. This is not in quotes
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by fluxon 13y ago
I've contributed since 2006 (under a different username than here), with several peak years, totaling 14k edits so far. I'm an inclusionist who insists on good reliable sourcing for extraordinary claims, and who frequently defends
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by fluxon 13y ago
I'm glad this was posted; transparency is good, even if it's transparency onto a policy dictating an imperfect solution to an insolvable problem. If I had my way, every title would still link to the original article, but it would
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by fluxon 13y ago
Published 7 February 2013. It's unclear why this is in any way relevant to Hacker News.
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by fluxon 13y ago
"Typically HN frowns on: one liner humor, ..." Ok, so now I know that.
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by fluxon 13y ago
In your home, and therefore up some kid's nose.
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by fluxon 13y ago
"I own a relatively expensive piece of electronic equipment that keeps breaking." Underconstrained problem set: no $ figure, class of product, mfg name, or indication of who repaired it. Without any specifics, it's diffic
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by fluxon 13y ago
Oh noes! I kept my Kozmo receipts and delivery bags in pristine condition. I hope this relaunch doesn't kill their eBay value!
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by fluxon 13y ago
Every single one of those old PDFs, especially OCRs, are full of errors, now corrected in this edition. There's a long history of errata, old and recent, and in which editions they were corrected, at feynmanlectures.info
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by fluxon 13y ago
no. Fire 'em all. Get a contractor in there, strip out all that fanboi crap, and rebuild it as a bog-standard C&C/Ops room. With taxpayer money, you get square rooms with beige paint, a kick in the ass, a dirty look, and a har
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by fluxon 13y ago
welcometothescene.com - web series starting in 2004. So much for "entirely on a computer screen" being unique.
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by fluxon 13y ago
Unless apps and browser plugins appear which weaken ASLR, like several recent versions of DropBox in 32-bit & 64-bit DLLs, Windows 7 x64 SP1 - http://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-dr..
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by fluxon 13y ago
A friend of mine has a school bus, but it needs a new suspension bladder and those a) aren't cheap and b) are hard to replace. There's nothing more expensive than a cheap (insert noun here).
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by fluxon 13y ago
Now up at http://enwp.org/John_Herschel and http://enwp.org/Copernicus_(lunar crater)
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by fluxon 13y ago
Thank you for taking the initiative.
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by fluxon 13y ago
At nearly every company I've worked at or consulted for, the only peace to be had anywhere in the building was in the bathroom, on the toilet. That's a sad state of affairs in an information+ideas economy. So I won't be firin
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by fluxon 13y ago
No big deal, happens all the time. Currently, says: "Upgrading software, please check back in some minutes."
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by fluxon 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
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by fluxon 13y ago
"Upgrading software, please check back in some minutes."
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by fluxon 13y ago
I am totally in, if I get $10, _and_ UPS or USPS picks up the packed box!
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by fluxon 13y ago
2011 story. Can somebody downvote this? Gah.
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by fluxon 14y ago
Oh, no no no. Ill-advised idea. We've gone through this before already, and it was resolved in favor of baseline with optimization. How was it resolved? By website visitors, who hated-hated-hated progressive JPEGs. Boy, those who ignore hi
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by fluxon 14y ago
I enjoyed earlier episodes, in which he featured the projects, sightings, discoveries, and photographs of many amateur astronomers, and later episodes where he remained staunchly supportive of education and amateur exploration of astronomy
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by fluxon 14y ago
Please stop with arbitrary recentism, and stop campaigning against commonly-used data formats. Instead, use better tools which trivially read/write/convert whatever-to-whatever. Be a tool user. Make the data into whatever shape you want, an
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by fluxon 14y ago
Wasn't this issue addressed rather well in a recent hackernews-linked item which mathematically showed both that voting is not a sham, but that the Electoral College system is more fair than it has been represented? (sorry can't find the li
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by fluxon 14y ago
"Ask HN: Does alchohol make you a better programmer (more inside)" Maybe, maybe not, but it impairs spelling "alcohol."
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by fluxon 14y ago
You're right. Again, gah. I forgot Groups, because Google "disappeared" it!

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