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811.
by forensic 16y ago
What I've learned from this: Calculated publicity stunts done by massive corporations are no less endearing to me than calculated publicity stunts done by small y-combinator startups. I look at this publicity stunt with the same yawn+rolley
812.
by forensic 16y ago
Loss of blood does.
813.
by forensic 16y ago
"Hack" can be used in a lot of valid ways without implying that non-computer-people are hackers. If pg thought painters __were__ hackers the book would be called "Hackers: Painters, Programmers, and Socially Manipulative Psychopaths"
814.
by forensic 16y ago
The point is that there are so many legal grey areas. Is car pooling now a taxi service, because I pay the driver? At which point is it illegal for me to give someone a ride? What if they give me services instead of cash, like an hour of we
815.
by forensic 16y ago
Starvation is equally an issue with semaphores.. how does that make a mutex different?
816.
by forensic 16y ago
Is it fair to say a mutex is just a special case of a semaphore that only counts to 1?
817.
by forensic 16y ago
I did read that. My thought was that, if your lungs have bitterness receptors and you experience physiological change based on them, then inhaling certain kinds of air that lack the bitterness may flush out the bitter taste and produce phys
818.
by forensic 16y ago
Makes a lot of sense. People talk about tasting the air. I've always kind of felt like fully inhaling stuff through the mouth gives you more than just the smell. This was always just a very subjective experience though.
819.
by forensic 16y ago
What if they decentralize it even more? I'm imagining regular drivers (like me) being txt'd when there is a nearby person who wants a ride. Like hitchhiking but using GPS and money. The hitchhiker would specify his destination and how much
820.
by forensic 16y ago
ubercab could relocate their business to russia. SF customers and drivers could still pay for the app. let's see them regulate that I want to make a taxi dispatcher that is outsourced to an Indian call centre. These dispatchers don't realiz
821.
by forensic 16y ago
I generally am using 8 to 10 Spaces desktops at a time, with several of those desktops running multiple windows. With Spaces and Expose I find it good enough on a 13" screen. Bigger is always nicer, but the tradeoff is that it would be a lo
822.
by forensic 16y ago
I use a 2009 MacBook Air with 128GB SSD as my only computer with a screen. (i.e. Everything else is headless) A few things tax the machine: 1. Streaming video, especially flash, and especially when you multitask it. 2. HDMI out. I like to p
823.
by forensic 16y ago
ASP.NET has always been the cleaner, nicer-to-use alternative to PHP. If you're already good at .NET i see zero advantage to saving the few dollars here and there that PHP would bring. Your time as a human is far more valuable than the extr
824.
by forensic 16y ago
But you're focusing on individuals when, in reality, any one personality is far less harmful than the typical organization. You could focus on shaming Al Gore into buying solar panels, or you could focus on some $100 billion energy company
825.
by forensic 16y ago
Apple is getting power drunk :[ They might be the next evil empire. What they really should do is ship with both flash and Click-To-Flash. That would be serving the users best.
826.
by forensic 16y ago
The math question just depends on the type of programming you do, and on your definition of math. Programming is such a wide field. There are web designers who fit rectangles together all day long, and then there are the people who write M
827.
by forensic 16y ago
Why did they remove the keyboard light? That is an essential feature for me. I guess I'm gonna cling to my current MBA until it dies instead of upgrading for better hardware :(
828.
by forensic 16y ago
There are more forms of invention now. So the maxim doesn't apply as much as it once did.
829.
by forensic 16y ago
That's an outdated perspective based on mechanical invention. My inventions are informational. I do need a pile of junk on my harddrive and servers, though.
830.
by forensic 16y ago
Your religion is not serving you.
831.
by forensic 16y ago
I'm sorry I missed your talk at UBC. Please come back again soon!
832.
by forensic 16y ago
I like how you imply that you don't participate in the language wars. When you just did.
833.
by forensic 16y ago
>In fact, looking at this SBU makes me appreciate my legs more. They can, for example, go up stairs. it looks fairly easy to carry one of these unicycles up stairs, or take it on an escalator, or ride up a wheelchair ramp >And jump
834.
by forensic 16y ago
This is awesome. One of these, in combination with public transport, could honest-to-god replace my car. The small profile makes it easy to carry inside with you, unlike a bike or a segway. In my opinion this could actually come close to ac
835.
by forensic 16y ago
What is APP?
836.
by forensic 16y ago
Just depends on whether you consider the SD card slot a part of the user interface. It would be very easy to rephrase the description as a personal safety tool yada yada yada. The real point here is that Windows and apparently Android have
837.
by forensic 16y ago
You should start a charity.
838.
by forensic 16y ago
Here we go again: gross oversimplifications from people who make their blogging money by being controversial rather than correct.
839.
by forensic 16y ago
I think it's just a holdover in the comp sci biz from the days when COBOL programmers found their COBOL hacking to be obsolete and chose to retire rather than retrain Truth is, old dogs CAN learn new tricks. But it takes more energy than ju
840.
by forensic 16y ago
thank god we now have ipods but seriously babbage should have stuck some beeswax in his ears alternatively, he could live in a tower like a proper wizard

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