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by freyr 13y ago
> In the real world, putting the blame with Aaron and his depression doesn't solve anything (even if it was true). > Blaming MIT and the prosecution will prevent people from being fucked for trying similar benfifical hacks in
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by freyr 13y ago
> it is much easy and self-comforting to our consciousness to think about the victim as being the one who is solely responsible for and is causing the awful things being done to him. Just as it's much easier to heap the blame on a
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by freyr 13y ago
Sure. Are you blaming them both for the same thing? And what is that, exactly? His anguish, his death, both?
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by freyr 13y ago
You're right, the fact that Frankl was a holocaust survivor was not relevant, and I didn't mean to draw a comparison between the two experiences. My impression of depression is that it's pervasive and crippling, and often the
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by freyr 13y ago
"Aaron would be alive today if MIT had acted as JSTOR did. MIT had a moral imperative to do so." It's natural to look for someone to blame. Should we lay the blame on MIT? If they had called off an overzealous D.A. from thr
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by freyr 13y ago
Lincoln also didn't shoot himself. He was shot. Aaron suffered from suicidal depression. We know that from his closest friends' own accounts that his depression long predated the JSTOR incident. So to lay all the blame for his dep
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by freyr 13y ago
Same here, and it jumps around as I scroll down a long page such as http://getbootstrap.com/css/
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by freyr 13y ago
Could "changing the world" be a contender the most trite, overused expression of 2013? Recent grads seem to have adopted it en masse as their personal tagline. It's a nice sentiment, but it hard not to roll your eyes when e
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by freyr 13y ago
She says she works in a shared developer space. She's also co-founding a site with an experienced developer. It's quite possible that one of these developers helped set up the back end. How would this detract from the front end wo
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by freyr 13y ago
> It's also possible that she's a fictional character (admittedly there isn't enough data proving otherwise). She does have a Twitter that's been active for a few years, and doesn't give an indication that she ha
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by freyr 13y ago
> The solid-block-of-learning strategy is way less impressive to me than the person who works a 40ish hour a week job then comes home and does many more hours of their own project for moths or years. You might also say the guy who uses a
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by freyr 13y ago
So many hurt egos in this thread. If you think what she's done is impossible, have you ever devoted 70/hrs a week to a personal endeavor for 6 straight months? Would you have the willpower and perseverance to stay committed and fo
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by freyr 13y ago
Keep in mind, she's starting from scratch, and her goal is to learn fundamentals of programming, not project management. Managing an large, interconnected project is a formidable task in itself. She's made a pretty strong case for
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by freyr 13y ago
> What, you're saying that because it's easy everyone will do it? That's funny. No, he said it's easy and some people will do it from the start. You're saying it's easy but nobody will do it. Yours is th
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by freyr 13y ago
It's a joke. Perhaps a half-joke, since if you poke at a millenial, you risk getting a defensive, whiny, humorless diatribe in response. For the record, I am a millenial.
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by freyr 13y ago
> Go will still not be attractive enough to warrant a major migration One of pron's concessions above is that Go is much easier to learn. That could be its killer feature: a new generation of developers and founders may choose to us
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by freyr 13y ago
> Their numbers are horrible. I can't believe their shareholders put up with them. Yeah. At the end of the day, it's all about the quarterly profit. If a company isn't chasing the short-term dollar, the shareholders must b
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by freyr 13y ago
> Interestingly, the people writing the drug patents use the same types of techniques mentioned by Joel...especially making claims as broad as possible. Systems (legal, computer, etc.) need to be developed with the full expectation that
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by freyr 13y ago
I think the idea is that then they couldn't charge exorbitant prices to recoup their investment costs. Drugs cost an enormous amount of money to develop.
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by freyr 13y ago
You're assuming that patents promote innovation once they're defended in court. Another argument would be that they promote innovation by (1) preventing blatant rip offs in the first place, (2) incentivizing individual inventors w
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by freyr 13y ago
And then every patent would receive a deluge of obfuscated examples of prior art. And the patent office would become even less effective. Perhaps a good thing, unless you believe some things actually should be patentable.
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by freyr 13y ago
There are already pharmaceutical drugs for that , which are abused at epidemic levels in regions of the U.S. They're safe and of high quality, though they might still feed a criminal underbelly. Of course, people who get addicted to sy
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by freyr 13y ago
> But... they faced all of the downside risks of small business owners. Rain == slow or no sales. Big vacation weeks for the workforce == slow sales. Get sick? No pay. That said, it's probably still a better gig than being a game pr
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by freyr 13y ago
You're right. I wasn't really aware of the NSFW vs. adult distinction when I posted. So NSFW content is available, but only from blogs that feature it occasionally? Adult blogs are not searchable, and not indexed in Google? Only d
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by freyr 13y ago
We all die.
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by freyr 13y ago
What's the difference between NSFW and adult?
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by freyr 13y ago
But, but ... censorship! Seriously, I have to wonder who is actually enraged by this. If you want to browse for NSFW content, check the box and get on with it. If you want your NSFW posts to be displayed to unsuspecting people... I guess yo
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by freyr 13y ago
Do you announce your "no advance notice" policy to potential employers before you're hired? Hopefully, you don't word it like that. It doesn't come off well.
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by freyr 13y ago
Rent in Kendall Square is ridiculous, but you're comparing the city of San Francisco (46.9 sq miles of land) to a small neighborhood in a much smaller city (Cambridge is 6.43 sq miles of land). Also, while Kendall Square has its fair s
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by freyr 13y ago
But you could go one step further, and ask "Why is their default considered so good by a broad audience?" This could be attributed to how they identify (what they consider) the most important options, focus entirely on those, and

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