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by frossie 17y ago
You're right, the reaction to the TOS was something to behold. I think due to the nature of hacking and hackers, most people here hate being told how to do their job, especially for what feels to them to be spurious or irrational reasons. I
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by frossie 17y ago
Websites (or just specific content on a site) are not guaranteed to be there tomorrow Agreed - it's your time downloading and organising stuff versus the possibility that it might one day go away; for me, it's rarely a contest. I can imag
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by frossie 17y ago
I don't like it, because it goes again my own beliefs in what constitutes effective teams. As a geek herder, I can't think of anything worse than a team full of "rock stars". The best teams have a mix of good people who excel at different t
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by frossie 17y ago
I mostly use Google Reader. I use the shareaholic firefox extension to add non-RSS sites to my Google Reader shared items, so I can search for them later - I don't share publically. To a lesser extent: evernote, readitlater, and firefox boo
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by frossie 17y ago
What kind of things can a 3 year old do with a computer? An actual computer? Check out the games on pbskids.org - esp. the Curious George ones. For under <3s, you will probably need to "drive" the mouse while the kids tell you what to
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by frossie 17y ago
Lunchtime? As in, people are eating? The sleep risk is real with those. War stories, whether they had a happy ending ("I fixed it") or not ("I learned from it"). If you don't have your own, you can walk though someone else's provided enough
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The Making of The Elements, One of the iPad's Most Magical Apps(popsci.com)
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by frossie 17y ago
Once again, click through to the referenced Danah Boyd's talk if you haven't already: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/SXSW2010.html It's a perfect dissection of the Google Buzz issue, which encapsulates this whole debate.
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How to Make a Documentary About Sampling- Legally(theatlantic.com)
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by frossie 17y ago
The irony is that I (and countless others I am sure) would rather be stuck in an elevator with Stephen Fry than Steve Jobs. However anybody who has followed Fry's tech writing knows how big a deal this must have been for him, so I am happy
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by frossie 17y ago
Not in any one single way :-) I think you might want to look at http://www.toodledo.com/ - it is actually quite powerful (aka "complicated") but the amount of complexity is user configurable. So if you don't care for a certain category, y
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by frossie 17y ago
To answer your question, there's a number of reasons. Undoubtedly some do just come down to "historical reasons" but there are many reasons why a command-line is actually the right choice. The main reason is that the scientist wants to run
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by frossie 17y ago
How many people do you know, whose job title does not start with computer and/or IT and/or sysadmin, actually use the terminal? Loads. They are called working scientists. Sometimes there is a perception that the world is divided into geek
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by frossie 17y ago
Just curious, why do you believe Scandinavia is more equal than the US, UK or Australia? Gender equality metrics, eg. see the World Economic Forum report, generated from "hard" indicators: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings200
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, I can do better than that in 5 minutes but that's because I have paid a lot of attention to this question. I think the most conclusive evidence that M/F math gaps are cultural in origin lies in international studies, where the gap ran
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by frossie 17y ago
But who cares that treatment for children is being hindered by repetetive bureacracy, at least it's protecting children, right? Oh, wait... Well, that's just a stupid implementation. You evidently should only be cleared once for any NHS f
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by frossie 17y ago
Wow, I don't know why I am still posting so I can get more downmods, but I really don't get all the hate. The fact that child abuse by educators is rare is no reason not to do something relatively simple (like a criminal check) to reduce it
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by frossie 17y ago
Getting every teacher to have lengthly criminal record checks done Do you actually have children? People who do generally would prefer they are not in the care of criminals (and we are not just talking about sex crimes - I woudn't particu
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by frossie 17y ago
> Seeing him on HN actually makes me feel a bit queasy. I'm with you. I hate this style of straw man argument, for example: "We see the same sort of overreaction to paedophilia. Just because one man in your town likes to watch schoolgi
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by frossie 17y ago
I think Dropbox is the only company on that list that I know for certain I would have heard of without HN.
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Is Charles Veley [founder of MicroStrategy] the world's most-travelled man?(guardian.co.uk)
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by frossie 17y ago
Coming from a CS program that thought of design as "scoff that thing they do over in the art building" Dude, you should name and shame that CS program. Sure the art building can argue about aesthetics, but bad design is a bug and should
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by frossie 17y ago
Gee, kind of like money. So let's all ignore money. Uh no. Money is nothing like fashion. If you put in 10 grand in your savings account, you have money in the bank, no matter what anybody thinks you have. On the other hand, if my nice br
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by frossie 17y ago
You work in a building full of men who look ridiculous. Dude, you do realise that "fashion" is just a consensual hallucination, right? I work in Hawaii . Nobody looks ridiculous wearing shorts, they just look... normal. Go back and read
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by frossie 17y ago
Shorts: almost never. You're not 9, or trailer trash. cough I suggest one pays attention to local cultural norms before following sweeping advice on the Internet. I work in a building full of men in shorts and sandals. None of them are
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by frossie 17y ago
"Does admitting that mean I'm no longer qualified for HN" This should have come under Don't Ask Don't Tell....
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by frossie 17y ago
For a person who did a Post Doc with Stephen Hawking, it's difficult to believe he is absolutely lacking in ethics and morals. I can guarantee you that the selection process for Physics PhDs has nothing to do with ethics, morals, emotiona
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by frossie 17y ago
As a Linux user I use evernote through the web interface primarily for web clipping, and it works quite well in that respect. For notes I need cloud-available I just write them in whatever and then put them either in toodledo or google docs
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by frossie 17y ago
"Inferring privacy preferences for new software, based on prior actions in old software, is a recipe for failure." What I find so very strange, is that this isn't obvious by now. What happened here? Nobody at Google thought of this? Som
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by frossie 17y ago
Well, I read that as "If you have that kind of sciencey/geeky mind, you'll see math everywhere - even in some dumb plastic pony".

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