gavinpc

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by gavinpc 10y ago
> I had been designing asynchronous distributed systems for decades but was struck by this quote from Pat Helland, a SQL architect, at an internal Microsoft talk. “We live in an Einsteinian universe — there is no such thing as simultanei
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Exactly. I'm wondering how that circle is going to be squared. It can be done, though.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
And in the time that they save, they can read Manufacturing Consent .
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Tonight is not the night to apologize for this sewer.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I made a similar point in defense of Shakespeare[0], and one reply pointed out a kind of category error on my part: > The samples from all of the examples are nonsense. What's interesting is that they, mostly, follow the form of t
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Please update your post to indicate that the quote is taken from a message to Podesta. The URL is misleading as you have it.
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by gavinpc 10y ago
But they respect the process , and the process is all we have. He is inciting his followers to voter intimidation at best, and violence at worst, and they are taking the bait. That is a threat to our stability, and that, as many others po
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by gavinpc 10y ago
No one else's badness makes him good. Don't vote if you don't like the options. There's no need for us all to lower ourselves to the worst standard. But if apologizing for him is good enough for you, then consider tha
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> I think popular software vendors should seriously reconsider their file formats in the 21st century, including graphical and audio ones. Very true, but it's not just about vendors and formats. Making semantic changes a first-clas
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by gavinpc 10y ago
If the Turing Test stipulated that the human were a politician, it would have been beaten many years ago. > You know, that's a very interesting point. I tend to agree with what you're saying, and I'd go one step further a
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Absolutely. I can't stand precision mousing (or "pointing"). Just watching that demo makes me tense. There will always be a place for people who want pixel perfection. I think that place is called print. Eventually, we&#x
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by gavinpc 10y ago
100% agree. If Google is serious about CSP, show me where they document the CSP that doesn't break AdSense or Analytics. It's a moving target, AFAICT, and the reason why I don't use CTP in production (at work).
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by gavinpc 10y ago
As long as we're on the subject, the gauges don't appear at all if cookies are blocked. Console says "The operation is insecure." This is the case on almost every demo, period, even if they claim to have tested on 8 dif
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11921208 And the day before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913463 And the day before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> the vast majority of people in the country have no idea how to run a business Chicken and egg problem, but most people (myself included) don't know how to prioritize the use of small businesses, either. How many days go by befo
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Wait... so the OP's premise is completely wrong? Doesn't the body of a module have to complete before dependent modules will execute their bodies? In other words, if you put for (let i = 0; i < 10e8; i++) /&
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Do you count the money you spent on the Mac and the iOS device?
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> It Just Works Even if that's true, you're still locked into Apple's world—a privilege you paid for. If I'm snarky it's because calling this "revolutionary" is a slap in the face to the people who&#x27
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Will they include a lesson on how to make Byte set up a provisioning profile in itunesconnect and install a code signing key in your local keychain and and enter the MAC address of his tethered device into developer.apple.com and then hopef
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Regarding alias ssh=’ssh -AX’ alias ls=’ls –color=auto’ Let me quote the Mercurial manual: > It is possible to create aliases with the same names as existing commands, which will then override the original definitions. This
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by gavinpc 10y ago
"Its" data? There's no mention in TFA of the data belonging in any way to the users . And maybe that's accurate. Yes, we have web/cloud apps now. But that is—or should be—orthogonal to where data is stored and ho
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I love the fact that you made this really slick interactive 3D data visualization, but the Facebook share button is "a little hard to grok"! Again, very well made. Really pleasant to play with, though troubling to see. One thing
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by gavinpc 10y ago
...for example, the first Show HN on the front page right now. Doesn't work at all when cookies are blocked—it just renders some stars and some chrome. But okay, I'll run it in another browser. Wow, it's a really cool WebGL
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by gavinpc 10y ago
If "Privacy Badger" blocks cookies, then it's probably the old "The operation is insecure." That's what I see. A message says "Please select up to three locations," but there is no list of locations
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by gavinpc 10y ago
> These are binary formats, so loading a record is usually a matter of just copying (blitting) a range of bytes from disk to memory, where you end up with a C data structure you can use. There’s no lexing or parsing involved in loading a
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Freedom is not a done deal. Not in America, not anywhere. The founders did not give us freedom. They gave us a process for slowing the inevitable erosion of freedom. This is that process. There's a lot of talk here about whether hi
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by gavinpc 10y ago
This is not the same thing. I block all cookies and I still see plenty of ads. What's different is that the ad networks don't get to aggregate a profile on (effectively) all of my browsing. And yes, I believe I have a right t
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by gavinpc 10y ago
Why doesn't Firefox ship with third-party cookies disabled? What would it break that isn't user-hostile? ( edit Chrome, IE, Safari, I understand, but privacy is one of Firefox's main differentiators.)
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by gavinpc 10y ago
I have to come to lukev's defense here. How are lukev's points any different from those being made by trjordan in this thread? It's very apparent to me that lukev's comments are being downvoted because of disagreements
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by gavinpc 10y ago
It's not even "word play." The word "promiscuous" was used for hundreds of years to mean "indiscriminately mixed" before it had any sexual connotation.[0] And yes, JSLint is opinionated. That's its

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