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by generj 13y ago
Why does it matter where eye focus is? Operating a keyboard shouldn't involve your eyes.
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by generj 13y ago
You can't use vim everywhere, and not everyone prefers it.
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by generj 13y ago
Are there really any new revelations that could make us be more embarrassed about healthcare.gov? Then again, I keep thinking that nothing the NSA does will surprise me anymore on a weekly basis, until another story like today happens.
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by generj 13y ago
Crunching against tight deadlines is not abnormal in big IT projects. Which is of course why big IT projects are such horrible things. The risks (some would say inevitable results) are well researched at this point. There is a reason the wo
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by generj 13y ago
According to the article, Marilyn Tavenner is responsible for authorizing the security checks to be skipped, along with several other administrators at HHS. Now, I would argue that Sibelius is ultimately responsible for setting unrealistic
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by generj 13y ago
Yes, in that the security checks were forced through. But that's not atypical - the security requirements for federal sites are amazingly complex to navigate, and even if the site was a) functional and b) secure in time for testing, it
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by generj 13y ago
Of course, the nice part is that since they do have analytics (as terribly implemented as it appears to have been), we can force enrollment number disclosure by filing a FOIA request for the web analytics data. Which, incidentally, I did to
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by generj 13y ago
Passing this sort of data in analytics requests is mind-boggingly-stupid. Most analytics providers explicitly tell you not to pass along Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Their Terms of Contract usually state doing so is a terminab
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by generj 13y ago
Number pads are very useful to me as a programmer. People forget that they aren't only useful for number entry...Num lock is there for a reason. It's a solution from the horrible absence/reconfiguration of the Home cluster,
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by generj 13y ago
Doesn't that hold true for anything not using quantum encryption? To fully secure in communications, you need to take advantage of weird quantum phenomenon like radioactive decay, and even then you are betting that we won't come u
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by generj 13y ago
And it's now at the #1 spot. http://i.imgur.com/ljVc1ga.png Sometimes news takes awhile to reach the front page.
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by generj 13y ago
I like the concept of re-centralizing all personal content. Dispersed services, central location, central analytics.
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by generj 13y ago
I wonder if with the Nokia purchase MS will transfer Surface hardware design over to Nokia. I think it would make more sense than to trust MS's current software/hardware integration team, whose efforts on the Surface 2 have result
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by generj 13y ago
I agree. But it's something . She was adamantly opposed before this, actively preventing any members in her committee from answering basic questions about oversight. She steamrolled over any objections Udall might have had, for instan
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by generj 13y ago
This is a nice approach. I especially like the semi Natural Language text input, very similar to https://github.com/jkbr/rrule This will be very useful for one of my pet projects. How does it handle DST?
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by generj 13y ago
I think we all know something about web design. We can all point out bad or horrible web design, at a minimum. We can also point out individual elements that make horrible web design horrible. Nobody here is going to recreate a GeoCities
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by generj 13y ago
I've tried a few. The problem with Themeforest is how muddled and complicated the HTML DOM in themes usually are - and even if the design is intuitive, it's not yours, so it's rather difficult to own completely. With that sai
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by generj 13y ago
This is one of the major problems I have with NSA advocates. They constantly define the news/public as "the enemy" then are surprised when we are hostile towards them.
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by generj 13y ago
While I generally consider Feinstein a rubber stamp for the surveillance state, that she now supports any sort of reform is a major shift in the conversation. If Chambliss (the other co-chair on the Senate Intel Committee saluting the Stats
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Senator changes tune, now is “totally opposed” to foreign leader surveillance(arstechnica.com)
2 points by generj 13y ago|1 comments
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by generj 13y ago
Feinstein is now apparently opposed - the recent spying on world leaders never was passed through her for approval, and now wants a total review of all intelligence activities the NSA is performing. Not that I'd trust her, I feel that
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by generj 13y ago
Practical Typography is excellent. Excellent. I think he makes some hyperbolic statements at times, but Butterick as a whole is very accessible. The only annoyance was ignoring Butterick's plugs for his personal typefaces. I was very h
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by generj 13y ago
"Dat" not only means "that", but also an admiration (perhaps of the lusty variety) for the item thereafter described. Most infamously, the meme "Dat Ass" is used, but "Dat X" is commonly used on Reddi
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by generj 13y ago
She also helped popularize the term 'computer bug'.
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by generj 13y ago
I'm Mormon, and OSC isn't representative, especially of younger generations. As Christians we should be welcoming to everyone, and I have a very hard time reconciling OSC's statements to his professed beliefs. In fact, we con
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by generj 13y ago
Yes! I think it's hard to fully appreciate Ender's Game as an first-time adult reader.
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by generj 13y ago
I think the book makes the case that none of them are really children, but really adults in children's bodies (with the exception of the first boy Ender accidentally killed). The book grapples with these issues, and Graff is brought to
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by generj 13y ago
Heck, the Armenian genocide even has more textual support - Petra is Armenian.
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by generj 13y ago
I agree, it's overwhelming. I prefer more subtle effects. Nonetheless, I'll probably include this in "oh my so pretty" option of Dashing, competing with "barebones utilitarian" and "smart blend of bling an
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by generj 13y ago
This is something that shocked me when I went on the UTA Trax trains in Salt Lake: there were no tickets. Or, to be precise, there were tickets, but they weren't enforced. No turnstiles were present anywhere in the system. Coming from

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