gerts

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by gerts 14y ago
> Pure liberty without mass is nonsensical. That's a photon.
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by gerts 14y ago
In the Unix environment, you may often write Java, Python, and Shell, all in a day's work on one project.
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by gerts 14y ago
perl does give you a lot of that, since if has a vaguely lisp-ish facility for modifying language syntax, and is in general very flexible, so it supports things like inheritance, deferred evaluation, etc.. http://search.cpan.org/search?que
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by gerts 14y ago
This is what happens when someone in the US discovers a vulnerability in transit ticketing: http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/288
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by gerts 14y ago
Eisenstadt went on a bit of extended speculation there. Having parents tends to create a secure environment that leads to middling experience. Losing that doesn't make you work harder, it just takes away a "normal" life and leads you to fin
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by gerts 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat The goal is to make it not worth the oppressor's effort to rip you off.
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by gerts 14y ago
Raise the price of a PAX ticket $15 to take a bite out of the scalpers, and boom, $1 million.
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by gerts 14y ago
It's bizarrely under-promoted now, but PA made a big deal when they launched PA Report a while back. http://penny-arcade.com/report/about
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by gerts 14y ago
So, SF should cost more, since it's more desirable, and push people to poor ignored Cleveland to balance out the pressure.
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by gerts 14y ago
This is why you don't run your computer using the default UI theme on the most popular OS.
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by gerts 14y ago
SiteKey is completely susceptible to Man-in-the-middle (unless the user is a scrupulous cookie-manager and refuses to re-authenticate a computer more than once), so adds minimal value over regular SSL.
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by gerts 14y ago
Or install AdBlock guiltfree because the website is obviously hostile beyond forgiveness.
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by gerts 14y ago
It's self-evident that people aren't giving $100 to PBS because they really want the PBS-logo beer cozy and can't find it cheaper or easier elsewhere. That's a donation, and along with it the donor does some advertising exposure via the coz
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by gerts 14y ago
yes, who wrote the bug ...and who reviewed the bad design ...and who reviewed the bad code ...and who wrote the bad tests ...and who built the spaghetti system that can't isolate failures ...and who pushed new code to production without smo