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by ghurtado 10y ago
Absolutely: > ...pixelates the naughty parts while leaving the TiVo lower third graphic untouched. That was the sentence that locked in the "bullshit alert signal" for me.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Like a water-jet rail gun?
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I agree with much of what you said, but this: > "log in", "login"? Is a bad example, because these two have taken on two slightly different meanings: the spaced version is the verb, and the single word version is the
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I can't imagine that any of those performance gains were related to autoloading.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Interesting link. "It is important to note that mithridatism is not effective against all types of poison, and, depending on the toxin, the practice can lead to the lethal accumulation of a poison in the body." "There are onl
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> You can also eat small amounts of poison and become immune. What kinds of poison can you build an immunity to by eating small amounts of it?
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Religion doesn't work that way. You don't go "Well, I have this set of values, so I think XYZ is the right religion for me". There are exceptions, but most of the time it's actually exactly the opposite.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> Either tobacco becomes a controlled substance What on earth are you talking about? Tobacco is already a controlled substance in more ways than nearly anything that you can buy at a store (including guns).
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Citation / reference needed.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
They could easily claim that a product which would otherwise would not have these risks was made into a risky product by the use of certain carcinogens present in the pesticides. The choice of pesticide is made by the tobacco company, so it
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Heart disease?
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Hate to say it, but you only have you so far.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Maybe, but you would need massive collusion with millions of developers that you have never met in order to pull this stunt. I don't think that sounds very plausible.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> they fiddle with things, drop things, fidget, cough, snort phlegm up their nose, subvocalize, and generally emit an air of restlessness That list is entirely too familiar. Honestly, do you work in my office? Add to that: dictates cons
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I don't know why you got downvoted. I'm a software engineer and I identify with every sentence in your comment. I suspect I'm far from the only one.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
You guys are either pulling my leg, or I just entered a Volgon message board by mistake.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Yup. Verizon Wireless does this as well.
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I've gotta believe that some dolphin injuries are more severe than some orca injuries. At any rate, once the code describes a situation so specific that it may only classify a few injuries a year, what possible benefit may come from th
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Well, that's just the thing. Whether (we) programmers like it or not, the only relevant measure of quality in a program is whether it does the thing that the user needs it to do. In other words, "functional standards" is the
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by ghurtado 10y ago
So you created your HN account an hour ago for the only purpose of complaining about a product which is best of class and being offered to you for free?
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I realize that you're talking about "quality standards", but depending on the industry, there are plenty of legally mandated software standards out there. You're likely to run into some of them if you haven't alread
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> I really do think that software engineering damages you emotionally and mentally. The best software engineers that I know also the most cynical people I know - All atheists, nihilists and pessimists. Although I don't disagree with
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> The entire rest of your post assumes i had said something else, so i hope you don't mind i skip it. It's a shame that you don't have time to read the rest of the comment, because it explains why your view of how copyrigh
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by ghurtado 10y ago
It's not doing much for your reputation (or that of your employer) that you still haven't clarified whether you are the engineer or not - even after deliberately referring to yourself in the third person and being called out for i
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Someone needs to pay for the R+D before the hardware can exist, so I don't see anything wrong with considering R+D as part of the cost of the hardware (its "worth" if you will). The alternative is only considering the raw mat
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> Some rando in the park, though? No. Why not? What's the fear here?
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by ghurtado 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation. > other good reasons to not release such data! What other good reasons? I can't find any outside of thinking that some adult intends to kidnap your child, which could be in gross contradiction with the i
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by ghurtado 10y ago
I'll freely admit that I probably misread your intent, as I half suspected. If all your goals in this situation had your kid's well being in mind, then I misunderstood you and I apologize for that. From your wording (specially the
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> Engineer the situation such that a 'hover-parent' has no choice but to call 911. Sounds like you were using your kid as a prop in a social experiment with the goal to push your own particular agenda through "teaching mom
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by ghurtado 10y ago
> Anything that's even a little bit 'meta' would confound most 'AIs'. This is precisely why the Turing Test is so tricky for machines. Knowing the parameters, any regular human could test even the most advanced p

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