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by gills 18y ago
Just something to chew on... The local active sensing capability required to out-maneuver one or more interceptors would negate any low-observable qualities of the kill vehicle. The likelihood of the kill vehicle possessing a passive tracki
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by gills 18y ago
You're asking a loaded question by conflating violence and possession and/or use of firearms, as if the firearms are part of the motivation for the violence. Violence decreases with less unwanted births, a higher general level of education,
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by gills 18y ago
I think it's pretty telling that this guy was investigated for not consuming the fraudulent crap coming out of Wall Street. Wouldn't that be like a 1999 startup being investigated because they didn't have exponential growth projections in
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by gills 18y ago
Github and Heroku (I'm hopeful they will start charging one of these days, because I think they are on to something good. And I'm very new to Rails so it works for me at least here in the beginning).
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by gills 18y ago
heh...reminds me of the punishment in Neal Stephenson's 'Anathem', where they have to memorize nonsense from a big book for weeks on end!
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by gills 18y ago
It comes with the territory of daring to act on your ideas. If you can learn to be happy that you have an interesting enough life to experience such incredible highs and lows, and to know that they are transient, nothing will stop you from
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by gills 18y ago
That made my day :)
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by gills 18y ago
Maybe next he will grace us with the '7 Levels of Programming Hell'...
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by gills 18y ago
More Change You Can Believe In. But seriously...don't they get it? It's too late. We can get around any centralized controls with ad-hoc and mesh wireless networks. Freedom will win in the end, and watching these tards struggle against t
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by gills 18y ago
37signals public response seems commensurate with the amount of private discussion GetSatisfaction appears to have had with 37signals about placing that badge on their fake support page.
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by gills 18y ago
Well said! I usually consider a day productive if I've made some code smaller and faster, and just feel worn out if I typed a lot.
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by gills 18y ago
This would work well in my house, but not for the stated purpose. We have a hydronic heating system (hot water circulates through pipes to toasters...kind of like old radiators but more efficient). A heat exchanger from graywater to our he
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by gills 18y ago
Perhaps there is a correlation between Ryanair's cheapskate customers and people who clog airplane toilets, and they are being crushed under the repair costs. Hey, you asked for open-ended speculation, that's what you'll get :)
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by gills 18y ago
At first I was disappointed that when I searched "Washington" (my home state), nothing came up. Then when I clicked the 'States' link, I saw it was not for the U.S. But I think you are doing something that truly matters. Keep up the good w
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by gills 18y ago
Answer: they are working on other projects. The ones that have already left the stone age, and choose tools on merit rather than fear, dogma, and "that's the way we always did it". Disclaimer: ex-defense programmer. Java. C++. <shu
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by gills 18y ago
The government can't just make up laws as it goes along. You are right, and I'm glad you are saying it :) But didn't the Fed fail in it's regulatory role over the commercial banks to whom AIG was counterparty on swaps , when they allowed
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by gills 18y ago
I think GLB is irrelevant at this point, if only because regulators were negligent in failing to enforce other existing laws which could have prevented and/or mitigated the implosion. Would the executive branch have behaved differently if
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by gills 18y ago
You do realize that the popular catchphrase "Too Big To Fail" is politician-speak for "We know these guys are crooks and we know they committed fraud on a massive scale, but won't indict them because it would bare our own corruption and fai
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by gills 18y ago
I see your point about unemployment, but I'm going to play the devil's advocate for a moment anyway. I didn't distinguish between causes of unemployment in my post because the market doesn't care. Does it? "all expenditures are another per
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by gills 18y ago
So do we earn degrees, or do we rent degrees? edit: I know it sounds snarky, but I mean it in a curious way, inspired by your 'life-long relationship' phrase. Is the school vetting you for life, or is it a one-shot irrevocable deal? C
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by gills 18y ago
I am not sure of the answer you are expecting to your question. Or if you expect one at all. Here's my amateur take. One way is to do nothing and let the chips fall. I imagine this as the economic equivalent of a broken chain in the anch
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by gills 18y ago
Visitor Pattern. To me it really depends on the context and how many "majigs" you're going to have, how flexible your application needs to be -- do you need to leave layers open to other implementations (different view, different transport
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by gills 18y ago
I based my snarky remark on this from the article: "Avvo.com, the site posting the profiles, says it's simply using public data to help consumers find lawyers and their track records. "There's no reason why lawyer-licensing records should b
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by gills 18y ago
I know this is a weasel thing to say, and I apologize in advance for that, but I don't see where we actually disagree. Maintaining the size, quality, and ad conversion rate of your user base in a free/ad-funded business is where that busine
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by gills 18y ago
Dear Random Gatekeepers, We don't need you between us and our information anymore. Thanks for all the fish. Sincerely, The World
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by gills 18y ago
This should just be titled "Tools used by people with great hacker egos but may or may not actually be great hackers", because these are not predictors of great hackers.
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by gills 18y ago
Not yet (+189 days).
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by gills 18y ago
It's not less valuable, it's just that in that situation the "product" is not your product...the user base is your product. There is a fundamental difference between improving a product for customer.paying-user and improving the user base
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by gills 18y ago
I suspect (ok, I know from current experience) that it helps, when you have just a small team (or a lonely solo adventure, in my case) and you're living on ramen, to have at least one founder who is enthusiastic enough about the technology
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by gills 18y ago
Quality is important if you are the gatekeeper trying to sell other people's music. But if I am an artist, and I record something that everyone thinks sucks, so what? The only consequence is a low rank in the aggregators, just like low-qu

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