glesica

11 ms·

61.
by glesica 11y ago
I agree. I think the interesting next step would be to ask if there are any communities that have adopted Diaspora heavily. Anecdotes from anyone whose social group uses it regularly would also be interesting.
62.
by glesica 11y ago
But now you're asking for an entirely different political and legal system. Not to say that I disagree, but in an adversarial system you do whatever you can to defend your client (members). If the other side isn't competent enough
63.
by glesica 11y ago
Why would this be a problem? Have you looked at the defense budget recently? Just cut science funding, education, hell just fire all the teachers outright, get rid of social safety net entirely, sell the national parks, etc. There are thous
64.
by glesica 11y ago
> The police unions do the same thing teachers' unions or any other union do--protect members who don't act within the bounds of their professional responsibility. Yeah, we should get rid of public defenders to save a few bucks
65.
by glesica 11y ago
One problem with this is that most companies that are small today hope to be large tomorrow. "Small" is not an intrinsic characteristic of most companies (at least most companies that would have patents), so there is little incent
66.
by glesica 11y ago
Yeah, this seems like it should be pretty straightforward (I'm sure it is harder than it seems, but still). Set a flag that persists through multiple reboots that says "after Windows loads, if there are updates, apply them and reb
67.
by glesica 11y ago
Why not use more of the screen width? It's not the worst refresh ever, but it feels like everything shrunk. Or maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. Overall, CF is still amazing and it's not like I have to use the dashboard
68.
by glesica 11y ago
Oh I agree with you. But I also think that that attitude is driven, at least partially, by the rich. If you're part of the top N%, for N<50, you must convince other people that what is in your best interest is also in their best int
69.
by glesica 11y ago
It's basically "New Deal"-type spending that is acceptable to the right wing (which, for the most part these days, includes the Democrats). The economy is in shambles, so you have to do something about it. But fixing the econ
70.
by glesica 11y ago
> But the fake fans never engaged, depressing each post’s score and leaving it dead on arrival. Sounds like a business opportunity. Fake fans who actually engage with content. They could even post fake comments and falsely claim they are
71.
by glesica 11y ago
Which makes the law entirely unenforceable unless the perpetrator is dumb / arrogant / ignorant enough to brag about it...
72.
by glesica 12y ago
Expensive. That's basically it. We are using Bitbucket for that reason. We aren't a large team, but we do have quite a few repos. On Github we'd be paying $50-100 per month, on Bitbucket we pay nothing. Not a big deal for a h
73.
by glesica 12y ago
But isn't that kind of the whole point? The Jedi are at a disadvantage, they impose all sorts of rules on themselves that put them at a disadvantage. The goal of the rules, though, is to eliminate temptation and lust for power, becau
74.
by glesica 12y ago
The problem is that computers in the home may not change outcomes for low income students. In fact, some studies have shown that giving poor kids computers actually makes things worse [1]. I certainly don't think that we should keep co
75.
by glesica 12y ago
I have two masters degrees (well, one and writing a thesis for the second one) and I found them both enlightening, valuable experiences. It is, of course, important to note that I didn't pay for either of them (except in the form of op
76.
by glesica 12y ago
This is especially bad on Firefox where the dialog to allow a self-signed cert isn't even very intuitive. At least on Chrome (last I checked, anyway) there is a clear "correct" thing to do if you want to allow the cert.
77.
by glesica 12y ago
Good call, we definitely need to document things a little better. Thanks!
78.
Show HN: Project Austral – Explore Attitudes on Reddit(projectaustral.com)
7 points by glesica 12y ago|2 comments
79.
by glesica 12y ago
The ability to effectively diff and version control a LaTeX (or Markdown, or reStructuredText, etc) file is, more than anything else, what keeps me away from word processors for anything but throwaway document sketches. Word and similar can
80.
by glesica 12y ago
Yep, that's what the whole Open Access movement is about, and it is making good progress.
81.
by glesica 12y ago
> ...is it that unreasonable for them to say it is big data? Let's say I have an organization and we run into a dataset that is 1,000 times larger than anything we've dealt with. Should we put out a help-wanted ad for a "b
82.
by glesica 12y ago
I was all ready to come back here and strenuously object to this since I really can't stand Peter Thiel, but after reading it, I agree with him (about this one thing). College, or any particular career field, isn't for everyone. I
83.
by glesica 12y ago
No one exposes NTFS volumes to the open Internet. A sibling comment got it right, IMHO, that spam, and not illegal content is the real pitfall here.
84.
by glesica 12y ago
>...but I'd say it's very reasonable to hold a big company responsible for whatever it says or does, when it affects market operating amounts of money some of us can't even imagine. To me, this seems like a flaw in the fin
85.
by glesica 12y ago
Any reasonable human would know it was a joke. Unless every algorithmic trading firm is going to publish their algorithms publicly, I think it is unreasonable to expect a company to be held responsible for what an algorithm would think abou
86.
by glesica 12y ago
No, because if it is slightly greater than 1 for one country, it must be slightly less than 1 for at least one other country.
87.
by glesica 12y ago
Are you going to move your very significant app to another platform because of this? Seems like an absurd thing to do to save yourself maybe a couple hundred bucks a year...
88.
by glesica 12y ago
A large part of the current GOP (and to a lesser extent Dem) platform is built on the idea that government cannot under any circumstances (except defense, because magic) do anything successfully. How can there be successful reform when
89.
by glesica 12y ago
I wasn't talking about Kodak film, I was talking about any arbitrary Kodak branded product. When companies die they often sell the brand, which then gets slapped on lots of random, usually low quality, products unassociated with the or
90.
by glesica 12y ago
My family took a ton of pictures on Kodak film when I was a kid so I certainly fall into the demographic of people who have fond memories of the brand. However, I would hesitate to buy a Kodak product now because I would assume that it was

More ›