glomek

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by glomek 10y ago
That absolutely may have been a factor. However, what 26 year old computer nerd without a black belt wouldn't give suicide some thought when staring at an unjust sentence in a federal prison of fifty years, AKA five decades, AKA half a
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by glomek 10y ago
Aaron Swartz being dead is becoming annoying.
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by glomek 10y ago
MIT needs to be shamed publicly, regularly and continuously until they publicly apologize for their shameful behavior. Giving this award to Swartz, and giving the money to his parents, along with a public statement of remorse and a public c
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by glomek 10y ago
It doesn't matter if Aaron Swartz is ineligible. We should still nominate him. We should nominate him so many times that granting the award to anyone else makes this award an obviously disingenuous publicity stunt.
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by glomek 10y ago
> Every platform that is public and anonmyous runs afoul of this, this isn't just twitter. You can look at Youtube comments, reddit, pretty much any forum. We had ways of dealing with this on Usenet back in the day. 1) Thick skin,
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by glomek 10y ago
> Free speech has a legal definition, and Twitter doesn’t qualify. The legal definition of free speech is based on a moral principle, for which Twitter does qualify. When a platform such as Twitter or Facebook becomes the de facto publ
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Why was Android Ad Hoc Networking marked “Obsolete”? This issue has 6277 stars(code.google.com)
2 points by glomek 12y ago|1 comments
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by glomek 12y ago
LiveCode looks very attractive, but I have trouble comprehending your interpretation of the GPL. At http://livecode.com/support/ask-a-question/at-what-point-do-... you say: "The FAQ on the FSF website states
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by glomek 12y ago
Yikes! That's different! But it still doesn't have the one feature that I've been wishing they would implement forever. In a collection of audio files, I wish they would provide a podcast feed. It would be so nice to be ab
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by glomek 12y ago
As I understand the code, an "Atom" is like a tagged pointer. It gets passed around by value, sometimes it contains the value itself (numbers), and sometimes it contains a pointer to something malloc'd. So an AtomType_Pair
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by glomek 12y ago
That sounds like a way to write programs that use a bluetooth attached gotenna. Is that correct? What I am asking is, could I talk to a gotenna using another radio setup of my own creation. Are you publishing enough information about gote
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by glomek 12y ago
Do you intend to release the specifications for the protocol you are using? For example, would I be able to hook a computer with gnuradio up to a MURS radio and write software that could communicate with a goTenna?
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by glomek 12y ago
Netflix just keeps creeping one tiny step at a time farther and farther away from the awesomeness that they once were. I used to love Netflix. I was a loving, loyal, evangelical customer and fan. Now I just find them somewhat useful. In t
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by glomek 12y ago
The Serval Project is already working on this: http://www.servalproject.org/ Unfortunately, they are limited by Google's very long standing lack of response to requests to support peer to peer WiFi on Android. See htt
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by glomek 14y ago
It's a pity that there is no discussion of the fact that the 2 interpreters use different scoping. The 1st uses lexical scoping, and the 2nd uses dynamic scoping. It's also a pity that there is no discussion of the “label” special form, eve
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by glomek 16y ago
Wonderful story, but I kept wondering the whole time, why weren't they printing out every useful bit of survival and geographical and machine maintenance and biofuel making information they could find online in preparation for the generator
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by glomek 16y ago
> you treat them like the primary creators of value for you company, and yourself as their support staff Bingo! The best managers I have had over the years spent far more time getting me what I needed in order to do my job than they di
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by glomek 16y ago
> How do you incentivize the good ones to work for you? Easy. Instead of giving the programmers managers, put the programmers in charge of their own projects and give them administrative assistants to handle all of the non-programming
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by glomek 17y ago
This really is an amazing opportunity for Amazon. If they were to drop DRM and allow third party applications on the Kindle, they could blow Apple out of the water.
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by glomek 17y ago
Scratch is an amazing piece of work. It's sad that the license prevents it from ever being part of a default OS install.
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by glomek 17y ago
Now is it just me, or is finding the person you want to hire, and then advertising for the position locally, getting the cart before the horse? Whadaya bet the advertisement is overly specific and tailored just for the guy they want to hire
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by glomek 17y ago
Seems fine to me. If you want the captured variable to be different each time, you need to create a new environment each time. How about this? >>> fs = [(lambda x: (lambda n: x + n))(i) for i in range(10)] >>
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by glomek 18y ago
It's partly a matter of definition. I usually don't feel like I'm getting work done during meetings, but sometimes I still need to be at them. I usually don't feel like I'm getting work done when I'm talking with coworkers about workplace
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by glomek 18y ago
There are many ways to affect others. You can help them, comfort them, share with them, remind them that not all Christians are fundamentalists, ...
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by glomek 18y ago
No, some Christians are bailing on GoDaddy because of the ads. Many of us just don't care. A whole lot of Christians are not Fundamentalist Christians who want to control your life and dictate your morals. Unfortunately, the sane ones d
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by glomek 18y ago
I dumped Mathematica many, many years ago when they turned evil and started making it stop working after a month if you haven't registered it.
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by glomek 18y ago
I heard years ago that Ruby 1.9 was going to have tail call optimization, but I can't find it anywhere in the news file. Does anyone know if this made it in or not?
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by glomek 18y ago
My guess is that CS degrees are not valued because most of them are not particularly valuable. The average CS department would flunk out most of their students, whither away, and die if they demanded the level of ability that MIT or Berkele
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by glomek 18y ago
> Far too many people go to college. I am convinced that many people go to college only to become employable, not because they have any academic interest to pursue. If a high school diploma actually meant that you could read and write a
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by glomek 19y ago
Has anyone been able to find the original "Mindset Profile" from "Mindset Media" about this? My searches so far have turned up a bunch of commentary but no original references.

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