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by gpcz 14y ago
Are you sure you would want a psychiatrist rather than a psychologist? Personally I would feel very uncomfortable having someone under my employer prescribing me psych meds. Also, while it might work well for sports teams, in knowledge wo
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by gpcz 14y ago
Patton once said "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." If the author's third point is an accurate representation of reality in the Air Force, I wonder how the armed forc
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by gpcz 14y ago
This is an excellent lesson in the power of cognitive dissonance, similar to the story of Ignaz Semmelweis (src: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis ). The takeaway? Keep in mind the Stoic phrase: "Pay attention to your [perceived]
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Would Microsoft be a large corporation if copyright in the early 80s prevented Compaq from copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of the IBM BIOS chip on the original IBM PC? They made the big money on DOS from selling to clon
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by gpcz 14y ago
How quickly do you think the button will go away when some malware author writes something that flags every site a person goes on as a terrorist site (or some activist makes a voluntary browser plugin)?
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by gpcz 14y ago
id Software makes its game engines free when their technology gets dated, but the artistic/creative content remains copyrighted. They do this by having a copyright "airlock" interface between the executable and the game data (WAD/PAK/PK3/w
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by gpcz 14y ago
Part of that depends on the type of advice or guidance. Some of it might be a symptom of the project's bus factor being too low (inadequate documentation, ambiguities or holes in processes, etc), which your organization can fix by paying d
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by gpcz 14y ago
During undergrad I discovered the university's blackboard-like site sent plaintext passwords over http, and the majority of its use was over wireless. I went to the IT office responsible for the site, told them about it, and refused to giv
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by gpcz 14y ago
It was also really crappy cover-up strategy on the school's part. By refusing due process to Al-Khabaz and expelling him with zeroes for his last semester grades, Al-Khabaz now had nothing to lose exposing both the security flaw and the in
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by gpcz 14y ago
The "Entrepreneurial Business Fundamentals" class I'm taking right now made an analogy of success as starting a fire, and described this type of startup as "waiting for lightning to strike." It's an extreme end of the venture capital risk/
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by gpcz 14y ago
How would peripherals work? You plug it into a TV and it boots, but how do you interact with it? How can Dell guarantee a good user experience with all those different operating systems they have to support? Aside from a thumbdrive form
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by gpcz 14y ago
Here is Miss Representation's reply to this blog post: http://www.missrepresentation.org/notbuyingit/hyper-responds...
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by gpcz 14y ago
Also, since the game is deterministic, there are known patterns that let a player win every possible board with maximum points: http://www.math.montana.edu/~hyde/pacman/ .
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by gpcz 14y ago
One of my favorite pieces on writing is "Effective Writing for Army Leaders," available at http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/p600_67.pdf . They have hilarious side-by-side comparisons of poor and good writing, such as pg. 13 and 1
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by gpcz 14y ago
I haven't watched all of them yet, but my favorite so far is "Enemies of the State."
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by gpcz 14y ago
I understand the philosophy that Easter eggs can undermine confidence in software security, since if the programmer could sneak that by, who knows what else they could sneak in. However, from a human/sentimental standpoint I miss the era w
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by gpcz 14y ago
If you're looking for more examples and information about using simple algorithms with lots of data, I recommend Peter Norvig's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvDCzhbjYWs
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by gpcz 14y ago
Chess has relatively simple rules (initial board layout, legal moves, win condition, some fanciness with en passant and castling, etc), but the game is endlessly complex, and there are more boards than a human being could ever see in his or
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by gpcz 14y ago
While the "JUSTIN BAILEY" code is meaningless, Metroid does have an actual pre-programmed "cheat" password in it: NARPAS SWORD0 000000 000000 . It was intentionally placed into the game (src: http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Narpas_Sword ),
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by gpcz 14y ago
I'm concerned about what level of evidence an Objectivist society would need to pass such a law. According to Chapter 33 of "The Passion of Ayn Rand," Ayn Rand demanded a "rational" explanation of why to stop smoking and said the statistic
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The copyright issues caused by book post-scarcity would have been a nice problem to have in Ben's time. In the 18th century, the best printing technology was still the Gutenberg press, which could print about 240 pages an hour. Presses th
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by gpcz 14y ago
The library was an offshoot of a small club of people called the Junto (src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Company_of_Philadelphia... ), which was a small group of people sharing books.
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by gpcz 14y ago
From the movie "The Great Escape": "Ex-POWs asked filmmakers to exclude details about the help they received from their home countries, such as maps, papers, and tools hidden in gift packages, lest it jeopardize future POW escapes. The film
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by gpcz 14y ago
With that callous disregard for human life, I hope you are never in a position of power.
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It also means that organizations that only accept commercial software due to bureaucratic concerns such as requiring a support contract, needing a corporate name on their tools to be considered "respectable," etc now have access to a techni
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by gpcz 14y ago
I agree that no industry deserves a guaranteed profit margin. I just think that if one believes an industry needs to die, then talking of innovation is really just a tease.
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If the only choice for dealerships in the classic phrase "innovate or die" is to die, why even say that the dealership industry needs to innovate?
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by gpcz 14y ago
Its easy to say that at the macro scale, but what are you suggesting car dealerships do on the micro scale? Learn how to build their own cars and sell them in defiance of the current laws on the contingency that the judge rules in Tesla's
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by gpcz 14y ago
If you want to look at it from a purely cold and objective light, then you are correct. It's true that it's not Comcast's problem, that there's a contractual clause, and that Comcast's role as a business is to maximize profit. However, it
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According to this search engine, McCain and Obama cereal sold by the founders of AirBnB is part of a balanced pg breakfast.

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