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by grappler 9y ago
I think what you'd want here is for the tactile click to be at the actuation point. My understanding is that many or most mechanical keyboards today can't claim this. Or maybe there is some optimal separation a key should have bet
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by grappler 9y ago
RSS is great, but: If I could add one thing to a standard RSS setup, it would be a volume knob for each subscribed feed. Is a feed too noisy? You can unsubscribe. But what if you had another less-drastic option to "turn it down"?
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by grappler 9y ago
Clearly Paul Graham is defending the Bodega vending machine here ;)
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by grappler 9y ago
This story made me think "Maybe I want to finally sign up for an Uber account, after years of avoiding them and using Lyft?" But then I thought, well, Travis still controls a majority of the votes and he's still on the board.
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by grappler 9y ago
I'd think/hope that the ultimate resting place of services that have “a fascinating piece of web history” is with the Internet Archive or similar, as an alternative to orphaning a bunch of links.
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by grappler 9y ago
In particular, I like that screenhero gives each participant their own separate mouse pointer.
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by grappler 9y ago
Over-The-Air (OTA) TV to me is something left far, far behind, somewhere in the mid-aughts. A wasteland of advertising and inferior content compared with what is available online or even on cable. Kids especially, the ones who are 'pro
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by grappler 9y ago
Maybe provoking a controversy like this is an indicator that a paper in this part of academia has succeeded. They aren't pursuing economic value or understanding of nature; they're examining the social world we're living in.
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by grappler 9y ago
Yeah, I would wait for a judgement from somebody like Wirecutter or Consumer Reports on whether such a product is likely to hold up.
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by grappler 9y ago
A machine with that level of quality has a lot of appeal for me. Something generally useful like a blender or stand mixer, that might be kept visible on the counter and used often, I could see dropping $400 or even $700 on. But this thing d
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by grappler 9y ago
Browsers are “user agents”. Their role is to act on behalf of the user. Not the site operator. I think it really is as simple as that.
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by grappler 9y ago
For me there is an undeniable appeal to “voting with your feet” after the result of the voting at the ballot box turned out so poorly. I personally likely won't be impacted too badly by Trump and his supporters. I may have economic opt
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by grappler 9y ago
That seems like a reasonable division into three strata. You could divide it into a lot more than three. Each movement upward leaves one set of problems behind and may introduce new things that would not have been realistic considerations b
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by grappler 10y ago
If the same thing (god forbid) should happen with Trump, it will be pretty hard to claim that he wasn't showing authoritarian colors in his 2016 campaign. He definitely was.
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by grappler 10y ago
Fitting that nobody is commenting here
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by grappler 10y ago
Pocket's post about the acquisition, referring to the main value their product brings, says, “a platform where high-quality, thoughtful content and free speech can rise above the rest.” Pocket used to have a feature aimed at surfacing
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by grappler 10y ago
Just imagine what classified orders are being worked on, or already signed, right now. I wouldn't hold out much hope for any of the limits that have been in place regarding surveillance, foreign or domestic, on citizens or noncitizens.
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by grappler 10y ago
I'm sympathetic to that, certainly. But how to balance it against the can of worms that opens when an election victor prosecutes an imprisons their political rival?
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by grappler 10y ago
If you are concerned enough about the security and privacy of the app, then you should learn how to use the app. That includes learning about the indicators provided by the UI telling you about key changes, delivery notifications, and anyth
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US-CERT Releases IP addresses, domains, and malware signatures used by Russians(us-cert.gov)
31 points by grappler 10y ago|5 comments
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by grappler 10y ago
I approach social media (twitter in particular) this way: “try to be a good neuron”. Meaning: social media forms a global hive mind. It determines what a lot of people see and hear about the world. Witness the flare up recently over the inf
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by grappler 10y ago
Chad and Brad are in a pretty shitty position right now as far as these things go. They have product owners breathing down their neck and are increasingly signed in as the pair chad+brad@company.com in their open-office chain gang, unable t
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by grappler 10y ago
I have intelligence and programming ability, and a desire to further my career. I want a good high paying job in the epicenter of my chosen industry. I do not want to move to a city where I can't afford to buy a good home within walkin
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by grappler 11y ago
Not as if I had time to do that kind of research either :) That'd probably always hold for some definition of "like me". However, my approach has resulted in thumbs ups for people different than me in ethnicity, age, gender,
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by grappler 11y ago
Feel free to propose a better approach...
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by grappler 11y ago
Recognizing these difficulties and biases, and watching the swaggering, overconfident, surface-level way coworkers around me talk about their interview candidates as if they had awesome powers of judgement, my approach has evolved into: Pic
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by grappler 13y ago
4th amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath o
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by grappler 13y ago
In light of the whole surveillance issue, how to approach the matter of foreign balloons drifting in and out of the airspace of many different countries? Can they steer around countries that want no part of it? It doesn't take too much
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by grappler 13y ago
People say lots of things, all the time. Nothing gets attention like a leaked set of Top Secret files.
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by grappler 13y ago
This sounds like a great explanation of an additional reason why the NSA collecting billions of communication records is harmful to civil liberties. It empowers prosecutors with no proportional aid to defendants.

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