gruseom

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by gruseom 13y ago
Make the truth good, then just tell it. That closing line is the equivalent of a gymnast sticking a landing.
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by gruseom 13y ago
"Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase [...] used to villify [...] taking away some freedom from the marketplace This all sounds much more ideological to me than the comment to which you are objecting.
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by gruseom 13y ago
He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close. Why does "Big Food" necessarily make less healthy products than "independents"? I agree that a lot of mass
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The World's First TV Ad(mashable.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree with you. His language is magically buoyant.
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“A book is a sneeze”(lettersofnote.com)
97 points by gruseom 13y ago|26 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Was that mentioned in the article? If it was, I missed it. If he did copy such algorithms with the intention to use them at the new job, that would contradict both my comment and Lewis' portrayal.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Only his side of the story? Rather the opposite. As far as I know his side has been told just this once. I don't care about the "autistic spectrum", but I know this type of programmer, and if Lewis' portrayal is accurate
609.
by gruseom 13y ago
Do you think it's plausible that 8 MB of source code, consisting of modified open-source libraries, represented a theft of critical Goldman Sachs secrets?
610.
by gruseom 13y ago
I was disappointed in that previous discussion. Take away the off-topic stuff and it seemed like most reactions varied from "Good, throw the book at him" to "God that guy was dumb". If Lewis' portrayal is accurate,
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by gruseom 13y ago
The degree of harm caused is often a factor in measuring a crime, especially when it comes to sentencing. As Garry points out, 8 years for this is crazy.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Your first sentence is true, but doesn't change the point that if Manning did hold back more sensitive material, he must not have thought that all information should be public by definition. Also: how would Ellsberg know what Snowden
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by gruseom 13y ago
He seemed to have a stance that all information should be public by definition. According to Daniel Ellsberg, this is not true: "The public has been very misled about Manning, I would say," Ellsberg says. "They talk about
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by gruseom 13y ago
Trolls on the internet cause the best minds not to work on important problems? That can't be right. It's almost a self-contradiction.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I haven't worked on clipboard stuff in a web app yet, and am finding this thread confusing. If there are APIs for this, why are Trello resorting to a complex and probably rather brittle hack? What does the hack give them that the APIs
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by gruseom 13y ago
Why don't they do that, then? There must be some reason. I'm guessing it's that they want to override the content of what gets sent to the clipboard--is that correct?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Clever. They intercept the 'ctrl' keypress and make a textarea with the text they want to copy pre-selected, so if and when the user presses 'c', the browser will send the already-selected text to the clipboard. I assume
618.
by gruseom 13y ago
There's more than one claim going on here. But I agree with you that that is the most significant one and that it isn't proven.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Did you seriously just advocate intentional lying as a political device? That's a nasty road that ends in a dark place.
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by gruseom 13y ago
"Deferential" has nothing to do with it. In a technical discussion, the focus should be purely on the content. Inserting one's self into it (such as by being supercilious) detracts from that.
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by gruseom 13y ago
No, the story doesn't boil down to "a lady claims". The fact that the Guardian followed up and confirmed that there was a visit is significant. That takes this out of la-la land.
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by gruseom 13y ago
which would have been my first avenue in attempting to do something like this. Have you attempted to do something like this? Because he not only has attempted, he's done it. Therefore I think you should stop talking down to him (&q
623.
by gruseom 13y ago
What would be the ideal language to compile to this?
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The Disposable Man: A Western History of Sherpas on Everest(outsideonline.com)
4 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's fascinating. I googled a little and found [1], which speaks highly of Trapeze. It even says that modern spreadsheets still haven't caught up to it. I'd heard of Improv, but not Trapeze. It sounds like you were earlier.
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by gruseom 13y ago
More likely he assumed the reader knew what he was talking about.
627.
by gruseom 13y ago
The essay itself may not be widely read, but the phrase is anything but obscure—it's closer to cliché.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That is simply incredible.
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by gruseom 13y ago
competed vs Excel in the 1980s and lost I'd like to hear more about that. What was the product? Why did it lose?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Sorry for the off-topic comment. It's a little hobby (tracing quotes, that is, not commenting off topic).

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