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by gruseom 13y ago
In terms of cultural values, it clearly is. Hence the connection to "career advancement". Please don't be personally sarcastic on HN.
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by gruseom 13y ago
No, he is not boring , and your comment is (way) out of line for being personally disrespectful.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I didn't know that "nostalgia" means "home pain" (pretty close to "homesickness", really) or that the term was invented by a 17th century Swiss physician. According to [1], it was a calque from the German
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by gruseom 13y ago
At least one more time than what you point out, a more significant time really Gah. Usually I try to be more careful with the throwaway phrases. Thanks for getting my point anyway.
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by gruseom 13y ago
In English, "dawn" only occurs in the morning, so when used metaphorically it always refers to the advent of a thing. The word you're looking for is "twilight", which when used metaphorically means the end or declin
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by gruseom 13y ago
I get you now. That's a fairly subtle point! I don't know if "chilling effects" is the right phrase to use either about terrorism or surveillance, or means the same thing in the two cases. The former is about fear. The l
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by gruseom 13y ago
I don't disagree, but here's why I posted this. First, the author has credibility: ex-counterintelligence officer (including NSA) whose blog posts are consistently interesting and who doesn't seem to be a propagandist. Second
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by gruseom 13y ago
I forgot about that when I said the program doesn't once ask what the truth is. You may be right that they gave a misleading answer, but at least they (momentarily) brought up the question.
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Wikileaks, Snowden, and the Belarus Connection(20committee.com)
5 points by gruseom 13y ago|2 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I didn't see that point in the article. Can you quote a sentence that is about any lost truth?
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by gruseom 13y ago
How is that ironic? The first is a rhetorical device for claiming a threat is inflated. The second is about negative consequences of inflating the threat.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's something different. By "conforming" I meant "conforming to the mainstream", which is the type of conforming the OP (and the root comment) is about. (Edit: I agree that subcultures have their own conformity r
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've listened a few times and developed the impression that its main preoccupation is its own insider status. There's no reporting at all in, for example, this piece. Let's not assume that a PR consultant (Mr. Sandman) belong
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by gruseom 13y ago
This interview is entirely about spin. It never once asks what the truth is [1]. Brooke Gladstone: Now, let's take today the argument over NSA surveillance. Where would you come down on this? Peter Sandman:
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by gruseom 13y ago
I care, because it matters to me that there are others who feel the way I do. Please don't make sarcastic personal comments on HN.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm with you. An article like this shooting to the top of HN is a consequence of the rise in status of programmers. Probably nothing can be done about it, but an article on how to conform is the antithesis of hacker culture.
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by gruseom 13y ago
You did nothing wrong. People post older material all the time. Those are some of the best posts. And the GP was being a jerk, which actually does violate the site guidelines.
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by gruseom 13y ago
The videos are at http://www.sri.com/newsroom/videos/content/6815 .
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Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: 40th Anniversary Celebration(sri.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|1 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Well, I wish that meme would stop too. It makes macros sound all freakazoid, when really they're just another technique. The obvious and natural and historically standard guidance is "Don't write a macro when a function will
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by gruseom 13y ago
On the other hand, you've got some serious digging to do if you want to understand a clojure macro. Metaprogramming like that is seriously brain twisty I wish this meme would stop. Your "if you know the language, you can just re
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by gruseom 13y ago
This passage gives a nice summary: Engelbart's 1951 epiphany focused on a basic predicament -- his perception that the world's complexity was increasing at a faster rate than humanity's ability to cope. The computer, he deci
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by gruseom 13y ago
Google Docs et al. only offer one aspect of that; all they aspire to do is solve the problem of "collaborative editing of a document" Yes, but it's just the aspect the OP criticizes screen-sharing (as a proxy for present-da
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by gruseom 13y ago
The closest present-day analog to Engelbart's collaborative editing demo (edit: I mean specifically the document-editing portion, not the video etc.) is not screen-sharing, but modern collaborative editors (Google Docs, Etherpad), whic
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by gruseom 13y ago
I take it you're being sarcastic, but the article doesn't contain any such information. Or are we missing something?
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How Exercise Can Calm Anxiety(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
253 points by gruseom 13y ago|71 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
The OP is (mostly) a sober analysis of the constitutional issues raised by automatic mass surveillance. Whether one agrees or disagrees, it's (relatively) high-quality content that an informed author put some serious effort into. As fa
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by gruseom 13y ago
I doubt it. And I get why you might find the thread annoying. But I believe people mostly use the term "conspiracy theory" to reinforce the assumptions of their own worldview. The comment to which I replied seems like a good examp
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by gruseom 13y ago
I read this and it's still unclear to me whether the author conducted any experiments involving pair programming. If he did, why hasn't he described them in detail? If he didn't, where did his data come from? I guess he didn&
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by gruseom 13y ago
Conspiracy theories are not common sense That's a tautology. The phrase "conspiracy theory" intends something only a fool or a fanatic would believe—that's why it's always accompanied by ridiculing language. Cases

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