horsehead

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by horsehead 14y ago
How many times, though, have you jokingly said to a close friend that you should blow X up to solve the world's problems? It's akin to saying we should ship all of X type of people to some third world country. It doesn't mean you want to ac
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by horsehead 14y ago
F king ridiculous. Doesn't this make the prosecutors in this case guilty of murder?
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by horsehead 14y ago
I have to say, I think everybody will learn to code in the future. It teaches logical thinking, which we just don't have enough of in today's society. And with the explosion of computers, it's going to be a handy skill; just like there are
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by horsehead 14y ago
Didn't Machiavelli already write this?
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by horsehead 14y ago
The principles of capitalism and competition in action. I seriously dont like Bing. But I don't use any google products now for more than a quick look (including gmail) because they be storing my data and preferring their G+ stuff over more
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My third python project -- a simple horseracing game(github.com)
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by horsehead 14y ago
I just want to say that I've been learning Python as my first language. I've found it to be fairly intuitive and a lot of fun. Of course, learning any language, especially your first, is going to be difficult, though. One of the drawbacks I
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by horsehead 14y ago
While I'm not exactly up to speed on all the details of the GPL, but i was under impression that you could tweak licenses as you wanted .... in that case, the GPL would give you a nice framework to start with. That's if i'm remembering li
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by horsehead 14y ago
I just read this article. It's awesome. Yeah there are definitely problems with the industry. I wonder, though, if some of the things mentioned (like the frathouse like atmosphere) is a sort of response to the 'geekiness' associated with pr
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by horsehead 14y ago
Yes, this definitely needs to be prominent somewhere. It's a big feature for people who worry about data loss (like me!). I'm a compulsive saver -- i usually save after changing something as small as a punctuation mark, so pointing out that
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by horsehead 14y ago
I did.
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by horsehead 14y ago
The GNU license? http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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Top tech and data officers for city of Chicago available for May 9 chat(arstechnica.com)
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Create native ios apps using RubyMotion(arstechnica.com)
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by horsehead 14y ago
While this is a little disappointing in that it speaks to the quality (or lack thereof) of developers coming out of college, or elsewhere, it is also really encouraging too! the fizzbuzz problem is actually incredibly simple and I was abl
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by horsehead 14y ago
Maybe I'm just incredibly naive, but are fizzbuzz tests really that necessary? I have a hard time believing anybody could get an interview, let alone graduate with a BS in compsci, without being able to do something THAT simple ....
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by horsehead 14y ago
Frankly, this is an issue in all industries. The company i work for is always complaining about the quality of people they have to hire. But then they offer salaries of $26,000 a year (not in software obviously). But point is: to get qualit
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by horsehead 14y ago
Very touching story. I got a chance to ride with a taxi driver for a night one time -- those guys have really interesting jobs. It's kind of like being a cop, except without carrying the gun (Though i think some do carry). Never know who yo
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by horsehead 14y ago
I think my point is this: how is this any different from religious evangelizing? It's pushing his personal views on other people needlessly. And Zuckerberg using a platform as large as facebook to cajole people into revealing stuff like thi
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by horsehead 14y ago
Pazimzadeh: ""The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Facebook to start advertising their donor status on their pages, along with their birth dates and schools"" When facebook has 'a plan' to get you to shar
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by horsehead 14y ago
See, this is exactly why this sort of thing should not be on facebook. It will contribute to a decay of relations between people who think someone is a bad person for not donating and someone who thinks there is nothing wrong with not donat
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by horsehead 14y ago
it's not so much that. It's the stigmatizing that they're doing -- as if you're somehow 'bad' by not being an organ donor. Yes it's admirable, but it's the principle that gets me more than the details of this. While organ donation is a good
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by horsehead 14y ago
""a move that it hopes will create peer pressure to nudge more people to add their names to the rolls of registered organ donors. It is a rare foray by Facebook into social engineering from social networking, and one with a potentially prof
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by horsehead 14y ago
This is why you can't legislate the Interwebz very well. Legislation will typically be ~5 steps behind technology (a rough guesstimate that has no basis in research).
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by horsehead 14y ago
You were making 65 grand whilst still in high school. I was playing final fantasy VII. Not sure which was better ..... actually yes I am. Why the hell didn't i start tinkering with stuff earlier on. Kudos to you, and thanks for writing abou
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by horsehead 14y ago
people still google 'britney spears torrent'? in any case, the whole copyright infringement thing is really trivial. As soon as you disable one method (here's to you Napster), new ones are only going to pop up. If the authorities were serio
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by horsehead 14y ago
What the hell? Aren't there more important things out there to tackle than copyright infringement? Sure it's illegal. But there is a massive campaign against pirates, but seriously -- surely there are bigger problems than this to tackle .
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by horsehead 14y ago
i wonder though -- if geniuses think a certain way, will training yourself to think along those lines increase your brainpower by teaching you to think more critically? I've read a lot of stuff recently on the ability humans have to actuall
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by horsehead 14y ago
So what you're saying (as heard from someone looking to get into the software developer field sometime soon), is that as a developer you still do a lot of documentation reading and you dont just have it all stored upstairs? If so, that is
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by horsehead 14y ago
It is not possible to harp on this trend enough. It's scary how much people will share if you give them the right incentives :( And very disappointing.

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