icehawk219

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by icehawk219 12y ago
It most certainly is not your data. It's on their servers, in their apps, and running through their network. They decide what they do it with, how long they keep it, and whether or not you even have access to it. Comparing them to the
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Agreed, and combined with NIMBY it'll be damn near impossible to build in densely populated areas. NJ Transit has been dealing with this for decades as people keep claiming they want more rail lines but don't want them in their ow
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I completely agree with you but also feel like the big problem is people tend to state it as a case of "why the country, as a whole, needs high speed rail" and as you point out the vast majority of country really doesn't. Or
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Maybe I've just become jaded about American politics but every time a politician says something like this I tend to just assume that they're doing it to gain favor with the public while knowing there's nearly a 0% chance it w
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Well the idea is that anyone can run for election and in order to afford to do so people can pool their resources and help out. So if I want to run for mayor and you really like me a lot better than the other person you can pitch in in diff
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Lobbying in its purest form is supposed to be a way for people to have a voice in their government. Anyone in this country can ring up, or write, or email, their representative and push for an issue they feel strongly about. Likewise they c
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I use this but I use it primarily as a diff'ing tool. It's very convenient for that and is also handy on the occasions I'm working on something and then look and realize I have several commits worth of uncommitted changes. Wh
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It has really put me off, and probably many others, from ever hosting a TOR node The cynic in me can't help but assume that that's the entire point.
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This is a worrying trend I've been noticing as well. The last couple of years especially I've noticed a very large increase in people just not caring about graceful downgrading as well as people just not even testing in other brow
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I think it's important to take notice that Twitch's recent problems (the buffering problem, chat problems, the delay in general) are problems with their ability to cater to the big tournaments which causes me to really not be all
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That's the general idea. Show them what life will be like if you're on the internet slow lane in the hopes they'll wake up and realize what it really means. Especially since the branding has become that they really want to cr
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The problem with this plan is that Bombcast couldn't care less. They have a monopoly so what are their customers going to do? Switch to a non-existent ISP? And thanks to the death of Net Neutrality Bombcast can even go as far as to say
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> What concrete things do I gain from opting out? What do I lose? How does it actually affect my life? These are for profit businesses and both are ultimately controlled by investors. What's to stop Google or Facebook from giving th
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by icehawk219 12y ago
> No one here suggested you should be writing PHP daemons. I agree with everything you've said and this statement isn't false in the scope of this thread. But I can't count how many times fellow PHP developers have suggest
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by icehawk219 12y ago
"I've really squeezed everything out of this shitty little language" Whenever PHP is mentioned people always jump to talking about the limits of the language and I'm curious what those limits were? I've worked on bi
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by icehawk219 12y ago
Along the same lines another thing that I think most of us in the US this winter (or least parts of it) had to deal with are potholes. I've gotten quite good at avoiding the potholes around me by preparing for their presence well ahead
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by icehawk219 12y ago
I had the same exact problem with a side project that spiraled out of control and was eventually cancelled in favor of a new job. What I had just started at the end, and what friends have done, that seems to work really well is to use somet
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by icehawk219 13y ago
One of my guiding principles for code comments has always been "say why not what". If I can't figure out that what on my own then something is probably very wrong with the code. What I want to know is why you used a for() i
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by icehawk219 13y ago
Every time this topic comes up I'm reminded of The Pirate's Dilemma [0], which is a great read that I recommend. The way the author presents the problem, using history as a reference, is that when "pirates" come to play
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by icehawk219 13y ago
Zero Punctuation did a good review of this game [0] (starts at 3:20) and sums up the attraction to it pretty well in my opinion. "It presents constant moral choices but makes it really hard to be a good person." [0] http:/&#
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by icehawk219 13y ago
Something I noticed when taking a new job at a startup recently is that people seem to latch onto the idea of a USP being some fancy bell or whistle. The idea that "everything else in the market is terrible, we're making it easier
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Verizon support rep admits anti-Netflix throttling(boingboing.net)
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I feel like there's probably plenty of people outside of tech that fall within the "normals" bucket you're referring to that get value out of Twitter. I think their real problem (besides is it sustainable) is that it&#x2
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by icehawk219 13y ago
So far $0/mo off Neutrino ( https://getneutrino.com ) as I'm still getting up and going. I built it for myself to help keep track of my own side projects and then decided to embrace the idea of "sell your by-product