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by jarrett 15y ago
Exactly my point. I think all the speculation about the legal ramifications of printing a receiver is off-base. I see no reason why the government wouldn't view it as just another form of manufacturing.
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by jarrett 15y ago
Legally, I'd think this would be the same as if a gunsmith were to make a lower receiver for himself. If that activity would be regulated in a given jurisdiction, is there any reason printing the receiver wouldn't be? This article doesn't r
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by jarrett 15y ago
You're right. I hadn't thought of that, but it strikes me as one of the nastier attacks I've heard of in a while. Just think of how many downloadable packages require root privileges to install.
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by jarrett 15y ago
Realistic attack scenario: Create a web site with user-friendly instructions on configuring your router for popular games. (Port forwarding, etc..) Hustle for good Google rankings. For each game, have an instruction sheet. Each instruction
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by jarrett 15y ago
Some problems are better expressed in paradigms other than OOP. One of the beautiful things about Ruby is that you can use OOP or other paradigms on a case-by-case basis in accordance with what's best for the problem at hand. This article s
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by jarrett 15y ago
That depends where you are. See, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_will
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by jarrett 15y ago
I find that these debates often come down to an either-or proposition: "put off optimization indefinitely" or "optimize to the max the whole way through." But it should never be so black and white. From a business view, both approaches are
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by jarrett 15y ago
That may be. But it's unethical for PayPal to blindside businesses. PayPal's behavior often appears arbitrary and capricious; at the very least, it's unpredictable from the customer's viewpoint. If PayPal absolutely must cut off the cash fl
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by jarrett 15y ago
I agree that the Loop can be convenient at times. But I still contend it's bad architecture--just as many seemingly convenient programming practices are. The loop functions operate on (global) variables that are not explicitly passed into t
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by jarrett 15y ago
I don't think there's one right way to code a website. So I wouldn't look down my nose at someone who uses a perfectly good architecture that's merely different from the one I would have chosen. That being said, there is such a thing as a w
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by jarrett 15y ago
"Drupal starts you off with 80% of the product functionally complete (!), for free, and leaves you with the spit and polish jar to squeak out the other 20. I find that this 80/20 rule is true for even very complex products. The lazy develop
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by jarrett 15y ago
The biggest problem with PHP isn't anything built into the language itself, but rather the culture of mediocrity/naivety surrounding it. As at least one other commenter has said, there are disciplined and skilled PHP programmers. If only th
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by jarrett 15y ago
I think you're operating from the assumption that the fruits of automation will somehow find their way to the population at large. That won't necessarily happen. It's quite possible that the advantage will go entirely to those who own and m
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by jarrett 15y ago
The question of whether automation causes unemployment to rise in the long run is addressed in detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_automation_to_u... TL;DNR for the Wikipedia article: People have worried about machin
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by jarrett 15y ago
Do we know that it helps people do their jobs better? The article left me with this question: Is this different than other microscopes that you could use in the field, and if so, how? Does this make it easier/cheaper for the trained personn
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by jarrett 15y ago
I doubt you could ban the type of spam we're talking about. Sure, it's already illegal to send spam emails. But that's because email can reasonably be defined. Not so for spam sites. What makes a site "spammy?" As reflected in this thread,
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by jarrett 15y ago
While I agree that our current intellectual property system is doing a great deal of harm (particularly due to it being slanted in favor of monied interests), there is a protect-the-little-guy rationale for some form of copyright. Let's ima
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by jarrett 15y ago
Those who say that the city's payroll needs are complex are entirely correct. A city government that size will inevitably have a mind-boggling number of variations in the business rules that the software must model. Yet $600 million? I've b
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by jarrett 15y ago
The strategy you're proposing might be rephrased as "trust that our customers will be stupid enough to buy our product." I understand where you're coming from. There are plenty of shallow-thinking execs that fit your stereotype. But relying
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by jarrett 15y ago
A 50/50 split means your non-technical contribution is worth the same as building the entire product, top to bottom, front to back. Having an idea for a certain software feature takes only a tiny fraction of the time it takes to implement t
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by jarrett 15y ago
A lot of people have commented that this type of stuff is standard. Maybe that's true. But if I considered my stock options to be an important, must-have part of my compensation package, I'd demand contractual protections. Double triggers h
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by jarrett 15y ago
This comment seems to disregard the ample quantitative evidence presented in the article. Marshaling substantial citations, the article argues that three things have happened simultaneously: - The productivity of US workers has gone up. - C
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by jarrett 15y ago
I echo the comments others have made about the wide range of improvements offered by modern browsers. But even putting that aside, the rendering capabilities you refer to make a bigger difference to web users than you might think. You say "
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by jarrett 15y ago
I'm quite grateful to Google for this. As a web developer, I'd always hoped that some big industry player would start forcing people to use modern browsers, and now it's happening. As small players, dropping support for older browsers kind
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by jarrett 15y ago
That seems very believable in a general sense, and I have vague memories of other studies that suggest similar things. The remaining question for me is whether and how EffectCheck's results have been compared against actual measurements of
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by jarrett 15y ago
Check out the results for their own webpage. Click "Try EffectCheck on this page!" here: http://effectcheck.com/tour I'm a little skeptical. It rates "anxiety" as "medium-high." Yet I don't feel the slightest bit anxious reading that page
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by jarrett 15y ago
At the moment, it looks like the trend is towards fragmentation in mobile platforms. A lot of companies are jumping on the mobile bandwagon, and they're not all adopting Android. I don't know if this trend will continue, but even with the c
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by jarrett 15y ago
I don't interpret the responses here as anti-labor. There hasn't been much or any union-bashing or pro-big-corporation sentiment on this thread. Rather, I think most of those who have criticized Andrew are responding to his seeming naivete.
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Ask HN: Has Sortfolio worked for you as a contractor?
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by jarrett 16y ago
All good points, and I agree with them in the abstract. However, in this specific case, I don't entirely agree. The post was about how various other sites were taking aim at individual Craigslist categories, and this might be a good reason

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