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by jat850 11y ago
Chicken Licken is another name used for Chicken Little in some variants of the tale.
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by jat850 11y ago
Those examples you have picked fit the same problem as the initial argument, yes. "retard" in French means "slow" or "late".
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by jat850 11y ago
Completely different definition of the word. Not applicable or comparable.
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by jat850 11y ago
I agree that risk aversion, planning, and other factors are good preventative measures to avoiding homelessness. The contrary case I can think of is the child who is homeless because the parent is. I cannot rightfully view them as having fa
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by jat850 11y ago
It is a failure on many levels - systematic ones, mostly. But if you read OP's post as not singling out the failure as being personally and solely responsible for their plight, rather than as a systematic failure, then we might simply
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by jat850 11y ago
Your reply rubbed me the wrong way, as it implies that being poor, unemployed, or homeless are by definition failures. Perhaps you didn't intend that (or perhaps you do believe it). Not looking for a philosophical argument - just stati
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by jat850 11y ago
That is possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I could spend hours looking through this.
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by jat850 12y ago
I don't want to challenge too many points of your post here, but I have a couple questions: "This example also brings up another typical point of confusion in building distributed systems: people actually want "ordered proces
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by jat850 12y ago
I don't know much about Facebook's current offerings, but the answer to your question might depend on what other ubiquitous services they offer now or in the future. Maybe they'll become equally entrenched in the online payme
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by jat850 12y ago
Your last sentence was heart-breaking. Whether or not the list applies to you - whatever you've gone through - and whether you are somewhere along that autistic spectrum - none of them define you on their own. You are not the sum of ch
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by jat850 12y ago
You may not be aware that in some jurisdictions (Quebec is an example), marriage is not a sufficient legal reason to change your legal name, yet most people informally identify with a spousal name change. It would seem like an overstep for
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by jat850 12y ago
You're welcome to email me if you like - it's in my profile. Kafka and Samza are intended (generally speaking) to go hand in hand. Samza is a re-imagined datastore that Kafka can shuttle data into. I've been investigating Sam
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by jat850 12y ago
Would Apache Samza fold in here better, perhaps?
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by jat850 12y ago
Agreed. I'm not ready to embrace driverless cars yet myself, either, but in the long run automation probably increases safety. It's a bit of a callous view, but software mistakes can be fixed and ironed out - human mistakes are ha
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by jat850 12y ago
We already trust software with our lives. Transit, medicine, navigation, finance. People have died because of software failure in the past, but it hasn't deterred adoption or advancement.
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by jat850 12y ago
In your research, did you explore other common immunizations like bordetella, parvo, rabies? (I realize these wouldn't fit into any overlapping things like you have here, I'm just curious if you might add it at some point.)
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by jat850 12y ago
I'm guessing it must be close. One of the bubbles is "Stuart", and Stuart Scott of ESPN is trending on Twitter quite heavily today after passing of cancer.
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by jat850 12y ago
I'm a little torn on this article, and even on your comment. I think the clock example you pick out is important. However, if your clocks in all your devices are already connected via a centralized mechanism (say, for example, a standa
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by jat850 12y ago
I hadn't thought of that - thank you for the suggestion. It's a little daunting, but I could try to start slow and small :)
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by jat850 12y ago
Thank you. I'm absolutely going to check it out.
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by jat850 12y ago
These are both excellent replies. I hadn't thought of that - thank you. Appreciate the input from both of you.
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by jat850 12y ago
I do have a very small handful of my own projects on the go, for sure. I just wish I could do a little bit more to contribute back to a community that I've drawn a lot from (knowledge and tangible products).
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by jat850 12y ago
Thank you, I'll certainly check it out. I do have some (admittedly outdated) experience in .Net as well.
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Ask HN: Where can I start contributing to open source efforts?
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by jat850 12y ago
I'm going to reply here singly, rather than to each of the three that replied to my post above. Please be clear that the article described the description of pedophilia as a sexual orientation in the DSM was an error - not a mind-chang
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by jat850 12y ago
No. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder or paraphilia; not a sexual orientation. This is thoroughly discussed and documented. The APA has changed any such notation in the DSM. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013&#
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by jat850 12y ago
I'm glad you disclaimed your post as opinion, because I don't agree with it but that's okay (and it's probably not really important to argue my viewpoint either). But I do think that the concept Wutang is pushing here is
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by jat850 13y ago
At risk of exposing my own misinterpretation of it, it does make sense if you read the section where Tom Knight is listed as a primary developer of LISP machines. I believe the implication is that he understands it, whereas the novice does
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by jat850 13y ago
I played around with it for a while. It seems invalid attempts add another required item to the captcha queue. So if you are trying to solve the first one, and fail, it adds another one that the bot must attempt. I am not sure if this helps
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by jat850 13y ago
OP's comment may have been harsh, but it's accurate, and you should take it as constructive - you may have a really cool and useful product here, but no one knows about it at first glance. Make your landing page a bit more transpa

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