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by jccc 9y ago
[absolutely sincere question] If you did two simultaneous recordings of a performance -- one a modern digital and the other a modern analog -- what would be the appreciable difference between the two once pressed to vinyl? I just reflexivel
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by jccc 9y ago
I wonder if some of that resistance comes from people here taking the idea too seriously. Doing a renewable "contract" is just a fun way to be clear about what you want and to track changes over time. We don't even necessaril
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by jccc 9y ago
How many fewer clicks would Ars Technica get if their headline writer had instead given, "PCs with Conexant audio driver covertly log users’ every keystroke"? How many fewer bloggers, Tweeters and Facebookers would link to it?
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by jccc 9y ago
Oh good, so poor people in the ghetto would have to slog their way through checkout themselves more than we privileged people would, shopping as we do in more profitable stores. Otherwise if you mean that all of a retailer's stores sho
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by jccc 9y ago
How much of that cost reduction goes into building new stores? How many new stores in any case are going to food deserts rather than places more profitable for the retailer? I would guess nowhere near enough to support the notion that this
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by jccc 9y ago
> Retailers tell us that self-checkouts are all about providing more choice, convenience and speed Oh yes, of course. It's certainly not just about the cost of an employee at a cash register, which is why retailers give you a litt
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by jccc 9y ago
I don't disagree with your feeling about this, but just to clarify: The domain gofccyourself.com was set up by John Oliver's show, "Last Week Tonight," and their modus is to use humor to draw attention to tedious but imp
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by jccc 10y ago
And that's had a direct effect on the attitude and behavior of immigration goons: "[...] the shift — and the new enthusiasm that has come with it — seems to have encouraged pro-Trump political comments and banter that struck the o
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by jccc 10y ago
Because young, eager, "passionate" uber-hackers are easier to exploit. The idea of "passion" for programming might or might not have originated on the hiring side, but that side sure seems happy to run with it. [EDIT: No
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by jccc 10y ago
Just Web really -- JavaScript, SQL, some bash, a little less awk, extremely rarely Perl, and a lot of the dreaded PHP. In principle I could imagine some languages might exist in which the concerns of developers are so confined to the smalle
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by jccc 10y ago
Yes, I've been doing this for at least a couple years. I've been writing various kinds of code for money since 1995, and no change has ever been as helpful to me as this one. It's just a suggestion. Not everyone will like it
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by jccc 10y ago
More coders ought to try weaning themselves off of syntax highlighting and inverting their terminal colors to dark on light, document-writing style. If you don't need the training wheels and you're not a hacker in a movie, I think
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by jccc 10y ago
Ah, right. I thought there was at least one place where he said, "End transmission," but I'm probably wrong.
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by jccc 10y ago
I remember CLU said, "Acknowledge" but I can't remember if the MCP said, "End of transmission" or "End transmission." From now on every time I Ctrl-d I want to think the voice of the Master Control Program
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by jccc 10y ago
"Let me get a few things out of the way. [...]" He might have gotten those things out of the way by not using that headline.
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by jccc 10y ago
I don't know what page of the report Snowden is referring to, but he says the report itself "admits I purged and abandoned hard drives rather than risk bringing them through Russia. Glad it's settled." https:/&#x2F
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by jccc 10y ago
I would guess that enforcement would just mean at the gate you couldn't take through anything bigger than specified in the article. Most people in that situation would prefer to keep the item with them or under the seat rather than up
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by jccc 10y ago
In the dot-com era, marketing types aspired to make their Web sites and apps "sticky" in the sense that readers and users would not just dip in for something in particular, but would be motivated to come back again and again. Freq
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by jccc 10y ago
Anyone here happen to know how Basecamp works? They seem to be comfortable with emailed login links, no username or password.
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by jccc 10y ago
Torture (by US military and domestic police) already exists, and is employed more widely than the general populace seems to care about. This has been going on a long time. Is the fight against torture already lost, in which case we're
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by jccc 10y ago
This is Alan Dershowitz' argument for "torture warrants" [1] applied to pervasive surveillance. If that association bothers you, please reconsider glossing over the assumption that pervasive surveillance is inevitable and uns
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by jccc 10y ago
One of the things about "The Force Awakens" that helped me gloss over its (real, but just a few) downsides was seeing how many people like this were brought together again after so long to collaborate on another honest-to-God Star
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by jccc 10y ago
The word "tank" as a container for fuel dates at least back to 1902: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tank And "tanks" had been used for things other than fuel for centuries, such as water, that
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by jccc 10y ago
The subject of the article is how slow motion can greatly skew a jury's perception of intent, thus greatly skew the resulting sentence. That is one rather important factor.
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by jccc 10y ago
It's illuminating that this isn't framed as Snowden vs. Assange. Certainly if they could frame it that way for their juicy story, they would. We don't know (at least here on HN) who personally posted that reply on the WikiLea
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by jccc 10y ago
Enough of them don't that this eBay game becomes profitable. Consider the trouble and expense: All they're really doing is point-and-click throughout. You just need a few.
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by jccc 10y ago
Uh, well gosh. Did you have this comment below on your HN profile before or after the above conversation? "[...] if you notice that I have been hell-banned, just let me know so I can delete my account from this shithole." https:&
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by jccc 10y ago
( Sigh ... accidental down vote. And I wasn't even trying to click a vote arrow.)
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by jccc 10y ago
You called Gruber's article "amazing apologism," and I'm responding to that alone. We're pushing things a bit far if we characterize any of the things you've listed here as either amazing or apologism. Gruber i
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by jccc 10y ago
I think Gruber has become more and more captured by the beat he covers. I really hate it when he uses language only Apple pitch-folk use, like "with iPhone" or "on iPad." I think he's lost more of his objectivity th

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