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by jemfinch 11y ago
I can literally manufacture an unregistered firearm in my garage, but now anyone with a flying toy heavier than eight ounces must register with the federal government? The over-regulation here is insane .
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by jemfinch 11y ago
I share your opinion at well, but would rather vote with my dollars than use the state's power of coercion.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. I
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by jemfinch 11y ago
She had stopped eating by the time they euthanized her; she wouldn't have lived longer than a few more days.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Highways here don't go at 65, let alone 80.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
This question isn't even relevant to the article, which discusses search, not insert.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Employees benefit from open salaries. Employers already know all their employees' salaries.
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Who, in 2015, agrees that BSD is better at networking? I remember these claims being made in the late 90s, and perhaps they were true back then, but it's been 15 years, and I would be surprised if Linux hasn't caught up by virtue
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by jemfinch 11y ago
> You have to wonder at the mentality of someone who wouldn't be there for their kid. I have three boys (5, 4, 1) and another baby on the way. I'll tell you: some of the crap these kids do is freaking boring . Seriously. Th
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by jemfinch 11y ago
Spoilers.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
No one argues "You can't build here because I would lose money." That would be dumb. Instead, they argue "You can't build here because reason $x", because they would lose money.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
You'd be surprised how many ISPs want to MITM media.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Consider Google Summer of Code.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. If you're committed to code quality, existing low quality code should not prevent you from doing the right thing with new code; on the contrary, doing the right thing with new
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Singletons were perhaps the worst possible example of code snobbery: code snobs ( real code snobs, as in "no true code snob") typically detest the singleton pattern as less maintainable, less testable, and less flexible than depe
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by jemfinch 12y ago
As someone who gave up my backyard beehive in 2014 because it swarmed four times in two weeks, likely as a result of my decision not to harvest honey in 2013, this idea excites me a lot. As someone with young kids, the idea of a window in t
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by jemfinch 12y ago
I assume "flag" in this context means something akin to a command-line flag.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
You weren't downvoted because you're downplaying a commercial; you were downvoted because you forgot the ponies.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
> but relying on a 3rd party to handle your infosec is terribly misguided. No one's suggesting anything like that. It's just a basic protection that Github could offer its users, because its users are humans, and humans make m
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by jemfinch 12y ago
> if you are like me, you like to store your dot files somewhere public. In your public .bashrc, put a line "source .bashrc.secret." Just keep an empty .bashrc.secret in your public repository, and keep your actual secret cred
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by jemfinch 12y ago
> Sure, just enumerate any and all possible types of sensitive data False dichotomy. It doesn't have to be "everything" or "nothing". An 80% solution here is better than nothing. I still find it useful that gma
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by jemfinch 12y ago
But this can be done without trusting anyone at all (e.g., http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~carbunar/teaching/cis5374.F.2014/s... cf. pages 90-91 of Applied Cryptography).
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Sorry, did you just claim that "there's no way" anyone could find a burger "more delicious" than fresh vegetables? Were you smirking when you wrote that? Is this some hard to detect form of sarcasm?
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Reading this article made me think of Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat", particularly apropos the conversation earlier today about the Fermi Paradox. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.ht
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Tiling window manager users typically avoid transient windows in much the same way that modern browser users avoid transient browser windows. For instance, my primary development workspace has four columns: three emacs and one terminal with
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Except for, you know, the 50 page document described in the article and retrieved via FOIA.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
I read that entire article and I still don't understand the real reason richer people marry.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Wow, Richard Hipp is a class act: http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.or... > "fossil export | git fast-import" will get your stuff moved over efficiently. Thanks for hanging out with us.
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by jemfinch 12y ago
Most of these idioms actually make me sad. When I first started using Python around 1999, it didn't even have list comprehensions. Code was extremely consistent across projects and programmers because there really was only one way t
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by jemfinch 12y ago
> If you're a software engineer, you are paid to deliver working software. No, you're paid to deliver solutions. Often the best way to get the solution you need is to make sure the N engineers around you are being productive.

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