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by jeremiep 14y ago
Is it me or "National Security" really means National Insecurity? Where's freedom in the illusion of safety?
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by jeremiep 14y ago
For one, I would say that mainstream is the filter bubble; big media doesn't have freedom of speech whatsoever. Newspapers are especially boring repeating the same rehashed stories everyday. For most of the mainstream community, this is a
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I don't think so, I love HN especially for the comments because a lot of smart people are voicing their opinions here. It goes to the point that comments are often more interesting than the linked article!
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Life: dropped the TV subscription, stopped reading newspapers and generally disconnected myself from the mainstream world. Thinking outside the box becomes natural then. Programming: Teaching myself Lisp and Emacs, dropping Agile methodolog
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Not all wars are fought with guns and muscles, and very few are won that way. At the top levels, companies fighting each other looks almost identical to warfare.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I trusted the pirates more than the companies. Many of us still do, and will for as long as these companies assume most of their users to be thieves. It's also usually the least creative people pushing DRM; Hollywood for instance is not k
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by jeremiep 14y ago
If you want a customer to pay for your product, you have to offer value And one way to determine if some copyrighted content has value is to pirate it and consume it. It's the very same than me going to a friend's house, watching a movie
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Really depends on the type of code you are writing. If you're writing a Mars Rover, you're probably not using a single dynamic feature and static analysis works quite well in this case. So long as you're writing 'dead' software, you're bett
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I agree, Microsoft is chock full of talented engineers. Now if only they would let them make the decisions instead of those clueless PR and marketing people. Let the products speak for themselves instead of trying to dumb down everyone into
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I did notice, but didn't care enough about karaoke to look it up ;) It's all great that Microsoft is trying to push the web forward again, they used to before IE6, but I'm not sure I like this new direction. WebGL, WebRTC and other APIs bei
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I think both sides are equally bad here. Bashing MS just for fun isn't very smart (for all their sins, there's a few good things coming out of Redmond - and Microsoft Research is just fantastic for the most part), but Microsoft is just lowe
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by jeremiep 14y ago
What annoys me is that most of the tiles are just variations of some "Comebacks come in many shapes and sizes" meme they invented. It always amaze me how Microsoft's marketing manages to be completely disconnected form reality time after ti
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I would say this is also highly driven by non-hackers. Many schools are nothing more than Java certification shops and many companies select technologies pushed through salespeople. I'm fairly sure languages such as Lisp and SmallTalk would
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by jeremiep 14y ago
What you want isn't blocking the UI thread but a stack of states where each state defines the current behaviour of the elements, with bonus points if states can be composed together.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Probably none, I see programmers falling for these every week at work, it's 2012 now. The C++11 revision didn't change much other than add to the already joyful cursing because now compiler support is even more of an issue than it ever was.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
The thing is, in Canada all small Telcos are using the networks of the big Telcos. In Quebec City for instance, there are only two internet providers: Videotron and Bell for cable and phone line internet respectively, all the small players
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I don't know for you, but here in Canada companies like Bell, Telus, Cogeco and Videotron have very, very expensive services. Indeed telcos wouldn't be in business with lowered revenues if they keep their current business model. The thing i
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by jeremiep 14y ago
The blocking in node.js happens at the C++ level. Your JavaScript thread is still free to process other requests while your initial request waits for a response from the database. However, without a memcache or redis layer in front of postg
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I do use AngularJS on my client side, it works extremely well with Express on the server side. I really liked how the article mentions Express isn't a framework and doesn't try to get in your way, this is exactly why I chose it!
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I couldn't agree more, if this is I/O 101 then most network programmers I've met weren't even aware this course existed! Heck, back when I was in CS I had one teacher who was saying "use Java applets for web forms, its more secure since you
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by jeremiep 14y ago
However, back when the constitution was being written corporations did not have the legal status of a person. Lobbying was never intended as a tool for corporations to gain a much bigger voice than the general public, yet this is what we ha
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Thats how you create a better world for everyone. I'm pretty sure this guy wants to create a better world for his corporate friends only.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
One could argue that we don't live in a true democracy. What we live in right now is much closer to fascism. I'd even go as far as to say that the concept of lobbying is a fascist idea. This guy has huge ties to IBM, I'd have a very hard ti
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by jeremiep 14y ago
Just goes to show how disconnected from reality our politicians really are. How come its always the least innovative people who try to protect innovation?
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by jeremiep 14y ago
We do, its called the D programming language.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
This is pretty usual when government and software development are mixed together. All of the bad developers I met at college are now working for the government or are contracted by the government. Most hackers I know wouldn't go anywhere cl
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I saw one saying "I voted Romney because he is white." My faith in humanity just lost a few more points here. Watching these is kinda depressing, how is a vote supposed to mean something when so many meaningless people are using it?
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by jeremiep 14y ago
While the article is excellent, it is wrong on one point. Edison didn't invent anything at all; Tesla is responsible for most inventions credited to Edison today. The world could definitely do with as little Edisons as possible, what the wo
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by jeremiep 14y ago
CouchDB seems to disagree.
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by jeremiep 14y ago
I'd be interested! I've got plenty of free time on evenings and weekends the entire next month.

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