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by jfb 13y ago
Without passing judgement on the advice, it doesn't sound to me like the cops in Tehana were going to be scrupulous about respecting the rights of the people they were stopping.
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by jfb 13y ago
1984
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by jfb 13y ago
This has been an ugly and shameful aspect of the "War on Drugs" since day one. I like that people are surprised that if you create an incentive structure, it encourages a specific behavior. Well, no kidding -- if law enforcement f
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by jfb 13y ago
Heh. But to be fair, different technologies encourage different usage patterns, and it's reasonable to investigate how, given a goal, technological solutions could be applied. I'm plenty leery of "solutionism" [1], but t
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by jfb 13y ago
~ » uname Darwin ~ » man shm_open SHM_OPEN(2) BSD System Calls Manual
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by jfb 13y ago
The most obvious sign that the money sloshing around in the Valley is bubble froth is the number of people saying "this time it's different." It's never different.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think this is all true, and I try not to confuse the inevitable drift of the zeitgeist away from my interests with a value judgement of the site as a whole. Things change; raging against the dying of the light isn't really worth the
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by jfb 13y ago
I always thought "MICROS~1" was funnier.
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by jfb 13y ago
For me, the issue is that the legal and political (and to a growing degree, the business) discussions here are totally uninteresting; I'm not particularly interested in engaging in those sorts of conversations anywhere . But there are
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by jfb 13y ago
There is another family of Unixlikes that has significant market share, and isn't chasing Linux's API changes.
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by jfb 13y ago
I have fond memories of it, and a user id in the ~10000 range. But I haven't been back in ages, and I can't say I've missed it.
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by jfb 13y ago
In the sense that, if they can give it to Henry Kissinger, the prize is therefore meaningless, and they might as well give it to Mugabe, or Castro, or Ríos Montt, or Reagan.
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by jfb 13y ago
This is phenomenal. Thank you.
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by jfb 13y ago
Click "like" if your Kleene closure is noncommutative!
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, the "Apple soaks you for 50%" meme is largely invalid these days. FULL DISCLOSURE: I work for Apple.
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by jfb 13y ago
"Fee for service" is one of the big drivers of cost inflation. Taking on the AMA requires a bigger person than anyone in Washington today.
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by jfb 13y ago
Keep in mind that with these custom designed laptops, price is determined by volume, and by logistics, and Apple sells a lot more of these class of machines, and has by far the best logistics -- you're not going to be able to get much
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by jfb 13y ago
I love mine, but once I get settled I'm going to switch to a desktop. That said, I don't know how well the Haswell MBAs work in Windows; I would assume that it'd be fine, but check with someone who actually knows?
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by jfb 13y ago
Right now, because I'm spending a lot of time flying across the continent, my dev laptop is a maxed out 11" MBA. It's a little light on RAM (only 8GB) and the screen, while a decent PPI, is too small. But I plug it into a Thu
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by jfb 13y ago
"How do you discover new music?" I ask my friends, I ask the people at my local record store, I read blogs and listen to podcasts. What I don't do is rely on the terrible Amazon style "if you bought this, you might buy t
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by jfb 13y ago
Please don't worry about whether or not you are going to go to college, or be an entrepreneur; don't waste time trying to optimize your technology chops; you are 16 and you have acres and acres of time. Be 16 -- do dumb stuff, hav
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by jfb 13y ago
It's fun to run the counterfactuals, but ultimately, we go to war with the lousy technology stack we have, not the mediocre one we want. I'm just overjoyed that, thanks to Android and iOS, people are writing native applications ag
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by jfb 13y ago
The comments can be far better than the dreck that usually gets posted.
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by jfb 13y ago
Apple already sells a Thunderbolt docking station, with a very nice 27" display built in.
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by jfb 13y ago
But no validation in the world will catch that. Only a round-trip email would. EDIT: I was wrong. Interesting.
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by jfb 13y ago
Speaking as someone with no Android or security background, this was an exceedingly well-written article. Big thumbs-up to saurik.
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by jfb 13y ago
I wonder about the long term viability of these sorts of pay to win games; they seem awfully vulnerable to the whims of the platform owners, and they're easy to paint as more like tobacco than they are to toys or video games. Personall
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by jfb 13y ago
Chuck Moore is the best sort of kook. I think a strong argument can be made that he is the apotheosis of the computer hacker -- working for a furniture company in Upstate NY? Time to write a round-robin scheduler for my own, personal comput
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by jfb 13y ago
Cool. I hope they do make it an extra-cost option, because +1 for price discrimination.
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by jfb 13y ago
It will be interesting to see how the course is designed, given that nobody has yet to really figure out the design and pedagogy of online teaching. It'd probably be worth checking this out.

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