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by jgfoot 15y ago
Very interesting: "Tarn sees his work in stridently ethical terms. He calls games like Angry Birds or Bejeweled, which ensnare players in addictive loops of frustration and gratification under the pretense that skill is required to win, 'a
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by jgfoot 15y ago
Another site, mylanguageexchange.com, has a similar service for connecting native speakers and learners, and it has a large user base. It has crude web-based text chat built in, but many people just use the site to make connections and the
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In re the Passing of a Skadden Associate(abovethelaw.com)
1 points by jgfoot 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgfoot 15y ago
Although there are some laws that can kind of be represented as computer code (for example, TurboTax captures a good portion of the tax code, and programming a 55 mph speed limit into a car shouldn't be hard) for the most part the law acts
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by jgfoot 15y ago
Asimov's "I, Robot" stories cover this territory well. The robots must follow three laws, which are simple enough on their surface, but in application prove tough to predict. The humans begin to see that the laws have unintended and undes
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by jgfoot 15y ago
I do have to choose among rules. The choices that I make are also a signal. I am an American, and I work in a profession where writing is important. I try to make style and grammar choices that match those of well-thought-of American wri
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by jgfoot 15y ago
Adherence to arbitrary grammar rules is a signal. It shows that the writer has training in what the rules are, and the ability to follow them. To some readers, this can be a signal of credibility. I don't care if the rules make sense; I
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by jgfoot 16y ago
It looks like he used the built-in webpy cherrypy server, but if I recall correctly that server is recommended only for debugging, not for production.
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by jgfoot 16y ago
The Veer (credit-card sized phone) is interesting. I resisted getting a smart phone for a long time because they were all so damn big. I owned a Palm Pre for a about a year, though, and the overall ownership experience was so disappointing
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by jgfoot 16y ago
I enjoy using CoffeeScript on my hobby projects. If you write your server code in a language like Python or Ruby, CoffeeScript makes Javascript more familiar. It adds nice features like list comprehensions, and I prefer the way it handles
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Anonymity and the Dark Side of the Internet(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
13 points by jgfoot 16y ago|16 comments
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by jgfoot 16y ago
oh! that explains why my Prolog hacking has been so unsuccessful. Thanks very much.
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by jgfoot 16y ago
I was about to respond until I realized your post was a Swift-ian parody so sophisticated as to be almost over my head. Well done. But if we were going to try to reduce the complicated, inherently human, and uncertain concept of law to com
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by jgfoot 16y ago
Fake Steve was eerily prescient here. From June 24: "First of all, this is not a big issue. If you’re experiencing this, most likely it’s not the phone at all — most likely you’re just living in a place where there’s bad reception, in whic
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Thanks for that link -- the video is even more fascinating.
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by jgfoot 17y ago
I really, really like that photograph of the "control room." It's like a beautiful fusion of every fab 1960s sci-fi set I've ever seen.
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by jgfoot 17y ago
> When in doubt, copy everything from Tom Ford's A Single Man movie. Great; now I can look forward to male hackers wearing bright white angora sweaters everywhere.
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by jgfoot 17y ago
46 minutes in.
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by jgfoot 17y ago
http://cyberspeak.libsyn.org/index.php?post_id=561335
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Forensic obstruction tool programmer backs down after Cyberspeak host reams him(decafme.org)
1 points by jgfoot 17y ago|3 comments
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by jgfoot 17y ago
And, one imagines, a willingness to work more than four hours a week.
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by jgfoot 17y ago
I like Aaron, but this "accomplish the most overall good" philosophy does not go far beyond what Jeremy Bentham and the utilitarians gave us in the 18th century. Utilitarianism was thoughtful, but it left a lot unanswered (like, how do you
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Actually the Pre has all the features the article is recommending for Android: Over-the-air calendar, contact, and email syncing through Google services; background-capable apps; and no centralized App Store under one company’s ironclad con
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by jgfoot 17y ago
OK, but now write one that doesn't block words like "sextant" or "bombast." I remember using a BBS in the '80s that had a filter like this; it was really hard discussing the Kennedy ass-ass-ination. Also, if it is only Javascript validatio
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by jgfoot 17y ago
It is true that if you simply don't have proper ID -- your wallet was stolen, for example -- it's still possible to fly; I think this involves going through the "heightened" pat-down screening. But you are correct that rant-ish reports pos
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Large law firms are going to be a difficult target. 1. They would be concerned that disclosing to the RECAP people exactly what research they've been doing on PACER could violate client confidence. (They might be wrong, but someone somewhe
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Vernor Vinge's fiction introduced the concept of the "programmer archaeologist," which seems appropriate here. He predicted that in the distant future, the skill of programming will have entirely shifted from writing new code (everything y
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Good advice, though hardly cutting-edge; wasn't Unix doing salted passwords in the '70s?
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Making sense of the '1984' Kindle kerfuffle(news.cnet.com)
6 points by jgfoot 17y ago|6 comments
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by jgfoot 17y ago
Claims about the law being "locked behind a cash register" are overblown, because everything the article is talking about are available from public libraries. While this might not be enough for people who are used to consuming everything t

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