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by jmadsen 13y ago
Ah, thought it was going to be about "reposotories" (aka Fox News git jargon)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote - Any timezone, Australia/NZ/Japan/Taiwan best Specialize in LAMP web applications & database schema, happy to work as a solo developer or lend a hand to a team. A recognized face in the CodeIgniter
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Iodine clock reaction so fast it looks like magic(io9.com)
2 points by jmadsen 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmadsen 13y ago
This is just cheap & short-sighted At $50/month, it would take you a year to recover the cost of building it yourself on your company's dime. A time cost you should be spending on something to increase your company's reve
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by jmadsen 13y ago
LOL - actually, OT but lot of recent articles are showing that "young people know all about computers" is a complete falsehood.
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I'm not going to come out on either side on this yet, still thinking about it. But to anticipate those who will say, "do you think the bad guys are really dumb enough to use basic encryption techniques?" - The 1993 (failed) W
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I would like to hear more Japanese weigh in on this, but I have lived in Japan for more than 11 years and think this is a horrible fluff piece written by someone with little more than stereotypes & superficial knowledge of the country.
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by jmadsen 13y ago
The sad thing is, one of the worst pandemics in human history is fairly recent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic There are (a few) people alive today who remember it. It killed between 1.5 and 3 times as
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by jmadsen 13y ago
no, it's no different in the US
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by jmadsen 13y ago
>Another legacy app I'm employed to "repair" has one single 'template' for every page on the whole site. Its first ~500 lines conveniently consist of a giant and highly nested if/else clause to set the page
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I'll go with people who read your full paragraph, find the not quite 100% perfect analogy in the 5th most important point, and worry it like a terrier with a chew toy These people should be shot in the face with a double barrel shotgun
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I can't help but feel that there is something one-sided & missing from this story. Two questions (one being discussed already): "pleaded guilty in December to wire fraud and obstruction of an agency proceeding" 1) I didn&
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Exactly. Calling and being a dick to some low-level person who answers the phones isn't my idea of clever. She was pretty nice & helpful, all things considered
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Says at the end that "it may play a major role in transporting melt water...into the Arctic Ocean" Seems to me, we just need to dynamite it shut and Presto world saved from eventual catastrophic flooding. Don't everyone tha
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Ok, I'll play the Grammar Nazi Troll (On topic, since native level English was relevant in the story :-) ) Interesting article, but you make a bad impression when you write with high school level grammar. "Me" is a sentence o
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"Grace" is a subjective term. In my mind, it looks just fine. Ruby & Python look weird and choppy. Seriously, your argument is the same as saying "hip hop is bad music because it lacks the X of classical". You are fi
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by jmadsen 13y ago
This article is important because there are still so many people who talk about how bad PHP is, based on their knowledge of some version from years ago. There was (another) recent Ruby vs. PHP Bashfest some months ago that was essentially:
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Sorry, but looking at the current sex abuse issues going on in the military, and the complete breakdown in the system set up to deal with them, I wouldn't rely on internal whistleblower procedures
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by jmadsen 13y ago
This is a wonderful idea! Think of all the money the US taxpayers will save by not needing all that NSA gadgetry anymore! They'll just log in as you when they want to know what you're up to
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I'm sure the main point of grabbing Miranda (ironic name) was to get at whatever files he was carrying, but... Any thoughts that someone might use this as a way to "expose" Greenwald as being gay? Sorry, but there are a treme
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Reminds me of the many times I emailed spreadsheet files to marketing, saying, "I need that back when you're done" Generally they got it, but it took some of them a while.
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US Government finally admits Area 51 exists(gizmodo.com)
3 points by jmadsen 13y ago|0 comments
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I just brought up Michael Hastings' death in a conversation yesterday - I think that, more important than the death itself, the lesson to be learned from this incident is how many "non-tinfoil hat" types who would have just r
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Really? Mine always thought it looked great
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Over a Million Are Denied Bank Accounts for Past Errors(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by jmadsen 13y ago|0 comments
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Hmmm... I just push the button, then go get some coffee. Thereby saving myself the time it took you to do the F2 thingy. Which I then lost writing this post to tell you about it :-(
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How to Lose Friends, Citizens and Influence(online.wsj.com)
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I was thinking less about being able to stop them at the time of recording, and more about the legal use of what they've recorded. For example, -- if they poke their head into your house uninvited & record you breaking a law - that
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by jmadsen 13y ago
What are the current laws regarding filming people without their consent in the US & other countries? Thinking about: - public vs. private space - minors We have some very specific laws on these things here in Japan, which would (should
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I think the real problem behind this is quite simple - studies have shown what we probably know from personal experience, that when you wear a "mask" - whether one of anonymity, or a "Robo Cop"-like getup, it makes you b

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